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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
Kobayashi lottery commerical video
The commercial Kobayashi filmed in Vancouver last month is now available on youtube. Western Canada Lotteries’ scratch and win cards are the advertised products.
Link Buffet: May 30, 2008
- Video of El Toro screaming
- Shannon competes in the men’s division of the Vacaville onion eating contest and finishes third
- Furious Pete to attempt the “Italian Challenge” in Niagara Falls after getting stopped at the US/Canada border crossing update Pete finished the challenge in a record 30 minutes.
- 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
Kobayashi in Vancouver to film commercial
Kobayashi’s latest blog entry reports that he is currently in Vancouver, British Columbia, apparently to film a commercial for an undisclosed product. Like Kobayashi’s hometown of Nagano, Vancouver is a Winter Olympics site.
In news of other Kobayashis, a Bleacher Report blog entry calls Cleveland Indians reliever Masahide Kobayashi possibly “the steal of the off season”
Furious Pete on “The Edge”
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.
Canada vs. USA team 18 lb. burger contest report
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.
Bi-national big burger benefit
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.
Joe Menchetti wins $5000 in Canadian wing contest
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.
72 ounce steak record broken
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.
2007 Krystal finals on Canadian TV
The basementmusing blog reports on television offerings at a bowling alley:
So he changed the chanel to good old TSN. To his shegrin what was on was the Krystal burger eating competition. What we began to see unfold was dudes by the name of Crazy Legs Conti eating burgers in front of thousands of screaming hillbillies from Tennessee.
TSN is the Canadian sports channel. It is interesting that this year’s finals would be rerun on Canadian televison, but has not been shown (to the best of my knowledge) on ESPN / ESPN2 since it originally aired in October.
Canadian bodybuilder’s eating challenge videos
Peter Czerwinski (DedicatedForLif/FuriousPete123), winner of the most recent video based eating contest on bodybuilding.com, has uploaded some videos of his eating challenges to his youtube page (page 2). He has eaten a 72 ounce steak in 12 minutes and a 106 ounce steak in a half an hour. Most recently, he attempted to consume 25 cups of rice (he managed to finish 18).
In another international steak eating challenge video, a blonde woman consumes a large steak of unlisted size in Argentina.
And in another bodybuilding / competitive eating video, Juris “Dr. Big Time” Shibayama has uploaded a video of him bench pressing 500 pounds.
update In more Dr. Big Time news, he says that his Wing Bowl stunt suggestion has been accepted and he will attempt it on January 8. The person he talked to at WIP did not mention any geographic restrictions for Wing Bowl 16 stunt attempters, so non-Philly residents who want to compete might consider submitting a stunt request. I have not been able to find any online Wing Bowl 16 rules.
Gal Sone goes octopus hunting in Canada
R Suzuki reports that Gal Sone traveled to the west coast of Canada and went on an octopus hunt around Vancouver Island on a Nippon TV program. After a diver caught an octopus, it was cooked and served to Gal Sone in a restaurant.
Canadian only wing contest – $5000 first prize
A wing eating contest with a $5000 first prize is being sponsored by The Rock FM . Qualifiers are being held on Sunday during football games at the Wing Shack in Whitby, Ontario. The application form has the country fixed at “Canada”, so the contest is probably restricted to Canadian citizens.
The winner of the previous contest, held during the Super Bowl, was Jade Dozentroth. A video from that event can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q_WoRQ3ANNo She ate 60 wings (and had 20 rejected for improper cleaning)
Montreal rib contest June 16, $500 first prize
(From westendchronicle.com) A rib eating contest will take place at the Mesquite restaurant in Montreal in June. Finals will take place on June 16 (5 minute qualifiers will be held) and the first place is $500 (presumably Canadian) and dinner for 6.
Canadian competitive eaters needed for commercial
From a recent comment about the debut of the Canadian Competitive Eaters Association:
hey there i am trying to get in touch with you In-Ting. I am a casting director in Montreal and looking for local or canadian competitite eaters to appera in a tv commercial. could you reach me at mgiroux@canadfilm.com?
Thanks
Maxime Giroux
Toronto Star on Eat Your Face Off
The Toronto Star has an excellent writeup of the Eat Your Face Off contests:
With the salesmanship of Ron Popeil and the bombast of Ed McMahon, the heavily-sideburned Chapman is emceeing this competition, frantically barking the play-by-play throughout — “You’ve got to finish your milk! Your momma always told you, you’ve gotta finish your milk!” — including the two amateur meets, the first of which kicked off the entire show, right in the middle of the casino.
Eat Your Face Off article
The Niagara Falls review has an article about Saturday’s Eat Your Face Off contests focusing on Tom “Goose” Gilbert and his disqualification from the milk & cookies contest.
Amateur results for that event have also been added to AICE news
Celeste, star of Ottawa public access cable
With the biggest Canadian eating contest this weekend, I reposted the start of a blog entry that was originally on the Montreal Expos website in 2002. The blog entry describes a public access cable show on Ottawa cable that starred a woman named Celeste who would eat a large meal during the broadcast. The entry is in all probability a joke, but in the minor chance it was an actual program, I thought I would see if anyone had any additional information about it.
The start of the blog entry is after the jump
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Outsourced eating contest
The Globe and Mail has an article about a company with offices in Toronto and Hyderabad, India which has eating contests between the two branches over its video conferencing system.
Slashfood thread about “Chubby Bunny” fatality
(Thanks Brian Seiken) Slashfood has a post with currently 100 comments about the death in the “Chubby Bunny” marshmallow stuffing contest in Canada last week.
Ontario woman who choked on marshmallow dies
The London (Ontario, Canada) Free Press reports that a woman who was in critical condition after choking on a marshmallow at the Western fair died. The woman was participating in a contest in which the objective was to stuff as many marshmallows as possible into one’s mouth and then say the words “Chubby bunny” The woman’s family did not release her name.
Updated 1:56 am The Globe and Mail has a long article about the death which includes the woman’s name. The “Chubby Bunny” game killed a 12 year old schoolgirl in Illinois in 1999.
Canadian woman in critical condition after mouth stuffing contest
The London (Ontario, CA) Free Press reports that an unnamed woman is in critical condition after choking at a mouth stuffing contest at the Western Fair. The objective of the contest was to stuff as many marshmellows as possible at one time into one’s mouth. Paramedics were apparently not present during the contest and had to be called in. This is the second tragic incident at a Canadian contest; a man died in a wing eating contest in Regina in 2004.
Short story (and possible novel) with female competitive eater
The Columbus Dispatch has a review of “This Is Not Chick Lit,” a collection of short stories by female authors. The reviewer has the following comments on one of the short stories in that book:
Most delightfully surprising is The Seventy-two-Ounce Steak Challenge by Dika Lam, who has published only a few short stories in small magazines. Her touching and hilarious story follows two Chinese-Canadian sisters on a working vacation in Calgary, Alberta, where one of them starts down the path that will take her into becoming “the champion you know and love — winner of the International Matzo-Ball-Eating Contest, title-holder of the Conch Fritter Invitational, the girl who downed nine sticks of butter in five minutes.”
A review in econoculture says that Ms. Lam is working on extending her short story into a novel.
Angela Michaud makes impressive debut at Casino Niagra
(from competitiveeaters.com/news.htm) Thanksgiving weekend, AICE held a series of three contests in pumpkin pie, spaghetti & meatballs and large hotdogs at the Casino Niagra in Ontario which were won by Joe Menchetti, Coondog O’Karma and Mark Lyle respectively. Massachusetts resident Angie Michaud made a strong entrance into competitive eating at that event, taking third place in hot dogs and performing strongly in spaghetti, but finishing out of the money. She will compete in her first contest in the United States at the potato latke contest in New York City later this month.
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