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Todd Yeates blog entry with a lot of pictures.
Jed Donahue’s gallery
“Hot Dog Heavens” will be televised on the Travel Channel today at 5pm eastern. Nathan’s on Coney Island will be one of the restaurants they will visit.
The video oreo eating contest sponsored by Controlled Labs has been closed with the following amounts eaten in three minutes:
Grand prize = CONTROLLED LABS product of your choice + 3 bottles of Black Hole + free t-shirt
47 Trans Isomer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap_Q6apfljc1st place prize: 3 bottles of Black HOLE
41 thshrink + 1 bottle for first video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1VTodQHAgc2nd place prize: 2 bottles of Black HOLE
39 BoyscouT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-NxkuPdxgE3rd place prize: 1 bottle of Black HOLE
34 Ashlarry http://video.google.com/videoplay?do…29157374633354
A promotional clip for the Wing Bowl 15 DVD can be viewed at http://dvideography.com/client/WingBowl2/ The DVD can be purchased at http://wingbowlvideo.com/
IFOCE announces that the cable network Spike TV will broadcast four Major League eating events in 2007 starting with the Saint Patrick’s Day Showdown in Savannah, GA which will be televised from a same day tape on March 17 at 7pm. The new contest will be a tournament similar to Broadway at the Beach and Takeru Kobayashi, Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, “Humble” Bob Shoudt and Chip Simpson are expected. The other three events to be televised in 2007 have yet to be determined. It is not mentioned if Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest will remain on ESPN or be shifted to Spike.
A Reuters article and press release are also available.
Megamunch reports that the following comment was left on his blog:
I’m writing from the Dr. Keith Ablow show in NYC, a nationally syndicated talk show produced for FOX. We will be doing a show about competitive eating on Feb. 20th. We’d like to feature a fan who idolizes Ed “Cookie” Jarvis or Tim Janus along with others, who’d like to start competiting in the sport. If anyone is interested please email me at:
katya.golberg@drkeithtv.com
OhnoZone.net, a fan blog for skater Apolo Anton Ohno, has a response to this website’s post about the ESPN.com poll
Melissa McNamara wrote a section in CBS News blogwatch about Natsuko “Gal” Sone which includes a link to this site.
Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s blog has moved from her home page at http://www.watanabepro.co.jp/galsone/ to http://blog.watanabepro.co.jp/gyarusone/ The topic of the most recent entry is Gal Sone’s nail decorations.
Kobayashi’s rival in “Man vs. Beast” is not the only competitive eating bear. Toonzone.net summarizes the pilot episode of “Utica Cartoon” by Fran and Will Krause which ran on the Cartoon Network in 2001.
When Dan Bear and Micah Monkey learn that they can get free hot dogs by beating the current hot dog eating record at their local diner, they are up for the challenge. Dan Bear reigns as hot dog champ by consuming loads of free hot dogs, continually beating his own record. For awhile he enjoys the free franks until beating the record becomes too much even for him.
The episode is availabe in quicktime format at frankrause.com (Low quality 16MB) (Medium quality 31MB) The clip is about 7 minutes long.
Matt Sears says he produced a rap video in which Eric “Badlands” Booker makes a guest appearance which will debut on February 22:
Awhile back, I shot a rap video with ego trip’s The White Rapper Show’s break-out reject, Miss CKC. Joining us on the m-i-c were comedian/rapper Baron Vaughn, competitive-eating champ/rapper “Badlands” Booker and beat-boxer/force of nature Shockwave.
Well, the premiere is upon us. Mark your calendars. It’s not to be missed.
February, 22 2007 – 9:30P
WORLD PREMIERE OF “CHIPS” at VIDEO GAGA
Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre – 307 West 26th Street (8th/9th Aves.)
New York , NY
Cost: $5
TheGiantHamburger.net sells a mail order giant burger kit which includes a big bun and other equipment. The 10 pounds of ground beef needed to make the patty are not included. A prize of $1000 is being offered to an eater who can submit a video of the assembled burger being finished in under an hour without any assistance.
An ESPN.com poll for the 5 members of the 2006 All-Sports team (which is still open) is the subject of a thread on a forum for fans of speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno. Some commenters helped put their hero in the #1 position in that poll and knock Kobayashi out of his early lead:
Whoa! You definitely CAN vote more than once, with rapid-fire! Just ‘refresh’ the voting results page and click ‘Retry’ when you get the message. I was able to vote again with just 2 clicks – about once per second. Within about 5 minutes I think I single-handedly brought David Eckstein from 1.3% to 1.4%! (Of course I voted for Apolo, too). (I know, I’m a techno-idiot, so if you already know this you can call me stupid – go ahead, I can take it…)
(A commenter on the thread thinks that Sonya Thomas should have been in the poll also)
Brandweek has an article about the advertising campaign for redesign of the Heinz Ketchup bottle which mentions Nelson Peltz’ desire to have Heinz cosponsor Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.
More recently, Heinz CEO William Johnson has been locked in a bitter public fight with one his investors, Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners, New York. Peltz has argued that Johnson has nickel-and-dimed the brand, even failing to spend what he believes would have been about $200,000 to sponsor Nathan’s annual hot-dog eating contest, which has no condiments partner.
Johnson, however, has argued that it was he who came up with the plan to restart spending behind Ketchup. The recent pledge to evoke “Anticipation”-era ad spending is in Heinz’s 2006 annual report. The campaign will be created by Cramer-Krasselt, Chicago, a rep said.
The AICE news page says that the producers of “Supernanny” are developing a program about people more than 50 pounds overweight transforming their physiques and lives.
The home page for the new program can be found at http://www.ricochettelevision.com/newprograms/
Auditions will be held around the country over the next several weeks. The page above says that entrants should be able to spend up to 10 weeks away from their job and family, which is not mentioned on the AICE page. The winner will receive a cash prize, but no amount is listed.
Videos of recent contests on youtube
Miami Pretzel Twister contest from Hall Hunt (6 parts)
Pittsburgh pierogie contest local television news reports
b_sting competed in last Sunday’s Oyster Bowl and has some pictures on his myspace blog. He says that winner Kristina Costa is an employee of the restaurant where the contest was held.
(Thanks Liz) Liz has written a post for urbanhonking/truefan about eating challenges and the IFOCE ban on those smorgasborgs. Liz relays the following offer from Heart Attack Grill owner “Dr.” John Basso:
Basso is offering the $10,000 dollars for the person who can beat Joey’s time, he says, because he knows he’ll see $11,000 in business as a result. His dream right now is to have Kobayashi, the world’s #1 ranked eater, come in and claim that money. He says after Joey did the stunt, he had someone teach him the correct Japanese phrasing in the hopes that the Kobayashi would hear the challenge he broadcast over the television. “And if someone can beat Kobayashi’s time, I’ll give them $12,000,” he said. Though for now, that challenge will have to be put on the shelf.
The new poll lists several changes in the way contests could be judged and asks which one you would most like to see implemented.
Liz has updated the fantasy eating scorecard up through the Wing Bowl and uploaded the results to http://groups.google.com/group/fantasyeating
The Pittsburgh public television station, WQED, will show an episode of the “Dave & Dave” show about the Pittsburgh Wing Championship Series on February 20 at 7:30 pm.
In its Best of 2006 Advertising/Marketing list, QSR Magazine gave Moe’s Burritos for Life contest, a tournament with first round contests at all Moe’s Southwest Grill franchises, the Best Marketing Off the Menu award. Some eaters who competed in that event, (or attempted to enter and were prohibited) might dispute that claim. 3,000 people are claimed to have competed in the first round.
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There is at least one instance of dog food eating predating Don “Moses” Lerman’s Wing Bowl qualifying stunt. It was in one of the episodes of the second season of the 1970s sitcom “Good Times”
In one of the second season’s comic centerpieces, the Evans family avoids eating a neighbor’s meatloaf because they think it’s made with dog food. The scene is played as hilarious farce, but the acknowledgment of a poor old woman living on dog food gives the sequence an underlying bite.
MosesNews.com has a post about the dog food controversy
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