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(from Steakbellie comment) The Onion has an article about a competitive eater who gets banned from the IFOCE after throwing a mayonnaise eating contest and has to resort to winning impromptu unsanctioned contests. The picture used for the article is from the Trip Rewards wing eating contest last year.
A German novel about the 2001 Nathan’s contest was released last year. The book is titled Die Wetteser (The Competitive Eaters). The novel has the following description on amazon.de (automatically translated)
4 July 2001 was the day, which umstürzte the world of the meal: Takeru Kobayashi, schmächtiger Japanese, plugged in 12 minutes of more Hot Dogs in itself inside than ever humans before it and humiliated with it, just at the independence day, its American competitor. OD Krachie, “the animalâ€, a white automobile engineer, and Charles Hardy, “the hungry oneâ€, a black improvement officer, two simply knitted Kolosse, both sunk in self-pity and hate on their Japanese opponents: Kazutoyo Arai, “the hareâ€, a complacent medium star, and Kobayashi, “the princeâ€, a good-looking Dandy. While for these four men the Hot Dog Wettessen is the most normal thing of the world, Sandra and their clique can imagine hardly something Perverseres. As radical Veganer they fight to spread their message from the animal-suffering-free life to. With the world championship of the meal before Nathan’s nearly Food restaurants hit these two worlds finally one on the other. The Wettesser tells embittered competition, of love in hostile times, of records, low impacts, of counter and other worlds, of strange alliances – and of the normality of the insanity.
LiteraturHaus also has a review
(from Nate Biller) The latest episode of A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila had a hot dog consumption contest. Labeling eaters who do not adhere to picnic style rules “food drinkers” was not an exaggeration in this competition:
The next day, everyone is chilling poolside when TT comes out of the house with another challenge: a hot dog eating contest. But there’s a twist! Because Bo’s jaw is still recovering, he’s had to eat virtually all his food blended. Well, “what’s good enough for Bo is good enough for everyone,” according to TT, and she begins blending a disgusting concoction of bread, hot dogs, relish, ketchup, and mustard. According to Jay it looked like Tila had eaten something, thrown it up, and then said, “here! have some!”
(From Badlands Booker) A segment from Holiday Foods: Fourth of July: Hot Dogs which culminates in a hot dog eating contest between Eric “Badlands” Booker and Famous Fat Dave can be seen on the History Channel’s website. Ryan Nerz also makes an appearance.
The next poll will ask who you think is the top eater in the USA who is currently unlisted in the IFOCE, non-IFOCE or Hall Hunt rankings. The current choices are:
Dale Boone
Sal Carbone – Brooklyn Pizza
“Gentleman” Jerry Coughlan (top 5 Wing Bowl)
Jed Donahue
Mike Fitzgerald – 23.5 HDB, 2007 Sheboygan brats winner
Nic “The Incredible Bulk” Fry – 21 HDB
Sean Gordon
Ron Koch
Floria Lee – Queens Dumpling female winner
Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz
Brent Ricord
Mike Springer
John “jcrue” Taylor
Frank Wach
Lori Weiss – Denny 96er finisher
Russell Witzke
Scott “Scozzy Bone” Zulkowski
Please add eaters you think should be added to the list in the comments
update The poll has been activated. Eaters who have announced retirement were not eligible.
The episode of “Without a Trace” in which a competitive eater disappears after winning a chili eating contest will air tonight on CBS at 10 pm.
(from HHH email) Hall Hunt’s new poll is now out. The top 10 are:
1. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (7) (193) [1]
2. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (1) (188) [2]
3. “Humble” Bob Shoudt (167) [4]
4. Takeru Kobayashi (162) [3]
5. Tim “Eater-X” Janus (148) [5]
6. Hall “Hoover” Hunt (147) [7]
7. Sonya “The Blackwidow” Thomas (146) [6]
8. Rich “The Locust” LeFevre (138) [7]
9. Juliet Lee (130) [11]
10. Erik “The Red” Denmark (126) [9]
Patrick Vandam (#17), Jim Reeves (#24) and Nate Biller (#25) are the new entrants, replacing Joe LaRue, Brian Seiken and Paul Barlow.
Pat Bertoletti visited Steve Dahl’s radio show this morning. Pat’s appearance was recorded and will appear on the Food Network in an upcoming episode of Roker on the Road.
The two competitive eating organizations might face competition from an unlikely source:
8:05 And then last year he raised his game up and came in 3rd place, officially. He should have come in second place because Kobayashi should have been disqualified for puking.
8:06 Steve can’t believe the IFOCE didn’t step in and overrule it and give Patrick second place. They should do that if they are any sort of legislative body.
8:07 Every time Steve talks to Patrick he wants to start up his own competitive eating league. He would be much stricter about policing it and he wouldn’t allow foreigners. Let’s keep it in America where competitive eating started with the blueberry pie contest.
Wicked Local has an article about the pumpkin pie eating contest between Joe Menchetti and Tom “Goose” Gilbert on the Chris Tabb show. Gilbert’s victory resulted in his being named the top eater in the new independent rankings.
The Simi Valley Acorn reports that Michael Watts ate a 6 pound steak at Dakota’s Steakhouse in Simi Valley, California three days after his 25th birthday. By finishing the steak in under an hour, he received $220 from his family, $50 more than the cost of the steak.
CBS3 has a video about Watt’s feast.
The next press release for the Major League Eating video game is now available and contains mini-biographies of four of the game characters. El Toro’s career has the following synopsis:
El Toro has a big mouth, although it doesn’t seem to serve him well in competition. Fond of extravagant claims, personal attacks on other eaters and all sorts of theatrics, he is usually at the bottom of the pack at the end of any given contest. Other eaters see him as abrasive, offensive, and void of talent. He does, however, contribute to the sport by setting an example of what not do
A video from the watermelon contest promoting the MLE game containing an interview with Badlands Booker was also released today.
SuperSizedMeals.com has a gallery from the May 17 Bigger Mac Daddy Burger eating contest. The captions state that Ian Hickman was the winner.
If you missed this afternoon’s broadcast of the Collegiate Nationals on CBS, the entire contest can be viewed in its entirety on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYqJCLFSCYY
WiiWare World has uploaded a new trailer of the Major League Eating video game to youtube.
Filefront has a video of people playtesting the game at Tuesday’s promotional event at Rockefeller Center. The blog entry says the game will be released in early June.
Gal Sone’s autobiography is now available for preorder on Amazon of Japan. Amazon claims the book will come out on Saturday, the previously announced release date was May 27.
Sports Hochi announces that Gal Sone will be acting in the upcoming movie based on the television show Masked Rider. The website for the program has a short interview with Gal Sone about her movie debut.
(from an email) Crazy Legs Conti and Tim Janus appeared on this morning’s edition of “The Today Show” and competed in a one minute watermelon eating contest and then demoed the Major League Eating video game. The video can be viewed online.
(From io9) The Hollywood Reporter has an article about the start of production on Hot Tub Time Machine. HTTM was written by Josh Heald, who also wrote the screenplay for All You Can Eat, a movie set in the world of competitive eating. Production of All You Can Eat appears to currently be on hiatus.
io9 notes similarities between Hot Tub Time Machine and a previous work:
Sadly, this won’t be the greatest time traveling tub movie of all time.
That honor belongs to College Humor’s series Clock Suckers, which is about a group of friends that link a Simon Says toy to a bath tub, which allows them to travel in time. It’s an animated short (with a lot of bad language), in which our heroes go back and mess with Al Capone, Elvis and other historical figures.
The rights to All You Can Eat are now controlled by Rogue Pictures, which made the ping pong comedy Balls of Fury and the direct to video American Pie sequels. The website for Rogue Pictures has not been updated since 2004.
BTrauman has uploaded videos of today’s pickle eating contest at the Carnegie Deli in its entirety. The results from that event:
1. Arnie Chapman
2. Mike Hoffman
3. Richard Leavy
4. Jill Stoler
update NY1 has a brief article about the contest
update #2 Jill Stoler has a blog entry about the contest. Jill emailed the original results and a picture of the scoresheet which can be viewed after the jump:
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