• Non-amateur Chattanooga Krystal qualifier field announced. Humble Bob is listed, but Sonya Thomas is not, so her four year winning streak at that event is apparently at an end
• Non-contract competitive eaters wanted for filming of final battle scene of Nacho Mountain on Saturday in Lehigh Valley, PA
• Blog report on the Jake’s Hamburger finals at a Delaware Blue Rocks game
• Cameron McKirdy uploads some new videos, including an interview with Jason Erb
• F__, Chuck, Marry involving Joey Chestnut (adult content)

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• Paul Barlow wins Six Flags Eating Triathlon (video file)
• Its eating challenges week at Two Bites in Suburbia
• Orlando columnist attempts Michael Phelps’ diet
• Wiki listing big eaters and extreme omnivores in popular culture
• Gal Sone samples and ranks all the items at an Italian restaurant and the pudding she chose for #1 becomes sold out

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From a Joel The Cannon Podelsky email:

1 st Place Gentlemen Joe Menchetti ate 17 Hot Dogs in 10 minutes, $1000 trip voucher prize
2nd place Tie Joel The Cannon Podelsky 12 Hot Dogs in 10 minutes.
2nd place Tie Joe La Russo 12 Hot Dogs in 10 minutes.

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• 120 ounce steak at Brand Steakhouse in Las Vegas, free if eaten by one person, $267 otherwise
• San Francisco spam musubi eating contest September 6
• CNBC on the effects of inflation on Michael Phelps’ diet
• Saratoga Nathan’s contest Monday to be 12 minutes?
• Gallery of wing eating contest before Bills – Steelers game in Toronto
• Slots still available for Vancouver, BC Nathan’s non-qualifier Monday. The contest will be 6 minutes.
• 1993 article about Czech dumpling contest.
• Nanticoke, PA pierogi eating contest Sunday.

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• St. Louis sushi contest September 21. First prize is a trip to Japan.
• Sushi Bowl eating contest held in New York City
• PETA takes credit for cancellation of cockroach eating contest
• Miss Busy Lady’s friend eats 50 chicken wings in one sitting
• WLOCE hires Terry Barker to MC
• Nathan Biller’s Nathan’s gallery (facebook registration required)

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The PhillyBurbs blog reports that Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, NJ will host a hot dog eating contest on Sunday. The first prize is a $1,000 trip voucher.

update Press of Atlantic City reports the contest is for amateurs only and that a Nathan’s qualifier will be held at the Trump Plaza on Memorial Day weekend next year.

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MyFoxDC reports that Natural Balance sponsored a dog food eating contest for dog owners at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The competitors ate food from the Eatables for Dogs brand, which is marketed as being made in a USDA plant with 100 percent USDA ingredients. Jimmy and Dick Van Patten (“Eight is Enough”) served as emcees.

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• Pat Bertoletti practices for Krystals: video 1, video 2. Pat says the contest in the Czech republic he will compete in will be an hour long.
• Birmingham, Michigan cupcake eating contest August 15
• Furious Pete seeks input on an eating contest to be held at the Mr. Olympia expo
• Suggestion on prize to be included with Joey Chestnut baseball card
• Aurora, OH burger challenge increases by a half a pound when somebody successfully completes it.

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• Nathan’s hot dog eating contest August 16 in Stuarts Draft, VA. Prize is $100 gas card.
• Nathan’s finals gallery by FooBarDude
• Video of butter eating contest (will Don Lerman sue for intellectual property violation?)
• Website for Brooklyn pizza contest at http://annualbrooklynpizzaeatingcontest.com/
• Gal Sone goes to Tokyo Disneyland. (Her favorite rides are Space Mountain and Splash Mountain)

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(From Mark Hinske) PostCrescent.com has a report on the Burgerfest held in Seymour, Wisconsin on Saturday. A caption reports that Mike Fitzgerald won the Hardee’s Thickburger eating contest by eating 7 and a third burgers in 12 minutes. Another caption claims that “The Hammer” also broke the contest record. Sonya Thomas ate 7 Thickburgers to win the 2003 contest, but the contest length was only 10 minutes. (The previous record is listed as 5.25 thickburgers)

A 120 pound burger patty was cooked during the festival and served to attendees.

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• Swallow Your Pride Wing Bowl documentary to be screened at the First Person Festival in Philadelphia in November
• English article (from Austraila) about Gal Sone’s loss in this year’s Gluttonous Queen contest
• Preferred seating for spectators at Chattanooga Krystal qualifier available
• Vancouver, Canada hot dog eating contest August 18
• Short article about Arkansas City, Kansas hot dog eating contest.

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• Roger Robinson finishes Sasquatch burger challenge 3 times in less than 2 months
• NYC falafel eating contest returns August 31
• Louisville, KY cheesesteak eating contest August 31
• MLE video game ranked at #14 in top WiiWare games
• Guinness World Record attempt hot dog eating contest in Reno today

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• Krystal qualifier registration opens at noon eastern (limit 3 qualifiers per person)
• Floria Lee an expected entrant at the Goya National Black Bean Eating Championship
• Video of interview with organizer of Saturday’s Baton Rouge, LA rib eating contest (purse $400). The ribeatingcontest.com URL mentioned in the interview does not work
• Arizona State women’s basketball team members compete in Battle of the Bone qualifier
• Blog entry about 3.5 lb Homewrecker hot dog challenge in West Virginia
• Signup info for the Taste of Hamburg-er eating contest on megamunch. Prize money will be based on the number of “professionals” competing.
• Malaysian article (in English) about the Singapore showdown

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• Verdict of “misadventure” reported in UK mouth stuffing contest fatality
• Article about Chef One dumpling contest results
• Registration for La Costena jalapeno and Nugget rib contests open today
• Registration closed for CT Ribs, Myrtle Beach BBQ, Houston kolaches
• Chicago dragon noodle contest Friday
• Miss Busy Lady on diets
• Pizza Eating contest in Dover, Ohio Sunday
• Tomoko Miyake attempts a curry with ostrich egg challenge (and wears the ostrich eggshell as a hat)
• Video of big eating cat named after Gal Sone

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• 2008 IFOCE La Costena Chicago jalapeno eating contest September 14, registration opens Thursday (from Crawfish comment)
• Washington, DC pizza eating contest Friday
• UEPa involvement in Taste of Hamburg eating contest
• Jill Stoler on her appearance on the History Channel last night – future showings of Evolve: Guts
• Video of Gal Sone in Spain

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Full results from Saturday’s pierogi eating contest held at Old Home Week in Forest City, PA have been posted. The top 3:

1 Russ Keeler 51 pierogis in 10 minutes
2 Larell Marie Mele 48 (one of the more impressive female debuts of 2008)
3 John Skubic 43

2007 winner Mike Novak ate 38 before being disqualified

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• WLOCE myspace page started
• Megamunch resumes The Circuit online comic
• Highlands, NJ clam eating contest report
• Policeman wins Minnesota doughnut eating contest
• NYTImes: average American eats 18.2 pounds of food per week (up 1.8 lb. since 1970)
• Green Bay, WI area hamburger eating contest and festival August 9

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• Another review of the MLE video game
• Article mentioning Samantha Brown’s participation in the Italian sausage eating contest
• Ravioli contest in Providence Saturday
• A Taste of Hamburg (PA) eating contest August 30
• A possible European contest for “Furious” Pete: Pourcailhade La Fête du Cochon (PigFest) in Trie-sur-Baïse, France will have a boudin sausage eating contest on August 10

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The Sheboygan Press has a gallery and video of the bratwurst eating contest held at the Brat Days festival. One of the captions reports that Mike Fitzgerald repeated as winner by eating 22.5 sausages in 10 minutes.

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Results from Will Millender of the Chef One Dumpling Eating Contest held at the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Corona Park, Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City

Mens division
1. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti, 66 dumplings in 2 minutes, $1000
2. Will Millender, 57, $500
3. Ian Hickman, 50, $300

Womens division
1. Floria Lee, 38, $1000
2. Helen Chu, 30, $500
3. Jill Stoler, 28, $300

update Jill Stoler has a blog entry about the contest. Serious Eats has a short post.

update #2Will Millender has a blog entry, ghosty has a gallery and the People’s Daily Online of China has an English article

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• Jill Stoler reports from the Coney cheeseburger contest, won by Goose Gilbert. The contest will appear in the Discovery Channel documentary, Human Race 3000
• “Evolve: Guts” containing footage from the megaburger eating contest held at Clinton Station Diner will be televised on the History Channel on August 5 at 10 pm eastern
• Olathe, CO sweet corn contest report
• Eating contests every day of the Italian Festival in Ocean Township, NJ (Aug 6-10)
• Blog entry from Kobayashi’s hair dresser about his new blue dye job
• Report on the Osaka Gluttonous King qualifier (no results)

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• Pie eating contest at “Stand by Me” festival in Oregon drops IFOCE affiliation
• Report on Cincinnati coney eating contest
• Video of Justin Mih at the Boston Italian sausage contest
• Report on the Seattle donut eating contest / hip-hop concert
• Ithaca, NY hot dog contest coverage attacked and defended
• Fan attends Singapore satay contest and Brazilian soccer exhibition game vs. Singapore national team and draws the following conclusion:
  

  Neither are the presence of Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut so overwhelming that you know what they are capable of doing until they begin eating. Different people have different talents and focus on different things I guess.

  If there’s one important lesson that I have learnt and reminded of, it is that you just have to be really good at one thing and show it to the world that you are great at it. If you don’t show your stuff, no one knows, no one cares, one is just a face in the crowd.

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• Blog entry with a lot of pictures from the Singapore showdown
• IGN pans MLE video game
• Elgin, Iowa corn contest August 2, $100 first prize
• Cincinnati jalapeno cheese coney contest Wednesday, registration closes at midnight
• Skinnyboy reports that Anthony Bourdain’s appearance at the Big Texan will be televised on the Travel Channel on August 4
• Medina, Ohio hot dog contest Saturday
  
• List of all Queens dumpling winners
• Syracuse offensive lineman Ryan Durand challenges Big East clambake lobster record

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• Cookie Jarvis’ gallery of the Nathan’s weigh-in
• Furious Pete’s report for bodybuilding.com on the Dover BBQ contest
• Sarah Schreitmueller wins (Iowa) Nordic Fest lutefisk eating contest
• Steve Oddo wins Keyport, NJ IHOP pancake eating contest
• Gallery of Seattle donut eating contest / concert

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A picture caption for Washington Photo Journal has the top three finishers in Saturday’s Tofurky vegetarian hot dog eating contest held in the Columbia Heights section of Washington, DC:

1. Ian “The Invader” Hickman, 16 veggie dogs in 8 minutes
2. “Raz” (left), 14 veggie dogs
3. “Dag” (right) 8.5 veggie dogs

There was a tremendous amount of online coverage for this contest:

Blog Entries: Prince of Petworth, Shaw Garden, New Columbia Heights (has amounts), Before Wisdom

Galleries: DC Vegan, Joe Tresh, AWiseMan, LettuceTomato, Bullneck, bearshapedsphere

update OveLove has added a blog entry and gallery

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