In MetroMag.com, Scott Schneweis describes the techniques which resulted in him being named the winner of the wing eating contest at the Guy Expo in St. Paul, Minnesota:

Desperate and miserable, I picked up a wing with my left hand and slid it into the side of Todd’s tray while I ate another one with my right hand. He laughed, sending chicken wing bits flying. Then he grabbed my chicken wing and put it in on the top of his pile. Chewing, we looked around. No one seemed the wiser.

Realizing what was at stake, Todd started making weird eating noises and talking to the crowd and the judge with his mouth full. It wasn’t a pretty sight, but he was distracting the crowd. I slid him four more chicken wings.

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Travel Channel: episode guide | slideshow | side of the city video (Inner Harbor)

Restaurants

• Steak & Main challenge – 5 steaks (totalling 74 ounces)
  Home Page | yelp
  Page about challenge on restaurant’s web site
  DelawareOnline blog entry about challenge
  entry in Digital City’s list of the biggest steak challenges
• Chap’s Charcoal Restaurant meal – pit beef
  Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
• Obrycki’s meal – crabs
  Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp

List of Baltimore area eating challenges in the eatfeats database.

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Travel Channel – episode guide | slideshow

Restaurants

• Chick & Ruth’s Delly (Annapolis, MD) challenge – 6 pound shake and 1.5 lb. sandwich
  Home Page | Yelp
  Page about challenge on restaurant’s website
  Blog entry by Will Millender about being the first person to complete the challenge
  Hometown Annapolis report on the filming
  Grubgrade review
• Ben’s Chili Bowl
  Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
  Washington Post obituary from October 9, 2009 about the death of Ben’s founder Ben Ali
• Horace & Dickie’s Seafood Carryout meal – jumbo fish sandwich
  Yelp | Metromix

List of Washington, DC area eating challenges in eatfeats database
List of Northern Virginia area eating challenges in eatfeats database

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(via eatingcontest twitter) Sonya Thomas’ appearance on Washington Post Live can now be viewed online. Sonya says that she is considering the meatball eating contest in Las Vegas and that popcorn was her most difficult contest food.

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Anna Kowalski relays a rumor that Man vs. Food will be recording at Wooster Street Pizza in Manchester, Connecticut tonight, which Adam Richman did not deny.

The Hartford Courant has a report and gallery from Man vs. Food recording on Friday at Doogie’s.

(Adam Richman is currently at 6,665 twitter followers, so the next follower will be #6,666)

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Youtube has a clip of Kobayashi receiving a Guinness record after eating 7 hot dogs in 3 minutes. The record Kobayashi attempted to break was 4 hot dogs in 3 minutes and not 23 bunless hot dogs in 3:10 by Lynda Kuerth that was listed by Guinness before it stopped printing eating records in its books in the late 1980s.

R Suzuki has more about the program which says that Kobayashi had to eat sitting down using only one hand and had to show a clean mouth before proceeding to the next hot dog.

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A video (requires Microsoft Silverlight plugin) about “Furious” Pete Czerwinski’s sausage eating exhibition is available on the website of the Canadian French language channel TFO. The video narration is in French, but the quotes remain in English with French subtitles. In the clip, Furious Pete offers his advice for improving swallowing techniques.

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