Stop Burgers in Weston, FL (Fort Lauderdale area) will hold a burger eating contest on July 4 awarding $2,500 to the winner.
Battle of the Bone 4 (Phoenix-area) to award Toyota Tundra
BattleoftheBone4.com announces the fourth Battle of the Bone Phoenix-area wing eating contest. The grand prize will be a Toyota Tundra truck. A comment announces that this year’s contest will be open to professional eaters after previous Battles of the Bone were limited to non-professional eaters from Arizona. (It is not clear if the contest is still restricted to Arizona residents.) Weekly qualifiers will be held at Native New Yorkers on Wednesdays starting May 25 in Tempe.
Dave "US Male" Goldstein is listed in the roster for the May 28 curley fry eating contest at Morey's Piers in Altantic City.
Loco Luna in Atlanta will hold a taco eating contest on May 29 awarding $250.
CBS New York reports that Mike "The Real Skinny" Hoffman won today's pickle eating contest held at the Carnegie Deli in Manhattan. update Gothamist reports Hoffman ate 1.8 pounds of pickles. update May 19 The NY Daily News has the rest of the top 3: Francis Arpaia (1.35 lb.), Brenda Mathis (1.19 lb., was not aware of contest and came to the deli for breakfast)
Gothamist reports that walk-on competitors will be accepted at tomorrow's pickle eating contest at the Carnegie Deli. The blog entry also says that Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa is the contest record holder with a total of 3.8 ponds.
The Great Chowder Cook-off in Newport, RI on June 4 will hold a crabcake eating contest that might award $1000. (Sentence is unclear, prize might be for cook-off winner.)
Bonnie and Clyde's Speakeasy in Waxahachie, TX (south Dallas area) will hold a hot dog eating contest (first prize $100) held in conjunction with a lingerie show on Saturday.
Five competitors are needed to compete against Dale Boone in Sunday's burger eating contest at Grindhouse Killer Burgers in Atlanta.
Qualifying is closed for the 2011 Go! Go! Curry! eating contest and the competitors in the May 28 finals have been announced. Joe Menchetti, Will Millender and Dave Goldstein had the top three times.
PSbklyn in Brooklyn will hold a slider eating contest for amateurs on May 25 awarding $730 in gift certificates.
Jon Squibb announces that he won the Pizza Slaughter Fest contest in Atlantic City for the second year in a row. update Press of Atlantic City has an article and gallery. Dale Boone was the runner-up. update Tony Baloney's has a facebook gallery and FeetHands218 has videos Part 1 | Part 2
This year's pickle eating contest at the Carnegie Deli in Manhattan will take place on Wednesday, May 18.
Eating Las Vegas reports that Joe LaRue won today's pickle eating contest at the Carnegie Deli at The Mirage in Las Vegas. Stacy Hamilton says that Joe ate more than four pounds of pickles.
A web site has been set up for the Holly Poultry Wing Wars at http://hollywingwars.com/ The contest will take place on June 11 in Timonium, MD and award ($1500/$800/$450/$250) to professionals and ($500/$300/$200) to amateurs.
Sylvester's in Los Osos, California will hold a http://www.sylvestersburgers.com/">five pound burger eating contest on May 29 awarding $1,000 to the winner. Qualify by eating a five pound burger before May 25. (via pasoroblespress)
Ellis Island Casino & Brewery will hold qualifiers today and May 19 for a hot dog eating contest on May 28 awarding $1,000 to the winner.
The Cantina in Columbus, Ohio will hold a taco eating contest tonight awarding a pair of Bon Jovi tickets.
PizzaSlaugherFest.com has a page about Saturday's pizza eating contest at Tony Boloney's in Atlantic City, NJ listing Jon Squibb, Dave Goldstein and Dale Boone as expected entrants.
Muldoon's in El Campo, TX (southwest Houston area) will hold a crawfish eating contest on Thursday awarding $500 to the winner. ($50 entry fee)
Some news about a 2011 Krystal eating contest: the Clean Plate Charlie blog is looking for an entrant to compete in the Krystal eating contest at the Riverwalk Trust Burger Battle in Fort Lauderdale this Friday.
Woody's will hold a foot long eating contest at the Culturefest in Brighton on June 4 awarding $2,000 to the winner. The contest is limited to amateurs.
Chickie's & Pete's, site of the Wing Bowl weigh-ins, will hold a pizza eating contest for charity on May 21 awarding $1000 (or a Bermuda cruise) to the winner and $500 to the runner up. Entrants will need to raise $500 in ticket sales or donations.
AndysBurgers and "Furious" Pete Czerwinski have videos of the 4th annual "Big A Burger Challenge". Pete also has a video of David Brunelli's post-contest "reversal of a reversal".
The facebook for ESPN Cleveland announces that "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti won the Wing King of Cleveland contest held on Wednesday. Chris "The Mad Greek" Abatsas was the runner-up.
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