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Food Truck 50 calls the walking taco and Alberto sandwich from Glutton Force Five, the food truck operated by Pat Bertoletti and Time Brown, "the best food I have tasted from a Chicago truck.".
Pat Bertoletti has posted a video of him cooking corn dogs coated with macaroni & cheese (recipe link)
The Dhuff & Nasty show announces that 'Matt (sic) "Deep Dish" Bertoletti" will appear on tomorrow's episode on 1450thesportsbuz.com.
Several of the 1st Look segements about restaurants' eating challenges can be viewed on the program's website, including Matt Cohen's attempt at the Chunk-N-Chip Tower. The segment where Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown attempted a sandwich challenge has not been posted, but a 15 second promo of their apperance is available.
An episode of First Look where Ali Fedotowsky and others attempt several restaurants' eating challenges will be televised on NBC tonight after Saturday Night Live. update Feb 17 Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown appeared on the episode and attempted the Po Boy sandwich challenge at Phil's Last Stand (facebook gallery | instagram | promo video)
Pat Bertoletti defends Showboat King Cake title
update Feb 14 NJ.com has an article and slideshow
Examiner also has an article and slideshow
update NBC40 and Atlantic City Weekly have videos. Rake & Herald has a contest report.
The Showboat’s facebook has a picture
3:47 The top 3
6:48 Rest of the results Part 1 | Part 2
1) Pat Bertoletti 12 King Cakes
2) Sonya Thomas 10.5 King Cakes
3) Bob Shoudt 10 King Cakes
4T) Eric “Badlands” Booker 6.5
4T) Marcos Owens 6.5
4T) Yasir Salem 6.5
4T) Sean Gordon 6.5
8) Juan Rodriguez 6
9T) Crazy Legs Conti 5
9T) Larell Marie Mele 5
11) “Wild” Bill Myers 4
12) “The Eater” Nagengast 2.5
3:20 The contest has started
Examiner.com has a preview of the February 12 king cake eating contest at the Showboat in Atlantic City including an interview with Pat Bertolleti. Other expected entrants include Sonya Thomas, Bob Shoudt, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Sean Gordon, Micah "Wing Kong" Collins and Crazy Legs Conti. update The Asbury Park Press also has an interview with Pat Bertoletti. update Feb 7 Caesars.com also has an interview with Bertoletti.
Food Republic has a video where Pat Bertoletti demonstrates wing eating techniques.
“All You Can Eat” British documentary on youtube
All You Can Eat a documentary that was televised last week on the British channel ITV, can now be viewed on youtube. Featured competitive eaters include:
- Pat Bertoletti (shows a training session)
- Larell Marie (behind the scenes coverage of the Nathan’s finals)
- Hooters Finals sponsor’s exemption Lewis Richards (Hooters contest coverage labels finalist Nate Biller as “Nasty Nick” and calls Sonya Thomas the defending champion of the first-time event.)
- 72 year old Peter Dowdsewell (attempts 10 hard boiled eggs record)
Guyism has a video of Pat Bertoletti chugging a bottle of fish sauce.
Pat Bertoletti has received the most recent Alumni Spotlight on the facebook page for the Kendall College Alumni Assocation.
Palos.Patch.com has an article about Palos Heights, IL native Pat Bertoletti.
SouthtownStar reports that Pat Bertoletti finished the four pound prime rib & sides challenge at Jenny's Steak House & Pub in Chicago Ridge, IL in 8 minutes on Saturday. Amateur Michael Schifferdecker also finished the challenge in 56 minutes.
GQ Magazine competitive eating article available online
update Nov 1 NotoriousBob.net has a quote that did not appear in the article
update Oct 31 Some observations and links about the article follow:
- Ronson asserts that the 1916 origin story for Nathan’s hot dog eating contest is “(almost certainly) untrue”, which Mortimer Matz, Nathan’s promoter of the 1970s and 80s confirmed in a 2010 NY Times interview. The claim that the first contest took place on July 4, 1972 is incorrect; a contest was held on Memorial Day weekend of that year and a competition took place in 1967 to honor the centennial of the hot dog.
- 2009 is listed as the year of Takeru Kobayashi’s final IFOCE sanctioned contest. He competed against Joey Chestnut in a contest in Singapore in May 2010.
- Emcee Dave Keating says that the cupcakes used in the shortened cupcake contest were lighter than those used in 2011, which explains why 7th place finishers Maria “Edible” and Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco ate more in 6 minutes (48) than the previous year’s winner Tim Janus ate in 8 minutes (42). (Video of the contest).
If you need something to read due to Hurricane Sandy related disruptions, Jon Ronson’s article about competitive eating for the November 2012 issue of GQ is now available online. The article includes mini profiles of Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Matt Stonie, Bob Shoudt and Maria “Edible” and contains reports from the Nathan’s finals, TooJay’s corned beef sandwich eating contest, and a behind the scenes look at the shortened cupcake contest held at the Isle of Capri casino in Waterloo, Iowa where Bob Shoudt offered these thoughts on cheating:
“I’ve seen everything,” he says. “People throwing hot dogs under the table. People making the biggest messes you can imagine.”
My eyes widen. “So there’s such a mess under the table it’s impossible to determine what counts as an eaten thing?” I ask.
“Oh, there’s techniques,” says Bob. “People suddenly get happy feet.” He mimes an eater dropping an item of food and then covertly stamping it into the ground. I’m appalled. Cheating makes everything pointless. And then Bob confesses that—if need be—he will be one of those cheaters. When his wife is in the crowd, they use pre-arranged signals. “If the eaters are dropping stuff like crazy, she’ll give a meaningless cheer. I’ll understand. Suddenly the food gets very slippery for me.”
He gives me a look that says: Don’t judge me until you’ve walked in my shoes. Leave the Gandhi-like behavior to the fools who don’t mind losing to the cheaters.
The November issue of GQ has a (bottom of the) cover story about competitive eating by Jon Ronson, author of The Men Who Stare at Goats focusing on Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Matt Stonie and Maria "Edible". The article, which has yet to be uploaded, includes a behind the scenes look at April's truncated cupcake contest along with retirement considerations for Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti.
Pat Bertoletti vs. Matt Stonie head to head rankings
A list of head to head results for Pat Bertoletti and Matt Stonie follows after the jump. Matt Stonie has finished ahead of Pat Bertoletti in the last two contests they have competed in after Pat finished ahead in 8 of the previous 9 contests. The new poll asks who you think should be #2 in the next IFOCE top 50. Read the rest of this entry »
Redeye Chicago has a video of Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown attempting the Fifty/50 challenge to kick off their Gluttony Tour.
NBCChicago, Jaunted and Yahoo!'s Chompions blog have articles about Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown's Gluttony Tour, which starts later today at The Fifty/50 in Chicago.
Redeye Chicago has an article about the "Gluttony Tour" where Pat Bertoletti and Tim "Gravy" Brown will attempt to complete four Chicago-area eating challenges in less than 48 hours starting June 29. Additional challengers are welcome; a donation of $250 will be made to the Chicago Food Bank if someone else beats their time on the tour.
GluttonForceFive.com announces Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown will attempt four Chicago eating challenges over 43 hours starting June 29. The participating restaurants will donate a portion of their receipts during the challenge attempts to the Chicago Food Bank. (via Matt Strick)
Serious Eats Chicago has an interiew with Pat Bertoletti about starting the Glutton Force Five food truck with Tim Brown.
Tim Brown announces that the Glutton Force Five food truck he is operating with Pat Bertoletti will be at the Chicago Ribfest this weekend.
RJO Photo has produced a video to promote the eating contest to be held at the Chicago Ribfest on June 8 starring Pat Bertoletti, Tim Brown and a person in a pig costume.
Joey Chestnut vs. Pat Bertoletti head to head results since 2009
Pat Bertoletti’s victory at the Dorney Park cheesesteak contest yesterday is the first time he has finished ahead of Joey Chestnut since the Wingstop contest held in Dallas in April 2011. Pat’s previous finishes ahead of Joey Chestnut before then came at the Mars bar eating contest in San Diego in July 2010 and the September 2009 Reno rib contest. A listing of head to head results since 2009 follows after the jump.
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Pat Bertoletti wins 2012 Dorney Park cheesesteak contest
update May 23 I Love Dorney 23 has some videos
update May 22 MCall.com has a gallery
update May 21 The rest of the results are available. Brian Seiken has uploaded some contest videos and “Badlands” Booker has a video of his performance.
Results (Part 1 | Part 2):
1) Pat Bertoletti, 20 sandwiches
2) Joey Chestnut, 17
3) Bob Shoudt 14.5
4T) Sean Gordon 12
4T) Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle 12
6T) Brian Dudzinski 10.5
6T) Brian Subich 10.5
update The Dorney Park twitter announces Pat Bertoletti won with 20 cheesesteaks
MCall has a blog entry about Stacey “Eatorama” McCarthy competing in the cheesesteak eating contest at Dorney Park in Allentown, PA. The contest will start at 1 pm.
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