Will Millender has the top 3 from today’s corned beef and cabbage eating contest in Baltimore: 1) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 2) Joe Menchetti 3) Will Millender

update Mar 15 Saval Deli has a gallery of the contest. A caption has the official top 3:

1st “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 2 lbs, 8 oz
2nd “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 2 lbs 3.5 oz
3rd Will “The Champ” Millender 1 lb 11 oz

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CompetitiveEatingNews has been updated with a report on Cookie Jarvis’ thyroid cancer treatment. (via crawfish twitter)

HugeEaters.com has been updated with the following message: “ED ” COOKIE ” JARVIS IS NOW RECOVERING FROM SURGERY AND DOING WELL. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR KIND THOUGHTS!”

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DumboNYC has a picture of Takeru Kobayashi at the Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn where he attempted to break the Guinness eating record of 26 meatballs in 1 minute.

update Gothamist has a blog entry with pictures.

update #2 DumboNYC has a blog entry and gallery. A video is also available.

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The Philadelphia City Paper has an interview with Bill “El Wingador” Simmons who will attend Monday’s screening of the Wing Bowl documentary “Swallow Your Pride” at National Mechanics in Philadelphia. Simmons believes he should have defeated Sonya Thomas in the 2004 Wing Bowl.

A youtube page has been set up with clips from Swallow Your Pride

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IFOCE.com has been updated with a new look. The content appears to be essentially the same except for currently empty Hall of Fame and Eats of Strength pages. Competitive Eating News lists Don Lerman as a candidate for the first Hall of Fame inductee despite his competing in non-IFOCE contests after his IFOCE retirement.

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There might have been some historical basis to have competitive eating as a demonstration sport in the Vancouver Olympics. TheTyee.ca has an article from 2004 about the “tsatlsqulalitut” or eating power of the Salish tribe of coastal British Columbia and Washington State:

Powers played an important role in Coast Salish culture. There were many kinds, including, but not limited to, the powers of a shaman, and any adult ought to have one or more. A person with eating power ate normally most of the time. But when challenged or challenging, the same person would eat vast quantities of food without showing the slightest sign of discomfort.

The article retells a story of an old man who ate two sides of beef and washed it down with a barrel of water.

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CapitalNews9 has a video of Erin Connolly covering and eating french fries in yesterday’s steerburger contest in Albany. Ms. Connolly claims to be the niece of 1996 Nathan’s champion Ed Krachie. Nicklaus Schultz won the contest by eating 7 steerburgers in 20 minutes.

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CandisAshley and LaurelMackenzie report that Man vs. Food is recording at Melt Bar and Grilled in Lakewood, Ohio today. update Dana Cahill has some pictures. update March 1 A facebook gallery is available.

update March 2 BrokenHeadphones has a blog entry about the filming.

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The first screenplay written by Josh Heald (twitter), writer of the upcoming movie “Hot Tub Time Machine” (March 26 release), was “All You Can Eat”, a comedy set in the world of competitive eating. To research his subject, Heald competed in the 2006 Nathan’s Las Vegas qualifier and ate 11 hot dogs in 12 minutes. (Joey Chestnut was the first American to break 50 hot dogs at that contest.) The Los Angeles Times reports that Heald won the amateur competition at the 2006 chili cheese fries eating contest.

Josh Heald’s IMDB page lists “All You Can Eat” as “In Development”. The script was sold to New Line in 2004.

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