The entire appearance of Olivia Wilde on Ellen can be viewed on youtube. A transcript of the section in which Olivia discusses her competitive eating history and techniques is available after the jump. The transcript ends with a reference to Ellen’s partner, Portia di Rossi, which was cut from the official clip.

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(From “I”/dogsarefunyes) A picture of Joey Chestnut, apparently eating a Burritozilla from Iguana’s Taqueria, is on the home page of Man vs. Food. Next week’s episode will feature restaurants from San Jose.

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Knoxville.com has an article about How’s Your News?, an MTV program starring seven disabled reporters produced by South Park co-creator Matt Stone. Each episode documents a stop made during a cross-country trip. In New Orleans, the reporters visited a pirate convention, a prison rodeo and an oyster eating contest, which was probably the Acme Oyster competition since the other two events took place in April.

TV Guide reports the New Orleans episode will be televised at 10:30 pm on Sunday, March 1.

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Juliet Lee’s writenow page announces that she will appear on Guy Fieri’s Big Night on the Food Network at 10 pm eastern tonight. The program will be rerun the following times over the next 2 weeks:
Wed 2/25 10:00 PM
Thu 2/26 1:00 AM
Sat 2/28 8:00 PM
Sun 3/1 3:00 AM
Sun 3/8 6:00 PM

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The segment from Holiday Foods about the Fourth of July hot dog eating contest held at Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island can be viewed on the History Channel’s website. The clip contains a short contest between Eric “Badlands” Booker and Famous Fat Dave which Ryan Nerz provides commentary for.

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• Crown Candy Kitchen – challenge: 5 malt milkshakes in 30 minutes
  Home Page Reviews: Citysearch | Yelp
  The restaurant’s website says the milkshake challenge has been offered since its opening in 1913, which might make it the oldest eating contest or challenge
  A book about the Crown Candy Kitchen, which includes the malt milkshake Wall of Fame is available on amazon
  When the book was published, Rich LeFevre held the record of six milkshakes, Pat Bertoletti has since broken that mark by one.

• Pappy’s Smokehouse
  Home Page Review: Yelp
  STLMags blog entry about the recording says that Adam Richman’s meal was the Big Ben which consists of a full slab of ribs, 2 sandwiches, a 1/4 a chicken, and 4 side dishes

• Iron Barley
  Home Page Reviews: Citysearch | Yelp
  Iron Barley was in an episode of Diner, Drive-Ins and Dives last March

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A video of Joey Chestnut’s apparance at the San Jose Stealth game on Saturday in which he set the IFOCE macaroni & cheese record is available, along with a podcast of an interview on KNBR he did the day before to promote the event. TheIFound5Dollars blog says that Saturday’s game had the seventh largest crowd in Stealth history.

A video of another Joey Chestnut appearance from January where he ate 5 burritos at a scout troop meeting can also be viewed on youtube.

update A flickr gallery of the contest with a picture of the bobble-head (see above) is available

Skinnyboy was impressed with the burrito video

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Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin’s twitter page reports that he is appearing today at a casting call for the NBC weight loss reality show The Biggest Loser. Pat has uploaded some pictures of the line

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LA Times blog entry about the recording of the episode

• Orochon Ramen – Challenge: Special #2 spicy ramen
  Home page | Citysearch | Yelp
  Blog entry with videos of the challenge attempt
  Picture of the Wall of Bravery, which is reportedly taken down and restarted every month

• El Tepeyac Cafe
  Home page | Citysearch | Yelp
  Blog entry about the restaurant’s signature dish, the five pound Manuel Special burrito

• Philippe the Original
  Home page | Citysearch | Yelp
  LA Times article about the restaurant’s centennial last year and its claim to the creation of the French dip sandwich

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episode commercial | slideshow | Seattlest blog entry

• Beth’s Cafe Challenge Meal – 12 egg Southwestern exposure omelet
  Home page Reviews: Citysearch | Yelp
  Blog entry and forum thread about the recording at Beth’s Cafe
  # 4 Listing on the Travel Channel’s World’s Best Places to Pig Out

• Red Mill Burgers
  Home Page | Reviews: Citysearch | Yelp
  Blog entry about filming

• Crab Pot
  Home Page Reviews: Citysearch | Yelp

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An episode of Man vs. Food was recorded in Minneapolis last weekend. A picasa gallery of Adam Richman attempting a meter long sausage challenge at Gasthof zur Gemütlichkeit is available.

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(from comment) The Houston Chronicle has a video of David “SykoBozo” Cagle attempting to eat a “Bacon Explosion” at Lucky’s Pub. There is also a blog entry about the challenge.

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