(from email) Joel "The Cannon" Podelsky won last night's knish eating contest at the Brooklyn Cyclone game by eating 5.75 knishes in 5 minutes.
BacciPizza.com reports that it will sponsor a pizza eating contest at the Bacci Pizza Fest in Chicago on Saturday. $2500 in prizes will be awarded ($1500 to the winner). Entrants will need to qualify by eating three jumbo slices in under 20 minutes at a Bacci's location.
TampaBay.Metromix.com has a gallery of the hot dog eating contest held July 3 at the Crowbar in Ybor City which includes pictures of the female winner, who competed under the name "Doll Face Killa"
The Dallas Observer has a blog entry about the corn dog eating contest held July 4 at the Libertine Bar. Patrick Michels was the runner up.
Andrew "A-Bomb" Lane has a blog entry about the hot dog and cupcake contests he participated in on July 4. The cupcakes store, Tee & Cakes, also has a blog entry about its contest, won by WLOCE cupcake runner-up Jimmy Mares
DanisHouseOfPizza.com reports that "Furious" Pete Czerwinski set a record for their contest in the July 4 qualifier by eating 10 slices of pizza in 8 minutes, breaking "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti's record.
A knish eating contest will be held at the Brooklyn Cyclones game tomorrow in honor of Jewish Heritage Night.
The University of Texas student newspaper has an article about the Austin veggie dog eating contest held on July 4. Scott Meyers won by eating 16 veggie dogs in 10 minutes. A gallery of the contest is also available.
Dale Boone repeats in apple uglies, Suzanne French 2nd
The Salisbury Post has the top 4 from yesterday’s apple ugly eating contest in Faith, NC. update a SalisburyPost.com also has a gallery:
1 Dale Boone 20
2 Suzanne French 14, cordogorama 3rd place
3 Larry McNeil (IFOCE #37) 13
4 Keatin Shelton 12, last year’s runner up
The twitter for the Alley Cat Club in Charlotte reports that Dale Boone won their hot dog contest last night by eating 27 hot dogs in 12 minutes. Nicholas Giffen's twitter reports he placed third and the runner up was a former Nathan's finalist.
CBS4 reports that Damon Serignet won this afternoon's hot dog eating contest in Miami.
John Palmgren, runner up at the recent Rudolph Pork Rind contest, was the guest of honor at a local pork rind contest in Peoria.
OceanCityToday reports that slots are still available in Fish Tales July 4 hot dog eating contest. Qualifying by eating 5 hot dogs is required. Ken Federighi will attempt to defend his title. Cash prizes will be awarded to 2nd and 3rd place in addition to the $1,000 received by the winner.
GoGoCurryUSA.com has a slideshow of its curry eating contest.Canadian wins Independence Burger Contest in DC
update #3 MyFoxDC has a video – Dale Boone was second w/ 11 burgers, Joe Menchetti 3rd
update #2 WTOP has an article
update The winner of this afternoon’s Z-burger eating contest has been posted: guyfromva: burger eating contest over- won by furious pete with 14 burgers in 10 minutes… now enjoying one myself #dc
GuyFromVA is posting pictures from the Z-Burger contest. Dale Boone, and Joel Podelsky & Jay Gorman are competing.
chicago.metromix.com: A one minute jalapeno contest will be held in Chicago on July 5. The winner will receive $200 and a slot in the IFOCE jalapeno contest in September.
The Silver Stars of the WNBA are planning on having a hot dog consuming contest at Friday's game and are debating whether the hot dogs will be consumed in solid or liquid form.
Thrillist reports that two WLOCE members will compete in tomorrow's contest at Z-Burger. If Dale Boone is one of the competitors, hopefully things will go better for him that in his last Washington, DC contest when he vomited jambalaya on Sonya Thomas and needed attention from an EMT.
KDKA has a video of a hot dog eating contest held the Celebrate America Festival at Kennywood today won by Bob Kuhns. update ZWire has an article about the contest.
CreativeLoafing.com: The winner's of the mens and womens divisions at the hot dog eating contest held at the Dairy Inn in St. Petersburg, FL will both receive $100.
JohnnaKnowsGoodFood.com: A Canadian will compete in the Z Burger eating contest in Washington, DC on July 2. (If Furious Pete wins, he could call it a Canada Day contest since July 2 is closer to July 1 than the Fourth of July.)
http://twitter.com/ocdj/ The hot dog contest at Fish Tales in Ocean City, MD on July 4 will award $1000 as it did last year.
A Detroit area (Shelby Township) hot dog eating contest will award a 32 inch LCD TV on July 8.
(Via email) Joe Menchetti qualified for the finals of Jake's Burgers contest by eating 5 double hamburgers in 2 minutes, 28 seconds in the June 22 qualifier.
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