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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/
Erik “The Red” on Fry Bread
Erik “The Red” Denmark has a report from the Fry Bread contest at the Arizona State Fair in his blog.
Fry Bread video & AZCentral home page image
A video of the Fry Bread Eating Contest is availabe on the AZCentral videos page (under AZ Republic videos) and a picture of the contest is currently on the home page of azcentral.com
UPI has an article about the contest which says Rich LeFevre competed and Kobayashi ate 95 Krystal burgers yesterday.
Updated Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane competed (he thinks he finished 5th) and has a blog entry about the contest
Erik “The Red” wins AZ Fry Bread contest, Donahue 2nd
AZCentral reports that Erik “the Red” Denmark won yesterday’s Sky City Casino Fry Bread Eating Contest at the Arizona State Fair. Jed Donahue was 2nd. Jason Erb took 3rd place according to a result entered into the eatfeats database. Congratulations to Erik for winning his first non-qualifier contest.
1. Erik Denmark 9.75 fry bread slices in 8 minutes
2. Jed Donahue 8.5
3. Jason “The Erbivore” Erb 6.5
Also listed as competing:
Jeremiah “El Toro” Jimenez, Frank “Fraggle” Wach, Russell “The Black Hole” Blackwell, Shane McBride and Ralph Cunningham
Massagany / Misogyny at Heart Attack Grill?
The East Valley Tribune has an article about the Heart Attack Grill’s dispute with nursing organizations in which the owner of the restaurant, Jon Busso is quoted as saying “To say there is any massagany (sic) here is absolutely ridiculous”
It is somewhat difficult to accept the denial of misogyny in light of the restaurant’s blog entry for October 25:
The entire Grill was taken aback at the sight of this woman as she literally decimated a Quadruple Bypass Burger in front of our very eyes. Every macho man at the bar suddenly gave up his chauvinistic preconceptions of meat being a “man’s game” when she put us all to shame.
SADLY THOUGH, we found out that she was cheating! It turns out that she’s four months pregnant, so it’s obvious the little guy inside of her was helping her eat all that beef in record time. Our Quadruple Bypass Burger challenge is a sport of honor among gentlemen. Her cheating brought such disgrace to the Grill that we had to take her out back and work her over a bit. Hey, I know what you’re all thinking, but we confined our punches to the upper rib cage section to avoid the fetus. I mean we’re not Barbarians for Christ sakes!
Absolutely hilarious, if you find violence against pregnant women a laughing matter. The claims of male superiority in meat eating are difficult to accept given that Sonya Thomas is the only person to win the 9 pound Barrick Burger contest and Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss are the only people to complete Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 96er burger. Closer to the Grill, 115 pound Becky White of Tucson has completed the 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan Grill.
The nurses have put out a press release detailing their grievances against the restaurant.
Expected AZ Fry Bread entrants
IFOCE.com has a preview of Saturday’s Fry Bread eating contest at the Arizona State Fair. Jed Donahue will return to the Grand Canyon State after destroying the Heart Attack Grill’s Quadruple Bypass Burger record. Erik “The Red” Denmark, Frank Wach and “El Toro” Jimenez are expected. Fry bread is powdered sugar covered deep fried flat dough.
Nurses to picket Heart Attack Grill
The Heart Attack Grill’s news page says that the Center for Nursing Advocacy is attempting to organize picketing for that restaurant in which customers will be handed a pamphlet protesting the nurses outfits the restaurant’s waitresses wear.
Jed Donahue breaks Quadruple Bypass Burger record
Jed Donahue announced in the comments that he broke the record for the Quadruple Bypass Burger at the Heart Attack Grill with a time of 5:39. Jed’s claim was verified by Dr. Jon of the grill. Joey Chestnut announce that he expects to visit the grill in October, so Jed’s record might not last an extremely long time. The grill’s website should have more information soon.
Heart Attack Grill calls out IFOCE
While many fast food restaurants are promoting the healthiness of some of their menu items, the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona has gone in the opposite direction and calls its main offering “bypass burgers”. Those sandwiches can have up to two pounds of meat. The restaurant’s main gimmick is having its waitresses wear nurse outfits. The Arizona Board of Nurses has threatened a lawsuit against the restaurant. The restaurant has an extensive Wikipedia entry which is under threat of deletion
The grill does not have an eat it quickly and get it for free challenge, but it does have an Alpha Male Monday, in which a member of a party of four or more can get a free meal. There is a “Hall of Fame” on the restaurant website.
The Heart Attack Grill has a proto-blog which records happenings at the restaurant. In the June 2006 archives, the grill laid down a challenge to the IFOCE:
In fact, I still issue an open challenge to Kobayashi, The Black Widow (An “Honorary Guy” in anyone’s book), Joey Chestnut and the rest of those hotdog eating wussies at the IFOCE. Simrin is our King and there’s no questioning his superiority for the simple reason that he’s the world’s only competitive eating artist who works with the MANLY MEDIUM of the Quadruple Bypass Burger. The rest of the other sissies eat little wimpy hot dogs.
Skinnyboy’s Tempe trip
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has posted a travelog of his trip to Tempe for the Nathan’s qualifier on his blog.
Urban Honking Tempe interviews
Liz has posted interviews with Rich LeFevre from before the Tempe qualifier and Erik “the Red” Denmark from after the contest.
Updated 11:48 pm Erik Denmark has a blog entry about the contest
East Valley Tribune reports from Arizona Mills qualifier
The East Valley Tribune has a writeup of yesterday’s Nathan’s qualifier at Arizona Mills Mall in Tempe. Top local Russell Blackwell is quoted.
Rich LeFevre wins Tempe with 28 HDB
Andrew Lane has a blog entry about the Tempe Nathan’s qualifier he competed in today. He claims that the top four finishers of that event are:
1. Rich LeFevre 28 hot dogs & buns
2. Erik “the Red” Denmark 19 HDB
3. Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane 14 HDB (officially credited with 9 HDB)
4. Russell “The Black Hole” Blackwell (from Arizona) 13 HDB
updated 10:33 pm – removed “judging error” from Andrew Lane’s result
updated June 4 10:00 am – fixed Russell Blackwell’s name
Tempe Nathan’s qualifier preview
The Arizona Reporter has a preview of Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Tempe. Rich LeFevre and Ron Koch are expected. Erik Denmark and Andrew Lane have also announced they plan to attend.
Fiesta Bowl 7 pound burger contest
The East Valley Tribune has an article about a 7 pound burger eating contest between teams of consisting of three fans from Notre Dame and Ohio State. Both teams failed to finish the burger, (which is smaller than the burger that Sonya Thomas finished in 48 minutes in the Barrick burger contest) but the Notre Dame team was awarded victory because it finished more of the burger.
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