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The NASCAR Cafe has started a webcam with live coverage of diners attempting its six pound B3 Burrito challege.

Three “Outrageous Food” restaurants

Here are three restaurants that will appear on Outrageous Food on the Food Network on Saturday at 10 pm eastern.

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BeauJos.com has a commercial for its 14 pound pizza challenge, which looks more like a giant bread bowl.
Ken Hoffman has a column about Houston Astros promotions this seasons. Seats with all you can eat food will be available for $25 for all games this season. There is a reference to Sonya Thomas in the paragraph about singles night on may 22, which will also have unlimited food.
"Munchin" Mike Longo has started a youtube channel docuementing his eating challenges and contests at http://www.youtube.com/user/munchinmikelongo
Naader Reda has started a website documenting his eating challenges at http://www.freak8r.com/
Defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh, expected to be a high draft choice in the upcoming NFL draft, ate at the Carnegie Deli in New York City and got a giant sandwich.
Ben Monson has posted some pictures from trips to the El Torrito All You Can Eat brunch and the Hometown Buffet with Damon Wells. He also posted a picture from a recent lunch consisting of 5 pounds of green beans and a pound of turkey.
Sixteen year old Casey Casasanta, a high school football player and wrestler, is the first to finish the 72 ounce steak at the Country Diner in Enfield, Connecticut.
Jeph Kelly reports that Man vs. Food is currently recording at Caliente in Richmond, Virginia. The challenge will be "Stupid Wings". update Times-Dispatch has an article about the recording.
Hell's Kitchen Lounge in Newark, NJ has started a hot dog challenge: a customer who can eat 5 fully loaded hot dogs in under 5 minutes will receive the frankfurters and a T-shirt for free.

Steph vs. Food youtube channel started

(via Man vs. Food facebook) A youtube channel has been started documenting Stephanie Torres eating challenges. Videos of her completion of a 7 pound “Extreme Grizzly” burrito in 18 minutes from Marianito’s in San Antonio and a spicy “Four Horsemen Burger” from Chunky’s Burgers (also in San Antonio) in 3 minutes are available.

This gives Stephanie Torres four successful eating challenges since December 2009. She also finished the 72 ounce steak from the Big Texan and the B3 Burrito from the NASCAR Cafe.

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twitter.com/amethystone11: "I need 2 more people on my team to finish a 54X54 inch pizza in 2 hours, $1000 award"
The Wall Street blog Dealbreaker will hold a Kentucky Fried Chicken Double Down Sandwich eating contest. The most notable feature of the new menu item is its lack of bread. update The contest will take place on April 14 and the objective will be to eat 7 Double Downs in 30 minutes. update Apr 14 The challenge report has been posted.
Ted's BBQ World in Toronto grilled a 42 pound burger as a test run for a 300 pound burger. update TheStar.com has an article about the burger saying its expected construction date is May 6.
Outrageous Foods will debut on the Food Network on April 24 at 10 pm. One of the featured restaurants will be the Fat Cat in Quincy, Massachusetts, where Valerie Feri completed a six pound macaroni challenge.
C C Kung wrote a blog entry about a trip to Pho Garden in Mountain View, CA where he encountered Joey Chestnut setting the record for the pho noodle challenge (4 lbs. in 21 minutes). Pat Bertoletti posted to his facebook that he set the pho challenge record at Saigon in St. Paul, MN.
"Munchin" Mike Longo was the first person to complete the "Steakosaurus" 6.5 pound steak sandwich at the Family Pizzeria in Stafford, Virginia. Longo also completed the 28 inch pizza challenge at the Family Pizzeria with a partner and won tonight's wing eating contest at the Wing Hub in Bethesda, MD.
Cameron McKirdy produced a video of Eric "Badlands" Booker completing the five pound "Burritozilla" at Iguana's in San Jose in 5:15 before last year's Asparagus Festival contest. update Booker also produced a commercial for his new CD, Surf & Stillwell that will be released July 4.
The NASCAR Cafe's twitpic page has a picture of Stephanie Torres, who completed the six pound B3 Burrito yesterday. Ms. Torres also completed the 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan in Amarillo, TX in December.

Daily Mail caption: “Jamie Oliver is trying the rid”

The British newspaper Daily Mail has an article titled “Welcome to Fatville” about the reaction of Huntington, West Virginia to being featured in Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution series. There are several pictures of the eating challenges offered by Hillbilly Hot Dogs, one having the following caption:
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There are targets for Oliver much closer to home; thestar.co.uk has a report about 6ft 9in, 23-stone (322 lbs.) James “Lurch” Rastrick becoming the first to complete a 5-6 kg (11 – 13.2 pound) kebab in Sheffield.

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Hot dog eating challenges in forum threads

A forum thread on twoplustwo.com is documenting a bet on an attempt to eat 450 hot dogs during the month of April (15 hot dogs a day) (via Michael Fortenberry)

A male commenter on AmpleCuties says he intends to eat 36 hot dogs in 10 minutes during a webcam session, and then 50 HDB at the Hartford Nathan’s qualifier and 70 at Coney Island on July 4.

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The April 1 edition of amNY (PDF, page 18) had an article about three New York City eating challenges including the new 10 pound burger from 1834 Bar and Burger.
The Dayton Daily News has an article about southwest Ohio eating challenges which calls the 14 pound "Bill Clinton Divorce Finale" from Voltzy's the "granddaddy" of area challenge meals. No one has finished the burger; an unnamed 6 foot, 110 pound woman came closest by eating 3/4 of the sandwich.

Pat from Moonachie vs. 5 “grease truck” sandwiches

HearUsTalk produced a video of Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin attempting to eat five sandwiches from the “grease trucks” on the campus of Rutgers University in under 45 minutes.

update Adam Richman had the following response to Pat’s feat: “Yeah but does he have the dopest TV show on the planet? I’m gonna go with…no.” (via DJnewstyle, who was blocked by Adam Richman)

update #2 Apr 6 11:34 am Craig noted that Adam Richman deleted his response, but it is still in the Google Cache

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