Youtube has a funny short film about a fictional turkey eating challenge at http://youtube.com/watch?v=ATgdFR_15w4

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The Manchester Evening news reports that the “World Pie Eating Championship”, held at Harry’s Bar in Wallgate has altered its rules to appease the health lobby. The contest format was originally an eat all you can in 3 minutes, but now the winner will be the eater who can eat a single meat pie in the fastest amount of time. A vegetarian pie eating contest was also added.

This is a different contest from the IFOCE endorsed mince pie eating contest that will be held a week from now.

updated this is London and metro.co.uk also have articles

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Jason “Erbivore” Erb will also be appearing on “1 vs. 100”

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Duhneese had El Toro Jimenez as her hotel bellman when she stayed in Las Vegas. She said that El Toro claimed he would appear on the game show “1 vs. 100” in December.

This will make two NBC IFOCE appearances in about a month which is surprising since the IFOCE contests are on ABC/ESPN. Kobayashi appeared on Saturday Night Live recently.

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If you would like competitive eating themed art in a size larger than a magnet, Super Paul Bonebreaker Barlow has prints for sale of “The Last Supper”, “The Whaler” and a self portrait.

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(from R Suzuki) A website called “Gal Sone’s Love Mayo Diary” recently opened to promote her appearance in an eating contest sponsored by Aoki’s Pizza. The restaurant is offering a mayonnaise pizza in her honor. There is also a slideshow of her personal appearance at Aoki’s Pizza

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(From Brian Seiken) A preview clip of Crazy Legs Conti’s upcoming appearance on Beautiful Brian’s TV show has been uploaded to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsV_v8xlcHA A shirtless Tim Janus makes a cameo. The clip can also be viewed at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/page16.html

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Helen Haggerty has started a blog at helenhaggerty.blogspot.com with a short contest report. She is already looking forward to her next contest, so hopefully we will avoid a situation where an impressive competitive eating debut is followed by immediate retirement. Ms. Haggerty claims that playing college field hockey is responsible for her impressive performance.

Before this extended weekend started, you probably would not have expected that two novice women would win prizes in eating contests and both would be recent Seven Sisters graduates who competed in sports. Gretchen Salyer was a member of the Harvard / Radcliffe crew team.

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John Stossel’s segment from Friday’s 20/20 about the controversial nursing outfits for the Heart Attack Grill’s waitresses can be viewed at http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2662274

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The episode of Cheap Seats using footage from the 2004 Nathan’s finals will be rerun at 4pm eastern on ESPN Classic. Cheap Seats will not appear on ESPN Classic after tomorrow, so this is your last chance to see it.

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If Yao Wing intends to compete in Wing Bowl 15, he should probably update yaowing.com, or at least remove the cartoon on the home page, before he attempts his stunt.

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(from kmikeym) A set of the magnets of the 2006 Nathan’s finalists made by Liz & Krista and praised by Kobayashi are for sale on ebay. The funds will go towards Liz’s travel expenses to cover contests, so the more you bid, the more contest writeups will appear on urbanhonking.com

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The Heart Attack Grill reports that it will be the subject of John Stossel’s “Give Me a Break” segment on 20/20 tonight. 20/20 will start at 9pm instead of the usual 10pm airtime.

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A brief clip of the competitive eating category in Jeopardy with an answer about Cookie Jarvis can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_Ny7qc7V0

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With the biggest Canadian eating contest this weekend, I reposted the start of a blog entry that was originally on the Montreal Expos website in 2002. The blog entry describes a public access cable show on Ottawa cable that starred a woman named Celeste who would eat a large meal during the broadcast. The entry is in all probability a joke, but in the minor chance it was an actual program, I thought I would see if anyone had any additional information about it.

The start of the blog entry is after the jump
Read the rest of this entry »

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(from urbanhonking.com/liz comment) YesButNoButYes has a page with at least 10 eating contest youtube videos embedded in it. Both IFOCE and independent contests are represented. There is a clip of Ian Hickman at the Whoopie Pie Eating Contest that I had not seen before.

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The Heart Attack Grill announces that the ABC News program 20/20 will have a segment about that restaurant on Friday.

In other Heart Attack Grill news, “Nurse” Caterina defeated a radio DJ in a Quadruple Bypass Burger eating contest. Could “Nurse” Caterina be the successor to Carlene LeFevre as the Queen of the Southwestern competitive eating?

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As far as I can tell, these are the most viewed competitive eating videos on youtube as of November 15

Gal Sone 40,000 calories, 319K views
Kobayashi – SNL TV Funhouse 122K views
Kobayashi vs. Bear, 99K views
Gal Sone vs. Shirota 6Kg curry, 85K views
End of 2004 Nathan’s finals 56K views
Kobayashi vs. Takako Akasaka Food Battle Club, 37K views
Kobayashi – Coffee Milk, Food Battle Club, 36K
Kobayashi at US Open, 28K views
Entirety of 2006 Nathan’s finals, 26K views
Gal Sone vs Shirota – 5kg udon, 23K views

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Video footage from the 2004 NC State Fair Sweet Potato Casserole Eating Contest can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3yyOq4DTE Sonya Thomas won the contest, but she only makes an extremely brief appearance in the film.

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(from slashfood) The BBC reports that The Institute of Food Research have built a stomach simulator to enable better understanding of the human digestion process. There is no word on whether the artificial stomach will participate in the mince pie eating competition later this month.

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competitiveeatingnews.com says that it is “very likely” that heartburn remedy Axia 3 will sponsor the 2006 Thanksgiving Invitational. Previous Thanksgiving invitationals have been held in New York City, but the food changed from year to year.

Crazy Legs Conti will appear at an amateur wing eating contest at the Wingery in Covington, LA, on Thursday, the first Lousiana IFOCE event since Katrina.

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Google Video has footage of the 2004 Pumpkin Pie Eating contest, won by Eric “Badlands” Booker at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2212699343578141015

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Last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live had a cartoon about Kobayashi in Robert Smigel’s TV Funhouse that can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=4hkq6Qn0nQY The cartoon had a live action segment which Kobayashi describes the filming of in a blog entry. William “Refrigerator” Perry is the only person who has competed in an IFOCE contest besides Kobayashi to appear in the clip.

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Brian Seiken has a new television show out and his guest is Eric “Badlands” Booker.

In other Badlands news, the preview for Hungry & Focused III on IFOCE.com says that Badland’s son Brandon (seen on Wife Swap) will perform on it.

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In a youtube video, Natsuko “Gal” Sone eats a mountain of curry and 75 pudding cups (after aiming for 100), then gets an ultrasound examination with a full stomach.

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