Competitive Eating category

CarpeDurham reports that Adam Richman will record at Wimpy's and Backyard BBQ Pit today. Adam Richman will appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Wednesday.

Phil Yazdzik’s 1955 record attempts

Google News has two free articles about Phil Yazdzik’s record attempts from April 1955 where he ate 77 burgers (containing 20 pounds of meat) and 1.5 gallons of milk in 2.5 hours and 31 orders of fried chicken (his goal was 40 servings). His typical diet follows:

For breakfast he usually consumes 14 hot dogs and 2 quarts of milk. For lunch he likes 3 dozen eggs, two more quarts of milk and several pounds of cold cuts. His favorite dinner consists of four huge servings of spaghetti and meat balls.

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Good Food Toronto has a blog entry about attempts at the 72 once steak challenge at the Lone Star Cafe with four entries about the diners' training sessions.
DennisandLuba has a gallery of the May 15 qualifying session at Go!Go! Curry! With one more qualifier left (May 20) the top three remain 1) Joe Menchetti 2) Paul Arcaria 3) Don Lerman

Ian Hickman unretires, wins DC cupcake contest

Youtube has a video of the cupcake eating contest held at the grand opening celebration of Cupcakes Today in Fairfax, VA. Ian Hickman, whose retirement was announced in January, won the contest by eating 12 cupcakes in 1:47. James “Big Bess” Besser was the runner-up.

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Youtube has a video of today's donut eating contest in Bangalore India, won by Dale Boone with 44 donuts. PCresswell, who served as the contest referee, has a blog entry about the contest.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has uploaded a video of him eating almost 6 pounds of ramen noodles in 5 minutes.
According to Will Millender, the eating contest held at the Alt Games last month will be televised on CBS at 2pm eastern on Saturday, May 16.
TriggerStreet has a review of a competitive eating screeplay titled From the Gut. Joey Chestnut and other real-life eaters are characters in the script.
A press release for the Charleston (SC) River Dogs minor league baseball team reports that Man vs. Food will be recording Adam Richman eating the half pound "Homewrecker" hot dog at the Riverdogs' stadium on May 26.

Crazy Legs Conti interview on Obsessed TV

MinnPost has an video clip of an interview with Adam Richman and Andrew Zimmern of Bizzare Foodism
Daily Fiasco has some pictures from Adam Richman's attempt at the 6 pound burrito at the NASCAR Cafe at the Sahara Casino for an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food. Video recorded was removed due to a copyright claim by the Travel Channel.

“A-Bomb” blows up the WLOCE contract

Andrew Lane, now going by “A-Bomb” instead of “Skinnyboy” has a blog entry about the agreement competitors are required to sign before participating in the upcoming WLOCE Boulder cupcake eating contest. The agreement requires signees to pay 20% of their (non-contest competitive eating updated) earnings back to WLOCE, indemnification for Shea Communications (?) and a restriction on participating in non-WLOCE sanctioned events.

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The competitive eating training blog has a list of the top 5 reasons you fail at competitive eating.
A video of last month's Big "A" burger contest lists the top 3 finishers and their times at the end: 1) "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti 4:29 2) Joshua "Jabber-Jaws" Currier 8:07 3) David "Tiny" Chavis 8:59
Pat Bertoletti has started a twitter page at http://twitter.com/deepdisheats
Cameron "Consumption" McKirdy has uploaded his second video from his trip to Northern California with footage of Badlands Booker attempting the Burritozilla and the challenge pizza at Pizza Party.
The Heart Attack Grill is looking to hire a webmaster according to a posting on craigslist. (via twitter)
Cameron "Consumption" McKirdy has produced a video about his road trip to Stockton for the Asparagus Festival eating contest.
VegasNews has several pictures of yesterday's Nathan's qualifier in Las Vegas. Naader Reda has a video from the contest.
PhillyD.tv has a thread Contains spoilers) about the spicy wing challenge Adam Richman attempted at Munchies 420 Cafe in Sarasota.
The science bloggers steak showdown might be webcast in July.
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