Upcoming Chicago eating contests
Chicago eating challenges
(All Chicago eating challenges and contests in database)
A Chicagoist blog entry about public relations executive Dan Edelman mentions a hot dog eating contest covered by Life Magazine. The focus of the 1957 article (available in the Google Books archive) was reversals by children. One letter to Life about the contest demanded that the mayor of the town where the contest be impeached and the American Medical Association censure the town's doctors for allowing the contest to happen.
ConciergePreferred has a list of Chicago eating challenges. Bartolini's will award $250 if a diner can beat the record of 48 minutes for its 10 pound meatball sandwich.
Pat Bertoletti edges Tim Brown to win Battle of the Bhut
update Sept 7 NBCChicago has an article
Results from the MLE facebook from today’s Battle of the Bhut [Jolokia] wing eating contest at Jake Melnick’s in Chicago: Part 1 | Part 2
1 Pat Bertoletti 52 spicy wings in 5 minutes
2 Tim “Gravy” Brown 51
3 Erik Denmark 44, 2010 winner
4 Eric “Badlands” Booker 30
5 Andrew “the Bear” Kogutkiewicz 28
6 Paul Zwiercan 26,
7 Mike Whyte 19
8 Sean Mulcahey 18
9 Carolyn Mielke 14
10 Geoff Connus 12
XA.Social has an interview with Pat Bertoletti about competing in the Battle of the Bhut in Chicago on Sunday.
McFadden's in Chicago will hold a wing eating contest tomorrow awarding $200 to the winner.
Glutton Force Five, the food truck owned by Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown, will have a soft opening today at "Rise of the Stripping Dead" at the Admiral Theatre in Chicago.
Timothy O'Tooles in Chicago is offering "Da Super Fan Challenge" which consists of a half slab of back ribs, ten spicy chicken wings, a Polish sausage sandwich, an Italian beef sandwich, two pounds of french fries and a 23 ounce Miller Lite and is free if finished in under 30 minutes. The challenge is only available on Chicago Bears game days and Mike Ditka's birthday, October 18.
CBS Chicago reports that Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL will hold live cockroach eating contests as part of its Fright Fest on Friday and Saturday.
Registration for the Battle of the Bhut spicy wing eating contest to be held November 6 at Jake Melnick's in Chicago will open tomorrow at 11 am central.
Emily Case and Kristin Decker of WGN will attempt the three pound Triple Undisputed Cheeseburger at Wiener and Still Champion in Evanston, Illinois tomorrow. update Videos of Emily Case discussing the attempt have been posted.
Lucky's Sandwich Co. will hold an eating contest for amateurs at Friday's University of Illinois Chicago soccer game awarding a $300 Best Buy gift card. After the amateur a group of unnamed professional eaters will attempt to eat three Lucky's sandwiches as fast as possible.
The Austrian program Abenteuer Leben - täglich Wissen has a video of "Furious" Pete Czerwinski competing in Bartolini's meatball eating contest last month.
Pat Bertoletti & Tim Brown food truck web page
A web page for Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown’s food truck has been set up at http://www.gluttonforcefive.com/ (Sir Snugglesworth, Partybot and Pink Unicorn are the other team members.) The truck is offering a sandwich eating challenge awarding $500 to a customer that can beat Pat or Tim’s time. A facebook with a picture of the back of the truck and twitter have also been started. (via RJOPhoto)
Bangers & Lace in Chicago will hold a hot dog eating contest on Labor Day (September 5) awarding a pair of Chicago Bears tickets to the winner.
The 2011 Bacci Pizza contest will take place in Oak Lawn, IL on Saturday and award $1500 to the winner.
Pat Bertoletti appeared on Windy City Live this morning for a cooking demonstration. (via Kooky Canuck)
Steve "Freight Train" Moss won a taco eating contest held at Balmoral Park near Chicago on Saturday. (gallery)
Pepe's will hold a taco eating contest at Balmoral Park in Crete, IL (South Chicago area) on July 30 awarding $500 to the winner.
2011 Bartolini’s meatballs results
Full results of today’s professional Bartolini’s meatball eating contest (via email)
1st Place Tom “GOOSE†Gilbert 53 Meatballs, new record
2nd Place Bob “KILLER†Kuhns 43 1â„4 Meatballs
3rd Place “Furious†Pete Czerwinski 35 Meatballs
4th Place Clay “LUNCH PAIL†Luttrell 34 Meatballs
5th Place Juan “JUAN MORE BITE†Rodriguez 32 Meatballs
6th Place “Gentleman†Joe Menchetti 30 3â„4 Meatballs
7th Place Steve “FREIGHT TRAIN†Moss 29 1â„4 Meatballs
7th Place Jake “THE GREAT LAKE†Larry 29 1â„4 Meatballs
8th Place Frank “THE FORK†Wach 26.5 Meatballs
9th Place Tom “SHREK†Topel 25.5 Meatballs
10th Place Tom “TOMMY BOY†Cortina 16 3â„4 Meatballs
11th Place Eric “THE STOMACH†Hucke 11 3â„4 Meatballs
Robert “THE AMATUER†Harms won the amateur division with 18.5 Meatballs
update The Southtown Star has an article about the contest.
The facebook for Bartolini's announces that Bob "Killer" Kuhns finished the 10 pound meatball sub challenge in 48:04, less than half of the previous record of an hour and forty minutes.
The list of professionals expected to compete in Sunday's meatball eating contest in Midlothian, IL sponsored by Bartolini's has been posted and includes Joe Menchetti, Tom Gilbert, Bob Kuhns and Pete Czerwinski, who will be filmed by German television for an upcoming program.
Wienerville III in Elgin, IL (Chicago area) will hold a hot dog eating contest on Saturday awarding $200 to the winner.
The Best Windy City Hot Dogs in La Grange, IL will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 30 awarding $550 in cash ($400 to the winner).
Southtown.Suntimes.com reports that Jacob Larry ate 17.25 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win a prize of $500 in yesterday's hot dog eating contest in Palos Heights, IL sponsored by Pop’s Italian Beef and Sausage.
The Chicago Tribune has an interview with Pat Bertoletti, who says he went into previous Nathan's finals with "a Cubs' fan — a loser's — mentality".
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