Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All Arizona eating challenges and contests in database)
Hungry Hispanic hip-hoppers
BeautifulBrian reports that El Toro makes a guest appearance on a track on Badlands Booker’s new album, which can be listened to on on El Toro’s myspace page
El Toro is not the only rapping Hispanic competitive eater. “Nurse” Caterina of the Heart Attack Grill is also trying to develop a hip-hop career. Caterina will appear in the upcoming movie “Midnight is the Darkest Hour”
Heart Attack Grill Wall of Fame restored
The online Wall of Fame at HeartAttackGrill.com has been restored. There is also a new picture of record holder Joey Chestnut on the home page.
Arizona State Fair taquito contest not on schedule
The October 27 taquito contest that was originally in the Arizona State Fair list of attractions has been deleted. It does not appear in the list of contests either.
The contest is still present in the Yahoo cache
IFOCE taquito eating contest at AZ State Fair Oct 27
The list of attractions at the Arizona State Fair says there will be a taquito eating contest sponsored by Major League Eating on October 27.
Brooklyn Papers on Joey’s record
Gersh Kuntzman has written an article for the Brooklyn Papers about Joey’s record breaking performance in Tempe another how air conditioning benefited his performance. There is also a cartoon about the feat.
LiveLeak Tempe qualifier video
(from noaphex) LiveLeak has a one minute video of footage from Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier at Arizona Mills at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=01d_1180994817
More Tempe qualifier articles
NY Times blog entry, currently 29 comments (Liz’s youtube video is embedded)
Vallejo Times Herald article
Skinnyboy’s Tempe travelog
Joey Chestnut breaks Nathan’s record w/ 59.5 HDB
Results from Laura & Beautiful Brian & other commenters
updated from Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane
1) Joey Chestnut 59.5 (breaks previous record of 53.75 HDB)
2) Rich LeFevre 33
3) Tim Brown 25
4) Justin Mih 21
4) Mongo Marquez 21
6) Mad Stork 16
7) Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane 14
7) Jason Erb 14
9) Russell Blackwell 13.75
10) Todd “The Butler” Yeates 7
According to wikipedia, the last American to hold the Nathan’s record was Ed Krachie w/ 22.25 HDB from 1996 to 1997
updated
Todd “the Butler” Yeates’ gallery
AZ Republic article
ESPN.com article from AP
Russell Blackwell blog entry
Joey Chestnut will throw out the first pitch at tomorrow’s game at Shea Stadium according to this USA today article
A contest video can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEpvZUqkTss
update #2
The East Valley Tribune has a slideshow with a sound track
The SF Chronicle has an article about Joey’s performance in which he describes his training regimen:
Chestnut, 23, started training six weeks ago with what he calls a “hot dog run” two days per week. Each time, he consumed as many hot dogs as possible in 12 minutes, doing his “weird” dance, flexing and wiggling to push the food down.
Then, he didn’t eat for three days to prepare for the next time.
“You have to mentally have a reason to eat that much and maybe convince my body that it’s OK — it’s not going to hurt it,” he said.
One day each week he ate normally. He also took “tons of vitamins,” amino acids and protein supplements.
Before Saturday’s contest, he didn’t eat Thursday or Friday.
update #3
Live Spaces gallery
Deadspin thread
update #4
Local news TV clip (from Todd “the Butler”)
Joey’s post contest interview
BBC News video (from Brazen) (Video is most popular BBC video for June 3)
Todd “the Butler” Yeates profile
The East Valley Tribune has an article about Mesa, AZ resident Todd “the Butler” Yeates, who will be competing in the Nathan’s qualifier in Tempe Saturday. Todd’s nickname is a reference to the poet William Butler Yeats.
AZCentral: Joey Chestnut to do Tempe qualifier
AZCentral.com has an interview with Joey Chestnut. Joey states he plans to compete in the Tempe, Arizona qualifier on June 2. He will practice for that event in the Los Angeles Dodgers All You Can Eat pavilion this weekend. Joey expresses confidence about his upcoming performances:
Meanwhile, Chestnut believes he’s prepared to shock the eating world.
“I’ve definitely been able to break the record in practice,” he said, adding that for competitive reasons he doesn’t want to say exactly how many hot dogs he has devoured.
“Unless I have a bad day, I’ll break the record.”
And he is convinced that Kobayashi is approaching his gastrointestinal zenith.
“Kobayashi is amazing, but he’s been at it about six years and he’s hovering at about the same amount,” he said. “I don’t know if he can go much higher. If I can get to 55 or 56 I have a chance to beat him.”
updateAZCentral has another article about the qualifier
Heart Attack Grill website under construction
HeartAttackGrill.com has been under construction for the past several weeks and none of the links on it are currently active. There is no apparent link location to an online “Wall of Fame”.
Heart Attack Grill in entrepreneur.com
(from heartattackgrill.com) There is an article about the Heart Attack Grill and its owner, “Dr.” John Basso, in entrepreneur.com:
His advice for wannabe entrepreneurs? “I’d tell people to create controversy,” suggests Basso, who refers to himself as the Patch Adams of the restaurant industry. Though he won’t release any financial information, Basso insists that word-of-mouth marketing has given the grill plenty of business. “What I’ve got, in marketing terms, is the purple cow,” he says. “We’ve designed something that people talk about naturally. We’ve never spent one penny, and never will spend one penny on advertisements. We simply have a website, and that’s it.”
Liz on eating challenges
(Thanks Liz) Liz has written a post for urbanhonking/truefan about eating challenges and the IFOCE ban on those smorgasborgs. Liz relays the following offer from Heart Attack Grill owner “Dr.” John Basso:
Basso is offering the $10,000 dollars for the person who can beat Joey’s time, he says, because he knows he’ll see $11,000 in business as a result. His dream right now is to have Kobayashi, the world’s #1 ranked eater, come in and claim that money. He says after Joey did the stunt, he had someone teach him the correct Japanese phrasing in the hopes that the Kobayashi would hear the challenge he broadcast over the television. “And if someone can beat Kobayashi’s time, I’ll give them $12,000,” he said. Though for now, that challenge will have to be put on the shelf.
Online reality show at Heart Attack Grill
heartattackgrill.com says a webcast reality show will begin filming at the restaurant in March.
Heart Attack Grill videos on youtube
There are currently 20 videos about the Heart Attack Grill currently available on youtube, including a segment filmed for Japanese TV and “Dr. Jon” and “Nurse” Caterina’s interview on Fox News.
Joey Chestnut at Heart Attack Grill pictures available
Pictures of Joey Chestnut at the Heart Attack Grill when he broke the Quadruple Bypass Burger record, taken by Edward Delgado, are now available on that restaurant’s website.
John Stossel column about Heart Attack Grill
John Stossel of ABC News “20/20” has written a column for the Jewish World Review about the Attorney General of Arizona’s attempt to prevent the Heart Attack Grill from outfitting its waitresses in nurses costumes.
Joey Chestnut finishes Quadruple Bypass Burger in 1:42
heartattackgrill.com reports that Joey Chestnut finished the Quadruple Bypass Burger in 1:42 on December 19, less than half of the previous record of 3:55 held by Jed Donahue.
The Heart Attack Grill has set up an online Wall of Fame which will eventually list the top 100 times for the Quadruple Bypass Burger. Nurse Caterina has the fastest women’s time of 8:20
Jed Donahue breaks own Heart Attack Grill record
The home page of the Heart Attack Grill reports that Jed Donahue broke his own Quadruple Bypass burger record by completing that sandwich in 3 minutes and 55 seconds, almost 2 minutes less than his previous record of 5:39.
The Butler blogged it
Todd “The Butler” Yeates, who competed in the Arizona Fry Bread contest and the Posole contest, has started a blog at http://toddthebutleryeates.blogspot.com/ with galleries of those two contests.
Heart Attack Grill 20/20 segment available online
John Stossel’s segment from Friday’s 20/20 about the controversial nursing outfits for the Heart Attack Grill’s waitresses can be viewed at http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2662274
Heart Attack Grill on ABC’s 20/20 tonight
The Heart Attack Grill reports that it will be the subject of John Stossel’s “Give Me a Break” segment on 20/20 tonight. 20/20 will start at 9pm instead of the usual 10pm airtime.
Heart Attack Grill to be on ABC’s 20/20 Friday
The Heart Attack Grill announces that the ABC News program 20/20 will have a segment about that restaurant on Friday.
In other Heart Attack Grill news, “Nurse” Caterina defeated a radio DJ in a Quadruple Bypass Burger eating contest. Could “Nurse” Caterina be the successor to Carlene LeFevre as the Queen of the Southwestern competitive eating?
Heart Attack Grill makes CNN
(from Wing Tut) The Heart Attack Grill’s controversy with nursing advocates made CNN and can be viewed online at: http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/us/2006/11/09/beyer.heart.attack.grill.knxv
The clip originally appeared on local news and can be downloaded (along with another local news clip) at http://nursingadvocacy.org/press/coverage/profiles.html#heart_attack
El Toro’s Fry Bread pictures via Skinnyboy
El Toro’s pictures of the Fry Bread contest at the Arizona State Fair can be viewed at Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane’s flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lookatthis/sets/72157594364360900/
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