Famitsu.com reports that the Japanese version of the Major League Eating video game for the Nintendo Wii will be released on March 24 and the price will be 900 yen. Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara are the new characters, apparently replacing Rich LeFevre and Juliet Lee. The game was first announced in August and the original release date was October 14, 2008.

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• The Roast Grill – challenge 17 hot dogs
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  NewsObserver.com article about the filiming
  Art & Literature blog entry about the Roast Grill
• The Pit meal: pork BBQ
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  A Food Network program was filmed last week according to the restaurant’s twitter
• Time Out Chicken – meal: shredded chicken sandwiches
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(from Serious Eats twitter) EatMeDaily reports that the creators of ThisIsWhyYoureFat.com are seeking a six-figure book contract. To obtain content for the upcoming work, picture submitters now must agree to the following disclaimer:

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane’s picture of the 7 pound burrito from Jack n Grill is one of the images present on thisiswhyyourefat.com

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• Jack N Grill challenge meal – 7 pound breakfast burrito
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  Denver Post report on the filming (contains spoilers)
  Denver Metromix gallery of three women attempting to finish the burrito
  Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane’s blog entry about his challenge attempt

• Buckhorn Exchange meal – 64 ounce steak
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  The largest steak served weighs 4 pounds and costs $178
  BiggestMenu page about the steak

• The Cherry Cricket meal – burgers with a possible 21 toppings
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list of Denver area eating challenges in the eatfeats database

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(From indiewire) The first 66 minutes of the 2005 Wing Bowl documentary, Swallow Your Pride, can be viewed for free at http://beta.sling.com/video/show/121148/58/Swallow-Your-Pride The video is billed as the full version of the movie even though the last 20 minutes are missing.

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The next poll asks which city (with at most one major league team) you would most like to see in season 2 of Man vs Food. A list of the current upcoming poll choices is available after the jump. Any requested choices will be added to the poll.

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A twitter update reports Joey Chestnut finished a Burritozilla from Iguana’s Taqueria in 3 minutes and 10 seconds on tonight’s episode of Man vs. Food

updateFrom “I” comment – Skinnyboy has uploaded Joey Chestnut’s segment to youtube. Here are some captures from it:

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Episode slideshow | picture of Joey Chestnut on TravelChannel.com

• Smoke Eaters (formerly University Chicken) 911 hot wing challenge
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  Cooking for Engineers blog entry about a 911 Challenge attempt
  SJSU student newspaper article about restaurant

• Iguana’s Tacqueria meal: 5 pound Burritozilla
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  SJSU student paper article about a 2004 Burritozilla contest
  SJSU student paper profile of Joey Chestnut mentioning his victory in the 2004 contest
  Pat Bertoletti’s records page reports he has the best Burritozilla time

• Henry’s Hi Life
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The Press of Atlantic City reports that the top two finishers in the crawfish eating contest, Dave “US Male” Goldstein and Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas both drank the brine water from the crawfish tray during the competition. The water weight was counted as crawfish mass in the once the post-contest weight was subtracted from the original value. The new poll asks if you think that this was a legitimate tactic.

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(from Ken Wong) RussiaToday has sad news from a pancake eating contest:

At a celebration of Maslenitsa or Pancake week ‘the fastest pancake eater contest’ ended in tragedy in the Kaliningrad Region, when the winner of the competition died as he prepared to accept his award.

Boris Isaev, 46, a resident of the city of Chernyakhovsk, climbed onstage to take the prize, but suddenly fell to his knees choking. Foam came out of his mouth and a few moments after he fell breathless.

RIAN.ru also has an article

This is the fifth death in an Eastern hemisphere eating contest since the start of 2008.

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Screen captures from Juliet Lee’s appearance in an oyster eating contest on “Guy’s Big Night” on the Food Network Wednesday can be seen below:

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Last night’s episode of How’s Your News did not include footage of the main Acme Oyster eating contest won by Pat Bertoletti, but Scott “ScozzyBone” Zukowski, billed as the New Orleans oyster champ, did compete against one of the program’s reporters in a short oyster contest. A video clip of the segment can be viewed online.

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