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This post is not about a Las Vegas IFOCE member winning a contest while having the “munchies”. 😉 OCRegister reports that 5 high school students from Orange County won an eating contest by eating 154 chicken nuggets in three minutes.

In another chicken nugget eating contest, the blog for 850 sportsradio in North Carolina reports that a McNugget eating contest was held between two members of its sales staff.

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The San Jose Mercury blog reports that Joey Chestnut judged a hot dog eating contest at half time of the basketball game between San Jose State and Santa Clara. The blog entry is about the author getting an autograph from Joey.

I told him a friend of mine was a fan (again: not totally sure about this now), and I asked for his autograph.

I also told him I work at the Merc (at least until my editors read this) and was covering the game (full disclosure is always best).

For good measure, I asked if he is currently enrolled at SJSU.

“Yeah, but I’m only taking two classes,” he said. Then he paused and kinda half-grinned. “I do other things.”

66 dogs in 12 minutes — I’d say that qualifies as “other things.”

J.C. was really, really nice, and very polite, and he happily signed the autograph (FYI: he’s lefthanded).

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The chili cheese fries eating contest held at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA was the most lucrative IFOCE event on the west coast in 2006 and 2007. The good news for the future of that contest is the recent emergence of the contest site from bankruptcy after selling to a group of investors called “Save Our Queen.” The bad news is the new owners might have different priorities for the marketing budget.

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The University of California at Davis dedicated their halftime show to SJSU student Joey Chestnut when they played at San Jose State University in September.

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The San Jose Mercury has a new article about 99 year old Bozo Miller, listed by Guinness at the “world’s greatest trencherman” when that book had an eating records section.

No one could eat or drink like Bozo, and he took on all comers. He once ate 27 two-pound chickens in a row. He drank two quarts of liquor in an hour, chug-a-lugging each quart separately. Both feats landed him in Guinness.

Such drinking could kill a man. But everyone Bozo knew at his age, even those who observed sensible diets and drank moderately, is dead.

Bozo – no one calls him Eddie or Miller – is the last of Oakland’s true characters. When he managed to push back from the table, he was a bookie, a gambler, a fight manager and a restaurateur.

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The Spartan, the newspaper of San Jose State University, has a long article about Joey Chestnut, who will be in Myrtle Beach this weekend:

Even when he’s not participating in an eating contest, Chestnut’s plate is always full.

For 38-to-40 hours a week, Chestnut works as a project engineer for Gonsalves & Stronck Construction, a San Carlos-based company.

His class load, though only six units this semester, includes a construction law and a fluid dynamics course.

Yesterday, he competed in a barbecue ribs competition in Reno, and Saturday he will fly to Myrtle Beach, S.C. to see how many pulled pork sandwiches he can fit down his gullet.

“It’s tough,” Chestnut says. “School’s taken a little bit of a hit – more than I’ve wanted it to. I’m a part-time student almost since the start. I pay for everything myself.”

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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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Andrew “skinnyboy” Lane has a trip report and gallery from last Wednesday’s peanut butter & jelly eating sandwich at Knott’s Berry Farm in southern California.

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OCRegister.com reports that Joey Chestnut will not attend Wednesday’s Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwich eating contest at Knott’s Berry Farm, but Pat Bertoletti will.

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BusinessWire has a press release about the peanut butter & jelly sandwich eating contest to be held on August 8 at Knott’s Berry Farm. Spectators must purchase a ticket to the amusement park to view the contest. No expected eaters are listed.

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An IFOCE peanut butter & jelly sandwich eating contest will be held at Knott’s Berry Farm in southern California on August 8 to promote the start of the 2007 Drum Corps International Summer Music Games World Championships.

Registration opens tomorrow at noon eastern. The total purse is $3000.

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SFGate.com reports that Joey Chestnut threw the ceremonial first pitch at last night’s Rangers-As game in Oakland.

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(From SonyaTheBlackWidow.com) The KoreAm Journal has a long article about Sonya Thomas with coverage of the Long Beach chili cheese fries contest.

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MercuryNews.com has both an article and an editorial about Joey Chestnut’s quest to dethrone Kobayashi. The editorial makes the following proposal:

The city of Chestnut’s girth should do something to honor a famous resident. Since there is no big eating contest on the West Coast, there’s opportunity for San Jose. The city has spent millions of dollars bringing the Grand Prix auto race to town; it could get cheaper mileage by sponsoring Chestnut at an eat-off with burritos or Vietnamese spring rolls.

Tens of thousands would flood downtown restaurants. And those fans would surely know how to eat.

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AsianWeek has an article about last Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Daly City, CA, won by Rich LeFevre. The controversy about the size of the hot dogs is mentioned.

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From IFOCE.com

1. Rich LeFevre, 21 jumbo dogs (equivalent to 34 HDB)
2. Jason “Erbivore” Erb 9 jumbo dogs (equivalent to 16 HDB)
3. Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane, 8 jumbo dogs (equivalent to 14 HDB)

update Pat M has a flickr gallery

update #2 Song Monk has a livejournal entry with pictures and videos

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InsideBayArea.com has a preview of today’s Nathan’s qualifier in the San Francisco area. Bert Chi and Jake True are two locals who will take on Rich LeFevre.

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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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ContraCostaTimes.com has an article by Eric Louie about his participation in the asparagus eating contest last week. There are several quotes from winner Joey Chestnut:

“A lot of it’s building up tolerance,” says Chestnut, a down-to-earth 6-foot-1-inch 230-pound civil engineering college student from San Jose. Talking with me after the contest, Chestnut, 23, shows none of the arrogance that typifies competitors at the top of their game. He even apologizes for drinking my water during the competition.

To him, being a successful competitive eater is “really mental.” And he’s right, I learned. The food will fit, but the key is being able to resist gagging, which is kind of the body’s shut-off valve. The truth is, even as I was stuffing my face with more asparagus than many people eat in a season, my stomach was only at a third of my capacity. While the thought of eating and burps that taste of oily batter ruined my appetite until the next day, I did not throw up, or have to let loose in any way at a festival porta potty.

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Erik “The Red” Denmark has a report from Saturday’s fried asparagus eating contest in which he was runner up in his blog along with a flickr gallery of that event.

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