Pat Bertoletti’s twitter has the top 4 from this evening’s taco eating contest at Balmoral Park race track:

1 Pat Bertoletti 33 tacos
2 Tim Brown 28
3 Erik Denmark 25
4 Nate Biller 19

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Decider Chicago has a report on Saturday’s contest between Jimmy John’s sandwich makers and Pat Bertoletti, Hall Hunt, Tim Brown and Steven Dokho. update ChicagoFoodies has an interview with Pat Bertoletti and Hall Hunt.

update #2 Val Bromann has a blog entry and gallery about the contest.

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update #2 WCCO has video from the contest

update The top 3 from MLE via Crawfish

1 Pat Bertoletti 26
2 Mark Williams 13.5
3 Julie Dey 11

Julie Dey has the best female debut since Juliet Lee and is the 8th female with a 10+ HDB Nathan’s result according to the eatfeats database. The contest was her first according to a comment in a CityPages blog entry.

It is surprising Patrick Vandam did not compete.

George Shea reports that Pat Bertoletti won the Minnesota Nathan’s qualifier with 26 HDB. DeepDishEats confirms the total. Cold rain contributed to Bertoletti’s unexpectedly low amount.

In a startribune.com comment, someone claiming to have done 31 HDB says he will participate in the qualifier, which would probably be Patrick VanDam if accurate.

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unoffical Gyro results from Rich Shea, verified by Pat Bertoletti’s twitter
1 Pat Bertoletti 21 gyros
2 Bob Shoudtv16.5
3 Erik “the Red” Denmark 13.5

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update #5 Photocalpyse has a blog entry with some pictures

update #4 NBCChicago has an article

update #3 The top 5 from IFOCE.com & http://twitter.com/erikdenmark/
1 Pat Bertoletti 7 lbs 5.81 ozs.
2 Joey Chestnut in 7 lbs 2.81 ozs.
3 Eric “Badlands” Booker 5.0 lbs
4 Erik Denmark ?
5 Nate Biller ?

This ends Joey Chestnut’s 4 year winning streak at the Asparagus Festival

update #2 PodcastStockton has the first report: “And the winner is Patrick “Deep Dish” #asparagus. That’s a lot of asparagus! 7.581lbs in 10 minutes”

update http://twitter.com/PodcastStockton is also at the contest

Badlands Booker reports that he has arrived in California and finished the Burritozilla last night with a time of 5:15, so hopefully we will have real time contest updates on http://twitter.com/BadlandsBooker or http://twitter.com/erikdenmark

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The twitter for Kooky Kanuck (formerly Big Foot Lodge) reports that Pat Bertoletti will attempt the Kookamonga (formerly Sasquatch) burger challenge tonight at 8 pm (9 pm eastern). After completing the burger, he will attempt the 18 scoop Avalanche sundae.

update The Kooky Canuck twitter reports that Pat Bertoletti finished his Kookamonga burger in 7 minutes and 15 seconds, breaking Joey Chestnut’s previous record by 21 seconds.

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Pat Bertoletti now has a 4 contest corned beef contest streak dating back to early 2006 (2006 Arkansas, 2006 Boston, 2007 Savannah, 2009 NYC). The only people to have defeated Bertoletti in a corned beef contest are Cookie Jarvis and Molly Carey in a 2004 competition in Milwaukee.

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update #7 The Philadelphia City Paper has a blog entry about Bob Shoudt’s third place finish

update #6 March 17 NBC and CBS have local news videos

update #5(from NewYorkology) Vidiot has uploaded a gallery

update #4 GiggleSugar has some pictures

update #3 The New York Post has an article and full results are available on IFOCE (from comment)

update #2 A twitter update from George Shea announces that Pat Bertoletti wins the contest with 16.75 sandwiches in 10 minutes. The top 5
1. Pat Bertoletti, 16.75 sandwiches
2. Joey Chestnut 15.5
3. Bob Shoudt 13
4. Tim Janus 12.5
5. Hall Hunt 11.25

Please place comments about today’s corned beef sandwich eating contest held at Gallagher’s Steakhouse in this thread. 5 of the IFOCE top 7 will compete according to an anonymous comment:

Pat Bertoletti Joey Chestnut Juliet Lee Eric Booker Hall Hunt Bob Shoudt Brian Seiken Tim Janus Crazy Legs Conti ?????????

UpdateGeorge Shea has started providing updates from the contest site at http://twitter.com/gcshea. Vidiot is also twittering from the contest site.

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The twitter for KookyCanuck reports that Pat Bertoletti will attempt to break Joey Chestnut’s record of 7:36 for the Kookamunga Challenge on March 20.

The Memphis restaurant is also developing a 12 pound burger and a burger with pizzas as buns.

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• Asparagus contest at the Stockton, CA Asparagus festival returns April 25
• Video of Pat Bertoletti completing a 29 inch pizza in 34 minutes without assistance. The pizza is probably from Barlo’s Pizza in Indianapolis
• Man vs. Food Merchandise page with 3 t-shirts and a food journal (The graphic on the right is one of the t-shirt designs)
• The LA Times reports that the Los Angeles challenge on Man vs. Food will be the spicy ramen called Special #2 at Orochon Ramen and the other foods will be the French Dip sandwich at Phillipe the Original and the Manuel Special burrito at El Tepeyac
• The Cherry Cricket will be another Denver Man vs. Food location
• ESPN.com clip of Kobayashi’s fruitcake record clip
• Chicago chili contest January 31
• Pie eating contest on UK Big Brother in honor of Obama’s inauguration

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Pat Bertoletti commented that he ate the 5 pound Burritozilla at Iguana’s Taqueria in San Jose in 1 minute and 41 seconds, breaking Joey Chestnut’s record. (Joey Chestnut may have since regained the record). Pat’s Burritozilla mark is included on the list of eating challenge results on deepdisheats.com which includes feats such as the 40 inch pizza (with a partner) at the Pizza Machine and the Tex-ass doughnut from Voodoo doughnuts in Portland, OR in 23 seconds which have not received much media attention.

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