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

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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.

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(Thanks Pad Thai Princess) The Pad Thai Princess / Foodie Fashionista has an account of her interview / date with Pat Bertoletti on her blog.

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Pat Bertoletti 177
Rich LeFevre 155
Jed Donahue 144
Erik the Red Denmark 107
Jim Reeves 73

Results match up with an IFOCE contest report which says the contest was 15 minutes (the preview said it would be 12)

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Liz and Krista’s report from the Three Brothers Pizza eating contest has been uploaded to truefan. A flickr gallery of the contest is also available.

Some observations from that writeup:

Juliet Lee claims that she can eat more than Sonya Thomas. Like Sonya, she believes her forte is non bready foods which do not require much chewing.

Pat Bertoletti will appear (or might have appeared already) on “Attack of the Show” on G4/Tech TV sometime this week.

Andrew Lane also competed in the contest and has some reports and pictures on his blog.

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from beautifulbrian.com:

Three Bro’s Pizza Results
1. Pat B 19 slices
2. Chip Simpson 17 slices
3. Bob Shoudt 15 slices
4. Larry Mcneill 13 slices
5. Brian Subich 12 slices
6, Allen Goldstein 11 slices
7 Pat Philbin 11
Rest of the field ?????

Each pie based on 8 slice 16” pie

Brian Seiken has also started the fall season of his video podcasts with a show featuring Joe LaRue

(From Luther) Sonya Thomas did not do a hometown contest because she is doing a contest in Hong Kong this weekend (.doc file)

Updated 10:02 pm – steakbellie fan Wendy Scherer attended the contest and wrote a blog entry about it. The winner of the amateur contest was a woman (maybe megamunch’s friend the Pizza Princess”) who ate 11 slices in ten minutes.

Updated 8/13 4:38 pm – The Washington Post has an article with a picture and information about the amateur winner, Juliet Lee, who said she was inspired by Sonya Thomas. Like “The Black Widow”, Ms. Lee is 39 years old and about 5’4″ and 105 lb.

WTOP radio has an AP article about the contest

Updated 8/14 12:45 am – megamunch has a blog entry and gallery of the contest

Updated 8/16 12:40 pm – steakbellie has a blog entry and gallery of the contest

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The goldenpalace.net events website has a writeup of Saturday’s rhubarb pie contest and a video from the Today show.

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(From Minot Daily News)

Goldenpalace.net World Rhubarb Pie Eating Competition, North Dakota State Fair
1. Pat Bertoletti, Chicago, 8 pounds, $1500, 2nd pie title (Key Lime) of year
2. Donovan Busta, Denver 2.5 pies, $550
2T. Douglas Plenuk, Butte 2.5 pies $550
4. Mike Crouse, Bismarck, ND $400

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The current edition of The Chicago Reader has an excellent (and long) profile of Pat Bertoletti. The article includes an account of the assault on the Rockford Corner Bar’s chili dog record and calls Dale Boone “sort of Larry the Cable Guy of competitive eating”

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From IFOCE.com

Atlanta Zoo
1. Pat Bertoletti, 33 HDB
2. Sam Vise, 20 HDB
3. Dale Boone 18 HDB
4. Hall Hunt, 17.5 HDB

Daly City (suburban SF)
1. Jed Donahue, 19.5 HDB
2. Erik Denmark, 19 HDB
3. Ron Koch ?

The minor league baseball game in Long Island has been postponed, but the Nathan’s qualifier will still be held

Updated 9:15 Larry McNeil has posted some pictures in a buffet forum thread. Pat hung Boone in effigy. Here are some thumbnails of The Legend’s pictures:

Updated 6/25 7:09 am – BAE has a blog entry and some pictures on her myspace page

4:39 Mike Wooldridge has a flickr gallery of the San Francisco qualifier

5:27 Liz & Krista have a Jed Donahue interview up. Jed previously competed in the 1999 Nathan’s finals.

Updated June 26 12:25 am – Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough has uploaded two videos of the contest to youtube: Video #1, Video #2

6:32 pm – Urban Honking has an interview with Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough about the contest.

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Liz has an interview with Pat Bertoletti after he was upset by Chip in the Mall of America Nathan’s qualifer, who had the second-best American result (38 HDB) of all time.

updated 6/20 1:11 am – changed Chip Simpson to Pat Bertoletti

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Here are various links I have come across in the past month or so:

Erik Denmark radio interviews: June 2, June 5
Kevin Carr’s interview with Pat Bertoletti (about 50 minutes)

Interview with David “Brickhouse” Braunstein & Matt Streett before Baltimore crabcake contest
Las Vegas Sun preview of Nathan’s qualifier (has only Ron Koch quotes I am aware of)
2005 US Open of Competitive Eating writeups: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3-5
Rocky Mountain News column
Another Natsuko “Gal” Sone fan blog

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(Thanks Liz) Pat Bertoletti turns 21 today and will be fully able to enjoy Las Vegas when he competes in the grilled cheese contest this weekend.

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Liz and Krista have uploaded their writeups of last week’s pickle contest held at the Carnegie Deli and goldenpalace.net ice cream contest held at the Water Club in Manhattan.

Fixed 1:50 pm – Changed Brooklyn to Manhattan – Thanks Krista

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nbc30 has an article, gallery and video of Pat Bertoletti at Friday’s goldenpalace.net ice cream contest. The article confuses pounds with gallons.

ESPN displayed a very brief clip of Pat Bertoletti (1 second at most) at the goldenpalace.net ice cream eating contest was shown on the Monday night / Tuesday morning Sportcenter. There might have been a longer video on an earlier edition of sportscenter.

Pat Bertoletti was also named athlete of the week by a Saint Louis Post Dispatch columnist.

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Brian Seiken has a gallery and video clip and Krista has a gallery of Friday’s ice cream eating contest. Krista will have a report on the contest for urbanhonking/digest.

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The BBC website has an article and audio clip about Pat Bertoletti’s record setting performance at the goldenpalace.net ice cream eating contest yesterday.

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Marketwire has a press release listing the top four finishers in today’s ice cream eating contest. A video clip of the contest with brief interviews of Pat Bertoletti and Crazy Legs Conti is also available.

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from IFOCE.com

1) Pat Bertoletti 1.75 gallons
2) Crazy Legs Conti 1.5 gallons
3) Tim “Eater X” Janus 1.25 gallons

Pat almost doubles the previous IFOCE ice cream record of 1 gallon 9 oz. in 12 minutes set by Cookie Jarvis despite having only 8 minutes for his contest.

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(Thanks Joe Bertoletti) The Chicago Tribune has an in-depth interview with Pat Bertoletti. Pat says that his competitive eating career will end when he graduates. Pat’s mother is also interviewed.

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Some pictures of the Houston tamale contest (and the contest afterparty) have been posted to Pat Bertoletti’s myspace page.

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The University of Kansas student newspaper has a good article about competitive eating focusing on Pat Bertoletti. A gastroenterologist is also interviewed who says he would like to study the stomachs of competitive eaters in the hope of finding a treatment for dyspepsia.

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Thanks Jon Bertoletti. Pat Bertoletti appears in a commercial on the USA television network website. The ad is part of the network’s “Show us your character” campaign.

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From IFOCE.com Pat Bertoletti won his second contest in five days at the GoldenPalace.net World Key Lime Pie-Eating Championship. Bertoletti consumed 10.8 pounds of pie in 8 minutes. Tim Janus was the runner-up. Eric Broe, winner of yesterday’s contest for college students only, took third place ahead of Hall Hunt and Crazy Legs Conti.

The IFOCE press release mentions the contest as part of the GoldenPalace.net World Series of Competitive Eating, so the World Series is a term used to describe goldenpalace sponsored contests and not a new event.

Spring Fling Contests for jalapeno popper eating will be held in Tuscon, Arizona on April 7 and 8. Like the Spring Break contests, the earlier event will be open only to college students.

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Boston.com has an excellent and long article and photo gallery about Thursday’s corned beef contest (Thanks Rona Conti)

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