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The Manteca Bulletin has a report about the first two person team two attempt the 30 inch "Big Kahuna" pizza challenge at the 8 Buck Pizza Truck in Manteca, CA.
Ken Douglas appeared on Good Day Sacramento this morning to attempt the burger challenge at Chuck's Place Sports Cafe in Manteca, CA (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)
The Grizzly Rock Cafe in Turlock, CA will hold a 3 pound burger eating contest tomorrow awarding $500 to the winner. Entrants need to qualify by eating a 2 pound burger.

Matt Stonie defeats Joey at Asparagus Festival, Miki Sudo 3rd

update May 1 Matt Stonie has posted a video

update April 28 Matt Stonie has a facebook gallery

Recordnet.com has an article

Official results: (Part 2)
1) Matt Stonie 9.5 lb. first victory over Joey Chestnut in 11 contests
2) Joey Chestnut 8 lb.
3) Miki Sudo 7.5 lb.
4) Steve Hendry 4
5) Jesse O’Con 2
5) Dax Swanson 2
7) Tony 1.75
8) Ken Douglas 1.5
9) Michael Stephenson

update Matt Stonie reportedly won the contest. (picture)

Joey Chestnut has a five contest winning streak. Miki Sudo has at least a 6 contest winning streak.

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Matt Stonie previews competing in the Stockton Asparagus Festival on Saturday. He has also posted his second question & answer video.
Registration for the April 27 deep fried asparagus eating contest at the Stockton, CA Asparagus Festival will open today at 3pm Pacific / 6pm eastern.
RecordNet has an article about the 6 pound burrrito challenge at the Vintage Sports Grill in Lodi, CA which has not been finished in under 45 minutes.
Stockton, California will declare bankruptcy after stopping payments on its bonds. This might impact the Stockton Asparagus Festival and the deep-fried asparagus eating contest that was held during that event.
Get Stuffed TV is a new series focusing on bizarre international contests that will debut July 3 on OLN. The program will record an attempt at the the chicken fried steak challenge at Wine Country Casino & Restaurant in Lodi, CA on Friday. The only finisher displayed on the challenge facebook gallery is an unnamed woman.
Meredith "Deep Fried Diva" Boxberger has produced a video about her trip to California to compete in the deep fried asparagus eating contest at the Stockton Asparagus Festival.
The Stockton Record has an article and four pictures about last month's deep fried asparagus eating contest.

Joey Chestnut threepeats Asparagus Fest, Stonie 2nd, Bertoletti 3rd

update May 4 Matt Stonie has a blog entry, short video and long video

update May 2 Recordnet.com has a gallery and LA Beast has a video.

update Apr 29 Matt Stonie has a gallery and mikeyoung0, Dave301978 and AnneDeher (Part 1 | Part 2) have videos

update 5:00 Official results are available (Part 1 | Part 2)

update 4:16
1) Joey Chestnut 8 lb 5 oz 3rd victory in a row, 7 out of 8
2) Matt Stonie 7 lb 14 oz, first victory over Chestnut, Bertoletti or Janus
3) Pat Bertoletti 6 lb 11 oz
4) Adrian Morgan 6 lb 9 oz
5) Meredith Boxberger 4 lb 14 oz
6) Kevin “LA Beast” 4 lb 3 oz

update 4:06 The contest is over and results have yet to be announced. Phil Stevenson thinks Joey Chestnut probably won.

update 3:45 The contest has started. Phil Stevenson is posting pictures.

The contest was supposed to start at noon Pacific, 3 pm eastern, but has apparently not started.

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The Modesto Bee has an article about Joey Chestnut's defense of his asparagus title at the Stockton Asparagus Festival on Saturday.
The Manteca Bulletin has a preview of the deep fried asparagus eating contest at the Stockton Asparagus Festival on April 28.
Phat Hogs in Oakdale, CA (Stockton area) will hold a slider eating contest with men's & women's divisions on Saturday awarding a 3 month VIP membership to Golds Gym.
The blog for the Stockton Asparagus Festival has an entry listing the expected entrants in the deep fried asparagus eating contest on April 28. update fields for the Rhythm City catfish eating contest in Davenport, IA on March 24 and the cupcake eating contest at the Isle Casino in Waterloo, Iowa on April 24 have also been announced.
Registration for the deep fried asparagus eating contest at the Asparagus Fest in Stockton, CA will open tomorrow on ifoce.com at 3pm eastern.
A picture of Joey Chestnut competing in the Stockton Asparagus Festival made Clifford Otto's top 12 list of his favorite photographs of 2011.
Don Sturdy has videos of interviews with Pat Bertoletti and Adrian Morgan conducted at the Stockton Asparagus Festival. update Don Sturdy has added an interview with Joey Chestnut.

Joey Chestnut sets Asparagus Festival record, Matt Stonie 3rd

update Apr 20 Johnnie Excel has a blog entry about the contest.

update Apr 18 #2 Edward Marcel has some videos Part 1 | Part 2

update Apr 18 Don Sturdy has a video

update Apr 17 RecordNet has an article and the Times Herald has an article confusing the 2010 and 2011 results which lists Ben Monson as the runner-up.

11:33 RecordNet has a video and Don Sturdy has a blog entry and gallery.
Podcast Stockton has a blog entry with video and a gallery.

4:05 The top 8 according to the eating contest twitter

1) Joey Chestnut 9lbs 5.2 oz, new record, 6th victory in 7 years
2) Pat Bertoletti 7lbs 3.5 oz
3) “megatoad” Matt Stonie 6lbs 12 oz, MLE debut
4) Adrian Morgan 6lbs 8 oz
5) Erik Denmark 5 lbs
6) Kevin Ross 4 lbs 12 oz
7) Cameron Birdwell 4 lbs
8) Ryan McKillop 3 lbs 2 oz

3:39 The eating contest twitter reports that Joey Chestnut appears to have won.

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AsparagusFest.com has a list of expected entrants in the April 16 deep fried asparagus eating contest. Joe Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti are expected to compete.
Matt Stonie reports that he was wait-listed for the contest at the Stockton Asparagus Festival. The field will have at least one unranked competitor; Riona received a slot.

March & April 2011 IFOCE contests

The MLE facebook announces the return of Atlantic City King Cake (March 8), the Palm Beach Sweet Corn (April 16) and Stockton, CA asparagus (April 17) contests.

A poster on the Man v Food forum announces that Toojay’s Deli in Palm Beach Florida will hold its second corned beef eating contest on March 17. The purse for the professional contest will reportedly be $20,000 and $5,000 will be awarding in an amateur competition. No news of the 2011 contest is available on http://www.facebook.com/TooJaysDeli (via Wild Bill email)

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Delta Sun Times has a blog entry about Matt Stonie's victory in an eating contest at Straw Hat Pizza in Discovery Bay, CA. (via runner-up Ken Douglas)
Straw Hat Pizza in Discovery Bay, CA (Stockton area) will hold an eating contest on November 6 awarding $500 to the winner ($25 registration fee).
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