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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
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• Obrycki’s meal – crabs
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List of Baltimore area eating challenges in the eatfeats database.

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Excite.co.jp reports that Burger King of Japan started selling a 7 patty Whopper today in honor of today’s release of Windows 7. The burger weighs approximately .8 kg (1.76 lb.) and will be available until October 28.

The band My Chemical Romance is asking fans to submit videos of the burger’s consumption for prizes.

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Travel Channel – episode guide | slideshow

Restaurants

• Chick & Ruth’s Delly (Annapolis, MD) challenge – 6 pound shake and 1.5 lb. sandwich
  Home Page | Yelp
  Page about challenge on restaurant’s website
  Blog entry by Will Millender about being the first person to complete the challenge
  Hometown Annapolis report on the filming
  Grubgrade review
• Ben’s Chili Bowl
  Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
  Washington Post obituary from October 9, 2009 about the death of Ben’s founder Ben Ali
• Horace & Dickie’s Seafood Carryout meal – jumbo fish sandwich
  Yelp | Metromix

List of Washington, DC area eating challenges in eatfeats database
List of Northern Virginia area eating challenges in eatfeats database

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Travel Channel Episode Guide | Slideshow

Restaurants

• Rockie’s Diner challenge- “Rockie’s Challenge” containing a burger topped with a hot dog, chili cheese fries and a shake
  Yelp | Citysearch
  Travel Channel forum post about the challenge
  Idaho Statesman article about the recording (contains spoiler)
• Big Jud’s meal – Big Jud one pound burger
  Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
  Boise Weekly review of Big Jud’s
• Flying Pie Pizzaria meal – Triple Habanero Pizza
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  Gallery from the recording

List of Boise eating challenges in the eatfeats database

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Adam Richman is currently at the “Grease Trucks” on the campus of Rutgers University and will be attempting the 5 Fat Sandwich challenge at 5 PM today.

update The Rutgers student paper has a report on the filming (contains spoilers)

The twitter for Doogie’s Hot Dogs reports that Adam Richman will be recording there on Friday. Doogie’s is located in Newington, CT and no Connecticut episode is listed on season 2 episodes.

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Chef Mark Smith of the Tortilla Press in Collingswood, NJ has posted the following twitter update: “I can’t believe she ate the whole thing [a five pound burrito] …..my twitter friend @styrovor“

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The New York Times Magazine has an article about British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver recording “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” in Huntington, WV for ABC. The episode will include footage of the construction of a 15 pound burger at Hillbilly Hot Dogs. The program will showcase the efforts of Oliver to change the eating habits of Huntington, which the Associated Press claims is the most unhealthy metropolitan area in the United States.

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The next poll will be about what eating challenge feat elicits the most scepticism. Here are the current choices. Please add others in the comments you think should be listed.

• Mandy Brown, 1992, 8 pound chicken fried steak dinner in 84 minutes (first attempt of 850 to succeed)
• Balinda Gould, 2005, 43 chili dogs in four hours
• Eddie “Bozo” Miller, 1963, 27 two pound chickens
• Frank Pastore, 1987, 72 ounce steak dinner in 9:30
• Sharon Scholten, 1982, 42.5 chili dogs in 4 hours (on a full stomach with no preparation)
• Brad Sciullo, 2008, 15 pound burger in 4:39
• Kate Stelnick, 2005 10-11 pound burger in 2:54
• Lori Weiss, 2005, 10-11 pound burger in 2:54
• Phil Yazdzik, 1955, 77 hamburgers in 2.5 hours

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Here is a quick recap of the highlights of Brad Sciullo’s competitive eating career for newcomers to this web site:

• 2007 Competes in 6 IFOCE contests in 2007. Sciullo’s highest finish is runner-up in a Nathan’s qualfier.
• February 2008 Competes in Wing Bowl 16 and is in second place halfway through the contest (ahead of Pat Bertoletti and behind Joey Chestnut), but is disqualified for “snotting a wing”.
• March 2008 Announces retirement from competitive eating, no reason provided.
• July 2008 Competes in a non-IFOCE meatball eating contest in suburban Chicago under the name Eric “The Herald” Durst and finishes in 8th place.
• August 2008 Returns to IFOCE competition at the Buffalo Wing Festival. While in Buffalo, Sciullo records a video disparaging the victor of the meatball contest, Furious “Pete” Czerwinski, and AICE, the organization which sanctioned the competition.
• September 2008 Wins the cannoli eating contest at the Festival of San Gennaro in New York City. Footage from the contest appears in an ESPN E:60 segment about the IFOCE in which Sciullo’s passion for competitive eating impresses reporter Jeremy Schaap.
• October 2008 Becomes the first person to complete the 15-20 pound Belly Buster burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub. Sciullo is not listed in the new IFOCE rankings for October 2008, which probably indicates he has been banned for doing an eating challenge which was not sanctioned by the IFOCE.
• December 2008 Completes the 10-11 pound burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in 2 hours and 23 minutes, breaking the 2005 record of 2:54 jointly held by Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss. Sciullo’s feat will appear in a Travel Channel program called Extreme Restaurants
• April 2009 Finishes fourth in the Wing Madness contest in Pittsburgh.
• October 2009 Sciullo’s completion of the Belly Buster Burger is the subject of 2 segments on The Colbert Report Part 1 | Part 2

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