The Nindigully pub near St. George, Australia has a 14kg (31 pound) "Roadhog" burger that looks like an actual hog. (via Nathan Adamson)
DiagonalUK has a video of the Singapore qualifier for CP Biggest Eater and Pedro TP has videos from the Melbourne qualifier (video 1 | video 2). The Melbourne videos show the prizes for male Australians being awarded with the other divisions, which appears to contradict the claim on CP Australia's facebook that an overtime period was held on a different day from the Melbourne qualifier.
Eleven days after the contest, the Australian winners of the CP Biggest eater qualifier on November 19 have been announced. Brad Stokes defeated Felix Ariga in overtime to become the top male and Millie Chow won the women's division. A qualifier competitor comments that he was not aware of any overtime taking place.
Tim Janus defeats Joey Chestnut in CP Biggest Eater Melbourne
The Herald Sun reports that Tim Janus ate the most wontons, 310 in 8 minutes, at the pro exhibition at the Melbourne qualifier for the CP Biggest Eater. Joey Chestnut ate 297, 83 less than his record last year, and Juliet Lee ate 175 to break her female record of 160. Final results for the Australians competing have not been posted.
update The MLE facebook reports that Felix Ariga and Brad Stokes tied for 1st place in the contest for Australian males with a total of 105 wontons, less than the 109 Helen Tan ate to win the Singaporean women’s contest. Milly Chow was the best Australian female with a total of 75 wontons.
According to the eatfeats database, this is Tim’s first victory over Joey since the 2009 grits contest in Bossier City, LA. (All of Tim’s previous three victories over Joey Chestnut were in grits contests.) This is also Joey’s first loss in a contest for a food other than chicken wings in over a year. A list of head to head results for Joey vs. Tim follows after the jump
The CP Australia facebook has a short video of Tim Janus and Juliet Lee promoting Saturday's CP Biggest Eater qualifier in Melbourne Saturday.
The facebook for CP Australia has results (top male: Ashley Pallett 88 wontons, top female: Chiau Lin Lan 42 wontons) and a video from yesterday's heats for the CP Biggest Eater qualifier in Melbourne. update Nov 14 A full list of the competitors in Saturday's qualifier has been posted. Ian Coker, who competed in several contests as a Purdue graduate student, was the male runner-up.
Joey Chestnut, Tim "Eater X" Janus and Juliet Lee are expected to compete in the Melbourne, Australia CP Biggest Eater qualifier on November 19.
News.com.au has an article about Australian competitive eating.
CP Biggest Eater 2011-2012
CPBiggestEater.com has been updated with information about the 2011-12 contest. The first qualifier will take place in Singapore in October and other qualifiers will be held in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Melbourne, Australia. The finals will take place in Bangkok on February 11, 2012 and award a purse of approximately $30,000 US. Registration is now open for the four qualifiers.
15 international professional eaters are expected to compete including defending men’s & women’s champions Joey Chestnut and Juliet Lee along with Sonya Thomas, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus & Erik Denmark and Crazy Legs Conti.
Rich Shea announces in a CBC post that Major League Eating will do a Pacific tour later this year including Australia and New Zealand.
Mitchell Honey won a year's worth of free food by finishing the meter long pizza challenge at Criniti's in Parramatta (Sydney area) Australia.
The Brisbane Times has an article about Pat Bertoletti's appearance in Brisbane, where he set a Slurpee drinking record of 9 seconds. update 3aw.com has a video of Bertoletti's appearance at a radio station.
Pat Bertoletti has posted some pictures from Australia to his facebook.
Pat Bertoletti posted a link to a video he made to promote the Slurpee Challenge in Australia.
MLE to sanction Australian Slurpee contest
IFOCE.com reports that MLE will sanction a 7-11 Slurpee contest in Australia. Pat Bertoletti and Hall Hunt will make appearances Down Under to promote the contest. (Bertoletti & Hunt also competed in a contest in the Czech Republic in 2008) via Darren Rovell twitter
Sugawara repeats as Gluttonous Queen
R Suzuki has a writeups of today’s Gluttonous Queen program on her blog. Hatsuyo “The Witch Sugawara” repeated as champion. Natsuko “Gal” Sone was fifth. The final rounds were held in Australia after taking place in Hawaii in previous years.
Link Buffet: July 28, 2008
- Val Bromann has a blog entry and gallery from the contest in which Pat Bertoletti, Tim Brown and Patrick Vandam competed against Jimmy John’s sandwich makers (Chicagoist report / preview)
- Dickey’s BBQ finals to be held in Dallas in January 2009. San Antonio and Lynchburg, VA qualifiers have been scheduled for September.
- Furious Pete profile (article scan) in the Toronto Sun (condolences to Pete on the recent loss of his grandparents)
- Columnist responds to Juris Shibayama’s letter
- Sonya Thomas lists her favorite bands (Thanks for the compliment Sonya)
- Don Lerman to judge upcoming cannoli eating contest (Also confirmation that Kevin Lipsitz received the Lifetime Achievement Award)
- Record set at Ballard, WA lutefisk eating contest
- Female division winner has best overall mark at Strasburg, OH Corn Festival
- West Virginia Hot Dog Festival report
- Article about Chris Kenney, 11th place finisher at Bartolini’s meatballs
- Statistics on the Dubuque Conuty Fair’s eating contests
- Preview of Sunday’s dumpling eating contests in Queens, NY
- Blog entry about Seattle doughnut eating contest / Saturday Knights concert
- Vineland, NJ pizza contest August 9, $50 gift certificate first prize
- Report about eating contest held at Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota’s restaurant
- Biryani eating contest for Indian familes
- Charlotte Dawson, a judge on Australia’s Next Top Model wins a celebrity meat pie eating contest
Australian claims she can finish 96er
In a thread about Kate Stelnick’s completion of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 96er burger, a commenter from Australia calling herself “QueenQeeko” makes the following claim:
And I look at that burger and I seriously think I could devour that in less than two hours tops.
Here is one small example of what I am capable of. I went to the mall with two friends not all that long ago. This was their silly attempt at making me more of a girly-girl and made me wear pink. I showed them later. Anyways, by late morning we decided for an early lunch. My friend Kitty Kat and I went straight for the Chinese buffet. Now here is where I’m also a master of stacking food. I don’t know how tall the pile was but I know that I did it well. I ordered a large size plate and stacked it up with at least 8 pounds of food. Huge meal. Kitty Kat did the same (she’s taller than me too and said I’d never down my meal).
In the space of 20 minutes, I chowed down all of the food I had bought, then ate half of what Kat had bought (she couldn’t make it pass a third of it). I took the rest home in a plastic container. Immediately after this I bought a tray of doughnuts and a gigantic smoothie that was 90% fruit, yogurt and icecream.
That day I out-ate what every member of my family can do and they are all big eaters. And I still felt I had room for something else.
Bogan Burger, Fitzroy Australia
news.com.au/heraldsun has an article about the Bogan Burger served by the Napier Hotel in Fitzroy, Australia. Despite its name, the sandwich does not apparently contain any ground beef:
The $15.50 (Australian) burger’s big turkish bread roll is topped with a steak, a chicken schnitzel, a potato cake, bacon, egg, cheese, onion, pineapple and beetroot.
There’s no asking if you want fries with that. The burger comes with a mountain of fat potato wedges. Oh, and salad. …
The burger stands 13cm high, or 17cm if you count the classy paper umbrella. One reviewer likened it to chewing gum — “it stays in your system for seven years”.
AICE goes international
AICE News announces that they will sanction “The Shank Off” at sSs Barbecue Barns in Australia. supersizedmeals.com will also be involved in the contest and they have a post about that event. The sSs “Big Shank” is probably the most famous Australian eating challenge and it requires eating a 2.5 kg (5.5 lb.) beef shank. The contest will have regional qualifiers.
AICE also announces that they will affiliate with the newly formed Canadian Competitive Eaters Association. The only information about that organization is that it is run by an 18 year old who calls himself “The Hungry Genius”
Gal from Down Under attempts 72 ounce steak
Natsuko Sone is not the only petite Asian “Gal” attempting huge meals. Youtube has a clip of 5’0″ 95 lb. Chinese-Australian Lynette Chiang battling the 72 ounce steak challenge at the Big Texan Steak Ranch while on a Route 66 bicycling tour. She wrote a blog entry about her meal which says that diners ordering the steak must sign a contract saying they will not split the steak inside the restaurant.
There is additional information about her trip, including a DVD documetary for sale, at http://www.galfromdownunder.com/route66 The video clip can be downloaded directly from that website and there is a gallery (Page 1, Page 2, Page 3) of her meal. One of the picture’s captions says a waitress claimed a 110 pound woman ate the steak last week.
Sonya has a fan Down Under
The Age of Australia has a tribute to Sonya Thomas.
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