Today is the tenth anniversary of The Glutton Bowl, which was televised on Fox on February 21, 2002

Glutton Bowl links

• Competitors list and results from a Japanese website
• Program recap by RealityNewsOnline
• Video of final round where food was cow brains (with Korean subtitles)
• Video of egg contest round won by Badlands Booker
• Glutton Bowl preview by Buck Wolf focusing on Cookie Jarvis, Don Lerman, Kevin Lipsitz and Charles Hardy
• Recent picture of Cookie Jarvis, Don Lerman and Kevin Lipsitz on TheLermanReport.com
• IFOCE top 68 from March 2002

Of the 34 competitors, I think only 4 (Takeru Kobayashi, Eric “Badlands” Booker, “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti and Jed Donahue) remain currently active in competitive eating. Three others (Don Lerman, Bill “El Wingador” Simmons and Lester Tucker) have competed recently but announced retirement.

Factoids about Glutton Bowl competitors

• One of the two female Glutton Bowl participants, Lorraine Arrol, would marry Kevin Lipsitz
• Lester Tucker won 16 straight quail egg eating contests in Texas, but announced retirement last year.
• Jed Donahue ate one hot dog in the 2006 Nathan’s finals
• Chris Eyre would be arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife in New York City before the 2003 Nathan’s finals. He was reportedly angry at her for kissing William “The Refrigerator” Perry, who competed in the 2003 finals.
• It is almost the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons episode having 9 Major League Baseball players as guest stars (originally televised on February 20, 1992 on Fox). Jose Canseco, one of the baseball players in the epsisode, was scheduled to face off against Glutton Bowl participant Bill “El Wingador” Simmons in a celebrity boxing match in 2009, but Canseco pulled out.

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• SBNation report by a member of Kobayashi’s entourage
• SportsandFood.com contest report
• Kobayashi in People Magazine
• WIP videos
• Philly.com Behind the Scenes video
• Video of interview by Arthur Kade
• AroundPhilly.com video
• Patch.com interviews Martin “The Rooster” Russo

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A press release announces that “Adam Richman’s Best Sandwich in America” will be Adam Richman’s new show on the Travel Channel. The status of Man vs. Food is listed as “rested”, but reruns of the program will continue to be televised on the channel. update The program will debut June 6.

(The futility in ranking a large number of subjectively judged items brings to mind the episode of The Simpsons where the parody rock band Spinal Tap guest-starred: ST – Spinal Tap, BAM – DJs Bill & Marty)

BAM: Would you mind recording some promos?
ST: Like what?
BAM: Maybe you could say: “Nobody rocks like Bill and Marty on KBBL.”
ST: We don’t know that. What if somebody rocks as good as you? Or better. We don’t want to look stupid.
BAM: We respect that. How about: “Rock-a-doodle-doo! You’re listening to Bill and Marty” ?
ST: Yeah, sure. That’s good.

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