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The segment of Will Work for Food in which Adam Gertler competes in the Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest held last October will be televised at 9:30 pm and rerun tonight at 12:30 am and Sunday at 4:30 pm (all times eastern)
The segment will be available on the Food Network’s website if you are unable to watch it at those times.
The fourth episode of Quest for the Golden Hot Dog, which contains the overtime of the hot dog contest and the post competition-party, has been uploaded to dailymotion (It is not on youtube yet)
The third episode, which was temporarily removed from youtube, is now available again.
The PhillyDeal$ blog reports that philly.com received 4.1 million online readers on the day of Wing Bowl 17, more than twice the normal amount. The only other event to produce more traffic to the website was the Phillies recent World Series victory.
NewsObserver.com has an article about the filming of Adam Richman’s hot dog eating challenge at the Roast Grill in Raleigh for an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food. Richman ate at least 10 hot dogs, but it is not reported if he reached his goal of 17 hot dogs. Jason DiMambro attended the recording and had to sign a non disclosure agreeement that he would not reveal the results of the challenge.
The competitive eating segment on How I Met Your Mother was televised yesterday and not February 9 as TheTVAddict reported. EatMeDaily has a video from the show containing the eating contest. (from email)
The theme of last night’s program was the removal of resume items which were not beneficial to landing jobs. Lily’s (Alyson Hannigan) accomplishment to be deleted is winning the 1995 “Coney Island Eatfest” (which has a familiar looking logo) by eating 29 hot dogs in 8 minutes. She attempts to see if she is still capable of performing her feat and then updates her resume with her recent total.
Children of Saint Clare has a synopsis of the whole episode and bebo has an official video clip uploaded by CBS.
Like Apollo 18, it appears that plans for the eighteenth episode of the initial season of Man vs. Food will not come to fruition. A twitter update from the official Man vs Food twitter page announces that there will be 17 episodes in the first season. The 18th episode was to have been recorded in Minneapolis / St. Paul later this week.
Pat Bertoletti (or someone impersonating him on the Travel Channel message boards) had hoped to meet up with host Adam Richman in Minnesota.
Pictures in galleries may not be safe for work:
update The episode commercial and a facebook gallery are now available
(From Brian Dwyer comment) The Wing Bowl 13 documentary Swallow Your Pride is for sale on amazon.com at a price of $19.99. Angelo Cataldi, Al Morganti and Bill Simmons are listed as the stars.
TheTVAddict reports that Alyson Hannigan’s real life pregnancy will be used to simulate a post hot dog eating contest state on How I Met Your Mother. TV.com has additional pictures
The program will be broadcast on February 9 at 8:30 pm, the same night as the competitive eating episode of Will Work for Food
Here is a list of the contests this weekend in the eatfeats calendar:
| 2009 Jan 31 | Glendale, AZ | Bommer’s Slider Eating Contest | ||||
| 2009 Jan 31 | Chicago, IL | Chili Eating Contest | ||||
| 2009 Jan 31 | Tampa, FL | Cholula Wing Bowl | ||||
| 2009 Jan 31 | Delran, NJ | Delran High School Charity Wing Bowl | ||||
| 2009 Jan 31 | Statesboro, GA | wing eating competition | ||||
| 2009 Feb 1 | Clovis, CA | 1st Annual Halftime Rack Attack Rib Eating Contest | ||||
| 2009 Feb 1 | Princeton, NJ | Oyster Bowl X | ||||
| 2009 Feb 1 | Bethesda, MD | Slider Eating Contest | ||||
| 2009 Feb 1 | Aberdeen / Freehold, NJ | Two Minute Wing Warning finals |
The Oyster Bowl will award a Trip to Cancun or Punta Cana, the first prize in the Bethesda slider contest is a flat screen TV and $500 will be awarded in the rib contest in Clovis.
The WBCN website has a gallery of last night’s Boston-area Wing Bowl. It is surprising that Joe Menchetti did not compete (assuming professionals were not banned) given that the first prize was $3,000.
WPLR.com has pictures of last Saturday’s “Eat the Meat” Wing Eating contest.
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski reports in a bodybuilding.com forum thread that he traveled to the United States to record a program for the National Geographic Network today. Customs agents did not believe his job description of competitive eater. Will Millender says in his twitter that he will also appear on the program. The working title of the program is Science Impossible.
Pete also says that his Value Meal charity stunt might appear on the Canadian network Global TV.
update Will Millender has uploaded a picture from the filming
Philly.com has galleries of Wing Bowls 11 through 16
A posting on craigslist has the following request:
If you have ever competed in a professional eating contest… we might want to book you on our new show.
The only other information is that no compensation will be provided. The name or other details about the show are not listed.
Philly.com has an interview with Adam Gertler, host of the new Food Network show Will Work for Food who has the following comments about his participation in the Famous Famiglia pizza contest in October:
Asked which of the taped episodes he likes best, he said, “They are kind of like all of my children. I think, though, I really like the competitive-eating segment.”
That one, airing Feb. 9, has Gertler gobbling pizza alongside some professional competitive eaters on a stage in Times Square in Manhattan. He downed 16 slices before throwing in the towel.
The episode will be televised at 8:30 pm eastern time.
The Denver Post has a report on the filming of a Man vs. Food episode in Colorado last week. One 7 pound burrito completed before Adam Richman started his challenge at Jack-n-Grill (from Skinnyboy).
Filming this week at the Roast Grill in Raleigh, NC has been moved to Friday and will apparently take place during normal business hours.
The Electric New Paper of Singapore has an interview with Mr. Effendi (no first name listed), who taught Barack Obama when he lived in Indonesia, which begins:
GENDUT loved his keropok. He even won a keropok eating contest.
Gendut or ‘chubby’ is now known all over the world as US president Barack Obama.
His former teacher, Mr Effendi S P D, 64, told The New Paper at his house in Jakarta that Mr Obama was the biggest boy in his class. Mr Obama lived in Indonesia with his mother Ann Dunham and step-father Lolo Soetoro from 1967 to 1971.
Keropok are deep fried crackers made from prawns and starch.
VGF.com has a guide on how characters in the Major League Eating video game become available.
update: commercial | gallery
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DowntownRaleigh.com reports that Man vs. Food will be filming at The Pit in Raleigh Wednesday evening from 6 to 9 pm. The restaurant will be serving customers during that time and will offer discounts on two BBQ meals in honor of the event. Adam Richman will not just be dining at the restaurant; he will also learn pork BBQ cooking techniques.
A page at http://twitter.com/eatfeats has been set up. The main purpose of the page is to provide status reports in case of eatfeats.com outages (Eatfeats was down from about 5am to 10am eastern on Friday due to server issues, three days after its web hosting account was extended ) I do not expect to make a twitter update for every eatfeats blog entry.
The food locations list on the official Man v. Food page has been updated with restaurant information and broadcast dates for the episodes which will air through March 18 (See the list on the Travel Channel’s website for the non-challenge restaurants) :
All of the above episodes have been filmed, except for the North Carolina episode The Minnesota episode, which is expected to be filmed in early February, was not listed.
RockyMountainNews has a report (contains spoilers) on Adam Richman’s attempt at the 7 pound burrito. 9 News has a preview of the filming with a lot of comments.
BlogCritics.org calls Man v. Food “the best thing on television”
Badlands Booker’s myspace says that the episode of Wife Swap in which Regina Booker and female boxer Jennifer Alcorn swapped families will be rerun on Tuesday January 27 at 5 pm eastern on Lifetime.
The San Jose Mercury reports that Bear Silber purchased Pizza Party (formerly Pizza and Pipes) restaurant. Silber finished the restaurant’s Belly Buster Pizza challenge in December 2006 with a time of 38 minutes. (Joey Chestnut completed the pizza four days later with a time of 15 minutes.
In other San Jose news, one of the Man vs. Food sites was SmokeEaters (former University Chicken) and Adam Richman tried the Hellfire Challenge there.
Loading ...| 2026 Nov 11 | San Diego, CA | Hot Wing Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 11 | multiple sites | King of Wings | ||||
| 2026 Nov 12 | Denver, CO | Slider Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | Cedar Park, TX | Dumpling Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | DeLand, FL | Hot Dog Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | St. Augustine, FL | Key Lime Pie Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | Cedar Park, TX | Pad Thai Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | Philadelphia, PA | World Pickle Eating Championship | ||||
| 2026 Nov 15 | West Chester, PA | Hot Ones Hot Sauce Hot Wing Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 15 | Fayetteville, NC | Ramen Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Lahaska, PA
Apple Pie Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Helendale, CA
Big Momma Challenge |
| 2026 Nov 8 Brevard, NC
Hot Wing Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Tarpon Springs, FL
Stone Crab Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Corsicana, TX
Wing Eating Contest |
| $100.00 | "The Ginger Giraffe" |
| $500.00 | Paola |
| $200.00 | Rich "The Walkup" |
| $500.00 | Vito "The Spoon" |
| $50.00 | Colby Aiton |
| $100.00 | "plonksmash" |
| $300.00 | "The Village Inn" |
| $100.00 | Jayden "FitnessCheatMeals" |
| $500.00 | Jean Christophe |
| $3,000.00 | Wayne "wayneywonder" Algenio |