Mojo’s Authentic Barbecue of Leominster, MA is holding a rib eating contest on Sunday, April 23. The winner will receive $200. The entry fee is $50, but proceeds will go to benefit Ginny’s Food Pantry. The contest will have a duration of 30 minutes.

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After the MacArthur Center in Norfolk hosted Sonya Thomas’ record for Nathan’s qualifiers last year, eaters at that location will try to set another record. A Peep eating contest will be held at that location tomorrow.

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Carolyn Prophet of Rockport won the women’s division of the eating contest at the Fulton Oysterfest. Her mark of 118 oysters won her $200 and was 4 behind the third place finisher in Saturday’s mens division and 16 behind the men’s winner.

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George Curry of Bantam won a pizza contest in Litchfield, CT by eating a 12 inch cheese pizza in about 2 1/2 minutes. Funds raised by the contest will go to Healing the Children, a local charity that arranges for donated medical care for children.

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The town of Fulton Texas is holding an oyster festival and eating contest this weekend. Joel Pruitt won the men’s contest (registration or bugmenot.com required) and a prize of $200 by eating 134 oysters in five minutes. The event was obviously not an IFOCE affair because a four year old participated in it and there were separate contests for men and women. The women’s division will be held today.

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Several paczki (polish pastries similar to filled doughnuts) contests were held throughout the country yesterday in honor of Fat Tuesday. The Connecticut Post reports that “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won a contest at Eddy’s Bakery in Ansonia for the third straight year by eating 11 paczkis in 5 minutes. The Muskegon Chronicle reports that petite teenager Valerie Wilcox won a contest by consuming 5 paczkis in three minutes. She was tied with Trent Swanson at the end of regulation, but he capitulated in the overtime period.

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103.1 FM in Albany has a photo gallery of Friday’s Steer Burger contest at Sutter’s Mill and Mining Company which “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won by eating 7.5 burgers in 20 minutes. The burgers contained a half a pound of meat and Menchetti claims they are equivalent to 3-4 Doodle Burgers.

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The Washington Redskins are no longer the only NFL team to have one of its members lose an eating contest to a thin woman if this live journal entry is correct. Unfortunately no details are provided about the contest or its participants besides the fact that the winner received $300.

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(This is for the commenter who complained that I was not writing enough about female celebrities last fall 😉 )

(from cluckbucket.com) The Sofia News agency reports that Bulgarian TV personality and ex-gymnast Nelly Atanassova won a charity chicken wings eating contest.

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Every year before the Rose Bowl, the teams playing in that game have a Prime Rib eating contest at Lawry’s Steakhouse called the Beef Bowl. The teams dine during separate sessions and then their total amount eaten is tallied up and compared. Texas ate 740 pounds of steak at their dinner (the size of their party is not given). The totals for USC have not officially been released yet, but it is claimed that they tied with the Longhorns.

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The East Valley Tribune has an article about a 7 pound burger eating contest between teams of consisting of three fans from Notre Dame and Ohio State. Both teams failed to finish the burger, (which is smaller than the burger that Sonya Thomas finished in 48 minutes in the Barrick burger contest) but the Notre Dame team was awarded victory because it finished more of the burger.

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An ice cream contest was held in New Delhi. This display of Indian overconsumption is extremely insensitive at a time when many Americans, such as Mary-Kate Olsen and Nicole Ritchie, do not get enough to eat 😉

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The Telegraph reports that Anthony “The Anaconda” Danson won the World Pie Eating Championship in Wigan, England Thursday by eating 7 meat and potato pies in 3 minutes. The contest shows that overstating the geographic scope of a contest is not solely a US phenomenon; all competitors in the “world” championship were from Wigan or nearby towns.

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A hot dog eating contest for Duke University students Tuesday was won by senior Tom Eberly who defeated last year’s champion Adedayo Adeniran with a result of 15 hot dogs in 4:21. Ms. Adeniran (who shows that great petite eaters do not need to be Asian) consumed 11 hot dogs in that time, a considerable improvement from last year’s result of 10 hot dogs in 6:22. Eberly’s graduation will give Adedayo the opportunity to regain the title next year.

There is no word on whether the champion will face off with the best hot dog eater from UNC.

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WJZ has an article and video of the Baltimore Pancake Eating Contest at Pete’s Grill. The year of the college student in competitive eating has apparently extended to non-IFOCE events, as Johns Hopkins students Johnny Chang and Emma Gregory won the men’s and women’s divisions. Emma Gregory is also a member of the Johns Hopkins swimming team.

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To honor National Sandwich Day, Potbelly Sandwich Works held a series of eating contests Thursday in nine Big 10 college towns, including Northwestern, Illinois, Purdue and Wisconsin. The winner of the Wisconsin contest is a protege of “Crazy Legs” Conti.

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A hot dog contest was held in Houston in which the prize was a pair of World Series tickets. The winner, Bill Hedge, consumed an impressive 16 hot dogs in about 10 minutes, which makes him a potential threat to qualify for Nathan’s.

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Three days after the cancelled Nathan’s qualifier, the Saratoga Race Cource holds a (non IFOCE/AICE) ice cream contest. It seems like it would have made sense to hold the Nathan’s qualifer in conjunction with the ice cream contest on Wednesday and avoid the conflicts with all the August 21 contests.

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It is difficult to make the claim that it is insensitive to hold eating contests because people in places like India are going hungry when an eating competition was held in India.

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“Fabulous” Floria Lee took fourth place in Sunday’s AICE dumpling contest at Flushing Meadow Park despite a weight less than 100 pounds. Her result of 33 dumplings in two minutes was just two behind second place finishers Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman and Angel Chiriboga who tied with 35 dumplings. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti took first place with 47 dumplings. Floria Lee won a $500 bonus for breaking the women’s record of 27 which she set last year. In the next AICE rankings, Ms. Lee should at least appear ahead of Christina Gumola, who has only appeared in a radio station’s women-only contest closed to the general public.

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From July 10 AberdeenNews.com

Sophia Chavira of Phoenix, Ariz. took home the championship in the adult custard eating contest that was sponsored by Culver’s. She was visiting family in Aberdeen.

“I tried to mix the custard to get it to melt so it would go down faster,” Chavira said. She won the contest in just over two minutes.

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