eating challenges
(All Alaska eating challenges and contests in database)
Man vs. Food November 18 (Alaska) episode links
Travel Channel episode description
KTNA and Frontiersman articles about filming in Talkeetna
Restaurants
- Humpy’s Great Alaskan Alehouse challenge – “Kodiak Arrest” 6 Pound 7 course meal
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
Episode commercial about challenge
ADN blog entry about recording - West Rib Cafe and Pub meal – “Seward’s Folly” 5 pound burger
Home Page | Yelp - Talkeetna Roadhouse meal – big breakfast
Home Page | Yelp
List of Alaska eating challenges in the eatfeats database
MuckFlash blog entry about Sarah Palin challenging Barack Obama to a sandwich eating contest
WSJ on athletes calories / pounds / day
An article in the Wall Street Journal says that Iditarod sled dogs might be the world’s greatest athletes due to their high calorie consumption per pound of bodyweight ratio. A 50 pound dog will expend about 10,000 calories a day while it is running the race.
Link Buffet: February 22, 2008
Feb 23 Flan Fest / eating contest in Tampa (Flan is creamy Spanish custard)
Feb 23 Ramen eating contest at anime festival in Anchorage, AK
March 1 Boston bacon eating contest
Mudbug Madness – 5 crawfish eating contests May 22-25 in Shreveport, LA
Video of Flushing, NY dumpling eating contest conducted in Chinese language
Picture of biscuit eating contest for Chinese couples
IFOCE.com claims Ray Meduna predicts Erik Denmark will win the jalapeno contest, a pro-Bertoletti prediction is sought
Dale Boone interview in JuneauEmpire.com
JuneauEmpire.com has an interview with pelemeni record holder Dale Boone in its article about tomorrow’s Alaskan pelemeni contest. Boone also discusses his reindeer sausage record that he set in Alaska. The pelemeni record was not set in a continuous 6 minutes but was the sum of three separate rounds.
Transportation Security Administration screeners allowed Boone to walk through security with his 6-foot pelmeni trophy. On the plane, the stewardesses crowed.
“The flight attendant said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, we have our pelmeni champion that you saw on Regis and Kathy Lee,'” Boone said. “Everyone started cheering.”
Back in Georgia, Boone returned to the Atlanta pelmeni restaurant. The curious 300-pound hillbilly was the conquering hero.
“The Russians had seen me on Russian TV,” Boone said. “They couldn’t believe it. They were shaking my hand. Meeting me in person was like they were meeting the president of the United States.”
Alaska pel’meni eating contest Sept 7
The Juneau Empire reports that a pel’meni eating contest will be held in Juneau, Alaska on September 7. Dale Boone set the IFOCE pel’meni record by eating 274 of the Russian dumplings in 6 minutes.