Fish Tales in Ocean City, Maryland will hold another hot dog eating contest on July 4. Last year' contest awarded $1000. The 2009 prize is no listed listed.
Jimmy Johns sandwich makers vs. eaters in Detroit Saturday
The Detroit River Days music schedule lists the following non-musical event:
Also, sure to draw a crowd on Saturday, June 20 at the Michigan Lottery Stage is the Jimmy John’s Freaky Fast Sandwich and Making Contest at 2 p.m. The contest will feature three of the fastest sandwich makers going head-to-head again three World Class Major League Eaters to see who is faster. Major League Eaters are infamous for gobbling down hot dogs and chicken wings on TV. Jimmy John’s believes they have they fastest sandwich makers around, what better way to prove it?
An email from Craig Reed reports that the three eaters will be Pat Bertoletti, Hall Hunt and Tim Brown.
OCRegister has the prizes for tomorrow's prime rib eating contest at Gulliver's in Irvine, CA: 1) $400, overnight stay at Radisson Newport Beach Hotel, two Angels tickets and dinner for two at Gulliver’s 2) $200 and gift card for Burke Williams 3) $100 and two Angels tickets.
Preliminary IFOCE 2009 second half schedule
(Thanks Sean Kirby) No post July 4 contests appear on the schedule on IFOCE.com, but other websites have some upcoming contest information.
August 22, Los Angeles, Gyoza Eating Contest
September 2, Sparks NV, rib eating contest
September 4, Houston TX, Kolache Eating Contest
September 5, Buffalo NY, Wing Eating Championship
September 6, Buffalo NY, Buffalo Buffet Bowl Eating Contest
September 10, New York City, Cannoli Eating Contest
September 26, Lewisville, TX tamale eating contest
A hot dog eating contest to be held at the Water Carnival in Hutchinson, Minnesota on June 20 will award two round trip plane tickets to New York City.
(Via skinnyboy's twitter) Registration for the second contest sponsored by Steve's Hot Dogs in Denver is now open. There will only be one qualifier on July 11.
The first qualifier for Jake's Burgers contest will take place tomorrow in Wilmington, Delaware. All qualifiers will award $100 to the winner and the overall victor will receive $2000.
The grand opening celebration of Fractured Prune Donuts in Leesburg, Virginia tomorrow will have a donut eating contest.
Sweet Avenue in Rutherford, NJ will have a cupcake eating contest at CupcakeFest tomorrow.
The World Spicy Topokki Eating Contest will be held before the LA Galaxy's home game tomorrow against Real Salt Lake. $450 in cash will be awarded, $300 to the winner.
NewsVideoWeb has an interview of Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi at the Guys Choice Award after the P'Zone Chow-lenge
Liz Kellermeyer has written a preview of Saturday's Denver-area Nathan's qualifier listing Mongo Marquez, Pete "Pretty Boy" Davekos and Russ Witzke as expected entrants.
Dougie's in Brooklyn will host a kosher buffalo wings eating contest on Sunday, June 14. First prize is a $250 gift certificate.
(from Crawfish twitter) The Colusa (California) Casino Resort World Tri-Tip Eating Challenge will take place on June 28. The purse is $1,377 and registration opens tomorrow.
(via theblackmallard) RudolphFoods.com has a list of some of the competitors in Saturday's pork rink contest which include: Tim “Gravy†Brown, “Wild†Bill Myers, “Buffalo†Jim Reeves, Craig Reed and Rick Petralia
Westword has a preview of Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Denver listing Erik Denmark (who will probably not compete), Kevin Ross and Russ Witzke as expected entrants.
Pat Bertoletti wins Minnesota w/26 HDB
update #2 WCCO has video from the contest
update The top 3 from MLE via Crawfish
1 Pat Bertoletti 26
2 Mark Williams 13.5
3 Julie Dey 11
Julie Dey has the best female debut since Juliet Lee and is the 8th female with a 10+ HDB Nathan’s result according to the eatfeats database. The contest was her first according to a comment in a CityPages blog entry.
It is surprising Patrick Vandam did not compete.
George Shea reports that Pat Bertoletti won the Minnesota Nathan’s qualifier with 26 HDB. DeepDishEats confirms the total. Cold rain contributed to Bertoletti’s unexpectedly low amount.
In a startribune.com comment, someone claiming to have done 31 HDB says he will participate in the qualifier, which would probably be Patrick VanDam if accurate.
The dates for the 2009 pizza contests at Dani's House of Pizza in Queens are now available. The first qualifier will take place on June 13.
The Augusta (GA) Chronicle has an article about Saturday's Mudbugabeaux-N-Brew Crawfish Boil and Craft Beer Festival with a guide to crawfish eating techniques for participants in the crawfish eating contest.
Heroes West in Joliet will host four qualifiers for a wing eating contest this month. The finals will take place at The Taste Of Joliet on June 27.
2009 Kansas City qualifier previews
The Pitch’s preview of the Kansas City (Overland Park, KS) Nathan’s qualifer says that the contest will take place on Sunday (The official schedule says it will occur on Saturday) and that “Buffalo” Jim Reeves will compete.
update George Shea confirms that the contest will take place on Saturday and that Gravy Brown will compete
update #2 NBCActionNews has an article about the contest
The Shoppe in Denver will hold a cupcake eating contest awarding $400 to the winner on July 4.
A press release about Saturday's Nathan's qualifier at Cub Foods in Plymouth, Minnesota confirms that Pat Bertoletti will compete.
CitySearchNYC reports that the Hill Country rib-eating contest on Saturday has one remaining slot left.
HamptonRoads.com has a preview of Saturday's qualifier at the MacArthur Center in Norfolk, VA. Sonya Thomas is the only listed expected competitor.
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