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Daily Fiasco has some pictures from Adam Richman's attempt at the 6 pound burrito at the NASCAR Cafe at the Sahara Casino for an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food. Video recorded was removed due to a copyright claim by the Travel Channel.
The Boston Herald has a picture of Miss Massachusetts and Miss Connecticut competing in a burrito eating relay held in Boston for Cinco de Mayo.

Philly area burger challenge

Winner’s Circle Sports Grille has the only active Philadelphia (Edgemont & Easton locations) area burger challenge I am aware of. The challenge will award a free T shirt and mug to a diner who can complete a 1.5 pound burger and 1 pound of fries in under 20 minutes. The challenge has been available since April according to the online Wall of Fame.

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A video of last month's Big "A" burger contest lists the top 3 finishers and their times at the end: 1) "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti 4:29 2) Joshua "Jabber-Jaws" Currier 8:07 3) David "Tiny" Chavis 8:59
Cameron "Consumption" McKirdy has uploaded his second video from his trip to Northern California with footage of Badlands Booker attempting the Burritozilla and the challenge pizza at Pizza Party.
The Heart Attack Grill is looking to hire a webmaster according to a posting on craigslist. (via twitter)
PhillyD.tv has a thread Contains spoilers) about the spicy wing challenge Adam Richman attempted at Munchies 420 Cafe in Sarasota.
The science bloggers steak showdown might be webcast in July.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski ate a pound of butter and posted a video of his challenge to youtube.
VegasTripping: Adam Richman of Man vs. Food will attempt the 6 pound burrito at the NASCAR Cafe at the Sahara casino on May 9 at 1:30 pm and the first 50 spectators will receive a free beer.
LVJR.com/blogs: The three sites Man vs. Food will record at in Las Vegas are Hash House a Go Go, Hot & Juicy Crawfish and the NASCAR Cafe at the Sahara casino, where the challenge meal will be a 6 pound burrito.
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.

Q13 Fox Anchorwoman attempts 5 pound burrito

Lily Jang of Q13 Fox in Seattle attempted the 5 pound burrito from Taco Del Mar with a co-worker. Reportedly she finished in 47 minutes

update A video has been posted on q13fox.com

Billy the Fridge is another Seattle resident who completed the challenge

update #2 The Taco Del Mar facebook page has links to reports of 5 pound burrito attempts

Erik Denmark wants to attempt the challenge (he found a location offering the burrito all week)

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Battle of the big burrito videos

“Furious” Pete Czerwinski announces that he has uploaded a video of him eating a 4 pound burrito recorded for a documentary

That video is embedded below with the Burritozilla video uploaded earlier this week to Joey Chestnut & Pat Bertoletti’s yardbarker blog.

update The video is not from the documentary

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Gallery of St. Louis eating challenges

Metromix has a captioned gallery of St Louis area eating challenges. The prize for the pizza challenge at Talayna’s is now $2000 (the challenge requires both members of a 2 person team to each drink a pitcher of soda in addition to eating a 30 inch pizza.)

In other St. Louis eating challenge news, bodybuilder Isabelle Turell announces that she intends to take on the Pointersaurus challenge with her fiance in May.

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Taco Del Mar to have 5 pound burrito challenge May 5

All Taco Del Mar locations will offer a five pound burrito on May 5. Customers who complete the burrito without assistance in under 30 minutes will receive a $20 gift certificate.

A video of the burrito’s construction

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TulsaWorld has an article about three local eating challenges
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.

Joey Chestnut 3rd on Big Wallie Wall of Fame

Wallie’s Diner in Tracy, California has set up a web page about its “Big Wallie” burger challenge. The burger is almost 3 pounds and is free if finished in under 15 minutes. Joey Chestnut is #3 on the list of fastest finishers. The top 2 times are from 1999.

Wallie’s Diner also offers a 6 and 9 pound burger. A video of the 9 pound “Extreme Wallie” is available on Fox 40’s website.

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Pat Bertoletti has posted a video of a Burritozilla eating contest between him and Joey Chestnut held the night before the funnel cake contest to his yardbarker blog.
The blog for Pizza Party reports that Erik Denmark broke Joey Chestnut's record of 17 minutes for the Belly Buster Pizza challenge with a time of 12:30. A picture

PodcastStockton: Bertoletti wins at Asparagus Fest

update #5 Photocalpyse has a blog entry with some pictures

update #4 NBCChicago has an article

update #3 The top 5 from IFOCE.com & http://twitter.com/erikdenmark/
1 Pat Bertoletti 7 lbs 5.81 ozs.
2 Joey Chestnut in 7 lbs 2.81 ozs.
3 Eric “Badlands” Booker 5.0 lbs
4 Erik Denmark ?
5 Nate Biller ?

This ends Joey Chestnut’s 4 year winning streak at the Asparagus Festival

update #2 PodcastStockton has the first report: “And the winner is Patrick “Deep Dish” #asparagus. That’s a lot of asparagus! 7.581lbs in 10 minutes”

update http://twitter.com/PodcastStockton is also at the contest

Badlands Booker reports that he has arrived in California and finished the Burritozilla last night with a time of 5:15, so hopefully we will have real time contest updates on http://twitter.com/BadlandsBooker or http://twitter.com/erikdenmark

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Eating challenges at Chicago ballparks

WGN’s baseball blog has a video of the giant Northside Twist pretzel available at Chicago Cubs games. The pretzel weighs 2 pounds (not 4 as previously listed) and costs $15.

The Sun Times reports that the Chicago White Sox offer a 2 foot long, 3 pound meatball sandwich for $26, which is only available in the premium sections of U.S. Cellular Field.

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