Metromix has a gallery of the August 18 tofu eating contest in Los Angeles. One of the pictures is captioned:

Danny Meza ultimately came in third behind the winner Jim Donahue who Hoover-sucked his tofu in 16 seconds. Still, he won a half-day fishing trip (2nd place received a 3/4-day trip) which is not bad at all.

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“Kid” Cary DeGrosa has uploaded a segment of him eating 6 hot dogs in two minutes from a program that aired on the TLC cable channel called “Diets from Hell” to youtube. There is some footage of pre-Kobayashi Nathan’s contests.

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From Beautiful Brian’s bits & pieces:

It has been brought to my attention that certain IFOCE members more than likely pertaining to the the top 25 have been sent emails regarding their availabilty for an upcoming SPIKE tv special in Las Vegas which would span the course of 3 or 4 days during the early part of Oct.You would need to take a week off from work. Sponsors will cover your airfare and hotel expenses along with $1000 spending money. Sounds like U.S open all over again, but this time with no mention of lottery picks

More information can be found in the comments of this megamunch post.

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A video of El Toro interviewing Rich & Carlene LeFevre can be viewed at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/locust.html

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Derek “Wing Tut” Payne has resumed blogging at wingtut.blogspot.com He intends to blog about non competitive eating topics in addition to eating contest news.

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The Sault Star reports that Keith Knight died Wednesday night from brain cancer at 51:

Knight is perhaps best known for his role as Larry Finklestein, a counsellor-in-training in Meatballs, the 1979 Canadian comedy that marked his feature film debut and cast Saturday Night Live alum Bill Murray in his first starring role.

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Meatballs, budgeted at $1.6 million and shot in Haliburton, earned more than $25 million in the first six weeks of its release, making it at the time the top-grossing Canadian film of all time.

Knight, who ate more than 100 hot dogs during filming of a hot-dog-eating contest, described Meatballs as “American Graffiti goes to camp.”

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The Brooklyn Papers has an article about “Fat March” participant Will Millender who won a pizza eating contest in Brooklyn.

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WhiteLabelDub has two videos of Saturday’s Three Brothers Pizza eating contest at http://www.youtube.com/user/whitelabeldub

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(From Hall Hunt) “Super” Paul Barlow Jr. appeared in a jalapeno eating contest on “Good Day Atlanta” which can be viewed online.

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Erik “the Red” announces in a podcast that he wants to appear in the Guinness Book of World Records for jalapeno eating and also break the MLE record for habanero peppers.

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WebMD has an article about the health impact of competitive eating. Joey Chestnut, Hall Hunt and Dr. David Metz are quoted.

If competitors are vomiting regularly, that could cause problems, Sitaraman says. Protracted vomiting can increase the chances of aspiration, or food getting into the lungs rather than the esophagus. This can lead to deadly pneumonia. But competitive eaters say vomiting at competitions is rare.

Sitaraman was surprised when, doing a search of the medical literature of the past several years, she found no reported complications from competitive eating, short of a single case of a jaw fracture. “Maybe [competitive eaters’] gastrointestinal tract has adapted and acclimatized to eat those calories,” she speculates.

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This gallery of the Los Angeles Tofu Festival says that the winner of the tofu eating contest needed only 16 seconds to finish the block of tofu. The winner’s name is not listed.

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(From Kevin Carr) The third eatcast podcast can be downloaded at http://eatcast.blogspot.com/2007/08/in-this-installment-of-eatcast-kevin.html

The contents of the episode are described:

In this installment of EatCast, Kevin comes back from fun in the sun during a Caribbean cruise. He goes on about 72 oz. steaks, round-the-clock cruise eating and (mostly) hot chicks in bikinis. Co-host Neil defends his creepy behavior at Comic-Con, and Beautiful Brian Seiken brings the boys up to speed on what’s happening in the world of Major League Eating.

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AICE news reports that Dale Boone has contacted that organization about competing in their events:

Dale “Mouth of the South” Boone has recently contacted AICE regarding his desire to participate in the Back Yard Burger National Hamburger Eating Championship in Memphis TN as well as the Wing Stop Southern States Chicken Wing Eating Championship in Pine Bluff Arkansas during the annual Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival. Subsequently, the Veteran Food Warrior received notification from All Pro Eating Promotions that he would have a spot at both major eating events.

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An interview with MeMe Roth of the National Association Against Obesity conducted by Neil Cavuto on Fox News criticizing competitive eating after the Nathan’s finals can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=y1coz4elffw

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“Code Monkeys” is a program on the G4 cable network about a computer game company set in the 1980s made to look like a 1980s computer game. In a recent episode viewable online, a programmer envisioned competing against “Kobatashi” in Kitchen Arena after a possible transfer to Japan.

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A 24 hour eating contest between teams of different sizes was recently held on a Japanese television program called “Food Camp”. The teams consisted of Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota as a single-person team, a two-woman team of Tomoko Miyake and her friend Kana, three wrestlers and six comedians. The comedians won by eating, 22.21 kg in total, but that was only .3 kg more than Shirota ate. Tomoko Miyake’s team was hurt by the medical disqualification of Kana.

Youtube videos: Part 1 Part 2
R Suzuki blog entry
Official program website

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A myspace page claiming to be Takeru Kobayashi’s official myspace page is located at http://www.myspace.com/officialtakerukobayashi The maintainer of that page has not logged in since July 4.

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Don “Moses” Lerman has two videos on youtube: one as himself, the other as Gustoff Zhychick Lerman plans to have a live web cab.

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Last night’s episode of the weight loss reality show “Fat March” featured a competitive eater named Will Millender. An article and blog entry about Will appeared in May.

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The Clearfield High School football team’s attempt to eat Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 100+ pound burger will appear on Country Fried Home Videos (epsisode title is “Slightly Used” on Country Music Television this weekend (all times eastern):

Friday Aug. 17th at 8:30 pm
Saturday Aug. 18th at 1:00 am
Saturday Aug. 18th at 7:30 pm
Sunday Aug. 19th at 1:30 am

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The Japanese language web site for the movie Ratatouille (called Remy in Japan) has videos of a cooking lesson and interview with Natsuko “Gal” Sone. There is also a blog entry about attending the Japanese premier of Ratatouille on Gal Sone’s blog.

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An 7 minute excerpt from “The Simpsons” where Homer competes in a steak eating contest with a truck driver at the Slaughterhouse restaurant can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0MX9re7YXY

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Andrew “skinnyboy” Lane has a trip report and gallery from last Wednesday’s peanut butter & jelly eating sandwich at Knott’s Berry Farm in southern California.

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A video of Monday’s AICE frog leg eating contest can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=756lc6jFXhc Full results from that event are available on the Madison Mallards web site.

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