SeacoastOnline reports that Joe Menchetti won the first qualifier for the Lobster Roll Eating Challenge on September 11 at the Hampton Beach (NH) Seafood Festival.
A New York Times blog reports that Joel Podelsky won a sloppy joe eating contest at the Town Hall Deli in South Orange, NJ. update South Orange Patch has a video
Saoheng Youngre reports that he was the runner up to "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti at a whoopie pie eating contest in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
A noodle eating contest will be held in Toronto later this month. Qualifiers will take place on June 23 and the finals will occur on June 26. The grand prize is apparently a trip to Asia.
NewsChannel34 reports that the Italian Fest in Endicott, NY will have a pasta eating contest on Sunday that will award $300 to the winner.
Pelham Reporter reports that Dale Boone won a rib eating contest at the Texas Roadhouse in Pelham, Alabama by eating 43 ribs in 8 minutes. update CBS 42 has a video update #2 AL.com has a gallery
A whoopie pie eating contest at the Rock'n Ribfest in Merrimack, New Hampshire on Sunday will award $500 to the winner.
twitter.com/PadrinoItalian: "2010 Spaghetti Eating Champion is Joe LaRue!! 7Lbs of spaghetti and marinara in 10 MINUTES!! Congrats Joe!!" update The Padrino facebook has a gallery
Furious Pete wins Rocco’s pizza
Will Millender has the top 6 at today’s Rocco’s pizza eating contest in Brooklyn:
1) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski, 27 slices
2) Sal Carbone 17 slices (defending champ)
3) Mike Hoffman 15 slices
4) Mike Longo 14 slices
5) Will Millender 13 slices
6) Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria
Furious Pete wins Go! Go! Curry!
update June 9 Rebecca Davis / NY Daily News video
update June 7 Furious Pete has a video
A picture of the results
Mike Longo has the results of today’s contest at Go! Go! Curry!
1) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski
2) “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti
3) Will Millender
4) Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria
5) Brian Kenny Pham
update Metromix NY has a gallery
Jerry's Bait Shop in Lee's Summit, MO (Kansas City area) will hold a pizza, wing and Behemoth Burger eating contests tomorrow awarding $300 in prizes.
Patrick Michels has a blog entry about the kolache eating contests held at the National Polka Festival in Ennis, Texas on Saturday.
Furious Pete wins Mardi Gras watermelon
update May 31 Sun Sentinel has a video
update “Furious” Pete Czerwinski’s facebook reports that he won $2,500 at the watermelon eating contest by eating 34 slices in 3 minutes. Joe Menchetti ate 23 slices and Dale Boone ate 21. 2nd (27 slices) and 3rd (26 slices) were not named, and Pete says they did not follow the rules.
The Mardi Gras Casino twitter should be announcing results of the watermelon eating contest soon.
The twitpic page has some pictures.
SunSentinel.com has an interview with "Furious" Pete Czerwinski about his participation in the watermelon eating contest at Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale Beach, Florida on Sunday. The contest will award $2,500 to the winner, $1,000 to the runner up and $500 for third place.
Patrick Michels wrote a blog entry for the Dallas Observer about his victory in a stuffed jalapeno eating contest at the Margarita Ranch.
Cleveland egg roll contest report
Art Bento has a report about the egg roll eating contest at the Asian Festival in Cleveland. Kevin Kordalski was the winner, “Tiny” Tim Rauscheder was the runner-up.
WCCO has a video about a matzo ball eating contest at Mort's Deli in the Twin Cities won by Gus. Betsy Soderlund was the runner-up in her first eating contest.
Traders Village in Houston has a gallery of a contest where competitors ate the 72 ounce steak meal from the Big Texan Steak Ranch. Bud Caudill finished his meal in 28 minutes and Donice Krueger was the runner up with a time of just under 40 minutes. (The only faster female time for the 72 ounce steak meal I am aware of is 30 minutes for Carlene LeFevre). Red Sox tickets will be awarded at an ice cream contest in Amherst, MA tomorrow. (It is not clear if the tickets are eating contest or raffle prizes).
Diablo's in Las Vegas will hold wing eating contests on May 21 and 28 awarding a Gibson guitar to the winner.
A wing eating contest will be held at the Hamilton (Ontario) Waterfront Wingfest on June 12. Entrants need to qualify at contests at Hamilton area restaurants this week.
Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale Beach, Florida (Ft. Lauderdale area) will hold a watermelon eating contest on May 30 awarding $2500 to the winner.
Lion Head Pub in Chicago will hold a hot wing pepper eating contest on Thursday awarding a 42 inch plasma TV. The peppers will become progressively spicier until Naga Jolokia (Ghost Pepper) peppers are used.
Jon Squibb wins Pizza Slaughter Fest
update May 17 The Tony Boloney’s facebook has a gallery and nnicc has some videos.
update The Press of Atlantic City has a contest report. Jon Squibb won the contest by eating 27 slices in an hour. Tom Davis and Dale Boone comprised the rest of the top 3. Brad Sciullo did not compete.
NBC40 has an article and video about the “Pizza Slaughter Fest” contest taking place this afternoon at Tony Boloney’s in Atlantic City.
A youtube video about the contest is also available.
twitter.com/bigwillthechamp: "whew, they gave us a bottle of water. winner here - 17 slices in 10 mins [@ Hell's Kitchen pizza contest]. joel the cannon 2nd with 14. 3rd to damon serignet"
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