The website for the Colbert Report has a video clip from last night’s episode about Brad Sciullo’s attempt at the 20+ pound Belly Bruiser burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA. The second part of Brad Sciullo’s appearance will probably be televised on Monday. Colbert gives Sciullo the “Martin Burger King” nickname. No mention was made of Brad Sciullo’s ejection from the IFOCE.

George Wendt, who has a burger challenge named after his Cheers character, was an in studio guest.

Related Links

• Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub home page
• Mouthpiece Sports interviews Brad Sciullo
• PittsburghLive article about Sciullo completing the Belly Bruiser.
• Kate Stelnick (Tony Danza show appearance) and Lori Weiss (eyewitness blog entry) along with Brad Sciullo are the only other people to appear on the Wall of Fame for Denny’s 10-11 pound Ye Olde 96er burger.
• ESPN E:60 competitive eating clip starring Brad Sciullo
• Stephen Colbert segment about Don “Moses” Lerman from a 2001 episode of the Daily Show.

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Tonight’s episode is the first episode of Man vs. Food not set in a single metropolitan area; the sites are three minor league baseball stadiums.

Travel Channel: Guide | Slideshow | Video (baseball lesson)

ESPN interview with Adam Richman about tonight’s episode

• West Michigan Whitecaps challenge Fifth Third Burger
  MLive article before recording
  MLive article after recording (contains spoiler)
  Season statistics about the burger
• Charleston (SC) River Dogs food Homewrecker hot dog
  Press release about the recording
  Charleston City Paper article about the recording
  Video clip from Man v Food about hot dog variations at the Charleston ballpark
• Gateway (E. St. Louis area) Grizzlies food – “Baseball’s Best Burger”
  Press release about the burger, which uses a Krispy Kreme doughnut as a bun.
  BND article about the recording
  KSDK article and gallery about the recording

• List of West Michigan eating challenges
• List of Charleston eating challenges
• List of St. Louis area eating challenges

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Travel Channel Episode Guide | Slideshow | Side of the City video (South Street)

Restaurants

• Tony Luke’s Challenge – Ultimate Cheesesteak
  Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
  Video clip about the Ultimate Cheesesteak’s construction
  The Ultimate Cheesesteak was apparently created solely for the episode; it is not listed on the online menu.
• Franklin Fountain meal – Mount Vesuvius sundae
  Home page | Citysearch | Yelp
• Dinic’s Roast Beef & Pork meal – Italian roast pork sandwich
  Yelp | Holly Eats review

List of Philadelphia area eating challenges in the eatfeats database

It would be interesting to learn why a made for TV sandwich at Tony Luke’s was used as the episode’s challenge when Jim’s Steaks has maintained a cheesesteak record for over 30 years. Perhaps the current record of 13 cheesesteaks in an hour by “Humble” Bob Shoudt was too daunting. (The program guide says that Jim’s Steaks will appear in the episode.)

13 cheesesteaks might not be the overall Philadelphia record. In a 1978 article, Lynda Kuerth, Jim’s steaks record holder from 1977 to 2001 (11 sandwiches) said she ate 15 steak sandwiches during a visit to Philadelphia. (The location and duration of that feat was not mentioned.)

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Travel Channel episode guide | slideshow

Restaurants

• Munchies 420 Cafe challenge: “Fire in Your Hole” spicy wings
  Home page | twitter | yelp
  disclaimer for wing challenge Page 1 | Page 2
  The MJ Morning Show attempts the challenge (contains spoilers)
  Scott Roberts debunks the 20 million Scoville unit claim given on the radio show (also contains spoiler)
• Yoder’s meal – fried chicken w/ pie for dessert
  Home page | citysearch | yelp
  DineSarasota blog entry about recording
• Old Salty Dog meal – deep fried hot dog
  Home page | Facebook | Yelp
  Man vs. Food clip about the deep fried hot dog

List of Tampa Bay area eating challenges in the eatfeats database

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Richie Ferrara’s twitter reports that Man vs. Food will be filming in Brooklyn today at his uncle’s restaurant. The restaurant was not named, the Buffalo Cantina is reportedly one of the Brooklyn sites.

update Beautiful Brian comments that the Buffalo Cantina is the site and recording will start at 5. The Buffalo Cantina was the site of a Man vs. Food hot wing video, so the challenge tonight will probably be hot wings.

update #2 John Reinhardt reports that Man vs. Food is at Brennan & Carr today.

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Episode Guide | Slideshow | Commercial | Side of the City video

Restaurants

• Mac 24/7 challenge – 3 fourteen inch pancakes
  Homepage | Citysearch | Yelp
  Challenge Wall of Fame – Dale Boone is the current record holder
  Star Bulletin article about the taping
• Hukilau Cafe meal – Loco Moco
  Citysearch | Yelp
• Helena’s Hawaiian Food
  Citysearch | Yelp

Hawaii Magazine article about the episode

List of Hawaiian eating challenges in eatfeats database

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Travel Channel episode guide | A side of the City video

• This week’s challenge will be the Doughman “Quadrathlon” a triathlon with eating stages.
  Race website
  NewsObserver article about the race
  Video about audition for Adam Richman’s team
• Wimpy’s Grill
  citysearch | yelp
• The Backyard BBQ Pit
  home page | citysearch | yelp

List of Raleigh / Durham eating challenges
Links post for March Raleigh – Chapel Hill episode

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mgholwill’s twitter reports that Man vs. Food is currently recording at Horace & Dickie’s in Washington, DC. Ben’s Chili Bowl was reportedly yesterday’s taping site. HometownAnnapolis has a report on Sunday’s challenge attempt (no spoiler) at Chick & Ruth’s Delly.

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An associate producer for the TLC program Cake Boss sent the following email:

Next Wednesday, September 2nd, Timothy Janus (Eater X, ranked #4 in the world) and Crazy Legs Conti (ranked #14) will be meeting up at a downtown restaurant in Hoboken, New Jersey for some cake-eating craziness.

Currently, we have limited openings for seating at the event but I’d love to get people passionate about competitive eating in the audience! We need NY/NJ-based individuals interested in attending to RSVP to hobokenproject@gmail.com with their full name, age, contact info (including phone number for confirmation) as soon as possible. Guests will need to arrive at the site at 3pm on Wednesday, and with confirmation of their email we’ll send them an address to the location.

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An entry under “Just Fans” on the Man vs. Food facebook wall by someone claiming to work for the show reports that the program will record in Washington, DC this weekend. The challenge will probably be the burger & shake challenge at Chick & Ruth Delly in Annapolis.

update The Saval Foods twitter reports that Man vs. Food will record at Chick’s & Ruth’s Delly on Sunday at 7:30.

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