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Another bodybuilding.com poster is seeking teammates for the 54 inch square pizza challenge offered by Big Mama’s and Papa’s Pizzeria in Los Angeles

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(from RJ Frasca) On the Major League Eating Facebook page:

World hot dog-eating champion Joey Chestnut and arch-rival Takeru Kobayashi will face off on Saturday, May 30, 2009, in one of the greatest battle of their careers: The Pizza Hut P’Zone Chow-lenge. The five-minute event featuring the monster 12″-inch, one-pound P’Zones will take place at Sony Studios in Los Angeles, and portions of the contest will be aired on SpikeTV’s Guys Choice Awards in June.

Kobayashi was to participate in a P’Zone exhibition in 2007 but declined due to “jawthritis”. Joey Chestnut took his place (video)

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A posting on craigslist has the following request:

If you have ever competed in a professional eating contest… we might want to book you on our new show.

The only other information is that no compensation will be provided. The name or other details about the show are not listed.

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A video about a quartet of diners’ attempt to finish the 54 inch square pizza from Big Mama’s & Papa’s Pizzeria in Los Angeles has been uploaded to youtube. Captures from the video can be viewed after the jump.

A youtube page about the pizza has been set up. One of the captions of the videos says that a team of five that finishes the 54 inch pizza in under two hours will receive $1000.

The pizzeria is located on 5051 Hollywood Boulevard. (Van Halen fans might know that 5150 refers to a section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code allowing for involuntary confinement of the mentally ill.)

Another new team pizza challenge for four diners is available at Premier Pizza in Oakdale, Minnesota.

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The creators of some giant burgers are not satisfied with having hamburger as the only type of meat in their sandwiches. The Hawkins House of Burgers (several Los Angeles area locations) Special Burger contains 3 eight ounce hamburger patties, 2 hot links, bacon and pastrami along with 3 fried eggs (picture). The Gangster Burger, offerred by the Rice Street Deli in Saint Paul, Minnesota, contains two half pound hamburger patties, three 6 ounce steaks, a half pound of Italian beef and a half pound of gyro meat. Neither restaurant appears to offer any award or recognition to diners who successfully complete one of their huge burgers.

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Big Mama’s & Papa’s Pizza has a 54 inch square pizza available at its Hollywood Boulevard location. The pizza is listed as the largest delivered pizza in the world and the price is $199.99. The restaurant also has a 36 inch pizza available.

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Craigslist has a posting requesting competitors for a pizza eating contest to be held tomorrow morning at the Playboy Radio studio in Los Angeles. The winner will judge a sexy costume contest with Playboy models.

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• Behind the scenes video at the gyoza contest
• Megamunch’s report from the whoopie pie contest. Ian Hickman threepeated.
• Article and video about the beanie burger eating contest at the Texas-Oklahoma fair
• Doc Chey’s noodle eating contest in Atlanta October 5. Dale Boone won last year’s contest
• Possible entrees for a restaurant specializing in competitive eating challenges.

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• Erik Denmark will attempt to break the salmon eating record on the radio today
• Liz K has a baby boy
• Badlands Booker’s twitter announces the Krystal Square Off rap
• Erik Denmark notices that a caption of a picture of Barack Obama reports he was watching the Nathan’s finals
• Interview of Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti at the gyoza contest

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• Nisei Week gyoza galleries: Space Pirate Queen, Mamba909
• WLOCE hot dog contest gallery
• Erik Denmark on competitive eating in the Olympics
• Kevin Ross performs an eating exhibition at the Pimp and Ho Show
• Quakertown, PA pizza contest Saturday, $350 purse

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Please place results from the gyoza eating contest held during the Nisei Week Festival in Los Angeles in the comments of this thread. The contest was supposed to start at 12:30 Pacific (3:30 eastern)

update results from “LA Assassin”
Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 231 New world record
Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti 201
Rich “Locust” LeFevre 175
Tim “Gravy” Brown 135 I think
Kevin “007” Ross 107
LA Assassin 75
Shawn Kirby 56
Franklin Teng 47

update sklathill has a gallery of the contest with 6 video clips

update #2 mrmurayama competed in the contest and has a blog entry about it.

update #3 A contest video and official results are now available

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(from hungrysisters) The website for the Sun Fun Festival has a list of entrants in the Pork Barbecue Sandwich Eating Contest. Half of the current IFOCE top 10 is expected: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Hall Hunt and Juliet Lee.

Cory Hayashi has emailed the list of competitors for the gyoza eating contest that will take place on August 23 at the Nisei Week Japanese Festival in Los Angeles: Pat Bertoletti (#2), Rich LeFevre (#7), Erik Denmark (#12), Tim Brown (#13), Kevin Ross (#29), El Toro (#41), and Shawn Kirby (#48). Actresss Miki Mia (The 40 Year Old Virgin) and the 2007 Nisei Week Queen and Court will also compete.

Mike Nafziger has emailed that Bob Shoudt will probably attend the Chattanooga qualifier and he might do an exhibition.

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Registration for the Nathan’s hot dog contest that will be held at the Saratoga horse racing track on August 18 is now open on IFOCE.com, which states that the contest will not be a qualifier for the 2009 finals, but the winner will receive a year’s supply of hot dogs.

In other IFOCE contest news, registration for the Los Angeles Nisei Week gyoza eating contest will open in about an hour. Sonya Thomas says she will not enter due to high travel costs (from comment)

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The Rafu Shimbon reports that a gyoza eating contest will be held on August 23 at the Nisei Week Festival in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. In 2006, the festival held an IFOCE gyoza contest. This year’s contest will probably also be an IFOCE event because the article says that national food eaters will participate.

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Sports Illustrated recently made its entire archive free. Some competitive eating articles from the last 5 years follow:

• 2008 – article about Wing Bowl 16
• 2007 – Rick Reilly dines with Joey Chestnut in the LA Dodgers all you can eat section
• 2007 – Nathan’s preview about Joey Chestnut
• 2007 – list of IFOCE records
• 2006 – paragraph about planned Wing Bowl movie
• 2006 – Steve Rushin column containing the “degree of a lazy susan” metaphor
• 2004 – post-Nathan’s article

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Metromix has a gallery of the August 18 tofu eating contest in Los Angeles. One of the pictures is captioned:

Danny Meza ultimately came in third behind the winner Jim Donahue who Hoover-sucked his tofu in 16 seconds. Still, he won a half-day fishing trip (2nd place received a 3/4-day trip) which is not bad at all.

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This gallery of the Los Angeles Tofu Festival says that the winner of the tofu eating contest needed only 16 seconds to finish the block of tofu. The winner’s name is not listed.

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The LAist blog has a report from this morning’s donut eating contest at Randy’s Donuts held to promote the DVD release of CHiPs. James Donohue won the contest, finishing his 18 donuts before any other eater could finish a dozen. A contest video and post contest interview with Donohue are available.

update CelebrityMound has some pictures

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The LAist blog has an entry about the donut eating contest to be held tomorrow morning at Randy’s Donuts to promote the DVD release of CHiPs.

Randys-Donuts.com has a webcam of the restaurant. Hopefully it will broadcast the contest.

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(from Courtney Jacobs) A donut eating contest will be held at Randy’s Donuts in Inglewood, CA (Los Angeles area) on the morning of June 5 to promote the release of the first season of CHiPs on DVD. Former CHiPs star Erik Estrada will be the contest judge. The winner will be the first person to eat 18 donuts. Participants will be chosen from the first ten entrants to appear at Randy’s Donuts on the morning of the contest and must be residents of California. Contest eligibility, entrance rules and prizes follow:

ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS. MAXIMUM TEN (10) ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS. 1. ELEGIBILITY: CHIPS DVD Promotion Donut Eating Contest (“Contest”) is open to individuals eighteen (18) years of age or older who are legal residents of the state of California. Contestants must be present at event in order to enter. Employees and their immediate families (spouse, parents, children, siblings, and their respective spouses), including household members, of Time Warner, Inc. or any subsidiaries or affiliated companies including Warner Home Video, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. (“Sponsor”) are not eligible to enter or win

HOW TO ENTER: To enter, go to the “Donut Eating” event at Randy’s Donuts on Tuesday, June 5, 2007, by 9:00 AM PDT and be one of the first ten (10) eligible participants in the “Donut Eating Contest” line designated as such.

PRIZES: GRAND PRIZE to the winner (1): Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500) (payment to be made in the form of a check payable to winner within four (4) to six (6) weeks after the end of the Contest). FIRST PRIZE to the first runner-up (1): Portable DVD Player (prize to be awarded the day of the Contest). Total Estimated Retail Value of Prize: (U.S.) One Hundred Seventy-Five Dollars ($175). SECOND PRIZE to the second runner-up (1) “Chips: The Complete First Season DVD” signed by Erik Estrada. Total Estimated Retail Value of Prize: (U.S.) Thirty-Nine Dollars and Ninety-Eight Cents ($39.98).

A website with contest information can be found at http://www.myspace.com/chipscontest

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The Wall Street Journal has an article about the all you can eat section at Dodger Stadium claiming that the average hot dog consumption in that area is 2.5 hot dogs / person. The section has sold out 8 of 18 games this season. Two Philadelphia teams are considering adding all you can eat sections.

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A clip of an egg eating contest from MTV’s “Adventures in Hollyhood” can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=9IORDGSsIdY

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The Los Angeles Times has a column about Jed Donahue. If Jed makes the Nathan’s finals, he does not expect to repeat his one hot dog performance:

Donahue’s sampling, though limited, showed his fans that he’s going to change his strategy for the competition this July 4 at Coney Island, in which several thousand dollars in prizes will be offered. Last year, when the winning mark was 53 hot dogs, Donahue ate a total of … one.

In other Los Angeles news, sbsun.com has an article about the opening of the Dodgers all you can eat section.

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