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Grace Lee will judge a meatball eating contest in Lynchburg, VA on Friday. (Grace's twitter bio still lists her as an undefeated eating champion.)

September 7, 2011 at 12:30 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Judging, Roanoke, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (25)

The West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship had a logo for each competitor. Most of the logos can be seen in Matt Stonie's gallery of the post contest press conference. The only other contest that had a logo for each entrant I am aware of was the 2006 Nathan's finals, where Liz Kellermeyer created a monster to represent each participant. (Some 2007 buttons of Liz')

September 6, 2011 at 8:44 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Galleries, Orange County | Permalink * Comments (2)

The new poll asks who you think is the top non-IFOCE competitive eater after Takeru Kobayashi. Yesterday's West Coast Hot Dog Eating Contest was the third event in a row where Tom Gilbert finished ahead of "Furious" Pete Czerwinski.

September 6, 2011 at 10:50 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings | Permalink * Comments (17)

EveJersey has a slideshow of Saturday's Premio Italian Sausage Eating Contest held at Six Flags in New Jersey won by Dave "US Male" Goldstein.

September 5, 2011 at 5:02 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dave Goldstein, Galleries, Trenton, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (10)

Long videos of last month's IFOCE rib (23 minutes) and gyoza (8 minutes) eating contests are available on youtube.

September 5, 2011 at 10:38 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Los Angeles, Reno, Videos | Permalink * Comments

WLOCE3 has posted a video of Takeru Kobayashi and Dale Boone at yesterday's press conference at the Derby Deli in Mission Viejo, CA to promote the West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championhip.

September 3, 2011 at 4:35 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dale Boone, Kobayashi (小林尊), Orange County, Videos | Permalink * Comments (8)

PIE in has produced a video of its pizza eating contest held earlier this month in Barrie, Ontario.

August 31, 2011 at 8:20 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Toronto, Videos | Permalink * Comments

The Albany Times Union reports that John Lomascolo defeated Randy Santel and three other finalists in Man v. Food: Nation's casting call contest and will attempt an eating challenge on an upcoming episode.

August 30, 2011 at 12:57 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Albany, Man vs. Food: Nation | Permalink * Comments (23)

The Austrian program Abenteuer Leben - täglich Wissen has a video of "Furious" Pete Czerwinski competing in Bartolini's meatball eating contest last month.

August 29, 2011 at 10:55 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Chicago, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Aaron Ybarra and Naader Reda offer advice to eating challengers in a video in which they complete pancake challenge at Heroes in Fullerton, CA.

August 29, 2011 at 7:45 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Naader Reda, Orange County, Pancake Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Matt Stonie has uploaded his videos from the gyoza contest: Part 1 | Part 2 | Highlights

August 28, 2011 at 2:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Los Angeles, Matt Stonie, Videos | Permalink * Comments (15)

Don Sturdy has posted an interview with Johnnie Excel and Ryan McKillop recorded at the corn dog eating contest at the California State Fair in Sacramento last month.

August 27, 2011 at 10:13 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Johnnie Excel, Sacramento, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

The field of expected entrants in the September 18 pie eating contest at NYC Apple Day includes Joe Menchetti and Will Millender. This will be Menchetti's first AICE / All Pro Eaters contest since 2008 and Millender's first in over two years.

August 26, 2011 at 8:54 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joe Menchetti, Organizations, West Michigan | Permalink * Comments

"Gentleman" Joe Menchetti has started a facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gentleman-Joe/246717538701576

August 25, 2011 at 11:13 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joe Menchetti, Websites | Permalink * Comments (21)

Man v. Food: Nation Savannah casting call

August 25, 2011 at 2:55 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food: Nation, Savannah

The Travel Channel has submitted a casting call for an upcoming Savannah, Georgia episode of Man v. Food: Nation which can be viewed after the jump:
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The MLE Chowdown that was televised on Spike TV in 2007 will be rerun on Fox TV Asia on August 25.

August 24, 2011 at 8:19 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Spike TV, Television | Permalink * Comments (2)

Eric "Silo" Dahl has started a facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/ericsilodahl.

August 22, 2011 at 3:47 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eric Dahl, Websites | Permalink * Comments

Pat Bertoletti & Tim Brown food truck web page

August 22, 2011 at 7:50 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Chicago, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Brown

A web page for Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown’s food truck has been set up at http://www.gluttonforcefive.com/ (Sir Snugglesworth, Partybot and Pink Unicorn are the other team members.) The truck is offering a sandwich eating challenge awarding $500 to a customer that can beat Pat or Tim’s time. A facebook with a picture of the back of the truck and twitter have also been started. (via RJOPhoto)

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Jordan Polizzi has a gallery of yesterday's sushi eating contest held at Mitsuba Steakhouse in New Hartford, NY. The winner is not mentioned. update The post now lists Joe Menchetti as the winner.

August 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Galleries, Joe Menchetti, Syracuse, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (4)

MyFoxPhoenix has a video of an interview with Colin Gardiner, who will attempt to win the Battle of the Bone finals for the fourth year in a row later today.

August 20, 2011 at 9:17 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Phoenix, Videos | Permalink * Comments (24)

Man vs. Food:Nation recorded at Izzy's in Cincinnati today (via email) after recording at the Findlay Market yesterday. update Aug 21 Thadd and Milan have a gallery of the recording.

August 20, 2011 at 12:00 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cincinnati, Man vs. Food: Nation | Permalink * Comments

KUAM News has an interview of Joey Chestnut conducted in Guam.

August 19, 2011 at 11:24 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Internets Celebrities has a video about the attempts of several competitive eaters, including "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti, to qualify for the finals of the Go! Go! Curry! eating contest.

August 18, 2011 at 7:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joe Menchetti, New York City, Videos | Permalink * Comments

The youtube page for the Gary, Indiana RailCats has a video of Takeru Kobayashi throwing the first pitch and doing a hamburger eating exhibition in yesterday's game. update Kobayashi ate 6 burgers in 47 seconds in the 7th inning

August 18, 2011 at 1:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Gary, Kobayashi (小林尊), Videos | Permalink * Comments (3)

The new poll asks who do you think will be the second highest ranked woman in the IFOCE top 50 at the end of 2011.

August 17, 2011 at 4:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings, Women | Permalink * Comments (5)

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