Some video clips from Sunday’s “Ham & Eggs” program can be viewed at Spike.com. The titles and descriptions of the clips follows:

Pat Bertoletti – Pat Bertoletti is determined to maintain his dominance of MLE.
Kobayashi’s Defeat – The eaters of MLE discuss Kobayashi’s defeat at the Turkey Bowl
Turkey Bowl Upsets – Check out a recap of the upsets from the MLE Turkey Bowl
Cinderella Stories – Juris Shibayama and Gravy Brown share their MLE Cinderella Stories.

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(From “Pig Skin”) A pig skin eating contest will be held at Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Times Square on Thursday at noon to promote the “Ham & Eggs” contest that will be televised on Spike TV during the Super Bowl halftime show. The total purse is $5000. Registration for 8 slots will open tonight at approximately 10pm.

update a press release is available. Tim “Eater X” Janus will compete, former NFL punter Sean Landeta will serve as guest judge and the contest will be six minutes long.

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Youtube has a video of a burger eating contest overseen by the stars from “Harold & Kumar go to White Castle” which aired on MTV2 in 2004.

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We are now a week away from the air date of the final installment of the Las Vegas Chowdown trilogy and there appears to be no mention of the program on Spike TV’s Major League Eating page or home page.

The air date & time are not on the home page of ifoce.com either. Viewers need to click on the link labeled “It’s official” to obtain the details, and the air date in the final paragraph of that page is listed as “January 3”.

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The Deseret News has a review of Fredrick Kaufman’s “A Short History of the American Stomach”, which will be released a week from Monday according to amazon.com

In 1800, supporters of Thomas Jefferson presented the new president with a 900-pound “Mammoth Cheese” allegedly “produced from the milk of one thousand Republican cows.” Early in the 19th century, magazine articles written by Washington Irving spoke of the advantages of putting nuts in liver puddings and chicken jellies.

Kaufman introduces “the brain in the gut” theory which, he writes, helps to explain 900-pound cheeses, 600-pound supergrills, 240-foot ovens and other indications of “American food mania.” Food mania would also be a good way to describe the eating contests of our modern era, including chicken wings in Philadelphia, jalapenos in Laredo, crawfish in Baton Rouge, oysters in New Orleans, conch fritters in Key West and chili in Reno.

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It appears there will be a good deal of competitive eating content on cable TV in 2008 even if the IFOCE contract with Spike TV is not extended. I received an email from Barbara Barna who is looking for a host for a new Travel Channel show which will have competitive eating in every episode. I assume the host will be participating in the contests because she is looking for a someone with a big appetite.

The full email follows after the jump:

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Awful Announcing had a contest this week inviting commenters to provide a caption for a picture from a commercial in which Peyton and Eli Manning competed in an Oreo eating contest. Here are two of the five winning captions:

“Peyton then gave himself a priceless pep talk while watching himself on a flat screen TV as he shot a commercial for a new cell phone.”- SS Reporters

“Quit gazing into my eyes, I’m not Kenny Chesney dammit!”- Marty

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Yahoo.com has a press release promoting the “Ham & Eggs” contest that will be televised on Spike TV during the halftime of the Super Bowl. The announcement verifies Kobayashi’s report that he was unable to participate in the contest:

As soon as the first half of football’s biggest game ends, Spike TV will cut directly into “MLE Chowdown: Ham N’ Eggs” with the under-card event of hard-boiled egg consumption. Eight of the top eaters will go egg-for-egg in an effort to break the world record held by Sonya Thomas of 65. Then, the world’s top eight eaters will step to the plate for whole spiral-ham eating. This eight-minute competition includes Joey Chestnut, Patrick Bertoletti, Tim “Eater X” Janus, Juliet Lee, Tim “Gravy” Brown, Rich LeFevre, and Juris Shibamaya. The legendary Kobayashi will not participate due to an injured jaw.

Sonya Thomas achieved her egg record in 6:40 so the egg competitors will have to beat that time to break her record.

Kobayashi, Sonya, Bob Shoudt, Chip Simpson and several non-IFOCE eaters would probably dispute the claim that the world’s top eight eaters will participate in the ham contest.

The blurb at the bottom reports there were 100 MLE events in 2006 instead of mentioning the number last year.

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A press release announces Spike TV’s programming for the first weekend in February. The “Ham & Eggs” contest will be televised on Sunday night:

8:30 – 9:00 PM, ET/PT
SPIKE’S MLE CHOWDOWN: CHAMPIONSHIP (NR)
The Major League Eating event will match up the world’s top
eaters, including Joey Chestnut, Eater X, and Patrick Bertoletto,
in a championship consumption contest featuring chowing down eggs
and ham.

The chowdown will be televised between WHEN GOOD PETS GO BAD 2 and WHEN ANIMALS ATTACK #3.

update The 8:30 time is an estimate. The start of the press release says that ” Spike’s “MLE Chowdown: Championship” will start exactly when the Super Bowl half time show begins.”

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Today’s early NFL playoff game has a commercial in which Peyton and Eli Manning compete against each other in an Oreo Double Stuf eating contest where they have to lick the icing off as fast as possible. The commercial can be viewed at the website for the “Double Stuf Racing League”, DLSR.com. A video game can also be played at that website.

update Yahoo news has a picture from the commercial

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Curtis Sliwa is not the only competitive eater who works as a talk radio host. Adam “Hungry Hungry Hebrew” Taxin, who will attempt a Wing Bowl stunt competing against a dog on Tuesday, has a one hour radio show on Tuesday afternoon on WNWR. Frank Pastore, who set the Big Texan 72 ounce steak record of 9.5 minutes in 1987, has a Christian talk show in Los Angeles.

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Rich Shea’s interview on the January 5 Phantom Gourmet radio show mentioned by GJoe in a comment is available online. The interview is mainly about the buffet controversy in Louisiana, but Rich Shea does say that the next IFOCE event will be a Major League Eating program televised on Spike TV at halftime of the Super Bowl (Rich predicts that the Cowboys will be the NFC representative for that game). The program will be 30 minutes long, so “Ham & Eggs” will need to be truncated if it is broadcast.

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The new poll asks when you believe the “Ham & Eggs” contest produced for Spike TV will be televised.

According to Crazy Legs Conti’s most recent blog entry, that program was expected to be broadcast last month:

Thursday, October 18th Spike TV 11 PM EST “Wedges and Wings”

This is the first broadcast in a three part championship series on Spike TV. One show per month for the next three months will air.

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tv.co.yahoo.jp reports that the AICE vs. Japan series of contests will be televised on Nippon Television between 3pm and 9pm (Tokyo time) on New Year’s Day. The automatically translated description for the program follows:

first-ever tournament! Japan and the United States battle against eating gal Sone vs America “pizza face” is the winner?

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Vylar Kaftan makes the following recommendation for the Nebula award:

Short Story: Black, Holly: A Reversal of Fortune (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07) After I read this, I walked into the living room where my husband was sitting. My expression was slightly dazed. “Honey,” I said, “I just read an awesome story where a girl challenges the devil to… a gummi-frog eating contest.” Without missing a beat, he said, “That’s strange and wonderful. But if Kelly Link didn’t write it, and neither did you, I don’t know who could have!” (Husband scores points. He gets fresh chocolate chip cookies today.) But seriously, Holly Black–who wrote the terrific twisted faerie tale Tithe–has turned out a delightfully clever tale about a girl who tricks the devil himself. Witty, charming, and fun. Plus, it was great to read a story which didn’t have a rocks-fall-everyone-dies ending. Even though I like that sort of thing.

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The current top 10 in ESPN’s All-SportsNation Team of 2007

64.7% Randy Couture
30.2% Floyd Mayweather Jr.
17.7% Tom Brady
12.9% Alex Rodriguez
12.7% Brett Favre
11.2% Tiger Woods
8.6% LeBron James
7.9% Randy Moss
5.3% Joey Chestnut
5.3% Kobe Bryant

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Paul Barlow won a egg nog drinking contest held at 99x, defeating Intern Joey. A youtube video and podcast of the contest are available.

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Beautiful Brian has produced an album consisting of 10 holiday classics which can be listened to on his website. The track listing is available after the jump:
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Austin360.com reports that there will be three showings of “Harold & Kumar” this week at the Alamo Drafthouse which will include all you can eat mini-burgers. Mini-burger eating contests will be held before the screenings.

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Joey Chestnut is a choice in ESPN.com’s online poll to determine the 5 members of the 2007 All-SportsNation Team. If the poll is like last year’s, voters will be able to vote an unlimited number of times.

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The basementmusing blog reports on television offerings at a bowling alley:

So he changed the chanel to good old TSN. To his shegrin what was on was the Krystal burger eating competition. What we began to see unfold was dudes by the name of Crazy Legs Conti eating burgers in front of thousands of screaming hillbillies from Tennessee.

TSN is the Canadian sports channel. It is interesting that this year’s finals would be rerun on Canadian televison, but has not been shown (to the best of my knowledge) on ESPN / ESPN2 since it originally aired in October.

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Kana Kanisawa, a member of the three person team competing against three Americans has released a DVD apparently consisting of her posing in bathing suits. She did an interview about the DVD and there is also some pictures from the press conference announcing the release.

There is no nudity in the links above, but they may not be safe for all workplaces.

In other news from the 3 person team contest, Jill Stoler says she is back from Japan in her myspace page.

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New Year’s Day is probably a more appropriate holiday for a televised eating contest than Christmas, but the Spike TV schedule now extends to January 1, and the ham & eggs contest is not listed on that date or on December 31.

BestOnCable still reports that the ham & eggs contest will be televised today.

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The Shreveport Times has an article about director Gregory Kallenberg, whose first film was “Eating Levi”, a documentary about Levi Oliver. That movie was recently shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).Kallenberg hopes his film is accepted by the South by Southwest multimedia festival in Austin, TX.

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