Upcoming eating contests
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Annapolis Capital on 3 Brothers amateurs
The Annapolis Capital has an article about expected entrants in tomorrow’s 3 Brothers Pizza contest for amateurs which includes some quotes from Pat Bertoletti. Pat says he looks forward to competing against Sonya, but the article does not say if they will face each other tomorrow. Dunking will be banned tomorrow in the amateur event. It is not stated if that restriction will be in effect for the professional contest as well.
Herald Mail Three Brothers Pizza preview
The Herald Mail of Hagerstown, MD has a preview of Saturday’s Three Brothers Pizza contest containing several quotes from Pat Bertoletti in an article about a local ice cream eating contest. After graduating, Bertolletti has found employment at a fish store and gourmet shop and is also cooking for a catering company.
Braves & Orioles start all you can eat tickets
The Atlanta Braves and Baltimore Orioles have announced tickets which include all you can eat food. The Braves have two categories of tickets:
The first package, available for $25, is an Upper Reserved ticket along the first base side giving fans access to the All-Star Express concession stand. Menu items featured for this package are: hot dogs, nachos, peanuts, popcorn and soft drinks.
A Lexus Pavilion package, available for $60, features food from the popular Skip and Pete’s BBQ stand with a wide variety of menu choices: BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, BBQ hot wings, hot dogs, cole slaw, potato salad, corn bread, peanuts, popcorn, soft drinks, Budweiser and Bud Light.
All you can eat Orioles tickets will not be available for Yankees and Red Sox games.
“Music and Songs” (?) : Ian Hickman wins Dewey Beach wings
I have no idea why a blog called “Music and Songs” would have eating contest results, but it reports that a man from Sterling, VA won the “suicide” wing eating contest at the Starboard in Dewey Beach, DE by eating 137 wings in a half an hour.
Dewey Beach wing contest information
The website for The Starboard has information about Sunday’s wing contest.
Sunday is the famous WINGS TO GO SUICIDE WING EATING CONTEST!!! In at least our 20th year of this contest, 3pm this Sunday, you can get your chance to win $500 in CASH by eating the most Suicide Wings within the 30 minute time frame. No Drinks, No other Food, just WINGS!! To sign up, be here before 2pm on Sunday, and see our DJ to get yourself signed up for a shot at the title!
Three Brothers Pizza registration opens tomorrow
Registration for the second Three Brothers Pizza contest will open on July 13 at noon eastern. The contest will take place on August 18 in Greenbelt, Maryland. There will also be an amateur contest.
Another August IFOCE contest will take place at the Ash Creek Saloon Rib Eating Contest. Joey Chestnut is expected to defend his title. Former WWF/WWE wrestler King Kong Bundy will act as celebrity judge.
Easter egg eating contests at Maryland Zoo
There will be 4 Easter Egg eating contests for adults at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore over the next two weekends on March 31st, April 1, April 7 and April 8. The Maryland Zoo website provides the details on those events:
The annual Mary Sue Egg Eating Contest. See how many Mary Sue Eggs you can eat in two minutes. First place winners receive a $250 Mary Sue Candy Basket. 10 contestants per contest. First come first serve. Sign up at the Main Stage in Flocker’s Field (near Polar Bear Watch and the Carousel).
2006 Baltimore Pancake contest
I recently came across this article and video on wjz.com about a pancake eating contest held at Pete’s Grille in Baltimore in November. Johns Hopkins student Liz Gilbert won the women’s division with 10.5 pancakes in a hour. She won the division in 2004 and was DQed in 2005. There is an article about Ms. Gilbert in the Johns Hopkins newsletter in which she describes why she competes in eating contests:
“Eating is such a faux-pas for women. Eating and food, for American women, is too big a deal. I like to see people take it less seriously, take their bodies less seriously, and this is something that’s emblematic of that,” she said.
“[Expletive deleted] it. I don’t care if people think I eat a lot. If you keep a regular diet and exercise and feel good about yourself, I don’t see why you can’t go out and do something excessive every once and a while.”
5th place men’s finisher Scott Yin also gets an article in the Johns Hopkins newsletter. Only the first name of the men’s division winner, Lee, is listed.
“The Science of Speed Eaters” coming to National Geographic channel
The Andrews Air Force base website has an article about Sonya Thomas, who manages the Burger King at that location. The article says that Sonya was filmed for a documentary to be televised on the National Geographic Channel in 2007 called “The Science of Speed Eaters” Tim Janus and Loren Yarbrough are also expected to appear in that program.
Updated Big Fish DC, the production company, has a program description:
In this thrilling hour, we’ll take viewers inside the bellies of competitive eaters and see how the human body can be pushed to its gastronomical limit. We will follow an up and coming southern eater, Bubba, a father of two, as he tries to reach the big time in speed eating. We’ll meet famed 105 lb. Sonya “Black Widow” Thomas – a woman who out eats men four times her size. We’ll follow a champion eater as for the first time, the medical community studies the physiological changes that allow a person to consume over 50 hotdogs in ten minutes, with no apparent ill effects. NCG goes inside the world of competitive eating and brings viewers what until now, has never been seen.
“Eatipus Rex” at Baltimore Crabcakes video
Christian “Eatipus Rex” Larsen filmed a short documentary about his competing in the Baltimore crabcake contest in April and uploaded it to youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUj6LVGLrv8 The video focuses on Larsen’s rivalry with Crazy Legs Conti. “Eatipus Rex” made an impressive IFOCE debut with 17 crabcakes, just 3 behind Crazy Legs.
Old Bay Peel & Eat Results
(from Todd Bertch) old-bay.com has the results from Friday’s Peel & Eat Shrimp contest in Baltimore. Todd Bertch won the $10,000 first place prize. wjz.com has an article with a video clip. The contest was closed to “professional” eaters and required an essay about Old Bay seasoning to gain entrance to the qualifiers.
UrbanHonking truefan Three Brothers Pizza writeup available
Liz and Krista’s report from the Three Brothers Pizza eating contest has been uploaded to truefan. A flickr gallery of the contest is also available.
Some observations from that writeup:
Juliet Lee claims that she can eat more than Sonya Thomas. Like Sonya, she believes her forte is non bready foods which do not require much chewing.
Pat Bertoletti will appear (or might have appeared already) on “Attack of the Show” on G4/Tech TV sometime this week.
Andrew Lane also competed in the contest and has some reports and pictures on his blog.
BeautifulBrian.com: Pat B wins Three Brothers Pizza
from beautifulbrian.com:
Three Bro’s Pizza Results
1. Pat B 19 slices
2. Chip Simpson 17 slices
3. Bob Shoudt 15 slices
4. Larry Mcneill 13 slices
5. Brian Subich 12 slices
6, Allen Goldstein 11 slices
7 Pat Philbin 11
Rest of the field ?????
Each pie based on 8 slice 16” pie
Brian Seiken has also started the fall season of his video podcasts with a show featuring Joe LaRue
(From Luther) Sonya Thomas did not do a hometown contest because she is doing a contest in Hong Kong this weekend (.doc file)
Updated 10:02 pm – steakbellie fan Wendy Scherer attended the contest and wrote a blog entry about it. The winner of the amateur contest was a woman (maybe megamunch’s friend the Pizza Princess”) who ate 11 slices in ten minutes.
Updated 8/13 4:38 pm – The Washington Post has an article with a picture and information about the amateur winner, Juliet Lee, who said she was inspired by Sonya Thomas. Like “The Black Widow”, Ms. Lee is 39 years old and about 5’4″ and 105 lb.
WTOP radio has an AP article about the contest
Updated 8/14 12:45 am – megamunch has a blog entry and gallery of the contest
Updated 8/16 12:40 pm – steakbellie has a blog entry and gallery of the contest
Aug 12/13 contest previews
Three Brothers Pizza – Sonya Thomas is listed as an expected entrant
Illinois State Fair Horseshoes
LA Tofu
Sonya Thomas to do 3 brothers pizza
The AP calendar reports that Sonya Thomas will compete in Saturday’s Three Brothers Pizza eating contest in Greenbelt, MD. Sonya will look to extend her VA/MD/DC/DE/NC undefeated streak.
Joe Menchetti wins Dewey Beach (Delaware) wing eating contest
DelawareOnline reports that “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won a wing eating contest at Dewey Beach by eating a record 141 wings (without liquids) in 30 minutes. The win was Menchetti’s second of the weekend; he also won the Italian sausage contest in Boston.
Independent (London) article about Sonya
The Independent of London (UK) has an article about Sonya Thomas at the Baltimore crabcake contest (which does not mention that event took place two months ago) The author also witnesses Sonya’s post-contest meal.
Miscellaneous podcasts & articles
Here are various links I have come across in the past month or so:
Erik Denmark radio interviews: June 2, June 5
Kevin Carr’s interview with Pat Bertoletti (about 50 minutes)
Interview with David “Brickhouse” Braunstein & Matt Streett before Baltimore crabcake contest
Las Vegas Sun preview of Nathan’s qualifier (has only Ron Koch quotes I am aware of)
2005 US Open of Competitive Eating writeups: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3-5
Rocky Mountain News column
Another Natsuko “Gal” Sone fan blog
Baltimore crabcake pictures on arstechnica.com
Pictures from Saturday’s Phillips crabcake contest at the Baltimore Waterfront Festival can be viewed in this arstechnica.com forum thread. There are several pictures of “Eater X” and one commenter suggests that Tim ought to wear a costume.
Urban Honking crabcakes writeup
Liz has uploaded her writeup and gallery of Saturday’s crabcake contest in Baltimore.
According to Liz, Sonya will attend the Philadelphia qualifer (which Joey Chestnut also apparently intends to compete in) and not the Norfolk qualifier she won last year.
Liz also has instructions on how to attend the taping of Don Moses Lerman’s attempt at the bologna record on Saturday. Tickets are needed, but free.
Baltimore Sun crabcakes report
The Baltimore Sun has a report on the Baltimore Waterfront Festival and its crabcake contest. Crazy Legs Conti’s choice of beverage is mentioned.
Megamunch also has a very good contest writeup.
A Japanese blog has a few pictures.
Baltimore crabcakes results
from http://urbanhonking.com/digest
1. Sonya Thomas 46
2. Chip Simpson 39
3. “Humble” Bob Shoudt 38
4. Tim “Eater X” Janus 37
5. Jim Reeves29 1/2
6. David “Brickhouse” Braunstein
Baltimore crabcakes list of entrants
The website for the Baltimore Waterfront Festival has a full list of expected entrants for tomorrow’s crabcake eating contest. Bob Shoudt said on The Buffet that he will compete despite not being listed.
Liz (w/o Krista) to cover Baltimore crabcakes
Liz (without Krista who is currently in China) will cover Saturday’s crabcake contest in Baltimore for Urban Honking’s Digest. Liz also has a photo gallery of Ryan Nerz’s reading at Barnes & Noble.
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