A Pepto Bismol press release announces that Joey Chestnut will compete against a team of amateurs at the San Francisco Street Food Festival and Buffalo Wing Festival. The SF Street Food Festival takes place on August 21, same as the gyoza contest in Los Angeles, so Joey Chestnut might not be able to win his fourth straight gyoza contest.
A Takeru Kobayashi facebook fan page has a link to purchase "Free Kobi" T-shirts.
JoeyJawsChestnut.com has been launched. Joey Chestnut T-shirts will be available for sale soon.
Pepto Bismol and Old Navy have been announced as co-sponsors of the Nathan's finals. Nathan's T-shirts will be available for sale at Old Navy locations. We will see if the new sponsors result in an increase of the contest purse size.
Sanspo.com reports that Tomoko Miyake has released another gravure DVD (may not be safe for all workplaces)
Bill "El Wingador" Simmons has started an online store selling his original wing sauce and the Swallow Your Pride DVD. He has also set up gallery of his Wing Bowl appearances on his facebook page.
DVDs of the 2005 Gluttonous King and 2006 Gluttonous Queen contests are now on sale.
Gal Sone does commercial for MiniDog pizza
Pizza Hut of Japan’s website has a commericial for the Mini Dog pizza starring Natsuko “Gal” Sone. The Mini Dog pizza has miniature hot dogs in its crust. Its list price is 2150 yen ($23.81) for a medium and 3250 yen ($35.99) for a large.
Gal Sone’s blog has an entry about recording the commercial and gigazine has an entry in English about the pizza.
Short commercial (commercial on youtube)
Rona Conti noted that a Japanese competitive eating DVD will go on sale in March. The programs offered appear to be the two 2005 "Gluttonous King" contests and the 2006 "Gluttonous Queen" competition.
The facebook for the Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn announces that it is seeking a T-shirt design for its cupcake eating contest in April 2009.
Steakbellie's twitter reports that T-shirts bearing the Manitoba Meatsweat logo from his 2007 fantasy competitive eating team is available for sale on IFOCE.com
Furious Pete T-shirts are now available with a logo inspired by the Superman symbol. The facebook of "Furious" Pete Czerwinski announces that T-shirts bearing his logo are now available for purchase.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has uploaded his appearance on the Canadian program The TV Made Me Do It which includes the contest between teams from the United States and Canada. Furious Pete shirts will be available for purchase next week.
Amazon.com is now taking orders for the DVDs of season 1 of Man vs. Food. The release date is October 6 and the price is $13.99.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has removed the spade symbol from his new logo. T-shirts with the updated image will be available on bodybuilding.com
Man vs. Food has a new URL: http://mvfgear.com/ which redirects to a cafepress site which has several new T shirt designs.
KFC competitive eaters ad on youtube
The commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken’s new grilled wings has been uploaded to youtube by foodfan263. Ian Hickman, winner of the 2007 Delaware suicide wings contest, is billed as the 2007 wing eating champion and Lucy Bauer is listed as the 2008 champion, apparently based on this video. 2009 Wing Bowl winner John Squibb’s appearance was cut.
update I have heard the ad was televised during halftime of tonight’s exhibition NFL game on NBC, I am not sure if the entire country received it.
Eric "Badlands" Booker has started an online store selling his CDs and T-shirts at http://hungryandfocusedstore.bigcartel.com/
Bill "El Wingador" Simmon's (non-IFOCE) co-stars in the Kentucky Fried Chicken commerical announced.
El Wingador vs. Canseco (& KFC commercial) information
NJ.com has information about the July 24 bout between Bill “El Wingador” Simmons and Jose Canseco sanctioned by the Celebrity Boxing Federation. The fight will take place at the Ice Works in Ashton, PA. Sugar Ray Leonard Jr. will fight on the undercard. Tickets are $45 ringside / $30 general admission and the fight will consist of three one minute rounds. The official website for Celebrity Boxing has yet to be updated with any new information.
NJ.com also reports that El Wingador will star in a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial with 4 other unnamed competitive eaters. Documentarian Errol Morris, who has produced other commercials for KFC, posted about meeting El Wingador on his twitter. The advertisement is expected to debut on the west coast on July 26.
update It will be interesting to see who are the other four eaters appearing with “El Wingador”. The date of the filming in Los Angeles was apparently July 2, same as the Nathan’s weigh-in.
Lily "Miss Busy Lady" has emailed that she will be selling competitive eating T-shirts at the San Francisco area qualifier to raise money for breast cancer research for the American Cancer Society.
A bobble-head doll autographed by Joey Chestnut is available on ebay. Several Joey Chestnut baseball cards can be purchased on that website also.
The new poll asks you think has the closest resemblance to the bobble head doll that will be given away at the San Jose Stealth game on Saturday?
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