Upcoming Minneapolis eating contests
Minneapolis eating challenges
(All Minneapolis eating challenges and contests in database)
St. Paul Staycation has a report on the wing eating contest held at the Guy Expo in which competitors were required to dress as Elvis Presley.
HeavyTable reports that Tom "Goose Gilbert" will attempt to win $1,000 by eating the 30 inch pizza at Randy's Pizza (Minneapolis area) tonight without assistance. The challenge will be webcast starting at 7:30 pm central (8:30 eastern). update The challenge is over and a video of the webcast is available.
A press release reports that Hall Hunt & Tim Brown completed the 30 inch pizza challenge at Randy's Pizza in Oakdale, MN in 25 minutes and received $500.
A wing eating contest at the Guy Expo in St. Paul, Minnesota on August 7/8 requires entrants to wear Elvis jumpsuits.
IFOCE.com announces that registration for the August 15 Minnesota funnel cake contest and August 22 Los Angeles gyoza contest will open on Wednesday. Registration will open tomorrow for 2 slots in the Illinois August 1 soft taco eating contest.
TwinCities.com did an interview with Tim Brown to promote today's Jimmy John's makers vs. eaters contest in Minneapolis.
Chris and Rob's will sponsor a hot dog eating contest at 49er Days in Ridley, Minnesota Saturday awarding $250 in cash to the winner.
(via crawfish twitter) PatBertoletti has uploaded a video of Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Minnesota.
Julie Dey on TwinCitiesLive video
TwinCitiesLive has a video of Julie Dey’s appearance on Friday to promote the Minnesota Nathan’s qualifier. She says she was inspired to enter by Pat Bertoletti and his girlfriend. After describing the typical amount of food she eats in a buffet, she competes in a short contest against one of the shows hosts.
Julie Dey ate 11 hot dogs to finish third in her first ever official eating contest. The contest was held in a cold rain and Pat Bertoletti claimed the hot dogs were leathery. If you think that Pat Bertoletti would have eaten %50-%100 more in optimal conditions and adjust Ms. Dey’s performance by a similar amount, it could have rivaled Sonya Thomas 18 HDB in 2003 (in 12 minutes) as one of the top overall competitive eating debuts at a Nathan’s qualifier.
Pat Bertoletti wins Minnesota w/26 HDB
update #2 WCCO has video from the contest
update The top 3 from MLE via Crawfish
1 Pat Bertoletti 26
2 Mark Williams 13.5
3 Julie Dey 11
Julie Dey has the best female debut since Juliet Lee and is the 8th female with a 10+ HDB Nathan’s result according to the eatfeats database. The contest was her first according to a comment in a CityPages blog entry.
It is surprising Patrick Vandam did not compete.
George Shea reports that Pat Bertoletti won the Minnesota Nathan’s qualifier with 26 HDB. DeepDishEats confirms the total. Cold rain contributed to Bertoletti’s unexpectedly low amount.
In a startribune.com comment, someone claiming to have done 31 HDB says he will participate in the qualifier, which would probably be Patrick VanDam if accurate.
A press release about Saturday's Nathan's qualifier at Cub Foods in Plymouth, Minnesota confirms that Pat Bertoletti will compete.
From George Shea's twitter: Three seats have opened up (in a field of 15) for the Nathan's qualifier this Sat, June 6 at noon, in Minneapolis. Email mantolini@ifoce.com
MinnPost has an video clip of an interview with Adam Richman and Andrew Zimmern of Bizzare Foodism
Last Saturday's Minneapolis hot dog contest makes the BBC's Odd Box
Nate Kadlace reports that the winner of today's hot dog contest in Minneapolis ate 25 hot dogs in 10 minutes. update WCCO has a video
A website about a hot dog eating contest to be held in Minneapolis on Saturday April 18 has been set up at http://www.hotdogyum.com/
(via twitter) Youtube has a video of Aymad Ahmed eating a burrito for a contest held at a Dinkytown (Minneapolis) Qdoba in 17 seconds (which includes some debris completion time)
Man vs. Food March 25 (Minneapolis) links
Travel Channel slideshow
- Gasthof Zur Gemutlichkeit challenge: Meterbratwurst
Home Page | Reviews: citysearch | Yelp
Picasa gallery of filming - Brasa Rotisserie
Home Page | Reviews: Citysearch | Yelp - 5-8 Club
Home Page | Reviews: Citysearch | Yelp
Randy's Pizza in Oakdale, Minnesota has added 36 and 48 inch challenge pizzas which award up to $1,000 depending on team size.
TwinCities.com has an article about Minneapolis-St. Paul restaurants which offer eating challenges.
Man vs. Food in Minneapolis gallery
An episode of Man vs. Food was recorded in Minneapolis last weekend. A picasa gallery of Adam Richman attempting a meter long sausage challenge at Gasthof zur Gemütlichkeit is available.
No Man vs. MN food in season 1
Like Apollo 18, it appears that plans for the eighteenth episode of the initial season of Man vs. Food will not come to fruition. A twitter update from the official Man vs Food twitter page announces that there will be 17 episodes in the first season. The 18th episode was to have been recorded in Minneapolis / St. Paul later this week.
Pat Bertoletti (or someone impersonating him on the Travel Channel message boards) had hoped to meet up with host Adam Richman in Minnesota.
MN / NC Man vs. Food episode information
Andrew Zimmern’s blog for MSP Magazine reports that Man vs. Food will be filming in Minneapolis / St. Paul from February 5 to 8. Restaurant locations are not listed, but one of the foods will be a juicy Lucy burger.
A UNC scout.com forum thread has the following information about Raleigh / Durham locations:
I have a friend that is a producer on the show and they are coming to Chapel Hill/Durham for a show. Thus far they have chosen the Roast Grill (hot dogs) and The Pit for barbeque and they are thinking about Mama Dip’s but are worried that the portions are not big enough.
They looked at Sutton’s and Time Out but they were too small and didn’t have large enough portions. THe sad thing about the area is that the food that is true to North Carolina doesn’t usually come in a challenge type of serving.
A twitter update from December says that Man vs. Food will record at the Roast Grill sometime in January.
The Krispy Kreme Challenge appeared to be a possibility for the North Carolina challenge, but Man vs. Food will be in Minnesota on the February 7 race date.
update BeautifulBrian.com has a review and a clip from Man vs. Food
4 men vs. 54 inch pizza
A video about a quartet of diners’ attempt to finish the 54 inch square pizza from Big Mama’s & Papa’s Pizzeria in Los Angeles has been uploaded to youtube. Captures from the video can be viewed after the jump.
A youtube page about the pizza has been set up. One of the captions of the videos says that a team of five that finishes the 54 inch pizza in under two hours will receive $1000.
The pizzeria is located on 5051 Hollywood Boulevard. (Van Halen fans might know that 5150 refers to a section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code allowing for involuntary confinement of the mentally ill.)
Another new team pizza challenge for four diners is available at Premier Pizza in Oakdale, Minnesota.
Multiple meat mega burgers
The creators of some giant burgers are not satisfied with having hamburger as the only type of meat in their sandwiches. The Hawkins House of Burgers (several Los Angeles area locations) Special Burger contains 3 eight ounce hamburger patties, 2 hot links, bacon and pastrami along with 3 fried eggs (picture). The Gangster Burger, offerred by the Rice Street Deli in Saint Paul, Minnesota, contains two half pound hamburger patties, three 6 ounce steaks, a half pound of Italian beef and a half pound of gyro meat. Neither restaurant appears to offer any award or recognition to diners who successfully complete one of their huge burgers.
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