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Click on the thumbnails below to see some screen captures from tonight’s episode of My Life in Food on the Food Network.
The first episode of the competitive eating mockumentary, The Quest for the Golden Hot Dog can be viewed on youtube. The video contains short profiles of three competitive eaters: Jen “The Natural” Chang, “The Hungry Hipster” and “The Black Bomber”, a rapping matzoh ball champion. (The role of Jen Chang will probably not receive any awards from Asian-American advocacy groups)
Screen captures can be viewed after the jump:
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Josh Camerote, director of the 2005 Wing Bowl documentary, Swallow Your Pride, reports that his film will be officially released by Cinetic Media. The release date was supposed to take place last month, but the film has yet to come out. The movie’s official website just says “Check back soon”
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski has started a web page at FuriousPete.com. On his news page, Pete says that the Sport Science: Competitive Eating program he appeared in will be televised in March and that he will also be recorded for a special on the National Geographic channel. There is also a page about his upcoming charity stunt.
Challenge restaurant – Big Pie in the Sky web page and page about Carnivore Challenge
Atlanta Cuisine forum thread about Carnivore Challenge
update 2 minute clip – slideshow – location list
Hacking Netflix reports that a movie called Gluttonous will be available tomorrow. The Netflix website has the following description for the movie:
Based on a popular Japanese manga, this pair of sidesplitting live action comedies follows the screwball exploits of a host of unconventional participants in the ferociously intense world of competitive eating. While most people try to temper their food intake, these competitors pride themselves on swallowing as much food as they can in the shortest possible time — and keeping it down long enough to win!
Gluttonous is known in Japan as Gourmet Fighter Both Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota appeared as competitive eaters in Gourmet Fighter. Volume 1 and Volume 2 are included in the Netflix rental.
The TV Funhouse clip in which Takeru Kobayashi dunked his hot dog buns to avert a flood was not shown on last night’s compilation of sports themed segments from Saturday Night Live, but a fake commercial in which John Belushi plays a champion decathlete who attributes his success to his diet was broadcast and the captured clip is attached below
Summing the cash purses in the IFOCE contests list (and adding the missing 2008 Krystal finals) reveals that the combined amount of the purses increased from $128,650 to $156,050 ($10,000 was not awarded due to the Kolache Factory’s contest cancellation by Hurricane Ike) The increase was mainly due due the adding of the Oklahoma BBQ ($10,000 purse) and Famous Famigia pizza ($14,000 purse) and the increase of the Krystals finals purse from $35,000 to $50,000.
Combining the first half purses of $51,750 (2007) and $28,250 (2008) from a previous blog entry produces a total purse of $180,400 for 2007 and and $184,300 for 2008 (of which $174,300 was awarded)
The 2007 purse does not include any amounts for the Las Vegas Spike TV contests since those values have never been publicized.
A list of all the contest purses is available after the jump.
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Badlands Booker’s new CD, Entrees & Leftovers, the Best of Hungry & Focused is now available for purchase via paypal (click on the B above iTunes digital downloads) on Booker’s myspace page.
The new poll asks what you think was the top competitive eating themed television program of the previous year.
Brian Seiken has set up a website at the http://beautifulbrian.com/ URL. There is not as much content as the site had when it was hosted on hometown.aol.com, but additional material will be forthcoming.
Several galleries of New York City IFOCE contests have been uploaded to flickr recently:
(From Megamunch email) The New York Times has an article about Gilded Age railroad tycoon “Diamond” Jim Brady’s reported gastronomical feats. A typical dinner for Brady was supposedly “Three dozen oysters (the largest Lynnhavens were saved for him), a dozen crabs, six or seven lobsters, terrapin soup,†and a steak, with a dessert of “a tray full of pastries… and two pounds of bonbons.â€
The reporter has difficulty believing that Brady ate like that on an everyday basis and believes that the meals he ate at various times in his life have been fused into a giant daily superfeast. He talks to Dr. Nicholas Belitsos, a Baltimore gastroenterologist who is somewhat less skeptical and claims that a stomach capacity six times greater than average, which Brady reportedly possessed, is a possibility.
The article briefly mentions Brady’s girlfriend, actress Lillian Russell, but does not report that she was about as legendary a trencherperson as Brady was. Oscar Tschirky, creator of the Waldorf salad, served the couple on several occasions and recollected that Russell was the bigger eater of the pair. She reportedly once won a diamond ring from her boyfriend by defeating him in an eating contest after removing her corset.
No new episode of Man V. Food will be televised tonight, but all six episodes will be rerun beginning at 5 pm eastern:
Columbus TRAV Wed 12/31 5:00 PM
Memphis TRAV Wed 12/31 5:30 PM
Chicago TRAV Wed 12/31 6:00 PM
Austin TRAV Wed 12/31 6:30 PM
Pittsburgh TRAV Wed 12/31 7:00 PM
Amarillo TRAV Wed 12/31 7:30 PM
The following list contains the combined cash winnings of competitive eaters in 2008 based on information in the eatfeats database. Please inform me of any inaccuracies.
All prize winners with earnings of $100 or more follows after the jump.
| $49,950.00 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | San Jose, CA |
| $34,900.00 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Chicago, IL |
| $18,750.00 | Tim “Eater X” Janus | New York City, NY |
| $17,950.00 | “Humble” Bob Shoudt | Royersford, PA |
| $12,050.00 | “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti | Wallingford, CT |
| $10,000.00 | Takeru Kobayashi | Nagano, Japan |
| $9,500.00 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | Alexandria, VA |
| $7,500.00 | Colin Gardiner | |
| $7,250.00 | “Furious” Pete Czerwinski | Mississauga, ON, Canada |
| $4,650.00 | Juliet Lee | Germantown, MD |
IFOCE.com and WLOCE report that Carson “Collard Green” Hughes of Newport News, Virginia passed away on December 26 at the age of 49. DailyPress has Hughes’ obituary and information about his funeral services. “Collard Green” competed in the 2003 Nathan’s finals and was the subject of a long profile in the New York Times that year.
update The Erwin Record has a longer article about Hughes (from Rhonda Evans)
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski has set up a website which accepts about his upcoming attempt to eat 12 Extra Value Meals on the McDonald’s website at http://furiouspete.synthasite.com/
The episode of My Life in Food about three competitive eaters preparations for the 2008 Nathan’s is now on the schedule. The 30 minute program will be televised at 6:30 pm eastern on January 10.
The New York Daily News has a report on Kobayashi’s attempt to break Sonya Thomas’ IFOCE fruitcake record at Gabriella’s Restaurant. Kobayashi fell 6 ounces short of the mark set by the “Black Widow” in a 2003 contest (and Badlands Booker’s amount in that competition as well). Kobayashi said the density of the fruitcake, which he had never eaten before, made it difficult to consume quickly.
MSNBC has a picture. Cookie Jarvis also attended the event.
NBC San Diego has video from the event. 14 pounds of fruitcake were on hand.
update NBCNewYork has two videos. Cookie Jarvis and Badlands Booker ate alongside Kobayashi at the end of his attempt to get him past the threshold. Kobayashi did not resort to dunking the fruitcake even when the record appeared in doubt.
Sonya Thomas has a comment about Kobayshi’s record attempt on her news page.
Update #2 Kobayashi’s attempt was mentioned on ESPN Sportscenter. Here is a clip (20 seconds .9 MB)
NY1 News also has a video clip
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| 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 |