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Liz (without Krista who is currently in China) will cover Saturday’s crabcake contest in Baltimore for Urban Honking’s Digest. Liz also has a photo gallery of Ryan Nerz’s reading at Barnes & Noble.
(Thanks Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough & Tube Sock Destroyer) The May issue of Jane Magazine (page 140) has an article (not available online) about Sonya Thomas which also includes an account of reporter Claudine Ko’s training for and participation in the Krystal Square Off finals (via a sponsor’s exemption). The article has a picture of “Sister X” wearing her brother’s trademark makeup.
The Opie & Anthony (& Pat Philbin) radio show will be simulcast on free radio in seven (mainly northeastern) markets from 6am to 9am eastern starting Wednesday, April 26, replacing David Lee Roth’s talk show. The duo will air two uncensored hours solely on the XM satellite network from 9 to 11.
A video clip of “The Gal” can be seen at http://www.ntv.co.jp/news/asx_dai2/060418037_300k.asx as part of a segment in which three females attempt eating challenges. “The Gal” appears at the two and a half minute mark and eats 8 pounds of noodles with chopsticks in 15 minutes. The other challenges are fried rice and shisk-kebabs.
In other Gal news, she did a hamburger eating contest at a slot machine hall and ate 5 Mack hamburgers (short for McDonald’s ?) in a minute, showing speed eating ability for the first time. There was a separate contest for men in which Nobuyuki Shirota (translated as white rice field) won by eating 10 hamburgers in 3 minutes.
The Daily Show website has an online video of Ryan Nerz’s appearance Tuesday at http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=61778
Ryan Nerz has made available his chapter about Beautiful Brian and the 2004 Ohio watermelon contest that his editor excised from the final manuscript at http://eatthisbook.com/?page_id=38 If you are considering purchasing “Eat This Book,” that chapter provides a good sample of the style and content of the whole book.
Liz of Urban Honking’s Digest has moved her personal blog from blogspot to http://www.urbanhonking.com/liz/
Megamunch has a transcript of Ryan Nerz’s appearance on the Daily Show on Tuesday.
bloomberg.com reports that Bayer AG, makers of Alka Seltzer, have severed ties with IFOCE and will not sponsor the 2006 US Open of Competitive Eating or any other future eating contests. Bayer’s US marketing executives apparently wanted to continue the sponsorship, but were vetoed by headquarters in Germany.
The episode (“Stranger Searching”) of the Japanese cartoon Samurai Champloo featuring an eating contest is available online at the Cartoon Network’s adult swim website. The contest is won by a European, so it is like the inverse of Kobayashi at Coney Island. The announcer of the contest employs Shea-style rhetoric. The episode is only available this week, so view it soon if you have any desire to see it.
speedeat.com has been updated after a one month hiatus. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti downplays (but does not explicitly deny) reports that he has returned to AICE and says he does not intend to compete in an AICE event before the pickle contest on May 24. However, all the AICE contests in which he is listed as an expected entrant on the AICE news page are after that date.
The video game version (for the PS2 only) of the anime cartoon Samurai Champloo has a mini-game in which the character Fuu competes in a snow cone eating contest (screen capture). This is the first instance of an eating contest in a store-bought video game that I am aware of.
Ryan Nerz’s appearance received good reviews on this forum thread about the Daily Show.
Salon has an interview with Ryan Nerz. (You have to watch a commercial to read the whole article)
(From The Tube Sock Destroyer) The current edition of Entertainment Weekly has mini-book reviews of the two competitive eating books which award a grade of B+ to “Eat This Book” and A- to “Horsemen of the Esophagus.”
There is a new book out called “Insatiable” which might be why the title of Jason Fagone’s book was changed.
“Eat This Book” author and IFOCE MC Ryan Nerz will appear on the Daily Show on Comedy Central at 11 pm eastern tonight. If you miss the episode, it will be replayed at 1 am, 10 am, 2 pm, and 8 pm tomorrow (all times eastern)
The Philadelphia Daily News has a short article about “Horsemen of the Esophagus” author Jason Fagone.
This translated blog entry says that the “Gluttonous Queen” contest broadcast on TV Tokyo April 2 received good television ratings. Hopefully this will result in more eating contests broadcast on Japanese television, including contests in which Americans compete.
If you are curious how Eric “Badlands” Booker managed to upset Sonya Thomas at the Buffalo Wing Festival last year, cluckbucket.com has detailed information on his personal wing eating technique along with over a dozen other wing eating styles.
Brian Seiken has emailed me that there is a divergence of opinion regarding who controls entry into next month’s United Pickle eating contest at the Carnegie Deli. United Pickle, the contest sponsor, has given control of the contest field to Cookie Jarvis and Brian Seiken while the owner of the Carnegie Deli believes he will decide who will compete. Seiken says that he and Jarvis will not compete if any AICE members are entered and they are expecting other IFOCE members to honor their boycott.
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The eigth episode of Brian Seiken’s TV show, featuring Tim Janus, is now available. “Eater X” appears in studio and phone calls from the audience are taken for the first time. Janus offers information about the conflict with Dale Boone at the US Open and says that MTV is producing a sequel to its documentary about competitive eaters. A commercial of Badlands Booker at IHOP (which had virtually no audio on my computer) and a phone interview with Brian’s nephew who is a star of an MTV2 show are also displayed.
Ryan Nerz’s hometown paper, The (Columbus, IN) Republic, has an interview with the author of “Eat This Book.”
There is also a podcast of Nerz’s appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio (The Nerz segment starts at 40:00). Nerz mentions that Tim Janus has left his Wall Street job (perhaps to pursue whaling full time?)
The party for “Eat This Book” will apparently be on May 3.
Liz K attended Love Ahoy (a live “Dating Game” parody) last night which featured a hot dog contest overseen by Crazy Legs Conti and has a writeup on her blog. Eaters were judged by style and not speed or amount.
Liz also emailed me that urban honking has a map of the country with all the upcoming IFOCE contests using the platial.com website.
Pat Bertoletti has emailed me that Tuesday’s Teachers episode on NBC had a Teacher’s Olympics, in which one of the events was a hot dog contest won by a slender Asian-American woman. “According to Jim” and “Gray’s Anatomy” are other shows in which a Sonya Thomas based character has appeared in an episode.
People who are waiting for a fictional competitive eating movie to be completed do not need to wait for “The El Wingador Story” to be finished. The Gloucester Daily Times reports that a short film based on the Salem Witch Trials, “Gluttonous G. Goforth”, in which the defendant is a female competitive eater was produced in under 48 hours.
PETA has put out a press release announcing that a protest will be held during the Nathan’s qualifier in Sunrise, Florida. The anti-animal cruelty group is also calling on Nathan’s to produce a meatless hot dog. Time will tell if PETA’s protest is more successful that Clarence Mertz’s efforts to stop the Sheboygan Bratfest contest.
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| 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 |
