eating challenges
(All Maryland eating challenges and contests in database)
Notorious B.O.B wins Roy Rogers Roast Beef sliders
update Nov 16 #2 Brian Seiken has a contest report and video
update Nov 16 Your4State.com has a news video and the Frederick News-Post has an article and slideshow
update 3:02 The eatingcontest twitter has a twitpic of the result form
update 2:32 The results are being announced on twitter.com/RoysRestaurants
1. Bob Shoudt 37 sliders in 8 minutes
2. Sonya Thomas 33
3. Juliet Lee 26
4. Badlands Booker 25.25
5. Russ Keeler 22.75
6. Crazy Legs Conti 21
7. Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 20 (or 21)
8. Brian Subich 19.5
9. Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin 18.5
10. Pete Davekos 17
11T “Wild” Bill Myers 14
11T “Beautiful” Brian Seiken 14
13 Steve Spinosa 13
14 Karl Ford (?) 9
update 2:20 The contest should be over now. Pat Philbin has posted a lot of pictures to his twitpic page.
Gazette.net reports that introductions for the professional contest will start at 1:45pm.
Pete Davekos did promo contests on ABC2 and 98 Rock yesterday.
Man vs. Food October 29 (Baltimore) episode links
Travel Channel: episode guide | slideshow | side of the city video (Inner Harbor)
Restaurants
- Steak & Main challenge – 5 steaks (totalling 74 ounces)
Home Page | yelp
Page about challenge on restaurant’s web site
DelawareOnline blog entry about challenge
entry in Digital City’s list of the biggest steak challenges - Chap’s Charcoal Restaurant meal – pit beef
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp - Obrycki’s meal – crabs
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
List of Baltimore area eating challenges in the eatfeats database.
Man vs. Food October 21 (Washington, DC) episode links
Travel Channel – episode guide | slideshow
Restaurants
- Chick & Ruth’s Delly (Annapolis, MD) challenge – 6 pound shake and 1.5 lb. sandwich
Home Page | Yelp
Page about challenge on restaurant’s website
Blog entry by Will Millender about being the first person to complete the challenge
Hometown Annapolis report on the filming
Grubgrade review - Ben’s Chili Bowl
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
Washington Post obituary from October 9, 2009 about the death of Ben’s founder Ben Ali - Horace & Dickie’s Seafood Carryout meal – jumbo fish sandwich
Yelp | Metromix
List of Washington, DC area eating challenges in eatfeats database
List of Northern Virginia area eating challenges in eatfeats database
6 crabcakes in 2:42 called best crabcake performance
The Baltimore Sun has an article about the Phillips crabcake eating contest at the Maryland Seafood Festival. Walter Hughes won the contest by eating 6 crabcakes in 2:42.
Michelle Torres, director of marketing for Phillips Seafood Restaurants, said Hughes was the fastest crab-cake eater she had ever seen. The restaurant had sponsored four crab-eating contests in recent years, Torres said, and Hughes had outpaced all the other winners.
Sonya Thomas ate 46 crabcakes in 10 minutes to win the 2006 Phillips crabcake contest.
Man vs. Food in Washington, DC this weekend?
An entry under “Just Fans” on the Man vs. Food facebook wall by someone claiming to work for the show reports that the program will record in Washington, DC this weekend. The challenge will probably be the burger & shake challenge at Chick & Ruth Delly in Annapolis.
update The Saval Foods twitter reports that Man vs. Food will record at Chick’s & Ruth’s Delly on Sunday at 7:30.
DelawareOnline on The Great Steak Challenge
DelawareOnline has an article about “The Great Steak Challenge” offered by My Steak and Main in North East, Maryland which will be Adam Richman’s Baltimore-area challenge in an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food. An unnamed 110 pound Japanese woman is listed as one of the diners who completed the challenge.
Beer & Bourbon baked beans contest
The writer of the web page about the baked bean contest to be held at the Beer and Bourbon Festival at National Harbor, Maryland (suburban Washington, DC) appears ignorant that two of the world’s top competitive eaters are DC-area women:
NEW CONTESTS. Ladies – Do you have what it takes to be Ms. Bar-B-Cutie? Guys – can you handle the WORLD BBQ BEAN –EATING CHAMPIONSHIP? Practice, practice, practice and win big bucks and bragging rights!