update #3 Times updated with values from MLE facebook page

update #2 Erik Denmark has the top 4 finishing times – (contest has a fixed amount of 6 lb. ice cream)
1 Pat Bertoletti 46 seconds
2 Sonya Thomas 1:10
3 Erik Denmark 1:12
4 Nate Biller 2:20

update results from Silly America / Val Bromann: Pat first sonya second eric third nate fourth

Val Bromann got up early to drive to the Harrah’s casino in Metropolis, IL and will post results on http://twitter.com/sillyamerica

http://twitter.com/erikdenmark might also have results

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update #2 Naples, FL report and gallery

update The two Rock the Tot posts have been merged and bumped up

Val Bromann has a gallery of her local Rock the Tot tater tot eating contest

DCist has a gallery of last night’s Rock the Tot contest won by James “Big Bess” Besser

update Skinnyboy has a blog entry about his second place (missing 1st place by .1 oz) finish at a Denver Rock the Tot

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WGN’s baseball blog has a video of the giant Northside Twist pretzel available at Chicago Cubs games. The pretzel weighs 2 pounds (not 4 as previously listed) and costs $15.

The Sun Times reports that the Chicago White Sox offer a 2 foot long, 3 pound meatball sandwich for $26, which is only available in the premium sections of U.S. Cellular Field.

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From crawfish twitter: IFOCE.com announces that a Dippin’ Dots eating contest will be held at the Harrah’s Metropolis (Southern Illinois) Casino & Hotel on May 2. Registration is now open.

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Pat Bertoletti commented that he ate the 5 pound Burritozilla at Iguana’s Taqueria in San Jose in 1 minute and 41 seconds, breaking Joey Chestnut’s record. (Joey Chestnut may have since regained the record). Pat’s Burritozilla mark is included on the list of eating challenge results on deepdisheats.com which includes feats such as the 40 inch pizza (with a partner) at the Pizza Machine and the Tex-ass doughnut from Voodoo doughnuts in Portland, OR in 23 seconds which have not received much media attention.

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In today’s edition of the Chicago Tribune, Tim “Gravy” Brown offers some hot dog eating contest tips

Brain training. Competitive eaters override brain signals that tell them they’re full, and if you want to eat faster, you need to do the same before you slow down. “You have to trick yourself,” says Brown, who also packs an iPod with books on tape or punk rock to distract himself. “You just want to concentrate.” His brain and gut rewired, Brown finds, “I never get full. I don’t get hungry. But that doesn’t mean I don’t love to eat.”

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(from Man vs. Food message board) The Pizza Machine in Springfield, Illinois, whose previous claim to fame was a 40 inch pizza that was delivered by crane, now has a 60 inch pizza. At 2827 square inches, the area of the pizza exceeds the area of the 52 inch square pizza from Big Mama’s & Papa’s Pizza in Los Angeles by 123 square inches. The 60 inch pizza must apparently be purchased in combination with a party package at a cost of $350. No eating challenge for the 60 inch pizza is listed. The pizza appeared on Country Fried Home Videos on CMT.

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• As of 10:30 am eastern, Wing Bowl 17 tickets appear available on ComcastTix.com Here is the direct link to the ticket buying page
• Pat Bertoletti ranks his favorite Chicago pizzas
• “Kid” Cary DeGrosa has a new column about OJ which embeds a video from September 2007 (from “Beautiful” Brian email)
• (from Wasted Food) Rich Shea podcast (starts at about the 50 minute mark) Shea continues to assert that competitive eating is the world’s fastest growing sport, but admits he has no factual basis for that statement.
• Encounter (in English) with Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara at a restaurant
• Cameron McKirdy (now known as “Consumption”) has updated his website http://www.deathbyconsumption.com/
• Adam Richman of Man vs. Food to do a live online video chat on Wednesday at 11 pm eastern
• Mario’s Flying Pizza in Galveston, TX to celebrate reopening after Hurricane Ike with eating contests Wednesday

update As of 1:30pm eastern, upper level Wing Bowl tickets appear to be available

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• Dave Shoffner resumes blogging, but not on megamunch
• Encounter with Sonya Thomas at the Washington Capitals game December 4
• St. George Hunt, described by Angelo Cataldi as the Wing Bowl’s biggest fan, passes away
• Bacci Pizza in Chicago starts a 30 inch pizza eating challenge
• Bonita Springs, FL wing eating contest Saturday

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(from email) R & I Magazine has an article about giant sandwich challenges. A new challenge on the list is the Big Ugly Sandwich Challenge at the Fat Sandwich Company. According to the article, The Big Ugly contains:

four cheeseburgers, a double cheesesteak, chicken cheesesteak, gyro meat, grilled chicken, bacon, sausage, pork roll, mozzarella sticks, chicken finger, chicken nuggets, macaroni-and-cheese bites, fried mushrooms, jalapeno poppers, pizza bites, onion rings, hash browns, American cheese, ketchup and mayonnaise

and is free to a diner who can finish it in less than 15 minutes. The Fat Sandwich company has locations in Norman, Oklahoma and Champaign, Illinois.

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update Results have been posted:

1. Furious Pete Czerwinski- 22 sandwiches
2. Tom “Goose” Gilbert- 14.5
3. Bob “Killer” Kuhns- 12.75
4. Mark Lyle-The Human Vacuum-10

Please place results from the Wakefield World Chicken Salad Sandwich Eating Championship held today at the National Association of Convenience Stores Show in the comments of this thread.

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AICE News reports that Elliot “The Bone Collector” Rader has been temporarily suspended from the World Wakefield Chicken Salad Sandwich Eating Championship for falsely claiming on his website that he won the Ben Pao 2008 Egg Roll Eating contest.

The bonecollector.info has been updated with the correct name of the egg roll contest winner, Steve “Doc” Dohko, but it still claims that Rader won the 2007 Chicago Wingfest contest. A video of Pat Bruss being announced as the winner of that contest can be viewed on video.google.com

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The Chicago Sun Times has an article about Pat Bertoletti and his first place finish in the recent jalapeno contest in Chicago.

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The La Contena “Feel the Heat” jalapeno eating contest in Chicago yesterday was listed at #7 in the Sportscenter top 10 plays of the weekend.

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SonyaTheBlackWidow.com has the top 5 from today’s La Costena jalapeno eating contest:

1. Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti: 127
2. Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas: 117
3. Erik “The Red” Denmark: 105
4. Rich “The Locust” LeFevre:104
5. Hall “Hoover” Hunt:: I think 85 +

A press release confirms Pat’s victory

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Schiappa’s Pizza in O’Fallon, Illinois has started a 36 inch pizza challenge for three people. The time limit is a half an hour.

Schiappa’s held an eat-off for the two-person teams who finished the 29 inch pizza challenge on July 26 to determine who would receive the grand prize of a trip to Cancun, Mexico. Two of the teams that completed the challenge consisted of Joey Chestnut and Hall Hunt along with Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus. Neither pair competed in the eat off and Ryan Maassen and Bill File won the contest.

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