Super Paul Barlow Jr. has a cafepress page with competitive eating themed T shirts, hats and magnets at http://www.cafepress.com/tropicmon The magnet shifts the site of Picasso’s Guernica to an eating contest.

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A clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone singing (or lip syncing) on “Monomane Battle” can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zc1aMtbwh4 During an instrumental section, Gal Sone puts on a brief eating exhibition. “Monomane Battle” is a show in which people try to imitate celebrities. Laura Pasqualoni appeared on ‘Monomane Battle” as Mariah Carey.

update Gal Sone was trying to imitate Ayumi Hamasaki R Suzuki has a post about the appearance.

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I am curious if anyone has any news about “Swallow Your Pride”, a documentary filmed at the 2005 Wing Bowl. The movie’s website. swallowyourpridemovie.com is now defunct and I have not been able to find any information about screenings after the documentary won an award at the First Glance Film Festival in Philadelphia this summer.

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(from Dave Chrisinger) A napkin autographed by all 5 members of the Central Lakes Eating Team has been put up for sale on ebay. The current bid is 99 cents and the auction ends Friday.

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Two brief videos of Justin Mih practicing with baked beans have been uploaded to youtube by his roommate: Part 1, Part 2.

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A video clip of the 2006 jalapeno contest at the Texas State Fair, won by Rich LeFevre, is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuT1P4sCphE Sonya Thomas, Pat Bertoletti and Erik Denmark also appear. Rich and Carlene LeFevre are interviewed. All the eaters wear different shirts due to the cancellation of GoldenPalace.net’s sponsorship, which is a surprising sight at an IFOCE contest.

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The promotional video for TheNextBigClip.com, located at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2IIc5gbBDI says they are awarding $1000 to the eater who has the most impressive eating performance in a 10 minute video. Eaters can choose whatever food they want. No information about the contest is available on http://thenextbigclip.com/

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Bear Silber has posted a video of the construction & consumption of the 5 pound Belly Buster Pizza at Pizza & Pipes in Santa Clara to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbmt9ZdSqSU and has listed it as a video response to the Gal Sone 40000 calories video

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Think You Can Compete, a league devoted to competitive eating challenges has launched. Competitors will film videos of their performances and post them to youtube or another online video host. The league will award prizes via paypal (and also charge admission fees) Two promotional videos have been posted to youtube: Video 1, Video 2. The official opening date is January 1, 2007, but the website has already started at thinkyoucancompete.com

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nyblueprint says a latke eating contest will be held in conjunction with the lighting of Brooklyn’s official menorah. It is not clear what day the contest will be on. The contest is called the “2nd World Championship Competitive Latke Eating Contest” so it is probably an IFOCE contest since IFOCE sponsored a latke contest in Brooklyn last year. AICE will hold a latke eating contest in Lake Grove, NY on Sunday.

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The new poll asks where Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota should appear on a unified ranking containing IFOCE, AICE and Japanese eaters. Shirota defeated Kobayashi in 3 out of 4 Food Battle Clubs and ate 38 hot dogs in 2004 Nathan’s.

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Sonya Thomas has apologized for her conduct following the meatball contest, restored her website and made a commitment to compete in Wing Bowl 15.

update Don “Moses” Lerman has a comment about Sonya’s apology on his blog.

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Trophy Central is selling trophies specifically designed for victors of eating contests.

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Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota and Tomoko Miyake are endorsing a garment called the turbocell. The turbocell looks like bike shorts, but its manufacturer claims that it raises body temperature and makes weight loss easier.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has uploaded a segment from Food Network’s “Unwrapped” about the 2004 pickle eating contest held at the Carnegie Deli at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9yONbnC3_s Winner Ed “Cookie” Jarvis, Don “Moses” Lerman, returning champion Brian Seiken and Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman are quoted and Kevin Lipsitz, Badlands Booker and Joe Menchetti appear in the background.

Skinnyboy has also uploaded a Food Network segment about the Hardee’s Thickburger to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a68SrzBiHhY

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(From R Suzuki) Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s Wednesday morning contest has been uploaded to youtube. Part 1, Part 2. Instead of competing against Nobuyuki Shirota, she faced a 3 person team in a shish kebab contest. The three person team rallied at the end to defeat the Gal 81 skewers to 80, winning them a prize of 100,000 Yen. ($851.57)

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(Thanks Berenice Baker) The BBC blog has an entry about whether they should have covered last month’s mince pie eating contest. The entry currently has 19 comments one of which reads:

By covering it, you endorse it? Rubbish. All this worrying and fussing is silly. I have a very hard time indeed believing that, after seeing the piece, any child would think “I know! I’ll try shoving several packs of mince pies in my mouth, too!” Kids aren’t going to get fat because of coverage of mince pie eating competitions. It’s the equivalent of suggesting that, after watching a football match, a fat child will suddenly be inspired to lose all their excess weight and go and play football. If that was the case, all we’d have to do is shove fat children in front of “Sky Sports” and the problem would be solved.

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Jason “Erbivore” Erb’s girlfriend Laura has a gallery of her boyfriend’s recent contests in her myspace blog

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NYMag.com has a blog entry with some good pictures of last month’s turkey eating contest.

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Todd “The Butler” Yeates, who competed in the Arizona Fry Bread contest and the Posole contest, has started a blog at http://toddthebutleryeates.blogspot.com/ with galleries of those two contests.

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(from rvs889) AICE news reports that “Skinny” Scott Soifer and Dominick “Doginator” Cardo have both retired. Both Soifer & Cardo were originally members of the IFOCE. Soifer finished second in the infamous 2004 matzo ball contest and Cardo won the beef tongue contest in the 2002 Glutton Bowl. Let’s congratulate them on their competitive careers and wish them the best in their post-eating lives.

updatedDon “Moses” Lerman got 2nd in the 2004 matzo ball contest and Soifer was 3rd. The database has been corrected.

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With Micah “Wing Kong” Collins qualifying for the Wing Bowl by eating 3 lb 5.33 oz of baked beans in 43 or 48 seconds on Wednesday, I thought I would see how that performance compared to IFOCE record times for other amounts of baked beans:

Micah Collins 53.33 oz / (43 or 48 sec) = 1.24 oz / sec or 1.11 oz. /sec
Dale Boone 84 oz / 82 sec = 1.02 oz. / sec
Don Lerman 96 oz / 108 sec = .889 oz. / sec
Sonya Thomas 134.4 oz / 167 sec = .805 oz. / sec (thanks Luther)

The last two performances are in the IFOCE records. Dale Boone’s best performance is usually listed as 84 oz. in 1:52, but he ate that amount in 1:22 in Dawsonville, GA.

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ibnlive.com reports that Kurian “Theeta” Rappai of Thrissur, India died Saturday morning. The English translation of “Theeta” is big eater and he earned his nickname by forcing restaurants to drop their all you can eat specials. The article claims that Rappai once ate 15kg (33 lb.) of pudding in one meal. Reports of Rappai’s age vary. ibnlive says he was 65 while newindpress claims he was 63. Rappai retired from big eating this summer due to diabetes and other health issues. sarathc’s father knew Rappai and he describes the time Rappai exacted revenge on a buffet that charged prices different from what was listed on the menu.

updated The Peninsula has an article about Rappai stating he was 67. The life expectancy for Indians is 60 – 61 years.

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Don “Moses” Lerman reports that his foot tumor was successfully removed yesterday, but he will be off his feet for the next two weeks. Analysis on whether the tumor is cancerous or begign is upcoming.

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Controlled Labs, a bodybuilding supplement company, has sponsored eating contests for hard boiled eggs and cans of tuna. What makes their contests unique is they do not take place in a central location. Instead, competitors record their efforts and upload videos of their performances to youtube or Google video. A clock must be visible in the video at all times. Videos of the winning performances, 12 hardboiled eggs in a minute and 6.75 cans of tuna in 3 minutes are available on line. The company is currently seeking ideas for the food to be used in its third eating contest. Winners receive a year’s supply of Black Hole, an appetite enhancer that suppresses the impulse to feel full after eating a large meal.

The connections between bodybuilding and competitive eating are stronger than an outside observer would expect. Not only is Kobayashi an avid bodybuilder, several other top eaters including Tim Janus, Bob Shoudt and Chip Simpson are into weightlifting as well. It would be interesting to see if Sonya Thomas working out with weights would improve her eating ability.

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