“Big” Ben Monson has started a bodybuilding.com thread with pictures about his recent road trip throughout the southwest where he completed the following eating challenges:

• Quadruple Bypass Burger, Heart Attack Grill, 1:49, second to Joey Chestnut
• Big Texan 72 ounce steak, Amarillo, TX, 9:40 (3rd person after Joey Chestnut & Frank Pastore to break 10 minutes
• Chillz 8 waffles & frozen custard, Albuquerque, 11:12 new record
• 5 pound Sopaipilla, Sadies, Albuquerque, 7:56 new record
• 6 pound burrito, NASCAR Cafe, Las Vegas, 12 minutes, new record

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DelawareOnline has an article about “The Great Steak Challenge” offered by My Steak and Main in North East, Maryland which will be Adam Richman’s Baltimore-area challenge in an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food. An unnamed 110 pound Japanese woman is listed as one of the diners who completed the challenge.

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Amarillo.com has an article about a planned hotel for downtown Amarillo. Big Texan Steak Ranch owner Bobby Lee is one of the investors in the project and a hotel restaurant will have an 89 ounce steak to pay homage to both the 1889 founding of Amarillo and the 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan. Diners who complete the 89 ounce steak will not only receive the meal free, they will also get their hotel room at no charge as well. The planned opening date is summer 2010.

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(From Man vs Food facebook) Digital City has a list of ten steak eating challenges located throughout the United States which concludes with the new challenge at Steak & Main in Maryland, which requires diners to eat five different types of steaks which total 74 ounces.

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• Drew Cerza, founder of the Buffalo Wing Festival, to be emcee at Wing Bowl 17
• Report on Tuesday’s Wing Off
• L & L Corned Beef Musubi eating contest February 15. First prize includes a trip to Hawaii
• Skinnyboy’s report from the KBPI Wing Bowl semifinals
• Moses News has a lot of new material, including a review of Katz’ Deli, featured in last week’s Man vs. Food
• Picture of the Big Texan 72 ounce steak finishers list from 2007. Kevin Carr is one of the finishers.

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The website for the Big Texan Steak Ranch has been updated. A page about Joey Chestnut breaking the 72 ounce steak record has been added. The foreword of the Story of the Free 72 oz. steak, which is now available at Barnes & Noble, can be read online. The webcam for 72 ounce steak attempts remains, but the finishers database, which was removed in 2005, has not been restored.

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• (from Pierre Abry) Food Network page about tonight’s episode (at 6:30 pm) of My Life in Food starring “Crazy Legs Conti , a dreadlocked veteran, Lovely Juliette [sic] Lee, a petite 100lb female rookie, and Patrick Deep Dish Bertoletti, a talented up-and-comer”. The episode will not be rerun in the near future and the series is not available online, so watch it when it is televised if you want to see it.
• Segments from the new tracks on the Best of Hungry & Focused are available on Badlands Booker’s myspace page
• Wing eating contest at the Den Again in Racine, Wisconsin January 25 $500 first prize
• Facebook page about the Seaside, Oregon mayoral campaign of “Consumption”
• Blog entry about Frank Pastore, former Big Texan record holder, from a resident of Pastore’s hometown
• Video of Joel Podelsky’s cheeseburger eating contest at a Newark Beaks game
• Wing eating contest in Beijing
• Don Lerman’s baked bean record (but not Lerman by name) was mentioned on Who Wants to be a Millionaire recently according to a Ray Meduna email

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• Video of Furious Pete’s ice cream challenge
• Ian Hickman & friend complete the 28 inch pizza challenge at the Family Pizzeria in Stafford, VA
• Another NoVA challenge – the Texas Roadhouse in Chantilly, VA offers a 64 ounce steak that is free if eaten in under one hour (requires one week notice)
• 28 inch pizza contest for charity at Polito’s pizza in Wisconsin for teams of three from the Army, Navy and Marines
• 8 lb. + pound pizza challenge for two person teams in Las Vegas
• One pound burger at new Chattanooga restaurant to be named for Obama
• Steakbellie is no longer unemployed
• http://missgluttonsbliss.blogspot.com/ appears to have been pulled down

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Here is some additional information about the challenges featured in the Man vs. Food episodes which debuted on December 3:

Big Texan Steak Ranch 72 ounce steak Amarillo, Texas

• BigTexan 72 ounce steak statistics home page
• 72 ounce steak challenge webcam
• List of all finishers 1991-2005 in the eatfeats.com database
• BBC article about the Big Texan Steak Ranch
• Amarillo.com article about Joey Chestnut breaking the Big Texan’s 72 ounce steak record
• News video (without audio) about Joey Chestnut breaking the record
• Former Big Texan record holder Frank Pastore’s blog entry about Joey Chestnut breaking his record. Pastore was a Cincinnati Reds pitcher when he broke the record for the seventh time in 1987 and is now a conservative talk radio host.
• Video clip from 2000 episode of Ripley’s Believe it or not about the Big Texan starring Rich & Carlene LeFevre

Big Foot Lodge Sasquatch Burger Memphis, TN

update Dec 22, 2008 The Big Foot Lodge changed its name to Kooky Canuck and its challenge burger is now called the Kookamunga Challenge to settle a lawsuit with a California restaurant

• The Big Foot Lodge’s page about the challenge
• The Big Foot Lodge’s Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame. Joey Chestnut is the current record holder at 7 minutes 36 seconds. Roger Robinson has completed the challenge 3 times in 2008.
• Memphis Commercial Appeal article about Jeremy Payne becoming the second finisher of the challenge
• Memphis Flyer article about Pat Bertoletti becoming the first person to finish the challenge
• The picture of the burger below was photographed at a ball in Memphis, so it is probably the Sasquatch Challenge burger. According to the photographer, the woman holding the burger completed it.

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Jill Stoler has a blog entry about Saturday’s get together at the J & R Steakhouse. The results from the 76 ounce steak challlenge:

Joel “The Cannon” Podelsky, 57 minutes
Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria, DQ

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(From Kevin Ross email) A web page has been set up for the Travel Channel series Man vs. Food. The program will feature Adam Richman traveling around the country to attempt restaurants’ eating challenges. The first two episodes will be televised on December 3 and the locations will be Amarillo, Texas (Big Texan Steak Ranch) and Memphis (The Big Foot Lodge). A list of all locations is available on the website.

Earlier this year, a producer placed a casting call on eatfeats for a host for the show.

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RawVegasTV has a video clip of an interview with Rich and Carlene LeFevre conducted while Rich ate a 120 ounce steak at Brand Steakhouse in Las Vegas. Thrillist has a transcript of some of the interview.

updatePokerati has a blog entry about Rich’s feat

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