Results from last Sunday’s Oyster Bowl contest have been posted to the contest website.

Chris Stevens set a record by eating 102 oysters in 2 minutes and Oyster Bow IX winner Jayson Taylor was the runner up with 96. Theza Friedman was the women’s winner with 96. Additional results have been entered in the eatfeats database.

Central Jersey has a picture of Elliot Cowley competing.

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The New York Times reports that Milton Parker passed away at the age of 90. Parker purchased a share of the Carnegie Deli in 1976 and handed control to his son-in-law, Sanford Levine, in 2002. While the Carnegie Deli hosts a pickle eating contest in even numbered years, the first eating competition it sponsored used a different food:

The Carnegie had opened in 1938; knishes came half a century later. In 1988, Mr. Parker placed them on the menu — but only after staging a publicity-seeking knish-eating contest.

The favorite was Jay Resnick, the 1985 Brighton Beach Baths knish-eating champion. The $250 prize went to Mark Litman, a soft-drink route salesman from Brooklyn who said he had never before eaten a knish. In 15 minutes, Mr. Litman downed four and half knishes. Each whole knish weighed in at one pound — an indicator of Carnegie deli portions.

A 1988 article about the knish contest is available in the New York Times archives.

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A wing eating contest will be held at the Atlantic City boat show on February 7. The first prize will be a flat screen TV. Call The Shark 103.7 FM to register.

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Here is a list of the contests this weekend in the eatfeats calendar:

The Oyster Bowl will award a Trip to Cancun or Punta Cana, the first prize in the Bethesda slider contest is a flat screen TV and $500 will be awarded in the rib contest in Clovis.

The WBCN website has a gallery of last night’s Boston-area Wing Bowl. It is surprising that Joe Menchetti did not compete (assuming professionals were not banned) given that the first prize was $3,000.

WPLR.com has pictures of last Saturday’s “Eat the Meat” Wing Eating contest.

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The Mayor Of Wingville has information about a Boston area Wing Bowl:

Join us Thursday, January 29th from 7-9PM at Hooters on Route 1 in Saugus. Ten BCN listeners will compete for a chance to win some serious CASH! The first place winner scores $3,000. 2nd: $1,500 and 3rd: $500! Listen to Toucher & Rich mornings from 6 to 10 for your chance to compete for a place in the tournament

If you are not a Toucher & Rich listener, a slot will be awarded tonight to the winner of a “Wing Off” at Dockside Restaurant in Wakefield, MA

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• Drew Cerza, founder of the Buffalo Wing Festival, to be emcee at Wing Bowl 17
• Report on Tuesday’s Wing Off
• L & L Corned Beef Musubi eating contest February 15. First prize includes a trip to Hawaii
• Skinnyboy’s report from the KBPI Wing Bowl semifinals
• Moses News has a lot of new material, including a review of Katz’ Deli, featured in last week’s Man vs. Food
• Picture of the Big Texan 72 ounce steak finishers list from 2007. Kevin Carr is one of the finishers.

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• Beautiful Brian wants to know who will stop the Shea Stadium rain
• Rice and Bean Pot burrito eating contest at Boston area colleges starts January 27
• Nacho eating contest in Paul Blart: Mall Cop
• Questions about performance enhancing substances in competitive eating
• Picture of 29 inch pizza at American Pie Pizza in Florida
• Oyster Bowl X to award 4 Night All Inclusive Trip to Cancun or Punta Cana for two Adults
• Hot dog eating contest in Hong Kong
• A youtube page by “Kobayashi”
• Don Lerman has resumed competitive eating posts on mosesnews.com
• Olivia Wilde of House MD once ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes to win an eating contest – interview video (from Sebastian Walters)

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• Kobayashi has a blog entry about Cookie Jarvis and his jacket
• AICE Blue Baker World Cookie Eating Championship in College Station, TX on April 4, $1500 purse
• Bacon Eating contest at second Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival (Des Moines) February 28
• Pizza Eating contest at Carolina (Raleigh) Rollergirls roller derby match on January 24
• Youtube page for Joel “The Cannon” Podelsky’s contests

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• (from Pierre Abry) Food Network page about tonight’s episode (at 6:30 pm) of My Life in Food starring “Crazy Legs Conti , a dreadlocked veteran, Lovely Juliette [sic] Lee, a petite 100lb female rookie, and Patrick Deep Dish Bertoletti, a talented up-and-comer”. The episode will not be rerun in the near future and the series is not available online, so watch it when it is televised if you want to see it.
• Segments from the new tracks on the Best of Hungry & Focused are available on Badlands Booker’s myspace page
• Wing eating contest at the Den Again in Racine, Wisconsin January 25 $500 first prize
• Facebook page about the Seaside, Oregon mayoral campaign of “Consumption”
• Blog entry about Frank Pastore, former Big Texan record holder, from a resident of Pastore’s hometown
• Video of Joel Podelsky’s cheeseburger eating contest at a Newark Beaks game
• Wing eating contest in Beijing
• Don Lerman’s baked bean record (but not Lerman by name) was mentioned on Who Wants to be a Millionaire recently according to a Ray Meduna email

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WPLR.com has information about the Eat The Meat III wing eating competition it is sponsoring. Two qualifiers will take place at Buffalo Wild Wings in New Haven on January 14 and 21 and the finals will take place on January 24. The first prize is $1,000. The rules state that entrance is limited to Connecticut residents who are not affiliated with a professional eating organization.

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Skinnyboy has a blog entry about his victory in a qualifier for the KBPI Wing Bowl in Denver. The radio station’s events page has two more upcoming qualifiers this week:

Thursday Jan 8 – Eck’s Saloon Hampden & Kipling
Saturday Jan 10 – Buffalo Wild Wings – County Line & Chester

The semifinals will take place before the Colorado Mammoth indoor lacrosse game on January 24th at the Pepsi Center. The finals will take place on the floor during halftime. The first prize is $1067.

update KBPI.com has a page about the contest Other qualifiers are:

Thursday Jan 15 – Eck’s Saloon Hampden & Kipling
Saturday Jan 17 – Buffalo Wild Wings – County Line & Chester
Thursday Jan 22 – Eck’s Saloon Hampden & Kipling

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• MosesNews.com will return to covering competitive eating
• Crazy Legs Conti podcast on Strangeland Radio
• Video of eating contest with #9 ranked “MILF”
• Arkansas Krispy Kreme eating contest results – video
• Laredo jalapeno eating contest on February 20 or 21

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There does not appear to be any information about an upcoming Wing Championship Series on ESPN Radio 1250’s website. The first qualifier last year took place on January 9.

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• Krispy Kreme eating contest at Arkansas Harley Davidson tommorow, 1st prize is a $500 Harley Davidson gift certificate
• Taco eating contest for charity in England with four qualifiers
• Jelly doughnut eating contest on January 8 at Dick’s Last Resort in Myrtle Beach, SC in honor of Elvis’ birthday
• Chip Simpson is excited for 2009 now that he no longer has a “huge weight keeping me down”
• Dale Boone’s Apple Ugly victory makes the list of strange news of 2008 in Rowan County, NC

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• As of 10:30 am eastern, Wing Bowl 17 tickets appear available on ComcastTix.com Here is the direct link to the ticket buying page
• Pat Bertoletti ranks his favorite Chicago pizzas
• “Kid” Cary DeGrosa has a new column about OJ which embeds a video from September 2007 (from “Beautiful” Brian email)
• (from Wasted Food) Rich Shea podcast (starts at about the 50 minute mark) Shea continues to assert that competitive eating is the world’s fastest growing sport, but admits he has no factual basis for that statement.
• Encounter (in English) with Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara at a restaurant
• Cameron McKirdy (now known as “Consumption”) has updated his website http://www.deathbyconsumption.com/
• Adam Richman of Man vs. Food to do a live online video chat on Wednesday at 11 pm eastern
• Mario’s Flying Pizza in Galveston, TX to celebrate reopening after Hurricane Ike with eating contests Wednesday

update As of 1:30pm eastern, upper level Wing Bowl tickets appear to be available

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A gallery and video of a pizza eating contest held on Friday between between Debbie and Jennie are available. Both competitors wore bikini tops to the contest. A yelp thread lists the winner, but does not provide the amount eaten. $10 was charged for admission and the competition raised $117 for the Austin Food Bank.

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NewsPress.com reports that Chip Simpson ate 4.75 pounds of meat in 12 minutes at a wing eating contest held at Buffalo Chips in Bonita Springs, Florida. Simpson has not competed in an IFOCE contest since the 2007 Krystal finals and was the sole participant in the professionals division, which was created by the restaurant manager just before the contest started to make the contest more fair for the other entrants. Austin Anderson won the amateur division with 2 pounds, 9 ounces of meat.

NaplesNews.com also has an article

update News-Press.com has an updated article in which Chip Simpson claims he defeated Kobayashi in a wing eating contest. (As far as I am aware, Kobayashi has competed in one wing eating contest in his career which Chip Simpson did not participate in.)

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• Hall Hunt to be inducted into the Jacksonville Krystal Hall of Fame on Monday
• Furious Pete interview on youtube – bodybuilding.com forum thread about it
• Beautiful Brian has set up emailed about a Sonya Thomas quiz
• MissBusyLady is considering entering some contests in 2009
• Registration for the Princeton, NJ Oyster Bowl opens
• Detroit Pistons Dollar Night hot dog contest December 19

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A hot dog eating contest will be held in conjunction with Dollar Dog Night when the Philadelphia Flyers host the Carolina Hurricanes tomorrow. The first prize is a retro Flyers jersey. There will be no limit to the number of dollar hot dogs spectators can purchase. The Flyers hope to sell 20,000 hot dogs, breaking last year’s mark of 19,000.

The Washington Captals sold 13,700 hot dogs at last week’s Dollar Dog Night, breaking last year’s mark of 12,000.

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• Dave Shoffner resumes blogging, but not on megamunch
• Encounter with Sonya Thomas at the Washington Capitals game December 4
• St. George Hunt, described by Angelo Cataldi as the Wing Bowl’s biggest fan, passes away
• Bacci Pizza in Chicago starts a 30 inch pizza eating challenge
• Bonita Springs, FL wing eating contest Saturday

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• Bruno Ruest repeats as Forney (TX) pie eating contest champion and wins a 42 inch plasma TV
• Serious Eats on the mini-burger boom
• Report on the Singapore Vermonster eating contest
• Turkey Eating contest held in Macau. The winner ate 644 grams of a 2.5 kg turkey in 30 minutes
• Paul Barlow has set up a college bowl picking contest group for eaters and fans
• Gal Sone admits to an addiction

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NWI.com has an article about the handsless mashed potato eating contest inspired by the movie A Christmas Story held in Hammond, Indiana yesterday. John Hartman won the adult contest by eating 5 plates of mashed potatoes.

Other contests held yesterday

• Tuscon, AZ tamales
• Oxnard, CA tamales
• Singapore Ben & Jerry’s Vermonsters (for four person teams)

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(From Sara Bozich) Arooga’s Grille House & Sports Bar in Harrisburg, PA will hold three contests next weekend to celebrate its grand opening:

• Dec. 12 8 pm – Pizza Eating Contest. 1st prize – $20 Arooga’s gift card.
• Dec. 13 7 pm – Wing Eating Contest. 1st prize – trip to Atlantic City.
• Dec. 14 5 pm – Cheesesteak Eating Contest. 1st prize – $100 VISA gift card.

All competitors will receive a free T shirt.

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• Miss Busy Lady attempts the 12 inch pizza challenge
• Video about Thanksgiving and competitive eating
• Gallery of the Rosenberg pie eating contest
• 40 ounce steak eating contest in Meridian, MS Saturday
• Inquiries about obsessive compulsive disorder and competitive eating for an upcoming novel

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