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A list of every IFOCE eater to win money after July 5 is available after the jump:
Versus (formerly OLN) will broadcast a barbecuing contest. The competition will be in the format of a multiround tournament. You would think if they can show competitive cooking, they can also televise competitive eating.
An article about the Toyota Scion in today’s Wall Street Journal says that Toyota intends to drastically reduce television advertising for that brand and focus more on event marketing and branded entertainment. Toyota trucks sponsored an IFOCE contest at the Indiana State Fair and an IFOCE blurb said that several top IFOCE eaters drive Scions.
Some clips from last month’s Gluttonous King program are available at http://youtube.com/results?search_query=oogui&search=Search TV Tokyo will have the clips removed when they find out about it, so what it soon if you are interested.
(from Wing Tut) The Heart Attack Grill’s controversy with nursing advocates made CNN and can be viewed online at: http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/us/2006/11/09/beyer.heart.attack.grill.knxv
The clip originally appeared on local news and can be downloaded (along with another local news clip) at http://nursingadvocacy.org/press/coverage/profiles.html#heart_attack
Happy Birthday to SupersizedMeals.com The website is celebrating with Meatcake Week from Nov 6-12.
(From R Suzuki) Gal Sone takes a break from competing with Shirota in her weekly contest to take on the “Atrocious Alliance”, a group of four people dressed like wrestlers in a sushi restaurant with a conveyor belt. Only one member of the alliance can eat at a time.
Newly ranked eaters:
20. Chris Abatsas
31. Paul Sakelarides
34. Juris Shibayama
37. Juliet Lee
40. Pete Davekos
46. Molly Zakarian
48. Donovan Busta (previously ranked)
50. Mike Nafziger (previously ranked)
Dropping out of previous ranking:
9. Eric “Badlands” Booker (officially retired)
22. Ron Koch (competed at Reno ribs)
23. Bryan Miller (competed in Jacksonville qualifier)
28. Don Lerman (officially retired)
32. Levi Oliver
46. Eddie Hardy
47. Eric Broe
48. Nathan Kunce
Ranked eaters with no contests in database from July 5 – present:
40. Pete Davekos
41. Kevin Lipsitz
Unranked moneywinners
“Mongo” Marquez – 3rd place green chile grilled cheese
(From Castro Intestinal) New IFOCE rankings were released today. The top 10 are:
1. Takeru Kobayashi
2. Joey Chestnut
3. Patrick Bertoletti
4. Sonya Thomas
5. Bob Shoudt
6. ChipBurger Simpson
7. Timothy Janus
8. Richard LeFevre
9. Arturo Rios, Jr.
10. Seaver Miller
(from iht.com) The web page for the mince pie eating contest to be held at Wookey Hole Caves can be found at http://www.wookey.co.uk/bigeat/ Sonya Thomas is definitely an expected entrant.
A gallery of Kobayashi at the lobster roll eating contest at the Phantom Gourmet Festival in Boston which I just discovered can be viewed at http://flickr.com/photos/travelingrhinos/sets/72157594301121345/
(This is not competitive eating related, but I thought it was too cool not to share)
(From Tuesday Morning Quarterback) Everyone reading this blog can be found on the small blue green dot between Saturn’s rings (as far as I know).
This picture was taken by the Cassini probe. Click on either picture to see the full sized photgraph.
Dave “Megamunch” Shoffner has added an online comic about an office worker venturing into the world of competitive eating. This website is the topic of the current strip.
El Toro’s pictures of the Fry Bread contest at the Arizona State Fair can be viewed at Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane’s flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lookatthis/sets/72157594364360900/
Adweek reports that the “Mr. Hot Dog Eating Contest Contestant” ad won a prize at the London International Awards for copywriting in the radio ads category.
Newsday reports that 2nd quarter earnings for Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs declined to $1.8 million from $3.1 million in 2005. No explanation for the decrease is provided in the article. Nathan’s did say that earning from continuing operations increased 14.1 percent to $1.5 million. Buisnesswire has more details about Nathan’s results.
updated Bob Shoudt says that the drop in Nathan’s non-continuing earnings is due to the sale of a parcel of land in 2005 and 2006.
A clip from a program about supersized entrees served by Japanese restaurants is available on youtube. Some meals are served in conventionally sized bowls with messy results. The construction of a Japanese megaburger weighing 2.7 kg (6 lb) and costing 3675 Yen ($31) is displayed. Natsuko “Gal” Sone, Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Takako Akasaka make a cameo in which they attempt a large bowl of noodles.
Updated R Suzuki has a blog entry about the telecast, which was apparently part of a quiz show. The Monster Cafe is the restaurant where the BIG baga can be purchased.
Berenice (Brazen) Baker has sent me the following request:
I’m a UK-based journalist and I’m planning an article that I hope will
promote a very positive image of competitive eating and also appeal to
people who wouldn’t normally read about the sport. I’d be very grateful if
you could put the word out on EatFeats for people to email me their
experiences.Scheduled for the early months of 2007 when people might be slipping away
from their New Year’s resolutions, I want to talk about how people can
recover from overeating and return to healthy habits without feeling that
they’ve irretrievably fallen off the wagon. Who better than competitive
eaters to give advice about recovering from overindulgence?
Super Paul Bonebreaker Barlow Jr. has a gallery from Krystal Square Off III and the post party.
(Thanks Mike Wooldridge) There was a competitive eating records category on Thursday night’s episode of Jeopardy. The clues for that column can be seen at the Jeopardy archive for November 2. (If anyone recorded that show, a clip of its competitive eating questions would be appreciated) The 5 answers were about the feats of Rich LeFevre, Oleg Zhornitskiy, Cookie Jarvis, Sonya Thomas and Buffalo Jim Reeves.
The official IFOCE rankings have not been updated since sometime in July. It is obvious that Joey should retain #2 and reasonably clearcut that Pat should move to #3 if only results from the second half of 2006 are taken into account. Positions #4-#7 are more debatable. To assist in deterning these slots, I have listed the head to head results of eaters currently ranked #3-#8 for post-Nathan’s contests. Click on the results to see the breakdown.
Sonya 2 Pat 2
Sonya 0 Bob 2 Tie 1
Sonya 1 Tim 2
Sonya 1 Chip 2
Sonya 4 Rich 1
Pat 3 Bob 0
Pat 2 Tim 0
Pat 2 Chip 0
Pat 5 Rich 1
Bob 4 Tim 0
Bob 1 Chip 4
Bob 2 Rich 0
Tim 0 Chip 3 Tie 1
Tim 5 Rich 0
Chip 2 Rich 0
Combining all these results gives the following records:
Pat 14-3 .824
Chip 11-4-1 .733
Bob 9-7-1 .563
Sonya 8-9-1 .471
Tim 7-10-1 .412
Rich 2-18 .100
Ernie attended the Krystal Square Off finals and wrote a blog entry and recorded the last 39 seconds of it from the audience.
The Sonya Thomas tribute video produced by Brian Seiken is now available at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/engine.html
Metacafe has a clip of a 20 foot sushi roll eating contest between Takako Akasaka and Misao Fujita that was held in a bowling alley. A brief segment of that contest appeared in Takako Akasaka’s career highlights video which was available for a short time on youtube. The contest has narration in English, but the narrator provides nothing but insults.
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 |
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