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Johnnie Excel has a blog entry and video about breaking the record for the Pho 20 Challenge at OB Noodle House in Ocean Beach, California.
Stephanie Wu has a blog entry and video about Saturday's hot dog eating contest at the Americna Festival in San Diego won by Stephanie Torres.
Stephanie Wu reports that Stephanie Torres won a hot dog eating contest at the American Festival in San Diego by eating 14 hot dogs in 5 minutes. Johnnie Excel was the runner-up with 12.
Johnnie Excel sets two eating challenge records
The facebook for Johnnie Excel announces that he set two challenge records this weekend. He finished the Iron Man challenge omelet at the Broken Yolk in 13 minutes and ate 60 plates of sushi at Sushilicious.
Stephanie Torres was not allowed to attempt to break the women’s record since only one record attempt per day is allowed at Sushilicious. She will attempt the record on Wednesday and finished a 5 pound burrito in 14 minutes at La Casa Garcia in Anaheim as a replacement challenge.
A cannoli eating contest at the Little Italy Fiesta in San Diego on October 10 will award a $250 American Express gift card to the winner.
Jessica "JigsawMofo" has uploaded a video of her becoming the first female to finish the the Iron Man omelet at The Broken Yolk in San Diego. She has also posted a video of her recent attempt at the B3 Burrito in Las Vegas, which she believes was considerably more massive than the listed six pound weight.
Red Cup Yogurt in Oceanside, CA (San Diego area) will hold an eating contest on August 28 where competitors will try to eat a gallon of yogurt as fast as possible. The contest purse is $300.
Jessica "JigsawMofo" announced on the Man vs. Food facebook wall that she became the first woman to complete the Iron (Wo)man Challenge 12 egg omelet at the Broken Yolk in San Diego.
Joey Chestnut's hot dog record attempt at Lucha Libre Taco Shop is mentioned in BlogCritics diary of the Comic Con in San Diego.
VolitionTube has a video of the Guinness Mars bars record eating attempt by Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus.
OneSweetKiss, Lance Thomas and Gordon Miller report that Joey Chestnut ate 30 Tijuana style hot dogs at Lucha Libre while in San Diego for the Mars bar contest.
Pat almost doubles Joey @ Red Faction Mars Bars contest
The contest should start at 2 pm Pacific, 5 pm eastern.
update The results have been posted:
1) Pat Bertoletti 38 Mars bars
2) Joey Chestnut 20
3) Tim Janus 10
This is probably Joey Chestnut’s biggest percentage margin of defeat. (Joey ate 32 HDB in the 2005 Nathan’s finals to Kobayashi’s 49)
update Pat wore the Evel Knievel costume that he wanted to wear at the Nathan’s finals.
update #2 Pat and Joey tied in the world record attempt with 3 Mars bars in a minute. This is considerably less than Bertoletti’s 7.6 bars / minute pace in the contest.
GettyImages has some event pictures.
update #3 Red Faction has a video of the record attempts
IFOCE.com has details about the Red Faction: Armageddon Mars Bar Eating World Championship in San Diego Thursday. Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus will attempt to break the one minute Mars Bars Guinness record before competing in a five minute contest.
Joey Chestnut will attempt to break the record for the most Mars bars consumed in one minute at the Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 22. Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus will also be present at the event.
Frogger561 has more videos of the Escondido, CA Nathan's qualifier.
Crazy Legs Conti wins Escondido Nathan’s qualifier
update July 1 The sports / athlete gossip blog Deadspin did a post about the controversy after receiving a tip from Dave Wagner “Sam” containing this quote from Rich Shea:
The officials at this particular qualifier reviewed Crazy Legs Conti’s eating area and determined a deduction should be made for detritus. After the deduction, Conti’s total was still enough to win the event. The ruling stands and Conti will compete in Coney Island on July 4th.
update June 30 Sammy Bee served as a contest judge and emailed a post contest picture of Conti’s plate & cups:
update June 29 Space Pirate Queen has a flickr gallery with videos of the contest
update June 28 pt 2 Runner-up Adrian Morgan has posted a comment.
update June 28 Dave Wagner has posted the uncut video to youtube Part 1 | Part 2
update #4 NC Times has an article
update #3 DL Wagner has a blog entry and video from the qualifier focusing on Crazy Legs Conti.
update #2 The OC Register has an article
update The MLE facebook has the top 5 (Part 1 | Part 2 )
1) Crazy Legs Conti 25
2T) Adrian Morgan 22
2T) Brian Subich 22
4) Damon Wells 21
5) Ron Koch 19
? Shawn Kirby 9
OCRegister has a preview of the Nathan’s qualifier in Escondido, California listing Shawn Kirby, Damon Wells, Crazy Legs Conti and Adrian Morgan as expected entrants.
Kevin Ross and Matt Cohen will also compete and did an interview on the Scott and BR show. (podcast)
Man vs. Food June 16 (San Diego) episode links
Travel Channel episode guide | slideshow
Restaurants
- Broken Yolk Cafe Challenge – Iron Man 12 egg omelet
Home Page | Facebook | Yelp
Video of “The Great Moomsi” (from the Hartford episode) attempting the challenge
Pictures of Ben Monson setting the challenge record of 11 minutes - Phil’s BBQ meal – Dinosaur Sized Ribs
Home Page | Facebook | Yelp
Blog entry about the filming at Phil’s - Lucha Libre Gourmet Taco Shop meal – Surfin’ California Burrito
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Episode clip about the burrito
Lucha Libre has a TJ Hot Dog challenge. Ben Monson is also the record holder for that challenge
List of San Diego eating challenges in the eatfeats database.
The San Diego Source lists Crazy Legs Conti and Kevin Ross as expected entrants in the June 26 Nathan's qualifier in Escondido, California.
NBCSanDiego did an article about Michael Luong finishing a 38 ounce steak at Bully's East.
Fox 5 San Diego has a short interview with David Mills, winner of the San Diego RA Sushi Maki Madness tournament. Greg "The Floss" Moss was another finalist.
Trevor Iordanides has a blog entry about competing in December's Jose's Flauta Eating Championship in La Jolla, California.
RA Sushi in San Diego will hold a Maki Madness sushi eating tournament on March 21.
Kimberly Carrasco and Brianna claim to have seen Adam Richman attempting the omelet challenge for an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food at the Broken Yolk yesterday.
Man vs. Food @ Phil’s BBQ in San Diego Tuesday?
Dining Out SD has more information about Man vs. Food recording at Phil’s BBQ in San Diego Tuesday.
update The facebook post has been removed without explanation. It is still on the DiningOutSD twitter. Commenters in a yelp thread say there will be no recording Tuesday.
update #2 An email was sent out to members of Phil’s mailing list and the event is mentioned in another yelp post. It is not clear if members of the general public will be allowed to attend.
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