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Yahoo Sports has a one minute video report about the TripRewards hot wing eating contest produced by the Associated Press.
beautifulbrian.com announces that Brian Seiken has started a new myspace page at myspace.com/picklechamp
Brian also has a new commentary about El Toro and an announcement that Badlands Booker’s 4th CD will move away from rap and towards classic 70s/80s soul.
A video of Tomoko Miyake attempting to eat 4.9 kg (10.8 lb.) of ramen can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=WYIzeL22JeY
The Boston Phoenix has a report on a screening of “JO” by Cameron Jamie. Japanese noise artist Keiji Haino provided a live soundtrack.
The show began in darkness. Haino chanted a series of ghostly moans; those and the votive candles lining the aisles made it feel like a séance. JO is a rumination on patriotism, with footage of a Joan of Arc pageant in Orléans, French right-wingers laying flowers at the foot of a Joan statue in Paris, and a Fourth of July hotdog-eating contest in New York.
Haino proceeded through mysterious plucking, ominous vibrations, chimes, turbulent strumming, Godzilla thuds, and rumbles. It sounded a bit like a slasher-flick score. He deployed 13 pedals to loop and layer the noise, building jet-engine blasts. He went silent while Jamie’s camera panned down a stout fellow’s jacket embroidered with a list of dozens of eating-contest victories. The seated crowd chuckled.
(From Megamunch and Brian Subich) Joey Chestnut’s victory at the TripRewards wing contest yesterday was the #2 play of the day on ESPN Sportcenter.
The paperback edition of Horsemen of the Esophagus will be released today. I am not sure if there will be any new material that was not in the hardback.
A trailer of Joe Menchetti’s appearance on Beautiful Brian’s TV show has been uploaded to youtube. Joe appears in Brian’s studio and takes a call from Don “Moses” Lerman. The full video will be available for purchase on May 27.
Brian’s Mother’s Day episode is also available, which includes an interview with El Toro, footage of the entire Las Vegas qualifier along with interviews of some of the participants in that event.
Mike “The Real Skinny” Hoffman has posted his rejection letter from IFOCE on his blog. As in the Moe’s Burritos for Life contest, being ranked is given as sufficient justification for blocking entrance.
The Nathan’s Famous hot dog contest is an IFOCE/MLE event. It has just recently come to my attention that you are ranked by a rival eating league and are therefore not eligible to participate in the Nathan’s Famous contest, or any IFOCE or Major League Eating events.
If this restriction is upheld for everyone listed in the AICE rankings, it will prevent Kobayashi from competing in Nathan’s.
TheNathansRematch.com website on the poster in Nathan’s noticed by Don “Moses” Lerman is now up. There is a contest to be a judge at the finals in Coney Island.
(From R Suzuki) NNN’s news video page has a clip of Tomoko Miyake attempting a restaurant’s curry challenge at http://www.ntv.co.jp/news/asx_dai2/070504081_300k.asx
The Brooklyn Papers reports that Will Millender will appear on a weight loss reality show in which he will attempt to walk from Boston to Washington, DC.
Trial, tribulations, and even a slice of celebrity are nothing new for Millender, who has battled his weight for several years, and whose image can still be found on storefront posters across Ridge for his first place showing at the Fifth Avenue pizza-eating contest last June at Rocco’s Pizzeria (Millender was cheered to victory by a huge crowd that included a once-legendary, now slimmed-down, eater, Borough President Markowitz).
He ate 10 slices in the regulation 12 minutes. The performance made him a legend.
Crazy Legs Conti has set up a myspace page to promote the DVD release of his documentary “Zen & the Art of Competitive Eating” That film will go on sale on July 24 and is available for preorder now.
The May edition of Hall Hunt’s top 25 IFOCE members poll is out now. The top 10 in that list:
1. Takeru Kobayashi (8) (270) [1]
2. Joey Chestnut (2) (258) [2]
3. Patrick Bertoletti (255) [3]
4. Chip Simpson (1) (235) [4]
5. Bob Shoudt (215) [8]
6. Sonya Thomas (205) [6]
7. Rich LeFevre (196) [7]
8. Tim Janus (181) [5]
9. Crazy Legs Conti (164) [11]
10. (tie) Erik Denmark (153) [10]
10. (tie) Juliet Lee (153) [12]
Three trailers for the Wing Bowl documentary “Swallow Your Pride”, all about two minutes long can be viewed at http://www.joshcamerote.com/work.html
Some observations on the current IFOCE points standings are below. More analysis might be done this weekend if time and desire are present.
No points were awarded for the Wing Bowl or St. Pat’s Chowdown
Nathan’s qualifiers and the Broadway at the Beach contest are 25 point events. All other contests are 50 point events.
The 2nd and 3rd place finishers in the Sunrise qualifier, James Saliba and John Boehnker are not listed.
Justin Mih should have more than one point. (His corn contest points were apparently not added)
In a recent blog entry about his appearance in the Japanese edition of Iron Man magazine (he might appear in the US edition as well) and a bodybuilding DVD featuring Ronny Coleman, Kobayashi has a picture of his supplement container filled with 36 kinds of nutritional aids. Glutamine, BCAA, and creatine are three of the supplements Kobayashi uses. He says his supplement consumption increases when he is preparing for an eating contest.
Josh Camerote, director of the Wing Bowl 13 documentary, “Swallow Your Pride” has set up a website and blog at http://www.joshcamerote.com/home.html The blog announces that a viewing of “Swallow Your Pride” has been scheduled for May 31 in Cleveland, but details have not been finalized yet.
LATimes.com reports that talk radio hosts Opie & Anthony have been suspended from XM satellite radio for 30 days:
The hosts of “The Opie & Anthony Show” had apologized last Friday for airing a homeless man’s crude comments about wanting to have sex with First Lady Laura Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Queen Elizabeth II. But on Monday’s program, they sounded less contrite, complaining of having to adhere to their employer’s “dumb rules” and expressing sympathy for Don Imus and several other radio hosts who they said had recently lost jobs “just for trying to entertain people.”
An audio clip of the segment responsible for the suspension is available.
IFOCE competitor Pat Philbin is a frequent guest on the Opie & Anthony show and was temporarily suspended from IFOCE for appearing in a controversial video recorded at the Opie & Anthony studios.
Philly.com’s Inqlings page has a paragraph about Bill “El Wingador” Simmons’ establishment:
El Wingador’s To-Go – the eatery at Fourth and Girard backed by five-time Wing Bowl winner Bill “El Wingador” Simmons – is dark after only four months. Sign on the door mentions a temporary closing due to “unforeseen circumstances beyond our control” and expresses a hope to “reopen soon, possibly under new management.”
stuff.co.nz has an article about a Kentucky Fried Chicken Eating contest in New Zealand. Even though the contest was an informal affair not open to the public, it still drew criticism from public officials:
The event drew the ire of Waikato District Health Board officials who said it sent the wrong message at a time when the district and country were facing an obesity epidemic.
The Japanese 2ch bulletin board is believed to be the world’s largest internet forum. Lisa Katayama (who wrote the wired.com article about Gal Sone) has an article about that website. This link (which also appears in the sidebar) will search for oogui (competitive eating) topics on that website and translate the results to English:
In addition to the 4 hours of eating contests to be rerun on ESPN2 tonight starting at 7pm eastern, CBS will rerun the competitive eating themed CSI at 9pm tonight that was originally broadcast on Thanksgiving weekend 2005.
Skinnyboy recorded video of Pat Bertoletti’s and Rich LeFevre’s appearance on local television before the Las Vegas qualifier.
There is also a video of Rick “The Grizzly” Baird’s introduction.
A website for the Nathan’s qualifier to be held at the Mall of America has been set up at nathansmoa.com. There is a gallery of last year’s qualifier.
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 13 | Sapulpa, OK | Pancake 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 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 |