• Acme Oyster House Challenge (15 Dozen Club) restaurant: Home page (the website has an online wall of fame – click on Contest, then Leader Board – which has not been updated since 2005. Pat Bertoletti set the record in early 2007. A screen capture of the Wall of Fame is available after the jump
  • 15+ Dozen Club in the eatfeats database
  • #5 entry on the Travel Channel’s list of best places to pig out – video clip from that program
  • Reviews: yelp | citysearch
• Mother’s Restaurant home page | yelp | citysearch
• Deanie’s Seafood home page | yelp | citysearch

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• Review of Quest for the Golden Hot Dog
• 4 person USA vs. Canada team slider eating contest in Toronto on February 8, 2009. “Furious” Pete Czerwinski will captain the Canadian team
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• Wrestler “The Executioner” sets restaurant record by eating 10 pattie burger
• Picture of menu at Wintzell’s Oyster House which lists the current oyster eating records (Men – Joe Evans: 403, Women – Julia Ward: 280)
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• OC Mex Food has a blog entry about the screening of the Levi Oliver documentary at the Newport Beach Film Festival
• A list of the winners in Mastiff’s MLE game gift certificate giveaway
• The Phillips crabcake contest returns to Maryland next weekend at the Maryland Maritime Heritage Festival in Annapolis.
• A video of Ian Hickman doing a banana spilt challenge
• Shirota’s restaurant opens

The Indepedent of London has an article about the oyster eating challenge at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile Alabama:

The genuine smile is harder to find in the US than anywhere else on earth. On the East and West coasts, people smile because they’re feeling smug. But in Alabama, people smile because they want you to be happy. It’s evident in the 1920s canteen-style interior of Wintzell’s, where the walls are covered with ancient, handwritten signs of folksy, homespun wisdom (“Unfortunately, there is a widespread view that the proper lubricant for a political machine is palm oil rather than elbow grease” is one example).

An Indepedent reporter took a tour with Famous Fat Dave in New York City.

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AmazingStace reports that last night’s episode of Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel featured the cuisine of the Gulf Coast. An oyster eating contest at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile, AL appeared in one of the segments. The winner ate 430 oysters in an hour. I will try to catch the episode if it reruns.

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IFOCE.com reports that Pat Bertoletti broke Sonya Thomas’ Acme Oyster House record by eating 53.5 dozen oysters in 48 minutes. Sonya Thomas set the previous record when she ate 46 dozen in a 10 minute record, then ate an additional 6 dozen following the awards ceremony.

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