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steak eating challenges
(All steak eating challenges in database)
NWITimes reports that Ben Williams became the fifth person in 23 years to compete the 96 ounce steak challenge at Kelsey's Steakhouse in Portage, Indiana.
Man vs. Food October 29 (Baltimore) episode links
Travel Channel: episode guide | slideshow | side of the city video (Inner Harbor)
Restaurants
- Steak & Main challenge – 5 steaks (totalling 74 ounces)
Home Page | yelp
Page about challenge on restaurant’s web site
DelawareOnline blog entry about challenge
entry in Digital City’s list of the biggest steak challenges - Chap’s Charcoal Restaurant meal – pit beef
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp - Obrycki’s meal – crabs
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
List of Baltimore area eating challenges in the eatfeats database.
Furious Pete reports he ate a 72 ounce steak dinner with sides in 7 minutes and 16 seconds at the Lone Star Texas Grill in Toronto.
Thorny's in Myrtle Beach, SC will start offering an 80 ounce steak on October 14 that will be free if completed in less than an hour.
The 72 ounce steak finishers list on the Big Texan website has been updated and now lists Ben Monson's time of 9:40 and Tom Gilbert's time of 13:15.
Ben Monson’s eating challenge road trip
“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
DelawareOnline on The Great Steak Challenge
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.
PioneerLocal is doing a weekly series called Megabites about big meals offered by Chicagoland restaurants which include a 72 ounce steak and a 2 pound hot dog originally created for White Sox club seats.
The Big Texan's website has restored the list of 72 ounce steak finishers. The restaurant would like customers who finished the steak before 1991 to send a copy of their finisher certificate to restore records lost in a fire.
http://twitter.com/AgentBodah: The new NBC reality show The Great American Road Trip recorded at the Big Texan Steak Ranch today. The show will debut on July 7 and Reno Collier will host. Seven families will travel from Chicago to Los Angeles in RVs and attempt challenges along the way.
Patrick Van Dam completed the "Great Steak Challenge" at Steak and Main in Maryland last night.
Good Food Toronto has a blog entry about attempts at the 72 once steak challenge at the Lone Star Cafe with four entries about the diners' training sessions.
The science bloggers steak showdown might be webcast in July.
The Ranger: The 72 ounce steak competition to be held in 2010 to honor the 50th anniversary of the Big Texan will be an IFOCE contest and Nathan's Famous will participate in the event.
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman and other participants in the Gumball 3000 transcontinental race stopped at the Big Texan. No racer attempted the 72 ounce steak.
Science blogger "Dr. Isis" challenges fellow science blogger to a 40 ounce steak eating contest
The Prairie News: The Big Texan will hold a 72 ounce steak eating contest next year to celebrate its 50th birthday. The contest will have professional and non-professional divisions which will both award $10,000 to the winner.
On a recent Jimmy Kimmel Live, Billy Bob Thornton talked about two members of the road crew for his band attempting to complete the 72 ounce steak challenge at the Big Texan after doing damage control for a controversial Canadian interview (The Big Texan segement starts at about the 6 minute mark of the video)
The Standard reports that Jodie Dumouchel, a bodybuilder from Sudbury, Ontario, won a 72 ounce steak eating contest with a time of about 40 minutes.
Hotel by Big Texan owner to have 89 ounce steak
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.
The Home Bar Blog reports that Andy Frank completed a 160 ounce prime rib from the Black Otter Supper Club in Hortonville, Wisconsin in 45 minutes, making him the third person to complete the challenge since 2003. (from Man vs. Food forum)
10 steak challenges on Digital City
(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.
Link Buffet: January 26, 2009
- 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.
BigTexan.com revamped
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.
Link Buffet: January 10, 2009
- (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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