Dec 1, MegaMunch 20 taco challenge, Harrisburg, PA, $5 (and cost of 20 tacos) entrance fee
Dec 2 Pizza eating contest, Home Slice Pizza, Austin TX, 30 minutes, prize is pizza for a year
Dec 8 Hard Boiled Egg Eating contest, The Locker, Marietta, OH, 1st prize is $100

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If you thought you ate too much pumpkin pie this weekend, you can take comfort in the fact that you probably did not eat as much pie as the competitors in a pumpkin pie eating contest. The Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus had an eating contest for its elephants as they settled into winter quarters in Tampa.

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The Sewickly Herald has an article about Uncle Charley’s Sausage Eating Contest finals and brief profiles of some of the competitors. Uncle Charley’s website has yet to be updated with the 2nd qualifier results.

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Chili Eating & Chili Pepper Eating contest, Chili Bowl Cook Off, Sand Gnats stadium, Savannah, GA

Hot Dog Eating contest, Jaxson’s Ice Cream Parlor 50th anniversary celebration, Dania Beach (Ft. Lauderdale), FL 1st prize is Carribean cruise

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There will be a bologna burger eating contest at the “Mason-Dixon Meltdown” at South Boston Speedway in Virginia (near NC border) on November. First prize is $250. The competitors goals will be to break driver Elliot Sadler’s record of 14 bologna burgers.

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EmeraldCoast.com has more on the Apalachicola Oyster Festival. The women’s & overall winner, Mel Tyler, has a married daughter.

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A team of three Michigan police officers has accomplished what Kobayashi could not in the Man vs. Beast Fox TV Special. The Lenawee Connection reports that the policemen finished 15 chili dogs before a bear named Lakota did. A team of three firefighters also competed. The bear was apparently not very interested in the chili dogs.

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Tallahassee.com has a report on the Apalachicola (Florida) Oyster Festival with results for the oyster contests. Separate contests for men and women were held, and a woman Mel Tyler had the best overall performance with 196 oysters eaten in twelve minutes. Hyer Dement won the men’s contest with 190 oysters.

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Wing Tut has a report from last night’s second Uncle Charley’s qualifier and says that Pete Maurizio was the victor. Wing Tut was fighting a cold and placed 4th, denying entry into the finals.

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The Connection has more information about the pizza eating contest to be held at Bugsy’s restaurant in Alexandria, VA on Saturday. The first place prize is tickets to the Redskins Giants game with transportation by limousine included.

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See the contest calendar for more details:

2006 Nov 2/9/16/23 Jugo Sushi Eating Competition, Taro’s By Mikuni Sacramento, CA
2006 Nov 4 Bugsy’s Super Jaws Pizza Eating Contest Bugsy’s Pizza Alexandria, VA 1st prize is 2 tickets to the Redskins vs. Giants game with limo service
2006 Nov 11 4th Annual Oyster Eating Contest Broadway at the Beach Myrtle Beach, SC
2006 Nov 18 Sushi Eating Contest Japan Expo Los Angeles, CA must use chopsticks, 1st prize is $50 restaurant gift certificate
2006 Dec 4 Klondike Kate’s Wing Eating Contest Finals Klondike Kate’s Newark, DE, qualifiers held during Monday Night Football halftimes, 1st prize is trip to Hawaii for the Pro Bowl

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2006 Nov 4 Florida Seafood Festival Oyster Eating Contest, Apalachicola, FL
2006 Nov 6 Deviled Egg Eating Contest, The Borough, Raleigh
2006 Nov 11 Yale Princeton team chicken wing eating contest before football game

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Las Palapas 25th anniversary Macho Burrito contest results from Dan Calderón:

10 hungry hopefuls scarfed down two of Las Palapas’ famed Macho Burritos. The three fastest times were rewarded with checks for $1,000, $500 and $250.

Chris Flores, a 32-year-old San Antonio resident who lives near Helotes, won the top prize of $1,000 and set a new record by finishing his Macho Burritos in 68 seconds. Flores said it was his first eating contest.

Adolph Perez, a 19-year-old Converse resident who played right guard for the Judson High School football team last season, took the $500 second place prize. Perez, who is studying radiology at St. Philip’s College, took 1 minute, 15 seconds to finish the two one-pound burritos.

The $250 third-place prize went to San Antonio’s John Smavely, a 19-year-old construction worker with Handy Solutions. Smavely also was entering his first eating contest.

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See the contest calendar for more details

San Diego, Sushi Fix Sushi eating contest, qualifiers Nov 11, finals Nov 18, $750 first prize
Los Angeles, Tamale Festival Tamale Eating Contest, Nov 12, $100 first prize
Kent Ohio, Mugzee’s Wing Eating Contest, Nov 2, proceeds to benefit Hatti Larham center
San Antonio, Macho Burrito finals, Las Palapas, Oct 29 $1000 first prize, qualfiers have all taken place unfortunately

updated Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest Oct 28 & 29 at ZooBooo! at the Baltimore Zoo, prizes include restaurant gift certificates and stays at top Baltimore hotels

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pittsburghlive.com reports that Bob “Killer” Kuhns won the first qualifier for Uncle Charley’s Sausage Eating Contest. The second qualifier will be held November 2 at Cupka’s II in the South Side. The top three finishers in both qualifiers will reach the finals which will be held on December 3 before the Steelers game.

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The amazing grace blog has an entry about the Whoopie Pie Festival and reports that one entrant in the Whoopie Pie Eating Contest was so impressed by Ian “The Invader” Hickman’s performance that she did not go on stage to compete when her name was called.

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The Ionia (upstate Michigan) Sentinel Standard has an article about Thursday’s Chili Dawg Challenge. A 15 minute chili dog eating contest will be held during that event. The entry fee is $10 and no prizes are mentioned, but proceeds will go to benefit the Big Brothers / Big Sisters.

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jacksonville.com has a report from the Burger King hamburger eating contest at the Northeast Florida Fair, won by Shawn Copher with 8 burgers in 10 minutes.

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Thanks Brian Seiken. Wing Tut has a blog entry about the Whoopie Pie Contest The top 3 finishers in that contest:

Ian “The Invader” Hickman – 36
“Gooey” Sean Gordon – 22
Local Contestant – 18

Updated Wing Tut did not compete in that contest, but received results relayed by Ian Hickman, who is expected to attend the Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub UEPA gathering on Nov 4.

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The Krystal finals will not be the only southeastern eating contest to be held later this month:

Northeast Florida Fair

Other new features at this year’s fair include a pizza-eating contest at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29.
Five contestants will be drawn at random from those who register to participate between 3 and 4 p.m. The person who eats the most pizza in 10 minutes or finishes four 10-inch pizzas before the 10 minutes is up will be the winner. The champion pizza eater will win $100 and bragging rights for a year. Second- and third-place winners will win $50 and $25 respectively.

But hamburger-eaters still get their day at the fair. The third annual hamburger-eating contest will be 7 p.m. Monday. Five contestants drawn from those who register between 6 and 7 p.m. will vie for a top prize of $100, with the other contestants each winning $25.

Mobile, Alabama Wing Bowl

Wing Bowl II kicks off Saturday in Bienville SquareThe region’s top wing-cooking specialists will be going beak to beak at the Wing Bowl II Chicken Wing Cook-off on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Wing Bowl’s three-minute eating contest, open to anyone 18 or over, has a $500 prize. Entrants must sign up at Wings Sports Grille in Mobile or Daphne before to the event.

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(from Wing Tut) The Whoopie Pie eating contest will be held at the Whoopie Pie Festival on Saturday at Hershey Farm near Rockvale outlets. No information about the contest is provided on the website other than it will take place at 2pm and is for amateurs only.

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From an email:

Good afternoon! My name is Tim Ahn and I am writing on behalf of Checkers and the DeVos Sport Business Management program at UCF. We are in the middle of a marketing campaign for Checkers which we have based on a Checkers Burger eating contest between individual contestants on campuses at UF, UCF, USF, and FSU. The name of our contest is the Checkers Burger Bowl with the slogan, “The Ultimate Cross Town Challenge.” I heard through word of mouth that you had actually mentioned our first event at UF on EatFeats.com. I am guessing that Hall Hunt is the one who provided the heads up as I had dialogue with him prior to the event. I just wanted to also mention that our UCF event was this past Friday, 10/13, and we will conclude the contest with stops at USF on 11/11 and FSU on 11/18. Prizes are awarded to the top two entrants for each school ($250 for first, one year supply of Checkers for second place). The 10 contestants from each school will also combine their scores to determine the winning school for the Checkers Burger Bowl. The winning school will receive a trophy.

We truly appreciate the mention of our first event and would welcome and be grateful if you would add our two remaining events to your calendar of events. If there is any more information I could provide, please feel free to contact myself or the Checkers Burger Bowl Team at checkersburgerbowl@gmail.com. Thank you!

Regards,
Tim Ahn

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(from Philly Guy) Oct 13 7pm Stan’s Deli, Philadelphia, PA, miniature corned-beef sandwich contest 5 minutes Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd

Oct 14 2:30pm, Oct 15 2pm, Houston Italian Festival, Houston, TX Pasta Eating Contest, 1st place prize, registration before contest

updated Oct 14, 2pm Oyster Festival, Oyster Bay NY Oyster shucking and eating contest I am not sure if the shucking & eating are a single contest or two different ones.

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The Daily Citizen has an article about Jessica Beall of Bloomfield Indiana who won a pizza eating contest for high school students. Jessica was the only member of the mostly male field to finish her large pizza under the time limit of 8 minutes. Jessica says her role model is “Mushmouth” Machetti (actually “Mushmouth” Mariano) who competed in pizza eating contests on local Cleveland television in the 1970s (and is mentioned on page 67 of Horsemen of the Esophagus) Jessica hopes to eventually compete in the Nathan’s finals, but she will have to wait until she turns 18 to qualify.

The Daily Citizen also has an article about the 2005 pizza contest. Jessica was ineligible to compete in that because she was an employee of the restaurant sponsoring the contest, but she claims to have won her age category the preceding three years and has also won pizza contests in Cincinatti, Indianapolis and Terre Haute.

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Bo Bice has a blog entry about his participation in the Corny Dog Contest at the Texas State Fair in his myspace blog. He has a longer blog entry in his fanclub blog.

Bo Bice’s connection to competitive eating predates the Corny Dog Contest. The Whaler wrote a blog entry about Bo Bice in January.

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DallasNews.com reports that American Idol runner up Bo Bice competed in the Corny Dog Eating Contest at the Texas State Fair Sunday and ate a single corny dog. Nathan Biller, 5th place finisher in the Lewisville tamale contest, won with 12 corny dogs in 10 minutes, 6 behind Rich LeFevre’s mark from last year.

updated khou has a picture

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