Upcoming San Jose eating contests
San Jose eating challenges
(All San Jose eating challenges and contests in database)
Ben Monson has posted some pictures from his recent trip to Northern California where he set records for the Kitchen Sink sundae (7:45) for Pizza Party Belly Buster (6:05, halving Erik Denmark's previous record) and for an 8 pound burrito.
(From Paul Barlow) San Jose Citysearch has a list of "Practice Spots for Competitive Eaters" in the San Francisco Bay Area.
MercuryNews reports that Joey Chestnut will participate in the Tour de French Fry on August 2, in which cyclists will travel to San Jose fast food restaurants and sample their fries. Four slots are available to the highest bidder. Proceeds will go to buy bike helmets for children.
mrak75 has uploaded a gallery of Joey Chestnut's final pre-Nathan's practice at the Campbell, CA Hooter's last night.
The blog for Pizza Party Restaurant reports that Hall "Hoover" Hunt won $100 after finishing the Pepperoni^4 Belly Buster pizza. update PurrDayWithKittys also has a blog entry about the challenge
Pete Davekos wins final Nathan’s qualifier
The contest was apparently moved to San Jose State according to ratlhead’s gallery.
It’s probably a safe assumption that the runner-up of today’s San Bruno qualifier will eat more than 11 HDB that last year’s second place finisher did.
$100 will now be awarded to a diner who completes the Belly Buster pizza challenge at Pizza Party in Santa Clara if the pizza is topped with pepperoni, pepperoni Bagel Bites, pepperoni Pizza Rolls and pepperoni Hot Pockets.
Cameron "Consumption" McKirdy has uploaded his second video from his trip to Northern California with footage of Badlands Booker attempting the Burritozilla and the challenge pizza at Pizza Party.
The blog for Pizza Party reports that Erik Denmark broke Joey Chestnut's record of 17 minutes for the Belly Buster Pizza challenge with a time of 12:30. A picture
The San Jose State student newspaper has a profile of Joey Chestnut with quotes from Joey's former girlfriend.
SpartanDailyPhoto has a slideshow of Joey Chestnut's victory at the funnel cake eating contest held at Great America. Joey Chestnut will be the subject of a profile in the SJSU student newspaper next week.
Two of the restaurants featured on Extreme Fast Food on the Travel Channel tomorrow night at 9 pm have eating challenges: Voodoo Doughnuts (the Tex-Ass challenge) and Cluck U Chicken (911 hot wings)
Lily "Miss Busy Lady" Pham and Bear Silber have posted blog entries about the funnel cake eating contest.
The Wave Magazine has an article about San Jose eating challenges which mentions the Burritozilla and the Belly Buster Pizza. Reportedly 15 to 20 people a day have been ordering the Burritozilla since it appeared on Man vs. Food
Furious Pete eats 4 lb. burrito in 40 sec for documentary
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski reports he ate a four pound burrito in 40 seconds in a bodybuilding.com forum thread. The feat was recorded for a documentary about his life.
Another poster in the thread says he saw Joey Chestnut and three friends (probably funnel cake competitors) eat Burritozillas at Iguana’s last night. The fastest time was 1:39.
twitter.com/erikdenmark: Joey Chestnut wins funnel cake
update #3 The San Jose Mercury has an article and Bear Silber has a blog entry containing several videos.
update #2 Full results have been posted on IFOCE.com
update Funnel cake results according to http://twitter.com/erikdenmark/status/1499175294:
1. Joey Chestnut 5.4 lb
2. Pat Bertoletti 4.7
3. Bob Shoudt 4.12
4. Erik Denmark 3.56
5. Nate Biller 2.7
6. Kevin Ross 2.5
? Sean Kirby
? Lily Pham
Erik Denmark will be posting updates from today’s funnel cake eating contest at http://twitter.com/erikdenmark He expects Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Nate Biller and Nic Fry to also compete.
The San Francisco Chronicle has an interview with Joey Chestnut about tomorrow's funnel cake eating contest at Great America.
The San Jose Mercury reports that spectators to Saturdays funnel cake eating contest at Great America will need to purchase tickets to the theme park.
A press release about the funnel cake eating contest to be held at the Great America theme park in California is available. Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti are expected entrants and the purse will be $5,000.
Some new videos from Joey Chestnut's macaroni & cheese record: a video of the entire contest | a post-contest interview
Joey Chestnut finishes Burritozilla in 3:10
A twitter update reports Joey Chestnut finished a Burritozilla from Iguana’s Taqueria in 3 minutes and 10 seconds on tonight’s episode of Man vs. Food
updateFrom “I” comment – Skinnyboy has uploaded Joey Chestnut’s segment to youtube. Here are some captures from it:
Man vs. Food March 4 (San Jose) links
Episode slideshow | picture of Joey Chestnut on TravelChannel.com
- Smoke Eaters (formerly University Chicken) 911 hot wing challenge
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Cooking for Engineers blog entry about a 911 Challenge attempt
SJSU student newspaper article about restaurant - Iguana’s Tacqueria meal: 5 pound Burritozilla
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SJSU student paper article about a 2004 Burritozilla contest
SJSU student paper profile of Joey Chestnut mentioning his victory in the 2004 contest
Pat Bertoletti’s records page reports he has the best Burritozilla time - Henry’s Hi Life
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Joey Chestnut on Man vs. Food home page
(From “I”/dogsarefunyes) A picture of Joey Chestnut, apparently eating a Burritozilla from Iguana’s Taqueria, is on the home page of Man vs. Food. Next week’s episode will feature restaurants from San Jose.
The San Jose Stealth's game report for last night's contest vs. Colorado mentions that Joey Chestnut ate 10.5 pounds of macaroni & cheese in 7 minutes during halftime, beating his goal by a half a pound.
Joey Chestnut interview on 107.7 “The Bone”
Youtube has an interview Joey Chestnut did on 107.7 FM “The Bone” Thursday to promote the macaroni & cheese contest at the San Jose Stealth game today: Part 1 | Part 2. Joey said he ate 47 slices of pizza in the Famous Famiglia contest (it was actually 45), that Pat Bertoletti beats him 2 times a year and that matzo balls were his least favourite contest food.
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