AmazingStace reports that last night’s episode of Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel featured the cuisine of the Gulf Coast. An oyster eating contest at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile, AL appeared in one of the segments. The winner ate 430 oysters in an hour. I will try to catch the episode if it reruns.

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BusinessWire.com has a summary of the Coors Light commercial featuring Takeru Kobayashi:

Coors Light presents the World’s Fastest Eater – Takeru Kobayashi. On a hot summer evening, Kobayashi makes his way through his neighborhood to his local bar. On his way to the bar he inhales a number of hot dogs and a scoop of ice cream so fast that on-lookers are amazed. And at the end of a long day the world’s fastest eater orders the world’s most refreshing beer, frost-brewed Coors Light to quench his thirst.

The ad is not available on coorslight.com yet. It will probably debut sometime this weekend, possibly during the Final Four.

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ComicBookBin.com reports that the third issue of the comic book based on Sakura, a character in the street fighter video game, featured a hot dog eating contest. The fourth issue, currently on sale, deals with the aftereffects of that competition:

However, as seen last issue, Karin cheated by getting one of her aide to munch all the hotdogs from the hotdog eating contest. Sakura, filled with wieners and buns cannot sustain the fight. To make matters worst, Dan wants to exact his final vengeance against Sakura, proving that he is the best Street Fighter of all.

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From a recent comment about the debut of the Canadian Competitive Eaters Association:

hey there i am trying to get in touch with you In-Ting. I am a casting director in Montreal and looking for local or canadian competitite eaters to appera in a tv commercial. could you reach me at mgiroux@canadfilm.com?
Thanks
Maxime Giroux

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There are two new videos on http://www.spiketv.com/#shows/mle/index.jhtml, the Pro vs. Joes segment in which Crazy Legs Conti took on three novices in donut eating and a “Sexy Eating Competition” which was not televised.

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The Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown will rerun at 2pm eastern tomorrow on Spike. A 15 second commercial for that showing with Sonya Thomas and Tim “Eater X” Janus can be seen at sonyajanusstpatspromo.wmv (.7 MB)

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If you would like something competitive-eating related to watch while you are waiting for the St. Patrick’s Day Chowdown to air, spikedhumor.com has a clip of the pie eating/vomiting contest from “Stand By Me” at http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/90517/Stand_By_Me_Pie_Eating_Contest.html I am not sure if the clip is copyright compliant, so it might be removed in the near future.

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Cool Hand Luke will be shown on AMC Friday night at 8 pm eastern. Paul Newman’s hard-boiled egg eating challenge in that film is probably the most famous competitive eating scene in cinema history. The movie will be rerun on March 28.

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(From the Hangman) riverstreetsavannah.com has information about the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown, which will begin on St. Patrick’s Eve:

Spike TV will be on River Street filming eight of the world’s best eaters as Verizon Wireless presents St. Patrick’s Celebration on the River! The Competitions will take place Friday afternoon at 4 and Saturday afternoon between 2 and 2:30. The competition will air on Spike TV at 7pm on St. Pat’s night.

ConnectSavannah.com also has an article about the contest.

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Nikki Morillo has emailed that Joey Chestnut will appear on the NBC game show Identity on Friday night at 9 pm.

update Nikki says that Joey will appear on a later episode in a comment below.

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A news video of the 123 pound burger from Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub can be viewed at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17402466/

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IFOCE.com reports that the commercial for the St. Patrick’s Day Chowdown starring Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti can be viewed at http://www.spiketv.com/#/originals/index.jhtml?franchise_id=721&video_id=136875

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A clip from a recent “Las Vegas” episode has been uploaded to http://eatfeats.com/videos/LasVegasHotDogContest.wmv (2 minutes 5MB) The video shows Sam (Vanessa Marcil) winning a hot dog eating contest for casino employees by eating the contents of a tray filled with of 50-80 bunless hot dogs (We only see her eat about two or three)

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The “Las Vegas” episode with the hot dog eating contest will be rerun on TNT at midnight eastern tonight (9 pm Pacific)

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A page about the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown has been set up at http://www.spiketv.com/#shows/mle/index.jhtml There is a commercial starring Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti and videos of the 2005 US Open and Johnsonville Bratwurst contest.

update The commercial with Janus & Conti appears to have been removed.

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The listing for the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown on zap2it says that 12 eaters will be in the first round instead of 8.

The listing on SpikeTV.com (unlinkable Flash only site 🙁 , screen capture is after jump) says the first round will have 8 eaters, but the program is categorized as comedy.

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PRNewswire has a press release about the Saint Patrick’s Day contest to be televised on Spike TV. The field will consist solely of the eaters in the top 8 of the IFOCE rankings: Takeru Kobayashi, Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, “Humble” Bob Shoudt, Patrick Bertoletti, Timothy “Eater X” Janus, Richard LeFevre and Chip Simpson.

The first round food will be corned beef & cabbage, the second round will have jalapenos and green doughnuts will be used in the final round. Beef tongue will not be in the tournament, contrary to early reports.

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(Thanks Laura Flynn) Brian Seiken’s new episode was not the only Las Vegas themed competitive eating program last weekend. There was a hot dog eating contest on NBC’s “Las Vegas” Friday in which Sam (Vanessa Marcil) competed. This was not Sam’s first eating contest; she competed against “Cookie” Jarvis in 2004. The episode will be rerun on cable on TNT on March 8.

There was also an immunity challenge eating contest on Survivor Thursday. Pig snouts were one if the items consumed.

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JapanProbe reports that TV Tokyo (producer of Gluttonous King / Queen) admitted to broadcasting a program that made false fitness claims. Some people might claim that this places Gluttonous Queen champion Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s achievements in doubt, but that would ignore that Gal Sone has performed her feats on networks besides TV Tokyo.

R Suzuki reports that Gal Sone’s most recent television appearance was on the Nippon Television Network in which she ate a meal of 15,000 calories over 1 hour and 55 minutes. Video captures of that show are available.

The subtitle of the show was “Can Gal Sone outeat Elvis Presley” ([erubisu] [puresuri]). It is claimed that Elvis ate 15,000 or more calories a day near the end of his life. Will the unnamed burger girl of Memphis emerge to challenge “Gal” Sone and avenge the honor of Memphis residents? 😉

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(From R Suzuki) A Mastercard commercial in which Kobayashi and Sonya Thomas have a hot dog showdown facilitated by Mastercard PayPass can be viewed at http://www.priceless.com/cards/paypass/takerukobayashi.html The video can be downloaded at http://www.priceless.com/cards/paypass/downloadvideos.html

updated mediapost.com reports that the Kobayashi & Sonya Thomas ad will only be available online and not televised. A commercial for paypass will be broadcast during the Academy Awards Sunday, but it will star an elephant.

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Kobayashi has posted two entries about his trip to Los Angeles. One is about his plane trip while suffering an illness, the other is about filming a commercial. The commercial is most likely for potato chips based on the picture with a lot of small potato chip bags.

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There is an oreo eating contest between NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and an old woman in a commercial which can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=4CL0EtsapLE

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“Hot Dog Heavens” will be televised on the Travel Channel today at 5pm eastern. Nathan’s on Coney Island will be one of the restaurants they will visit.

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IFOCE announces that the cable network Spike TV will broadcast four Major League eating events in 2007 starting with the Saint Patrick’s Day Showdown in Savannah, GA which will be televised from a same day tape on March 17 at 7pm. The new contest will be a tournament similar to Broadway at the Beach and Takeru Kobayashi, Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, “Humble” Bob Shoudt and Chip Simpson are expected. The other three events to be televised in 2007 have yet to be determined. It is not mentioned if Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest will remain on ESPN or be shifted to Spike.

A Reuters article and press release are also available.

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Megamunch reports that the following comment was left on his blog:

I’m writing from the Dr. Keith Ablow show in NYC, a nationally syndicated talk show produced for FOX. We will be doing a show about competitive eating on Feb. 20th. We’d like to feature a fan who idolizes Ed “Cookie” Jarvis or Tim Janus along with others, who’d like to start competiting in the sport. If anyone is interested please email me at:

katya.golberg@drkeithtv.com

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