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The London (Ontario, CA) Free Press reports that an unnamed woman is in critical condition after choking at a mouth stuffing contest at the Western Fair. The objective of the contest was to stuff as many marshmellows as possible at one time into one’s mouth. Paramedics were apparently not present during the contest and had to be called in. This is the second tragic incident at a Canadian contest; a man died in a wing eating contest in Regina in 2004.
Domenico Alesi has started a blog at http://domenicothesicilian.blogspot.com/
The new poll asks who you think was the top eater who did not compete in any IFOCE contests from July 5, 2005 to July 4, 2006.
Bloomberg.com reports that billionaire dissident investor Nelson Peltz was elected to the Heinz board of directors. Peltz wants Heinz to market more actively and said the company should spend $200,000 to cosponsor Nathan’s hot dog eating contest. One other Peltz ally was elected to the board. Peltz had hoped to gain five seats on the twelve person board.
A clip of Kate Stelnick on the Tony Danza show has been uploaded to youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LgSirXON1g Her waistline offers absolutely no evidence that it contained 10+ pounds of cheeseburger the previous week.
Domenico Alesi has uploaded a gallery of pictures from the Nugget Rib contest in Reno last month.
Liz & Krista have written a summary of competitive eating highlights of August & early September. I am extremely flattered that they would make an actual “Trenchy” award.
Happy third birthday to beautifulbrian.com
Pat Bertoletti should appear on Regis & Kelly in a few minutes (eastern time zone)
Update 10:41 am – Pat broke the record for ice cream eaten in 30 seconds by eating 13.5 ounces. The previous record was 9.5. Brian Seiken will host the video on his site and Pat’s appearance has yet to be broadcast in the Pacific and Mountain time zones.
Update 9/8 12:07 am – Brian Seiken has uploaded a video clip to http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/lerm.html
Jon Bertolletti emailed me that his brother Pat will appear on the Regis & Kelly show tomorrow and will probably try to break his ice cream record. The show usually comes on at 9am on ABC, but I am not sure if it is on at that time in all cities.
In her latest blog entry, Liz of urbanhonking says she is moving to Denver at the end of the month. Hopefully her move will not mean the end of her competitive eating writing career. There are currently more upcoming southwestern contests than northeastern ones.
(from megamunch) Two residents of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada have set up a blog devoted to their upcoming road trip to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA at http://thebigburgerblog.blogspot.com/. They hope to leave on September 14 and reach Clearfield on the 16th where they will attempt Ye Olde 96er. Two other voyagers have been added to the travel party, but they might be looking for additional passengers so you might want to send them an email if you want to join the expedition and live in New Brunswick or New England.
The first round of the 2005 “Gluttonous King” contest televised on TV Tokyo has been uploaded to youtube. Natsuko “Gal” Sone avoided elimination by eating 6 grams more of bread than Miyuki Iwata.
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane caught a rerun of Carlene LeFevre on Food TV’s Unwrapped (originally broadcast in 2004) and managed to record the bulk of her segment and upload the clip.
Hall Hunt has a new nickname and blog at http://hallhooverhunt.blogspot.com/
azcentral.com has a preview of this weekend’s college football games which says that Eric “Badlands” Booker will do a wing eating contest against students before the University of Buffalo game against Temple. The two teams combined to go 1-21 last season.
Booker has a statement on his retirement on his myspace blog. He says that his third album is expected around Thanksgiving and it will include the anti-AICE track.
Joey Chestnut appeared on Adam Corolla’s radio show yesterday. This blog entry has a recap of his appearance. The blog says that there will be yet another rib contest in September.
The Columbus Dispatch has a review of “This Is Not Chick Lit,” a collection of short stories by female authors. The reviewer has the following comments on one of the short stories in that book:
Most delightfully surprising is The Seventy-two-Ounce Steak Challenge by Dika Lam, who has published only a few short stories in small magazines. Her touching and hilarious story follows two Chinese-Canadian sisters on a working vacation in Calgary, Alberta, where one of them starts down the path that will take her into becoming “the champion you know and love — winner of the International Matzo-Ball-Eating Contest, title-holder of the Conch Fritter Invitational, the girl who downed nine sticks of butter in five minutes.”
A review in econoculture says that Ms. Lam is working on extending her short story into a novel.
While two competitive eating movie projects will not reach the theaters until at least 2007, “Beerfest”, a movie in which an American beer drinking team tries to win a German contest, opens today. gwinnettdailypost.com reports that one of the drinking team members is also a competitive eater.
The new poll asks what your opinion on the best competitive eating television program originally televised between July 5, 2005 and July 4, 2006.
The Big Texan steakhouse in Amarillo, TX, famous for its 72 ounce steak challenge, has updated its website hosted at bigtexan.com. Unfortunately, the online database of steak finishers is no longer available at that URL (It had not been updated since early 2005). The database can still be viewed at http://www.houseofapps.com/bigtexan/view.php
Footage from the “Glutton Bowl”, which originally aired on Fox in 2002, has been uploaded to youtube. The contents include Kobayashi setting the record for eating cow brains in his first US prime time appearance. There is also a brief clip of Don “Moses” Lerman setting his butter eating record and Eric “Badlands” Booker setting the pre-Sonya record for hard boiled eggs.
Larry “the Legend” McNeil updated his rankings of the top 20 eaters on Saturday in his myspace blog. His top 5:
1. Joey Chestnut
2. Sonya Thomas
3. Pat Bertoletti
4. Bob Shoudt
5. Chip Simpson
Brian Seiken has a written a history of “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti’s post-IFOCE career and speedeat.com.
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 |