“Furious” Pete Czerwinski announces in a bodybuilding.com forum thread that he will attempt February 13 a stunt in which he eats all Extra Value Meals available at McDonald’s, including fries and drinks, in under 30 minutes. A page on furiouspete.com has been set up to accept donations. Proceeds will go to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and Toronto Sick Kids Hospital. A video of the attempt will be recorded and uploaded later.

update A new forum thread containing a poll has been started

update #2 Video of the attempt and a forum thread about it have been posted

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The Burlington Post has a preview of the burger eating contest between teams from from Canada and the United States at Philthy McNasty’s today. “Furious” Pete Czerwinski’s eating the 1.5 lb Showdown Burger under three minutes inspired the restaurant’s manager to sponsor the competition.

update Feb 8 Results have been posted. The US team won 83 – 82.33 burgers. Furious Pete ate the most burgers with 36 and also won an individual contest at the end of the team contest. Pete Maurizio lead the United States team with 31.

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“Furious” Pete ate two 1.5 pound burgers from Philthy McNasty’s in 3 minutes to promote the upcoming US vs. Canada burger eating contest Sunday. A video of this challenge is available on youtube. Pete accomplished this feat despite suffering a (non-gastrointestinal) injury during recording for the National Geographic network on Friday. The film crew thought Pete’s blood was ketchup.

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• Review of Quest for the Golden Hot Dog
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• List of all Wing Bowl 17 finalists on 610WIP.com. “Obi Wing” and “Damaging” Doug are the only repeat competitors at this moment I am aware of
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• Picture of menu at Wintzell’s Oyster House which lists the current oyster eating records (Men – Joe Evans: 403, Women – Julia Ward: 280)
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• Toronto Star article about “Furious” Pete Czerwinski
• Hot dog eating contest at the New Year’s Eve Sausage Drop in Elmore, Ohio – $350 purse
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• Short clip of Mike “The Hammer” Fitzgerald at the Hardee’s Thickburger contest
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“Furious” Pete Czerwinski has announced that he will attempt to eat all 12 McDonald’s Value Meals in 30 minutes in early February to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the Toronto Sick Kids Hospital.

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In a bodybuilding.com forum thread, “Furious” Pete Czerwinski announces that he finished the Showdown Burger challenge at Philthy MacNasty’s in 3 minutes and 2 seconds. The previous reported best time was 6:20. The challenge consists of a 1.5 pound burger and fries and is free if completed in under 7 minutes.

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An episode of the Canadian television show Corner Gas in which the aftermath of Lacey’s unexpected victory in a pierogi eating contest is one of the plot lines can be viewed online: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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The Wing Shack in Whitby, Ontario will be hosting weekly qualifiers for a wing eating contest held on Super Bowl Sunday.

The previous two finals awarded $5000 to the winner. The finals prize for the 2009 contest is not mentioned on the Wing Shack’s website. The website does say that the entry fee is $20 and contests will be winner take all. It is not clear if the overall winner will receive all of the entry fees or if each qualifier winners will receive all the fees for that week. The previous two contests were sponsored by The Rock FM, but the upcoming contest is not mentioned on the radio station website currently.

2008 contest – winner Joe Menchetti
2007 contest – winner Jade Dotzentroth

Some other restaurants holding weekly eating contests during football season:
Court Jester’s – Aberdeen, NJ
Black Horn Bar – Carolina Beach, NC
Buffalo Wild Wings – Sterling Heights, MI
The Pour House – New York City, NY

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• Ian Hickman repeats in a Taste of Hamburg-er contest
• Jill Stoler has a blog entry about her competitive eating souvenirs
• Food Battle Club drinking contest videos
• Spicy dosa eating contest in Toronto
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• 120 ounce steak at Brand Steakhouse in Las Vegas, free if eaten by one person, $267 otherwise
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• CNBC on the effects of inflation on Michael Phelps’ diet
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• Gallery of wing eating contest before Bills – Steelers game in Toronto
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• 1993 article about Czech dumpling contest.
• Nanticoke, PA pierogi eating contest Sunday.

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• 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

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• Video of El Toro screaming
• Shannon competes in the men’s division of the Vacaville onion eating contest and finishes third
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• Festival goal of 200,000 brats for the Madison Brat Fest
• Article about the Durham, NC Doughman quadrathlon (triathlon + eating)
• Jill Stoler interviews Ian Hickman
• Gal Sone article in the Mainichi Shimbun

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A bodybuilding.com forum thread is devoted to Furious Pete’s in studio appearance this morning at 102.1 FM “The Edge”. Pete reports he ate 125 chicken wings during his appearance and that the radio station will sponsor him. The DJ described Pete as “Val Kilmer on steroids”.

update A podcast of the appearance is available.

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The Winsdor Star has a report and gallery on a 18 pound burger contest held on Saturday. Teams of four from the United States and Canada each received a giant sandwich. A follow up article says a team from Canada, called Raw Carnage, won the contest. It is not mentioned if the winning team managed to finish the burger in the 35 minute time limit.

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The Windsor, Ontario (Detroit area) Star reports that a burger eating contest will be held on Saturday for teams of 4 eaters from both Canada and the United States to benefit charities. Teams will attempt to eat Bunda’s Big V8 burger from Bubi’s Awesome Eats. The V8 burger has 8 pounds of meat and reportedly weighs 18 pounds in total. WDFN.com has more details about the event.

Bubi’s Awesome Eats has a standing offer of $1,000 to the first person to consume a Bunda’s Big V8 burger along with the bun and 4 of 7 possible toppings in under 90 minutes. Some of the possible topppings include eight tomatoes, 24 ounces of ketchup and 30 ounces of Bubi’s sauce. No diner has succeeded in that challenge in the five years it has been offered. Last month, the restaurant had Canada’s tallest man, 7 foot 7 inch Jerry Sokoloski, attempt the sandwich. He finished about 15% of it. A gallery and video of the attempt are available.

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AICE news reports that Joe Menchetti won $5000 at a wing eating contest in at the Wing Shack in Whitby Ontario sponsored by the Rock FM

The contest entry form, which had the country field fixed at “Canada”, implied that only Canadian citizens could compete in that event.

Joe mentions his victory in the wing contest in this news video about the paczki contest.

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In a forum thread on bodybuilding.com, DedicatedForLif/FuriousPete123 announces he ate a 72 ounce steak in under 7 minutes, breaking Frank Pastore’s record of 9.5 minutes. He submitted a video of his meal to youtube.

I am unaware of any other claims on the 72 ounce record. Cookie Jarvis ate a 76 ounce steak in with a side of creamed spinach in 7.5 minutes

In another bodybuilding.com thread, a banana eating contest is taking place. DedicatedForLif/FuriousPete is the currently tied for the lead in that contest with 16 bananas. Eatfeats commenter Alex from Panama is the other co-leader. There is a female entry in the contest, Simpy, who ate 5 bananas The contest ends at midnight Sunday if anyone wants to submit his or her video.

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