The calendar for Japanese channel TBS says that the pumpkin contest between teams from Japan and the United States will be broadcast on September 8 at 7 pm (Japanese time)

19:00 [yaredeki]! The worldwide [ze] it is from the worldwide large challenge ~ enormous pumpkin enormous rammer to the refrigerator of the king the [bu] to eat, exhaust special

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The Kent County Times has an article about the pumpkin contest in Rhode Island between mixed gender pairs from the United States and Japan which describes the origin of the event:

Emi Umeda, who works with the production crew, said the name of the show translates to “Anything is possible,” and she said the point of the show is to take a topic, find who’s best in the world at it and challenge them to a contest against Japan.

One of the topics is a pumpkin-eating contest, she said, which will pit two professional American eaters against two professional Japanese eaters, making their way through five different pumpkin dishes.

In order to get started, the show wanted to find who held the record for growing the largest pumpkin in the world, which happened to be Coventry resident Ron Wallace, who owns a farm at 860 Plainfield Pike.

The American female made her competitive debut according to the article:

The Japanese contestants are Tomoko Miyake and Nobuyuki Shirota and the American contestants are “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti of Wallingford, Conn., and Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Kennedy from Florida.

“This is my first time doing this,” Kennedy said. “I made some inquiries on the Internet just out of curiosity and interest and they gave me a call.”

The article verifies reports of a US victory:

Since it may be difficult for American viewers to tune into the show to see the results, St. Jean said the American team ended up easily outpacing the team from Japan.

update BigPumpkins.com has some pictures of the contest (bottom of page) One of the pictures is captioned:

At the Wallaces on August 21, 2007, Gentleman Joe, urges his teamate to down more Pumpkin Lobster and Pumpkin pizza. She ate an entire Large Pumpkin Pizza and 2 lb Pumpkin Lobster in 3 minutes. But that was just the appetizer.

update #2 The BigPumpkins.com message board has some threads about the contest: Thread 1, Thread 2, Thread 3

update #3 Dec 26, 2007 The quoted article spelled Elizabeth’s last name incorrectly. The correct spelling is Canady.

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Xinhuanet reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone went to Guangzhou, China to compete in an eating contest.

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From AICE news:

As predicted by Chairman Chowhound Chapman, Gentleman Joe Menchetti and Elizabeth “Rubber-Gut” Cassidy defeated the great Shirota and Miyake in decisive fashion at the Wallace Pumpkin Farm in Rhode Island. It seems that Gentleman Joe Menchetti who cannot be beaten by man or beast in the pumpkin disciplines and the unknown “Queen Guttress” (stay tuned America, you will be finding out more about this amazing female Eater in the near future) put down the proverbial hammer as they won four of the five contests.

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Esben Agersnap has a blog entry about the women’s division of the mango eating contest with several pictures at the Delhi Mango Festival in India.

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A space in this fall’s “Gluttonous King” contest has been reserved for a novice female competitor. The qualifier for this slot, which was won by Mio “Sakura” Takahashi, can be viewed at http://youtube.com/user/euromach2 Gal Sone serves as a co-MC.

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Hindu.com reports on a mango eating contest held at the Mango Festival in New Delhi, India:

In the mango eating competition for men and women, the first prize carried a cash component of Rs.3,000 and the second prize of Rs.2,000. In the women’s category Anita Chowdhary won the first prize for eating 1.392 kg of mango pulp and Asha Sood who managed to eat 1.298 kg of mango pulp bagged the second prize.

The mango eating competition for men that was held on Sunday saw a more competitive fight.

Shabil Khan won the first prize for eating 1.626 kg of mango pulp and the second prize was bagged by Deepak Grover who ate1.572 kg of mango pulp.

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R Suzuki reports that Sakura Takahashi won a qualifer for a spot this fall’s “Gluttonous King” contests which was restricted to novice females. In her blog, Ms. Takahashi announces that she intends to use her prominence as a competitive eater to promote environmental awareness: (automatically translated)

As for me, the habit of being connected to protecting such terrestrial environment, it has becoming aware first in everyone, and that really it can have practicing, doing the kind of activity which is appealed to keep it would like, that thinks that anyone can practice simply.

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RecordChina has a picture and article from a corn eating contest held in Wuhan, China last Saturday. A 60 year old grandmother came in second place in that event.

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teakdoor.com has a forum thread with pictures about a crocodile egg eating contest held at the Pattaya Crocodile Farm. Khun Nopanan claimed a prize of 10,000 baht by winning the contest. Gal Sone’s rival, “Queen” Pimu, did apparently not compete.

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A potsticker eating contest on Korean television between Tomoko Miyake and the Korean boy band Super Junior can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Nndgxav5hI

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A video clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone competing against eaters in a Kanom Krok (coconut rice cake) eating contest in Thailand can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6al0incPBw The female Thai champion leads Gal Sone through much of the contest.

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Tomoko Miyake has written several blog entries about the “Gluttonous Queen” contest televised last Sunday in which she was the runner-up. While competing, Tomoko befriended 6th place finisher Saori Nakayama (仲山沙織), who blogged about her experiences in that event at http://blog.livedoor.jp/nakayama_saori1980/.

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Natsuko “Gal” Sone was not the only entrant in Sunday’s “Gluttonous Queen” contest with dyed blonde hair. Aki Ikeda, who has the nickame Gal Ikeda (ギャル æ± ç”° 亜紀) also sported non-natural hair coloring (she also has the nickname girayunee (ギャルネエ) ). Ikeda finished 5th overall and reportedly is missing a front tooth, which might facilitate bone stripping in a chicken wing eating contest.

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TVRaiting.blog77.fc2.com reports that yesterday’s showing of “Gluttonous Queen II” received a 14.2% audience share. This compares favorably to the audience shares received by the current NCAA college basketball tournament (10% – 16% according to zap2it.com

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An extended version (about 2 and a half minutes) of a one minute news clip of Sonya Thomas at a contest in Hong Kong has been uploaded to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7StSPWwlJtc

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herpdaddy watched last night’s “Gluttonous Queen II” contest and wrote a blog entry in English about it (he also has some funny Japanese T shirts with English on them in his post.) He reports about the final noodle contest:

So she made it to the final round with 2 other women both equally thin and the final round was ramen noodles. Mmmm. I mean, it’s GOOD but how much can you really eat? Apparently an incredible amount. Each serving was a standard sized serving but they got a break. So they don’t burn themselves, they did not have to drink the soup. But they did have to eat all of the noodles and the major toppings including a thin slice of Chinese roast pork.

I have to admit, I was glued to the TV. I mean, it’s just 3 girls pigging out but it was just amazing how much they were able to put away.

In the end, Gal Sone won for the 2nd year in a row with 16 bowls of ramen in 1 hour. Eeeeeeeeesh…

Tomoko Miyake came in second (possibly tying with another woman) with 14 bowls. I believe that Suguwara was removed by medical personel (like “The Artist” was in last fall’s gluttonous king contest), but I am not sure about that. Hopefully R Suzuki will have a full writeup.

“Gluttonous Queen” produced a conflict over television watching in one household last night: (automatically translated by Google)

… Because with the father tried to change the channel into the gluttonous queen championship of TV Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd.,
Me “just a little! Just a little just a little!! Unless Michael [huerupusu] (Phelps) you see, []!!!”

So is. The gold medal 7 crown it is instantaneous!!!
It is enormous the ~~~!!! It is enormous as the same human the ~~~!!!
You were impressed. . .

Gluttonous queen* However also the gal 曽 root is enormous, – (. _.)

update laana.jp has full results (in Japanese)

1, (“ギャル” 曽根菜津子) Natsuko “Gal” Sone
2. (三宅智子) Tomoko Miyake
3. (正司優子) Yuuko Siyouzi
4, (嘉数千恵) “Nurse”
5. (池田亜紀) Aki Ikeda
6. (仲山沙織) Saori
7. (菅原初代) Suguwara (disqualified by doctor after winning Round 1)
8. (山下尚穂) Yamashita

update #2 R Suzuki has uploaded her recaps: Part 1 , Part 2

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An English language news video clip from 2006 about Indian hot pepper eating champion, Anandita Dutta Tamuli, who is currently trying to gain entrance into the Guinness Book of Records can be viewed at http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/videos.aspx?id=5897

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Reuters blogs has an entry and a video about a hands free pasta eating contest held in Tel Aviv, Israel last Friday.

Though he won a year’s supply of pasta, it’s likely the winner will have to remove it from his house. The Jewish holiday of Passover is celebrated in just over two weeks time and those who celebrate the holiday are not allowed to have foods made from flour and bread in their homes.

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Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang it would be you.

Homer Simpson

(From Reuters) If Homer (and Marge) Simpson had competed an eating contest for couples in Guangzhou, China, he could have had all the tang (yuan) he wanted. Tang yuan are sticky rice dumplings. The winning couple ate 204 dumplings in 5 minutes, which weighed either 2.5 kg or 4 kg.

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A Japanese blogger is currently on vacation in Hawaii, and s/he saw a television crew recording Natsuko “Gal” Sone competing in the “Gluttonous Queen” contest on Waikiki Beach. The contest will be televised later this month or in April. It is too bad that apparently no American women were invited to compete.

Exactly recording the gluttonous king decisive game being done at the Waikiki beach, it increased.

The gal 曽 root it was.

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A women’s eating contest from Chinese television can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j9gmk8OIBs

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newindpress.com reports that Sridhar, son of Shanmugham, a 29 year old from a village near Sathyamangalam in Erode district died from breathing complications after eating 20 rice cakes in an idli eating competition. Sridhar is believe to be an epilepsy patient.

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R Suzuki reports that Sugawara won the Iwate noodles contest on Sunday by eating 225 small cups of noodles on 5 minutes. Sugawara won the regional qualifying tournament for this spring’s “Gluttous Queen” contest. A news video of the contest can be viewed at http://news.tvi.jp/wvx/16226/video.wvx Each entrant has a personal noodle refiller who is busy throughout the contest. Yama3 wrote a blog entry about his 6th place finish. He received an award for best technique.

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R Suzuki has a report on the first and second round qualifiers for the 2007 “Gluttonous Queen” contest. Contests were held in Hokkaido, Fukuoka, Shikoku and Nagoya. The winners of those events then competed for a spot in the finals. Sugawara won that contest and will appear in the finals that will be televised in the spring. Sugawara, a 43 year old from Morioko, came in second in a noodle contest in November to “The Artists” and had the best ever performance by a woman in the 21 year history of that event.

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