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Pictures of Adam Richman’s trip to the Portland Art Museum
List of Portland, Maine eating challenges and contests in the eatfeats database.

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The facebook for Tradewinds Cafe in Arundel, Maine reports that Matt Stone set the record for the “Manimal” challenge. After completing the challenge consisting of 2 loaded kraut or slaw dogs, an “ocho” eight patty cheeseburger, a small order of fries, a can Moxie and a one pound milkshake in 5 minutes, less than a third of the previous record, Matt ate another kraut dog, a quarter pound burger, 3 chicken taquitos and 3 chicken quesadillas before the 20 minute time limit expired.

The Manimal challenge will appear on an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food

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update #2 WGME also has a video and article (from Pete Davekos)

update WCSH has a video and article

The top 4 & #5 – #7 of the Binga’s Tenders contest in Portland, Maine from the eatingcontest twitter:

1) Sonya Thomas 6.93 lbs.
2) “Notorious” B.O.B. Shoudt 6.595
3) Tim “Eater X” Janus 6.18
4) Nate Biller 4.055
5) Pete “Pretty Boy” Davekos 3.25
6) Crazy Legs Conti 2.85
7) “Wild” Bill Myers 1.75

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A video clip from a documentary about the burrito eating contest held in South Portland, Maine produced by the New England Film Academy can be viewed on youtube. The video caption says that the full length documentary will be released in January.

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update #4 MaineToday.com has a blog entry

update #3 WMTV has an article and video

update #2 BeautifulBrian.com has more detailed results

update Results from IFOCE.com

1. Tim “Eater X” Janus, 10.33 burritios, ate 1.5 in overtime
2. “Humble” Bob Shoudt, 10.33 burrritios, ate 1.0 in OT
3. Tim “Gravy” Brown, 9.5
4. Badlands Booker, 8
5. Nate Biller 6
6. Pete Davekos 4.75
7. Dave “US Male” Goldstein 4
8. Bill Myers 3.75

Janus and Shoudt went into overtime with Janus winning the eat-off

Bob Shoudt expects to eat 15 pounds of burritos according to his twitter

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(from anonymous comment) The fifth Garlicky Greens eating contest will be sanctioned by IFOCE. The competition will take place at b.good in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 27. Registration opens September 18 at noon eastern and the first prize is a year of meals and a belt. A posting on craigslist about the contest is available. Pete Davekos and 2007 winner Michael “Betsy’s Boy” Cobb are expected. Will 2006 winner Gretchen Salyer (pictured on right) make her sanctioned contest debut?

A contest preview has also been added for Saturday’s burrito eating contest in Maine. The expected entrants include Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus, Sonya Thomas, Tim Brown, Badlands Booker and Pete Davekos.

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(From crawfish comment) The Houston Kolache Factory World Kolache Eating Championship has been added to the IFOCE calendar for Friday, September 12 (same as the NYC cannoli contest) and its purse will be $10,000. Registration opens today at 1 pm eastern.

The Costa Vida World Burrito Eating Championship has also been added to the calendar and it will take place September 20 in South Portland, Maine. Registration opens August 6 at noon eastern.

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KeepMeCurrent.com has a report on Saturday’s burrito eating contest. The article says that IFOCE point standings are still being maintained:

For every event in which competitors place, they receive a certain amount of points. The 50 competitors with the most points are considered “ranked” eaters.

The competition to get to the top can be fierce, but eater Pete “Pretty Boy” Davekos, ranked 29th, said there isn’t a cutthroat mentality that often comes with other professional sports. “For 12 minutes we’re competitors, but for the rest of the time we’re good buddies,” said Davekos. “It’s a good solid rivalry.”

Sean “The Vaccuum” Kirby, who flew in from California for the competition, said one of the biggest misconceptions about competitive eating is that professional eaters don’t take care of their bodies.

“Lots of people think we do this and then go throw up,” Kirby said. “But it’s not the case. We train for the event. We know our bodies, we know what they can take. I’m 42 years old. I’m not going to do anything that’s going to endanger my health.”

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A video of Saturday’s Costa Vida World Burrito Eating Championship can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dd__oMtDkK0

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Tim Janus edged out Sonya according to early burrito results from Andrew “skinnyboy” Lane

1. Tim “Eater X” Janus 10..75
2. Sonya Thomas 10
3. Tim Brown 6.5

Crazy Legs ?
Skinnyboy 2.5
Davekos 3?

update FoxNews.com has an article and Yahoo has some pictures. A caption of one of the pictures says that Tim Brown finished 3rd with 6.5 burritos.

update #2 PressHerald.com has an article with a video clip

update #3 The UPI article says the contest took place in Portland, Oregon.

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KeepMeCurrent.com has a preview of the burrito contest that will take place in South Portland, Maine on Saturday. Sonya Thomas, Chip Simpson, Tim Janus, Tim Brown and Crazy Legs Conti are listed as expected competitors.

MaineToday.com also has a preview.

update Press Herald has an article about Tim Brown, who will be competing in the upcoming Spike TV event.

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MaineToday.com has a preview of Saturday’s burrito contest. Sonya Thomas, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti are listed as expected competitors.

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MaineToday.com has a preview of the September 22 Costa Vida World Burrito Eating Championship. Sonya Thomas, Tim Janus, Tim Brown, Chip Simpson and Crazy Legs Conti are listed as expected entrants.

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A burrito eating contest will be sponsored by Costa Vida Big Kahuna Burritos in South Portland, Maine on September 22. Registration opens August 9.

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Tim Brown did an interview with the Boothbay Register on a trip back to his father’s restaurant in Maine.

Brown says that this is the first year that he has taken competitive eating seriously. He is now in training for the primo event of competitive eating, Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Championship on the 4 th of July in Coney Island. “Right now, I’ve been on the circuit trying to qualify for Nathan’s. It’s like the Super Bowl of competitive eating. There’s no prize money, but it’s the one event every year that everyone tries to get into,” says Brown. Brown has been traveling the qualifying circuit for Nathan’s and thinks he is likely to get into the competition as a wildcard entry. To prepare himself, each morning and evening, he drinks a gallon of water as fast as he can, usually under five minutes. A couple of times a week he will go to a buffet. He shovels downs 10 pounds of zucchini or tofu. Brown also runs five miles a day, six days a week. Despite all this hard work, progress is slow. A year ago Brown could down 21 hot dogs, now he is up to 25.

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from http://www.sonyatheblackwidow.com/:

Lobster-Eating Championship (12 minutes), 13 Aug 05, Kennebunkport, Maine.

1. Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, 44 Lobsters (11.4 lbs) (New World Record!)
2. “Crazy Legs” Conti: 32 Lobsters
3. Eric “Badlands” Booker: 25 Lobsters

Unlike last week, Sonya’s victory was never in doubt. Despite not being challenged, she easily breaks the record she set last year of 9.76 pounds (38 lobsters), an (11.4 – 9.76) / 9.76 = 17% increase from last year.

The crabcake contest to be held at the Midway Slots at the Delaware State Fairgrounds in Harrington August 21 will probably be Sonya’s next contest (There are several IFOCE contests next weekend). This will give her the chance to set shellfish eating records in consecutive weeks . The contest will be the closest event to Sonya’s hometown of Alexandria, VA that she has competed in quite a while. Brian Subich’s website says that Joey Chestnut will probably travel across the country to appear in this contest, setting up the possibility of a repeat of the dramatic finish at the bratwurst contest last week.

Updated 8:59pm The AP has put out an article on the lobster contest (from boston.com) It gets the date of the grilled cheese contest wrong like the AP article on the bratwurst contest.

Updated Aug 15 1:03am
Portland Press article
New Zealand Herald article

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The World Lobster Eating Festival, to be held in Kennebunkport, Maine on August 13, has updated its website for 2005. A photo gallery of the 2004 competition is online. Entrants in the lobster eating competition include Sonya Thomas, Cookie Jarvis, Badlands Booker (Booker will rap from his new CD) and Crazy Legs Conti. The entrants page has not been updated from before the 2004 contest and lists Kevin Cross as the record holder. No major western eaters are listed as competing, which is understandable considering the difficulty travelling to Maine from the West Coast. Competitors will attempt to break Sonya’s record of 9.76 pounds (equivalent to 38 lobsters) in 12 minutes set last year.

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