update Oct 2, 2009 A post about Brad Sciullo’s appearance on The Colbert Report has been made

(from Kelly Jordan email) Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s homepage reports that Brad Sciullo was the first person to complete the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser burger by himself. The burger is listed as having 15 pounds of meat and its total weight was 20.2 pounds. Sciullo’s time was 4 hours and 39 minutes, 21 minutes under the 5 hour limit.

update The burger Brad Sciullo finished was not the 9-11 pound “Ye Olde 96er” burger completed by Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss. It is the next larger size.

update #2 The Evening Sun has an article about Brad Sciullo completing the burger which says he won $400 and three T-shirts. He made three trips to the bathroom where he was accompanied by a cook to make sure he did not throw up.

update #3 Yahoo’s story about Brad Sciullo is currently the most-emailed article (from Steakbellie)

update #4 PittsburghLive has an article There is also a blog entry in an Indian language

update #5 The Herald Standard has an article about Brad Sciullo. He says his next contest will be Wing Bowl 17 and he will use his technique which involves eating part of the wing bones at that event.

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• A black & white gallery from this year’s Nathan’s finals
• Barlo’s Pizza in Indianapolis will award at least $300 to someone who finishes a 29 inch pizza in under 2 hours
• Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane wins Colorado Springs musubi contest
• A comparison of Krystal with White Castle. TN and KY have both restaurants.
• IHOP to offer all-you-can-eat pancakes for remainder of October (from Skinnyboy)
• Video from b.good’s Garlicky Greens contest
• Picture of Badlands Booker at Nashville Krystal qualifier
• Volunteers wanted to handle publicity, sponsorships, food safety
  and legal aspects of a Chicago hot dog eating contest
• Brenda Lashley, winner of a sauerkraut eating contest, makes “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” book for naming her son after her favorite brand of sauerkraut.

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• Beautiful Brian has uploaded the last episode of his television show to be hosted by hometown.aol.com
• Joey Chestnut ate 23 hot dogs in 5 minutes at his exhibition in Edmonton
• Barack Obama offers to judge a sweet potato pie eating contest
  
• Neurotic Pickle Eating contest held in conjunction with a New York City walking tour called A History of Jews, Sex and Politics on the Lower East Side
• Alan Sell completes three pound burger challenge in Athens, GA
• Pat Philbin notes that the shirts supplied at the Famous Famiglia pizza contest were too small for some competitors

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The Drake University student newspaper has an article about Katie Quattrini’s attempt to make the Wall of Fame by finishing a 4 pound burger at Grandma Max’s truck stop in Urbandale, Iowa in under an hour.

The article is currently on the main page of the student newspaper’s website.

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• Joey Chestnut to appear at Edmonton Oil Kings minor league hockey game on Friday
• Badlands Booker to perform “Mamma Mia” rap before Famous Famiglia pizza contest
• Hall Hunt’s Krystal performance mentioned in jacksonville.com
• Big Texan Steak Ranch to appear on the Travel Channel in December
• Wichita State professor has won a local jalapeno eating contest five times

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• An article listing four eating challenges in Winnipeg (a flickr gallery of the nine pound burger from Blondie’s)
• Dale Boone is about to return to India according to his myspace page
• Primanti Brothers sandwich eating contest at the University of Pittsburgh
• Columbia Heights cupcake eating contest gallery
  
• Minnesota “Juicy Lucy” burger eating contest with qualifiers this month (dates not listed)

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• Ian Hickman in CiCi’s pizza contest: part 1, part 2
• J & R Steakhouse’s online Wall of Fame/Shame has been updated but does not include recent notable 76 ounce steak finishers such as Furious Pete or Elizabeth Canady. Maureen Kearney is one of the recently added finishers (picture on right)
• Brad Sciullo has been dropped from the AICE rankings. (Cached previous rankings)
• Women only wing eating contest in Columbus Ohio October 9
• Preview of the Newark, Ohio Dickey’s BBQ qualifier

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• BeautifulBrian.com will lose its web provider at the end of the month with the demise of hometown.aol.com
• Beautiful Brian compares Brad Sciullo with other sports eccentrics
• A higher quality version of “The Cheater”, which Brian says is not meant to embarrass or belittle Juliet Lee.
• MosesNews.com is rebranded as the “The World “Leada”….
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• Three pound burger debuts in Morgantown, NC. Naming rights will go to the first finisher
• Oyster eating contest for models seeks sponsorship

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• Videos and galleries of Birmingham and Memphis Krystal qualifiers available
• Brown students attempt Spike’s hot dog challenge
• Picture from eating contest held in Beijing during the Olympics
• Don Lerman gets an impostor on his own blog
• FutureFeed sees a “glass ceiling” in the fact that only 2 of the IFOCE top 50 are females (6 of the AICE top 50 are women)

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ToastedRav.com has a blog entry and gallery about the “Tour de Frankfurter”, an attempt to eat 24 hot dogs in 24 hours in 24 different St. Louis area locations. The Southside Journal also has an article about the tour.

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• Gallery from Old Home Week pierogi eating contest (picture on right is Larell Marie Mele, runner-up and top amateur)
• Unsanctioned Windmill Hot Dog Eating Contest held in Belmar, NJ
• Report from the Myrtle Beach BBQ contest from a NASCAR fan
• Waffle eating contest between members of two NC high school football teams
• Detroit area free 6 pound burger offer regardless of whether it is finished

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Schiappa’s Pizza in O’Fallon, Illinois has started a 36 inch pizza challenge for three people. The time limit is a half an hour.

Schiappa’s held an eat-off for the two-person teams who finished the 29 inch pizza challenge on July 26 to determine who would receive the grand prize of a trip to Cancun, Mexico. Two of the teams that completed the challenge consisted of Joey Chestnut and Hall Hunt along with Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus. Neither pair competed in the eat off and Ryan Maassen and Bill File won the contest.

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Route 66 News reports that a book titled “Story of the Free 72-oz. Steak” about the Big Texan Steak Ranch’s signature meal has been published. The book contains a list of a challenge finishers since 1990. (Records before that year have been lost)
The book is available through mail order.

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The website for Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub reports that Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Canady set the record for consuming the Super Pub Challenger burger, which contains three pounds of meat, on July 31. Her time of 20 minutes was 10 minutes faster than the previous record of a half an hour and almost halved the previous female record held by Lori Weiss of 36 minutes.

Elizabeth Canady is not the most recent female finisher of the Super Pub Challenger, April Frisco (picture on right) completed the challenge on August 8.

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• Article about A Taste of Hamburg-er eating contest which reports that “Ian Hick” was last year’s winner
• Furious Pete gains 5.5 inches in 7 minutes during recording of “Sports Science”
• Entire office attempts pancake challenge at Charlie Parker’s in Springfield
• Message from Miss Busy Lady’s nephew to Joey and Pat
• National Cheese Eating Championship to take place at Arthur, Illinois Amish Country Cheese Fesitval tomorrow

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• Val Bromann has a contest report and gallery from the Busey Executive Sweetcorn Eating Contest
• Venus and Serena Williams to compete against Peyton and Eli Manning in an eating contest in an Oreo commercial
• Pre contest interview with the “LA Assassin”
• 12 pound burger challenge in Lincoln, Nebraska offers $200 reward
• Gallery of Andy’s “Big A” burger eating contest

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• Colley Handspike wins Atlanta La Costena jalapeno eating contest
• Seattle clam contest report
• $100 awarded to finishers of 7 pound Frankenstein burger in Sikeston, Missouri
• Sonya Thomas adds 2 FAQs
• Article about Gal Sone’s nail salon, “Jill & Lovers”. One of Jill’s products is called “Jewnail”, presumably short for jeweled nail
• Takuya Yamamoto eats a 10 kg cake

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Crazy Legs Conti was a surprise guest on College Humor Live recently and attempted to consume Michael Phelps’ typical breakfast in under 5 minutes. Video, Gallery

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Following up on last week’s post about Michael Phelps’ 12,000 calorie a day diet, here are some other male athletes who reportedly ate over 10,000 calories a day (I will try to have a post up about female athletes sometime this weekend.)

• Michigan State offensive lineman Tony Mandarich, 12000-15000 cal/day from a 1989 Sports Illustrated article, a list of Mandarich’s weekly grocery shopping is also available (Mandarich’s diet may or may not have been steroid assisted)
• Judo competitor Myles Porter, up to 12,000 cal/day, from a MSNBC article and video about Olympians diets (1984 Nathan’s champion Birgit Felden was a member of the West German judo team)
• 1976 Olympics swimmer Gordon Downie, 13,000 – 18,000 cal / day
• Icelandic strongman Jón Páll Sigmarsson (now deceased), 10,000-20,000 cal / day from a caption from a youtube documentary
• Ultramarathon swimmer Skip Storch, who attempted to swim from Albany to New York City, 17,000 cal / day from a NY Times article
• Bodybuilder Victor Richards, 30,000 calories a day, reportedly from a daily diet consisting of:
  

  3 pounds of brown rice.
  25-30 chicken breasts.
  75-120 egg whites.
  10-12 cans of corn.
  5-6 cans of pineapple

• A Sports Illustrated article from 1981 about pro wrestler “Andre the Giant” lists a daily calorie consumption of 7,000 calories a day, but that figure comes solely from alcohol and does not include food and non-alcoholic drinks. (quote is from part 6)
  

  Like most people who drink because they enjoy it rather than because they have to, Andre isn’t bothered overmuch by the occasional dry period. Last year, for example, after an extended trip to Japan and Australia , he found that his weight had reached the unacceptably high figure of 540 pounds, whereupon he put himself on a strict diet—no alcohol, and only one meal a day. In four weeks he dropped 80 pounds, which becomes less surprising with the realization that he consumes approximately 7,000 calories in alcohol a day.

  As for his efforts at table, Andre seems to eat less than might be expected, though, of course, far more than the average person. Four eggs, bacon, hash browns, four pieces of whole wheat toast, a pint of orange juice and two iced coffees suffice to break his nightly fast, and his evening meal, generally taken several hours before his match, will depend on where he is in the world, although the quantity will be about twice that consumed by your garden variety gourmand. Occasionally, however, he will hold back on the alcohol and give full play to his appetite. He recently recounted an evening spent in a small, second-rate restaurant. “I was tired, boss, and I only wanted to have a quick bite and go to bed, but this waitress, she kept pointing at me and talking about me to the other customers. Then she asked me in a loud voice if a cup of soup and a cracker would be enough. And she laughed. I told her no, that I was hungry, and wished the entire menu to be brought, one dish at a time. It took me four hours to eat it all.”

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The BBC’s website has an article about the 72 ounce steak challenge served at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas:

Americans, of course, are not completely insensitive to those global challenges, and they are not entirely immune to the effects of them either. But it certainly doesn’t look as though the appeal of the steak challenge is flagging. This year has been one of endless bad news for the American economy but the challenge is more popular now than it was last year.

The American appetite for escapism, here at least, outweighs any moral squeamishness people might feel at this grotesque, but compelling, display of excess.

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• Paul Barlow wins Six Flags Eating Triathlon (video file)
• Its eating challenges week at Two Bites in Suburbia
• Orlando columnist attempts Michael Phelps’ diet
• Wiki listing big eaters and extreme omnivores in popular culture
• Gal Sone samples and ranks all the items at an Italian restaurant and the pudding she chose for #1 becomes sold out

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• 120 ounce steak at Brand Steakhouse in Las Vegas, free if eaten by one person, $267 otherwise
• San Francisco spam musubi eating contest September 6
• CNBC on the effects of inflation on Michael Phelps’ diet
• Saratoga Nathan’s contest Monday to be 12 minutes?
• Gallery of wing eating contest before Bills – Steelers game in Toronto
• Slots still available for Vancouver, BC Nathan’s non-qualifier Monday. The contest will be 6 minutes.
• 1993 article about Czech dumpling contest.
• Nanticoke, PA pierogi eating contest Sunday.

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The New York Post has an article about the diet of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps which consists of 3 meals containing 4,000 calories each for a total of approximately 12,000 calories. Phelps’ typical breakfast:

Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase “Breakfast of Champions” by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.

He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

The Wall Street Journal Health Blog and Bleacher Report have entries about Phelps’ food consumption. The eight gold medal hopeful is a regular patron of Pete’s Grill in Baltimore according to a MyFoxDC article, so perhaps he could enter that restaurant’s annual pancake eating contest.

The New York Times has a slideshow of Olympians which lists their daily calorie consumption:

• Christian Cantwell, shotput, 335 lbs., 5000 calories
• Deena Kastor, marathon, 103 lbs., 4000 calories
• Cheryl Haworth, weightlifting, 300 lbs., 3000 – 4000 calories
• Brett Newlin, rowing, 225 lbs., 6000 calories
• Sarah Hammer, cycling, 135 lbs., 4500 calories

Rower Jamie Schroeder estimates he consumes 8,000 – 10,000 calories a day.

Volleyball player Stacy Sykora has the highest daily calorie consumption I could find for a current female Olympian at 5,000, with a sizeable percentage of that coming from McDonald’s burgers.

Canadian rower Heather Clarke might have set the all time record for female Olympians when she consumed 10,000 calories a day in preparing for the 1980 games.

update

MSNBC has a video of all the food listed in the New York Post article
An article and video about Michael Phelps’ visits to Michigan restaurants are available.
Youtube has a NBC commercial about Phelps
RushLimbaugh.com has a commentary on Phelps’ diet and the British left-wing newspaper The Guardian calls Phelps a “right greedy pig”
ABC news has an article on Olympians diets
According to a Saturday Night Live transcript, Diana Nyad ate 12,000 – 12,500 calories a day while training for ultramarathon swimming, which is not an Olympic sport.

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• Pat Bertoletti practices for Krystals: video 1, video 2. Pat says the contest in the Czech republic he will compete in will be an hour long.
• Birmingham, Michigan cupcake eating contest August 15
• Furious Pete seeks input on an eating contest to be held at the Mr. Olympia expo
• Suggestion on prize to be included with Joey Chestnut baseball card
• Aurora, OH burger challenge increases by a half a pound when somebody successfully completes it.

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(From Mark Hinske) PostCrescent.com has a report on the Burgerfest held in Seymour, Wisconsin on Saturday. A caption reports that Mike Fitzgerald won the Hardee’s Thickburger eating contest by eating 7 and a third burgers in 12 minutes. Another caption claims that “The Hammer” also broke the contest record. Sonya Thomas ate 7 Thickburgers to win the 2003 contest, but the contest length was only 10 minutes. (The previous record is listed as 5.25 thickburgers)

A 120 pound burger patty was cooked during the festival and served to attendees.

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