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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).
Naader Reda has a blog entry about attempting the Madd Dogg burger at Andre's Cafe in Lodi, CA.
RecordNet has an article about Stockton, California area eating challenges with some quotes from Joey Chestnut.
Damon Wells has uploaded a video of the contest held at the Asparagus Festival in Stockton, CA.

Joey Chestnut wins 2010 Asparagus Festival, Monson 2nd

update April 26 RecordNet and News10 have articles, galleries and videos

Matt Beckwith (via comment) and MattyJ556 have flickr galleries

twitter.com/SlickDIaz: Final standings, 3. Bertoletti, 2. Ben Monson, 1. Chestnut with 8 lbs 7 oz

A picture of the results form

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News10 reports that Fagundes Meats in Manteca, California constructed a 250 pound burger, believed to be the largest ever in California.
Crawfish noted that the 2010 Deep Fried Asparagus Championship at the Stockton Asparagus Festival will take place on April 24.
Cameron "Consumption" McKirdy has produced a video about his road trip to Stockton for the Asparagus Festival eating contest.
Cameron "Consumption" McKirdy has uploaded a video from last weekend's eating contest at the Asparagus Festival
The Manteca Bulletin reports on the contest at the Asparagus Festival.

Joey Chestnut 3rd on Big Wallie Wall of Fame

Wallie’s Diner in Tracy, California has set up a web page about its “Big Wallie” burger challenge. The burger is almost 3 pounds and is free if finished in under 15 minutes. Joey Chestnut is #3 on the list of fastest finishers. The top 2 times are from 1999.

Wallie’s Diner also offers a 6 and 9 pound burger. A video of the 9 pound “Extreme Wallie” is available on Fox 40’s website.

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PodcastStockton: Bertoletti wins at Asparagus Fest

update #5 Photocalpyse has a blog entry with some pictures

update #4 NBCChicago has an article

update #3 The top 5 from IFOCE.com & http://twitter.com/erikdenmark/
1 Pat Bertoletti 7 lbs 5.81 ozs.
2 Joey Chestnut in 7 lbs 2.81 ozs.
3 Eric “Badlands” Booker 5.0 lbs
4 Erik Denmark ?
5 Nate Biller ?

This ends Joey Chestnut’s 4 year winning streak at the Asparagus Festival

update #2 PodcastStockton has the first report: “And the winner is Patrick “Deep Dish” #asparagus. That’s a lot of asparagus! 7.581lbs in 10 minutes”

update http://twitter.com/PodcastStockton is also at the contest

Badlands Booker reports that he has arrived in California and finished the Burritozilla last night with a time of 5:15, so hopefully we will have real time contest updates on http://twitter.com/BadlandsBooker or http://twitter.com/erikdenmark

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The list of competitors for this year's eating contest at the Stockton Asparagus Festival is available on asparagusfest.com

Chestnut vs. Bertoletti at Asparagus Festival

KCRA has a preview of the eating contest to be held at the Stockton Asparagus Festival next month. Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Erik Denmark and Eric “Badlands” Booker are listed as expected entrants.

The San Jose Mercury has an article about the Burritozilla which mentions Joey Chestnut completing it in 3 minutes and 10 seconds on a recent episode of Man vs. Food

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Link Buffet: January 21, 2009

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Pat posts about the asparagus contest

Pat Bertoletti has uploaded a blog entry to his group blog with Joey Chestnut at yardbarker.com in which he describes the end of the asparagus contest in Stockton from his perspective:

A point came with 1 minute remaining where the margin was 1 spear. It became obvious that I could take this contest in front of Joey’s home crowd. I saw victory and let it slip through my grasp. My brain knew the necessary means to achieve this yet a disconnect between brain and body function existed. It was a point of mental and physical failure as neither would respond in the dwindling seconds. Asparagus was forced in yet my body fought every attempt to let it pass down my esophagus. It’s provides evidence that Joey is a true champion; a champion knows how to coerce every ounce of drive and performance out of their body, doesn’t make excuses, and gets the job done.

Pat says his next contest will take place at the Minneapolis Nathan’s qualifier this Saturday. Unlike previous Minnesota qualifers which were held at the Mall of America, the upcoming contest will take place at Cub Foods Grocery Store in Apple Valley.

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Yardbarker blog entry about asparagus contest

Joey Chestnut has written an entry for his yardbarker blog about last Saturday’s contest at the Asparagus Festival in Stockton, CA. Joey is disappointed with his training and focus compared to 2007. He closes the entry with his thoughts on the official results:

In the end of this contest, I was given credit for eating 8.9 lbs of fried asparagus (I think I only ate about 8.3 lbs., and Pat was close behind). People that are new to Competitive Eating will learn that sometimes the numbers do not exactly add up, but it is rare for the actual placing to get screwed up. Pat did great and he would have edged me out, if there weren’t so many people pushing me to win in this contest. I don’t know if the video shows it, but I could feel myself respond to the cheers from the audience.

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Erik Denmark’s revised asparagus amounts

Erik Denmark has a blog entry about his participation in last Saturday’s asparagus eating contest in Stockton, California which contains what he believes are more accurate totals for the top four finishers:

1 – Joey Jaws Chestnut (1) – 8.25 lbs. (reported as 8.8), $1500
2 – Pat Deep Dish Bertoletti (2) – 8.125 lbs. (reported as 7.14) , $750
3 – Erik the Red Denmark (12) – 4.875 lbs. (reported as 4.75), $500
4 – Juris Dr Big Time Shibayama (17) – 4.625 lbs. (reported as 4.5)

(As noted in a previous post, Pat’s counter displayed 8 when the contest was over)

Erik also has a photo gallery of the contest.

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Asparagus contest videos

Ryan Spoon of berecruited.com attended Saturday’s asparagus eating contest in Stockton, CA and recorded three videos of the contest from the crowd.

update Deadspin has a blog entry about the video of Ryan Nerz’s pre-contest request to have competitive eating become an Olympic sport.

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Erik Denmark: Joey repeats in asparagus

Today’s results from the Stockton Asparagus Festival from erikdenmark.blogspot.com:

1 – Joey Chestnut 8.8 lb.
2 – Pat Bertoletti 7.14 lb.
3 – Erik Denmark 4.75 lb.
4 – Juris Shibayama 4.5 lb.
5 – Jason Erb
6 – Nate Biller
? – Eric Louie

update The top 4 have been updated with amounts from IFOCE.com

update #2 The Sacramento Bee and Record Net have articles about the contest. Record Net has a gallery (eating contest pictures begin at #59)

update #3 Video of KCRA’s coverage of the contest can be seen on youtube. Pat’s counter has 8 pounds when the contest ends (see above)

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Asparagus contest article and field

RecordNet.com has an article about Saturday’s eating contest at the Stockton Asparagus Festival.

Erik Denmark announces in a blog entry that he will be competing in the contest. This makes the known field:

Joey Chestnut
Pat Bertoletti
Erik Denmark
Juris Shibayama
Nathan Biller (from comment)
Eric Louie (reporter)

Other possible entrants:
Rich LeFevre
Kevin Ross
Jason Erb
Shawn Kirby
El Toro

Deadspin has a post about Joey & Pat’s new blog.

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Joey practices for asparagus contest

Joey Chestnut has posted a video to his yardbarker blog of him preparing for Saturday’s asparagus eating contest by eating 3 pounds of asparagus in 3 minutes. The video is also available on youtube. Joey makes the following prediction for the contest:

Pat is a great eater and whenever I get lazy he pulls off an upset. The chances of Pat walking away with a win in this contest are slim to none. I will let you all know how the contest goes down.

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222 pound California cheeseburger created

Competitors at the upcoming Stockton aspargus contest who would like to do a local eating challenge are in luck. KEYETV.com reports that Fat’s Grill and Bar in Stockton produced a 222 pound cheeseburger, which is reportedly the largest cheeseburger ever created in the Golden State. The article has video of the burger being cooked.

An episode of the Simpsons gave “California cheeseburger” an alternate definition.

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Stockton Asparagus Contest April 26

(From “Mr. Asparagus”) The next IFOCE contest to be announced is the asparagus eating contest at the Asparagus Festival in Stockton, CA on April 26. Registration opens January 28.

Registration is currently open for the Laredo jalapeno contest according to IFOCE.com

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Article by asparagus contest entrant

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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