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• Joe Rogers’ challenge: Firebrand chili
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  SJ-R article about the recording (no spoiler)
  Program video clip about making of chili
• D’arcys Pint meal: horseshoe sandwich
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  Blog entry about negative experience at recording
• Cozy Dog Drive In meal: corn dog
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  SJ-R article about the restaurant

List of central Illinois eating challenges

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The second part of Brad Sciullo’s attempt at the 15+ pound Belly Buster Burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub on last night’s episode of The Colbert Report is now available on the program’s website. The segment closes with Sciullo expressing his desire to eat a live shark and Colbert responding “I think we’re going to need a bigger throat”.

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The website for the Colbert Report has a video clip from last night’s episode about Brad Sciullo’s attempt at the 20+ pound Belly Bruiser burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA. The second part of Brad Sciullo’s appearance will probably be televised on Monday. Colbert gives Sciullo the “Martin Burger King” nickname. No mention was made of Brad Sciullo’s ejection from the IFOCE.

George Wendt, who has a burger challenge named after his Cheers character, was an in studio guest.

Related Links

• Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub home page
• Mouthpiece Sports interviews Brad Sciullo
• PittsburghLive article about Sciullo completing the Belly Bruiser.
• Kate Stelnick (Tony Danza show appearance) and Lori Weiss (eyewitness blog entry) along with Brad Sciullo are the only other people to appear on the Wall of Fame for Denny’s 10-11 pound Ye Olde 96er burger.
• ESPN E:60 competitive eating clip starring Brad Sciullo
• Stephen Colbert segment about Don “Moses” Lerman from a 2001 episode of the Daily Show.

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Tonight’s episode is the first episode of Man vs. Food not set in a single metropolitan area; the sites are three minor league baseball stadiums.

Travel Channel: Guide | Slideshow | Video (baseball lesson)

ESPN interview with Adam Richman about tonight’s episode

• West Michigan Whitecaps challenge Fifth Third Burger
  MLive article before recording
  MLive article after recording (contains spoiler)
  Season statistics about the burger
• Charleston (SC) River Dogs food Homewrecker hot dog
  Press release about the recording
  Charleston City Paper article about the recording
  Video clip from Man v Food about hot dog variations at the Charleston ballpark
• Gateway (E. St. Louis area) Grizzlies food – “Baseball’s Best Burger”
  Press release about the burger, which uses a Krispy Kreme doughnut as a bun.
  BND article about the recording
  KSDK article and gallery about the recording

• List of West Michigan eating challenges
• List of Charleston eating challenges
• List of St. Louis area eating challenges

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Travel Channel Episode Guide | Slideshow | Side of the City video (South Street)

Restaurants

• Tony Luke’s Challenge – Ultimate Cheesesteak
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  Video clip about the Ultimate Cheesesteak’s construction
  The Ultimate Cheesesteak was apparently created solely for the episode; it is not listed on the online menu.
• Franklin Fountain meal – Mount Vesuvius sundae
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• Dinic’s Roast Beef & Pork meal – Italian roast pork sandwich
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List of Philadelphia area eating challenges in the eatfeats database

It would be interesting to learn why a made for TV sandwich at Tony Luke’s was used as the episode’s challenge when Jim’s Steaks has maintained a cheesesteak record for over 30 years. Perhaps the current record of 13 cheesesteaks in an hour by “Humble” Bob Shoudt was too daunting. (The program guide says that Jim’s Steaks will appear in the episode.)

13 cheesesteaks might not be the overall Philadelphia record. In a 1978 article, Lynda Kuerth, Jim’s steaks record holder from 1977 to 2001 (11 sandwiches) said she ate 15 steak sandwiches during a visit to Philadelphia. (The location and duration of that feat was not mentioned.)

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The Rockford (Grand Rapids area) Corner Bar will hold a hold a hot dog eating contest at Comstock 09 on Saturday. The first prize is an LCD TV. The Corner Bar twitter reports that previous chili dog record holders Sharon Van Duinen and Balinda Gould will be present.

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update June 2011 A newer list with more metro areas is available.

update May 2010 A new list with several new metro areas is available

A unified directory of all metropolitan areas with eating challenge lists is available after the jump. The following cities / regions have been added: Fresno, California Central Coast, Upstate California, Inland Empire, Reno / Lake Tahoe, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Boise, Amarillo, Louisville, Toledo, Madison, Green Bay, Terre Haute, Omaha, Des Moines, Birmingham, Little Rock, Central Illinois, North Michigan, Lansing, Flint, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Knoxville, Greensboro, Las Cruces, Hudson Valley, Wilmington, Fort Myers, Fort Wayne

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A writer for the British newspaper The Guardian wrote an article about competitive eating in the UK after competing in a burrito eating contest. The article mentions Tim Janus’ medical examination and Don Lerman’s quote about suffering internal bleeding.

In other UK CE news, the BoingBoing blog has an entry about a breakfast challenge in Westhoughton.

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Travel Channel episode guide | slideshow

Restaurants

• Munchies 420 Cafe challenge: “Fire in Your Hole” spicy wings
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  disclaimer for wing challenge Page 1 | Page 2
  The MJ Morning Show attempts the challenge (contains spoilers)
  Scott Roberts debunks the 20 million Scoville unit claim given on the radio show (also contains spoiler)
• Yoder’s meal – fried chicken w/ pie for dessert
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  DineSarasota blog entry about recording
• Old Salty Dog meal – deep fried hot dog
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  Man vs. Food clip about the deep fried hot dog

List of Tampa Bay area eating challenges in the eatfeats database

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Here are lists of eating challenges for New York / New England metro areas:

Boston | Bridgeport | Buffalo | Hartford | Long Island | New York City | Syracuse

Previous Challenges by metro areas lists: west | midwest | south central | Florida | south Atlantic | mid-Atlantic

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