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Last night's episode of the Tonight Show is available on the NBC web site. Adam Richman of Man vs. Food appears in segment #5.
Furious Pete to do the “Time Warp” tomorrow
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski announces that his appearance on Time Warp will be televised tomorrow on the Discovery Channel. A slow motion video clip of Pete competing in a hands-free hot dog eating contest against a dog is available on the program’s website.
Furious Pete will also appear in the Canada vs. USA Philthy McNasty burger contest on the Canadian channel TV Tropolis on Friday. His next television program will be a tour of German restaurants.
CarpeDurham reports that Adam Richman will record at Wimpy's and Backyard BBQ Pit today. Adam Richman will appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Wednesday.
According to Will Millender, the eating contest held at the Alt Games last month will be televised on CBS at 2pm eastern on Saturday, May 16.
TriggerStreet has a review of a competitive eating screeplay titled From the Gut. Joey Chestnut and other real-life eaters are characters in the script.
A press release for the Charleston (SC) River Dogs minor league baseball team reports that Man vs. Food will be recording Adam Richman eating the half pound "Homewrecker" hot dog at the Riverdogs' stadium on May 26.
MinnPost has an video clip of an interview with Adam Richman and Andrew Zimmern of Bizzare Foodism
Daily Fiasco has some pictures from Adam Richman's attempt at the 6 pound burrito at the NASCAR Cafe at the Sahara Casino for an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food. Video recorded was removed due to a copyright claim by the Travel Channel.
PhillyD.tv has a thread Contains spoilers) about the spicy wing challenge Adam Richman attempted at Munchies 420 Cafe in Sarasota.
VegasTripping: Adam Richman of Man vs. Food will attempt the 6 pound burrito at the NASCAR Cafe at the Sahara casino on May 9 at 1:30 pm and the first 50 spectators will receive a free beer.
LVJR.com/blogs: The three sites Man vs. Food will record at in Las Vegas are Hash House a Go Go, Hot & Juicy Crawfish and the NASCAR Cafe at the Sahara casino, where the challenge meal will be a 6 pound burrito.
Man vs. Food in Las Vegas Friday
TweetSoul reports that Man vs. Food will be recording at Hash House a Go Go in Las Vegas on Friday. (No other sources report this)
update LasVegasWeekly confirms the appearance.
In other Las Vegas television news, Amy Carraba of Fox 5 news is taking applications to be her rival at the Nathan’s qualifier at the New York New York casino on Thursday. George Shea’s twitter reports that other competitors at that event will be Rich LeFevre, Ron Koch and El Toro.
Fox Sports Science CE episode debuts tonight
A viewer of tonight’s episode of Fox Sports Science reports that a competitive eater (probably “Furious” Pete) ate 20 meatballs in 2 minutes. The episode, titled Busted Guts will be rerun several times over the upcoming week.
update Furious Pete has uploaded a clip from the show.
In more televised competitive meatball eating news, Badlands Bookers twitter reports he recorded a program for Swedish TV and set a meatball record.
Man vs. Food Season 2 sites
News of upcoming Man vs. Food sites will be added to this blog entry as they are announced. The Man vs. Food twitter reports that the first filming session for the second season took place at Yoder’s in Sarasota, FL
- May 4 Munchies 420 Cafe, Sarasota, FL (I have not been able to track down the third Tampa Bay location)
- September, Mallie’s Detroit area
- date unknown, Philadelphia
Tomorrow night's episode of American Dad on Fox will have a competitive eating subplot.
DineSarasota: Man vs. Food will record at Yoder's in Sarasota, Florida tomorrow.
The MLE Spike TV programs (except for the Savannah St. Patrick's Day contest) can still be viewed online in their entirety at http://www.spike.com/tag/mle even though the Spike TV MLE page was deleted. (via http://twitter.com/Perazza)
CarpeDurham: Adam Richman will participate in the Doughman quadrathon (running/biking/swimming/eating) in Durham, NC on May 23.
Adam Richman's twitter announces that the second season of Man vs. Food will be visiting Philadelphia.
On a recent Jimmy Kimmel Live, Billy Bob Thornton talked about two members of the road crew for his band attempting to complete the 72 ounce steak challenge at the Big Texan after doing damage control for a controversial Canadian interview (The Big Texan segement starts at about the 6 minute mark of the video)
Adam Richman posts on the Man vs. Food twitter that the second season will begin filming in a few days and debut in August.
The New York Observer has an article about Adam Richman which lists Eric "Badlands" Booker as one of the finalists for the host of Man vs. Food.
IFOCE contest & Man vs. Food coming to Mallie’s (Detroit area)
The News Herald reports that Mallie’s Sports Bar in Southgate, MI (Detroit area) will host an IFOCE sanctioned calamari contest on May 30 when it unveils a 185 pound burger to break the Guinness record it currently holds:
They are teaming with the International Federation of Competitive Eating for an eating contest May 30 during what they have pegged the restaurant’s Guinness Burger Eating weekend. They are offering a $5,000 cash prize to the winners of the eating competition, and will hold a preliminary contest to seek local eaters.
The preliminary contest will be a hot dog eating contest at 2 p.m. May 3 and 10. There are six spots.
At the official eating contest, contestants will be consuming calamari.
But that won’t be the end of it. In September, the Travel Channel show “Man v. Food†is slated to come to Mallie’s to eat an “absolutely ridiculous burger,†Mallie said.
update Contest information can be found at malliesbar.com
Charles Barkley attempts Chris Webber’s bread challenge
A video of Charles Barkley attempting to eat a slice of bread without water in under 30 seconds after being challenged by Chris Webber is available.
Previous eatfeats posts about the former NBA stars:
- Chris Webber promotes the 44 ounce burger at his restaurant
- Charles Barkley comments on Kate Stelnick completing the 96er burger
Dane Cook had a peep eating contest on Jimmy Kimmel Live versus the show's host.
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