Upcoming Boston eating contests
Boston eating challenges
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Mystery women of competitive eating
The claim that a 90 pound woman was the only person to ever finish the Niner Diner’s challenge of a three pound burger with five pounds of fries adds another entry in the list of unnamed women who have reportedly done well in restaurants’ eating challenges which also includes:
The first person to finish the 9 pound Barrick Burger at the Plaza Casino in Las Vegas.
A yelp expedition to Spike’s Junkyard Dogs in Boston took a picture of the wall of fame in that establishment. A closeup of the “top dogs”, both females, on that wall follows after the jump. The hot dogs at Spike’s are reportedly larger than a typical hot dog.
Eagle’s Deli (Boston) burger Wall of Fame removed
Steve Reeves wrote a negative review of Eagle’s Deli in Boston which mentions the removal of the Polaroid pictures of diners who finished a large burger. The owner of the restaurant responded to the negative review on Digg and says he will set up an online wall of fame at an unspecified time in the future:
The pictures were of people who ate the Godzilla burger (1lb of beef, 4 slices of cheese and 1lb of fries) or higher, most of the pictures were people who ate the Godzilla as very few have finished more then that.
a. The pictures were taken down because their simply was no more room, we have pictures hanging just about everywhere you could pin one and there was no room left and we had stacks of photos to put up with no where to put them.
b. We had 2 ideas
i. Make the new photo level the “Cowabunga†(2lbs of beef, 8 slices of cheese, 2lbs of fries)
ii. Put the pictures up and every year take them down and move them to the web-site making room for new pictures
c. After taking down the photos, patching the walls and painting, we were complemented by many customers, most of them regulars who had been coming for 5, 10 15 some even 20 years on how much cleaner and brighter the places looked and asking us not to put the photos back up. After long considerations we decided to stop the Polaroid photos.
i. At some point all old photos will make it to the web-site and we will look into doing a direct to web-site pictures.
The Phantom Gourmet reports that the first person to finish the deli’s 5 pound burger and 5 pounds of fries will have the sandwich named after him or her. The website also has a list of the best restaurants in Boston serving huge portions.
Boston hot dog contest tomorrow
A hot dog eating contest will be held at the Ashburton Café in Boston at 12:30 PM. The entry fee is $5 and the proceeds will go to a charity of the winner’s choice.
Bicycle race / pie eating contest in Concord, MA
(From Deuce of Davenport via Deadspin)
A 6.5 mile bicycle race during which competitors will eat three slices of pie will be held in Concord, MA on August 25:
A short race against the clock with a unique twist: three “pie stops” (two along the way and one at the finish) where you will dismount your bike and eat a slice of pie! A test of not just your legs but your stomach, with excellent prizes to reward you for your daring. Please note the Pie Race is limited to the first 60 registrants, so sign up now! Click here for a press release from our first-ever Pie Race in 2005.
July 21 AICE contest results
(from AICE news) Pastrami Joes’ Reuben sandwich contest, 8 minutes
1 Gentleman Joe Menchetti 5 sandwiches
2. Jake “The Butcher” Casey (last year’s amateur winner) 4.6 sandwiches
3. Chris “The American” Schlesinger with 4.5
4 Mark Lyle “the Human Vacuum”
5 Chuck “The Chomper” Davidson
update The Battle Creek Enquirer has an article about the contest
East Boston Italian Festival sausage results from Derek “Wing Tut” Payne
1st – Tom “Goose†Gillbert – 4.84 New World Record!
2nd – Ian “The Invader†Hickman – 4.38
3rd – Nate “The Nibbler†Gayman – 2.78
4th – Jared Kaiser “Roll†– 2.39
5th – Tim “Chomps-A-Lot†Brien – 2.00
6th – Bruce “Captian RU†Sinclair – 1.83lbs
7th – Tim “Im Not Tom†Crews – 1.47lbs
8th – “princess†Diana Boro – 1.39lbs
9th – Mikey Canoli Saffie – 1.26lbs
10th – “big†David gore – 1.17lbs
11th – Jim “the Heater†Fallon – .87lbs
12th – Pat capagreco (pres I.U.) – .86lbs
13th – Jeff “big show†freeman – .83lbs
Bostonist previews AICE Italian sausage
Bostonist has a blog entry about the Italian Festival in East Boston today:
The site for Italia Unita is taking great pride in the sausage-eating contest, and the site showcases several of the competitors who will be tackling the sausage on Saturday. Massachusetts local Tom “Goose” Gilbert is looking to defeat Menchetti today. We hope Gilbert brings a box of Tums with him.
The contest will be followed by a concert by Frank Stallone (“Far From Over”)
BostonNow – pro-am AICE sausage contest Friday
BostonNow.com reports that there will be another sausage contest at the Boston Italian Festival in addition to the main sausage contest on Saturday:
On Friday there will be a World Sausage Eating Contest that pairs professional eaters with local celebrities fighting it out for the title of champion. More than 150 pounds of sausage will be devoured, with each contestant responsible for one to four pounds or up to 16 12-inch links.
“We receive a lot of exposure from it, and it has become a highlight of the festival,” says Capogreco. “We’re drawing a lot of competitive eaters, too, such as Tom “The Goose” Gilbert, Ian “The Invader” Hickman and Joshua “The Lumberjack” Hearne.”
Some profiles of the expected competitors are listed on the festival website.
Competitive Eating compared to hockey fighting
nerdsonsports.com compared competitive eating to another sport after eating the Godzilla Burger (two half-pound beef patties, four slices of cheese, bacon and onions) at the Eagle Deli in Boston in 4 minutes
Power Gluttony and NHL brawls have more similarities than one might initially think. Both are violent and messy affairs. Both generally end with one person throwing their hands up in surrender (or passing out). And both outwardly appear like nothing but barbaric, unplanned chaos. I want to set the record straight on that last point, though, as a lot of though goes into both pursuits.
1969 Harvard pancake champ received chemical assistance
The Harvard Crimson reports that Richard Tarnas was using performance enhancing drugs when he won an eating contest by consuming 17.5 pancakes in December 1969:
Trainer David R. Bishop 72 attributed Tarnas’s victory to his rigid two-week training program.
“We had Rick on a tough schedule-smoking grass every day and never going to bed before 4 a.m.,” said Bishop. “Then the stoned Munchies-brought on by two pre-contest joints-floated my man to victory,” he added.
Richard Tarnas is currently professor of philosophy and psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. His most recent book is Cosmos and Psyche. The astroknavery blog describes the content of that work:
Subtitled, Intimations of a New World View and based, Tarnas claims, upon 30 years* of research, it strives to address what he calls “the profound metaphysical disorientation and groundlessness that pervades contemporary human experience†by suggesting a “new metanarrative that transcends separate cultures and subcultures, an encompassing pattern of meaning that could give to collective human existence a nourishing coherence and intelligibility.â€
That meta-narrative, as he calls it, is astrology.
Boston Bacon contest
The Boston Phoenix has an article about a bacon eating contest held at Atwood’s Tavern. The winner is reported as having eaten 6.5 ounces of bacon in 5 minutes.
Rice & Bean Pot preliminaries
The prelimiaries for the Rice & Bean Pot Burrito Eating contest are taking place at the four Boston area “Beanpot” colleges this week:
Boston area colleges team burrito eating contest
Qdoba is sponsoring the Rice & Bean Pot Burrito Eating Contest. The contest is open to teams of 4 from the “Bean Pot” colleges: Boston U, Boston College, Northeastern & Harvard. Proceeds will go to the Cam Neely foundation. Finals will be on February 8, with preliminary rounds in late January and early February. A video promoting the contest can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab7QPQq9mNY
Haiku contest for momo eating contest slots
Tremont 647 in Boston is holding a haiku contest. The writers of the seven best haikus will gain slots in a momo (dumpling) eating contest to be held on December 17. Haikus must include the words “Momo†and “Tremont 647â€. The person who can eat the most dumplings in 10 minutes will win a $1,000 gift certificate to the restaurant.
Garlicky Greens contest video on youtube
A video of the Garlicky Greens contest held at b.good won by Gretchen Salyer last month is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNUxC3I8mUM. The clip has more content from the “Lord of the Rings” movies than the actual contest and provides only brief glimpses of the victor. One brief segment (capture available after jump) shows that Ms. Salyer might be the first person to experience the “spinach sweats.” b.good has an online newsletter about the contest.
Gretchen Salyer picture on b.good website
The b.good website has a picture and brief article about Gretchen Salyer, who won the Garlicky Greens championship two weeks ago. If Ms. Salyer is a female impersonator, s/he is doing a much better job than “Helen Haggerty” 😉
updated boston.com has a paragraph about Gretchen’s victory, which states she ate 2.9 lbs. in five minutes. The Harvard article says she ate 2.73 lbs.
Harvard alumna wins Garlicky Greens eating contest
Justin Mih might have a female competitive eating counterpart in the Harvard community. The Harvard Crimson reports that Gretchen Salyer, a 2005 graduate, won the garlicky greens eating contest at b.good in Cambridge by eating 2.73 pounds of vegetables in 5 minutes, defeating last year’s champion John Pepper. Ms. Salyer is a former member of the Harvard/Radcliffe crew team.
Boston Lobster Roll contest gallery
A gallery of Kobayashi at the lobster roll eating contest at the Phantom Gourmet Festival in Boston which I just discovered can be viewed at http://flickr.com/photos/travelingrhinos/sets/72157594301121345/
More Boston lobster roll articles
Western Mail of Wales has an article about last month’s lobster roll eating contest in Boston.
Kobayashi has a blog entry about his trip to Boston which includes a trip to Rona Conti’s house and a picture of Crazy Legs from 1997.
Kobayashi visits Fenway Park
Takeru Kobayashi has a Boston trip report on his blog.
Kobayashi 41, Boston 28 or 25
Marketwire reports that Kobayashi defeated a team of four Bostonian amateurs in a lobster roll eating contest by eating 41 lobster rolls in 10 minutes. Marketwire says the quartet combined for 25 rolls; IFOCE says their total was 28. None of the amateurs are named, but I think one of them was Molly Zalcarian, who competed in the St. Patrick’s Day corned beef contest.
A video of the contest can be viewed at: http://www.covermaxcomm.com/lobster/
9/24 8:19 am – The Boston Globe and Boston Herald have articles about the event.
6:15 Sanspo.com has a Japanese article about the event
Sep 26, 12:39 am ytv has a Japanese news video about the contest
Kobayashi to compete in closed Boston contest September 23
The Fenway park area will not enjoy a baseball championship in the autumn of 2006, but it will host an eating champion. IFOCE.com announces that Takeru Kobayashi will compete in a lobster roll eating contest at the Phantom Gourmet Food Festival in Boston this Saturday. (The festival has already sold out) Kobayashi will compete against a team of four amateurs whose total will be combined. The contest is apparently closed to all other competitors.
Kobayashi has an entry about the lobster roll contest in his blog which mentions Rona Conti.
July 15 AICE contest previews
The Boston Globe has a preview of the Italian Sauage Eating contest in East Boston, MA and the Battle Creek Enquirer has a preview of the Reuben Sandwich Eating contest in Marshall, MI. Both contests will take place on Saturday. The Italian Sausage contest will be held at the Italia Unita Festival, so wearing a Zinadine Zidane jersey is not recommended.
Hot Dog Safari report
Festivus Gastronomicus attended the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest won by Justin Mih at the Hot Dog Safari in Boston last Sunday and wrote a blog entry about it.
Justin Mih wins Hot Dog Safari contest
The Daily Item of Lynn reports that Justin Mih (who is not named but listed as the 39th ranked IFOCE member) won the Nathan’s hot dog contest at the Hot Dog Safari in Boston Sunday with 15.5 hot dogs. Lynn native Peter Davekos placed second with 13 hot dogs. A Coney Island berth is not awared to the winner of the Hot Dog Safari contest.
Amateur Nathan’s contest to be held in Boston Sunday
Ryan Nerz will emcee a Nathan’s hot dog contest at the Hot Dog Safari in Boston on Sunday. The winner of that event will not receive entry into the Coney Island finals, but New Englanders can use the contest to practice for the 2007 finals. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the gate and include all the hot dogs, sausages and ice cream you can eat.
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