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EatMoreGyoza has a link to a podcast of an interview Sonya Thomas did this morning on the Mark and Brian Morning Show to promote Saturday's gyoza eating contest. Damon Wells will appear on Good Day LA tomorrow morning. update Aug 17 A video of Well's appearance is available.

August 16, 2011 at 9:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Damon Wells, Los Angeles, Podcasts, Sonya Thomas | Permalink * Comments (23)

Jake's Wayback Burgers has a facebook gallery of Friday's Chowdown Showdown burger eating contest in Wilmington, DE.

August 15, 2011 at 8:26 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Galleries, Wilmington | Permalink * Comments

Cleveland.com reports that Glutton Bowl competitor David "Moe Ribs" Molesky passed away at the age of 57. (via Don Lerman) update Molesky was the runner up to Don Lerman in the butter eating contest at the Glutton Bowl.

August 13, 2011 at 10:27 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cleveland, Health | Permalink * Comments (8)

Videos of Joey Chestnut, Adrian Morgan and Crazy Legs Conti competing in a pro-am contest at a Marine base in Japan are available: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

August 12, 2011 at 11:01 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Adrian Morgan, Crazy Legs Conti, Japan, Joey Chestnut, Videos | Permalink * Comments

IFOCE top 30 head to head comparison table

August 12, 2011 at 7:14 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings, Statistics

A table comparing head to head records in 2011 of the current IFOCE top 30 follows after the jump. (Ben Monson is excluded as he has no 2011 contests). Here is a list of the competitors with the best combined head-to-head records:

Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) 96.6% 56-2
Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (P Be) 94.1% 80-5
Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) 82.1% 34-7-1
“Notorious” Bob Shoudt (B Sh) 78.1% 57-16
Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) 76% 19-6
Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) 65.6% 20-10-2
Sean “Flash” Gordon (S Go) 59.1% 25-17-2
“The Lovely” Juliet Lee (J Le) 52.9% 27-24-1
Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff (A Os) 50% 21-21
Micah “Wing Kong” Collins (M Co) 47.4% 17-19-2

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Smoke's Poutinerie has produced a video promoting its eating contest in Toronto on September 24.

August 11, 2011 at 12:12 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Toronto, Videos | Permalink * Comments

DiSalvo's Restaurant in West Palm Beach has a gallery and video of a meatball eating contest won by Dale Boone.

August 10, 2011 at 9:23 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dale Boone, Palm Beach, Unafilliated Contests, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Takeru Kobayashi competed in a one minute pizza eating contest on MTV After Hours. (via comment)

August 10, 2011 at 2:23 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments (8)

Johnnie Excel has posted a video and blog entry about his training session for the Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge where he ate 50 hard shell beef tacos from Del Taco. (The actual contest used chicken tacos with soft shells.)

August 8, 2011 at 1:08 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Johnnie Excel, Orange County, Training, Videos | Permalink * Comments (9)

Videos from "Furious" Pete Czerwinksi's trip to Boise: Big Jud challenge record attempt for Boise Weekly | Fox 12 news video | Boise Soul Food Festival wing contest

August 8, 2011 at 6:54 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Boise, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Stephanie Torres & “Cardboard Shell” added to IFOCE top 50

August 6, 2011 at 9:13 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Cardboard Shell", Kevin Ross, Rankings, Stephanie Torres

Commenters noticed that the IFOCE top 50 was changed yesterday. The top 20 appears unchanged. Stephanie Torres (#21) and Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco (#26) are the new entrants. Kevin Ross (formerly #26) and Shawn Kirby (formerly #50) were dropped. Damon Wells jumped from #28 to #22. Five women in the top 50 sets a new record for female representation.

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Matt Stonie has uploaded his videos from the Taco Bell Why Pay More Challenge in Puerto Rico last Friday. Part 1 | Part 2

August 4, 2011 at 10:52 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Matt Stonie, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Global Turnstile has the second half of Zach Bigalke's column about Japanese competitive eating, but it is mainly about cooking competition shows like Iron Chef.

August 4, 2011 at 2:14 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Japan, Television | Permalink * Comments

Eric "Badlands" Booker reports that "Super" Paul Barlow will appear in the movie The Change-Up, which will open tomorrow.

August 4, 2011 at 2:07 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Movies | Permalink * Comments (16)

Maria Edible (formerly known as Maria "The Incredible Sulk") has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/mariaedible.

August 4, 2011 at 2:05 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Maria Edible, Websites | Permalink * Comments (1)

Grace Lee announces she will judge the Grim Reaper burger challenge at Lucky's Burgers & Brew in Roswell, GA on Sunday. Grace's appearance on The Regular Guys show this morning can be viewed online.

August 4, 2011 at 1:51 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Judging | Permalink * Comments (8)

The "Big 70" eating challenge, consisting of 7 biscuits and 70 ounces of gravy, was featured in last night's debut episode of Truck Stop Missouri on the Travel Channel. (video | picture of cast iron pig bowl used to serve challenge)

August 4, 2011 at 12:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Jefferson City, Television | Permalink * Comments

2011 Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge

August 3, 2011 at 3:24 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Orange County, Podcasts, Unafilliated Contests

update August 5 Furious Pete has a travelog which includes his opinion about Brad Sciullo.

update August 4 OC Weekly has a blog entry and gallery about the challenge. Brad Sciullo now has a beard. A podcast of Takeru Kobayashi’s appearance (35 min) on the Loveline radio show with Dexter Holland of the Offspring is available (via ultimate guitar)

Naader Reda has the official top 4)
1) Takeru Kobayashi 81 tacos
2) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 49
3) Brad Sciullo 45
4) Johnnie Excel 41

Videos from the webcast can be viewed online.

6:16 The second head is over. Kobayashi appears to have won easily with an unofficial count of 81 tacos.

6:06 The second heat has started.

5:14 The first heat of the main contest has started

4:32 A women-only undercard contest has started.

The Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge will be the first United States contest against other competitive eaters for Takeru Kobayashi since the Krystal Square Off 6 finals in September 2009. The contest is expected to start at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm eastern and can be viewed online at http://www.livestream.com/gringobandito.

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Pat Bertoletti appeared on Windy City Live this morning for a cooking demonstration. (via Kooky Canuck)

August 3, 2011 at 1:12 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Chicago, Pat Bertoletti, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Will Millender has posted a video of him eating 15 bananas in a minute at the Coney Island Talent Show.

August 3, 2011 at 11:56 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:New York City, Videos, Will Millender | Permalink * Comments (2)

Chippewa.com has an article about Jeremy Wheeler, who will attempt the Unforgiven Challenge (burger, fries & 6 hot wings) at Red Rock Saloon in Milwaukee on tonight's episode of Man vs. Food.

August 3, 2011 at 7:43 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Man vs. Food: Nation, Milwaukee | Permalink * Comments (2)

Randy Santel has been announced as one five finalists for the Man vs. Food: Nation Casting Call contest (need to be a facebook fan of Man vs Food to view page). The other finalists are Kyle Hook from Tucson, Lauren Takao from Hawaii, John Lomascolo from Albany and Dan Baker from Philadelphia. Voting closes August 11. update Lauren has a facebook page about her eating challenges titled Lauren the Eater. update Randy Santel appeared on KCTV5 to promote his video.

August 1, 2011 at 10:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food: Nation, Randy Santel | Permalink * Comments (8)

Losses / ties by the IFOCE top 5 to non-top 5 eaters

August 1, 2011 at 8:01 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

I think Tim Janus tying Matt Stonie in Friday’s taco eating contest in Puerto Rico was the first time someone in the IFOCE top 5 has been defeated or tied by someone outside the top 5 in 2011. Here are the times in 2010 that I could find where that happened

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Johnnie Excel announces that he is casting the competitive eating episode for the upcoming season of Fox's Bones and is looking for male and females who can eat along with a female victim.

July 28, 2011 at 9:14 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Johnnie Excel, Television | Permalink * Comments (8)

Temple City Daily Photo has a blog entry (from January) about female competitive eater Suzanne French recording a program for the Food Network in Los Angeles. (This might be for the "Woman vs. Food" project that has been under development since 2009)

July 27, 2011 at 10:18 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Los Angeles, Suzanne French, Suzilla, Television, Women | Permalink * Comments (2)

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