TwinCities.com reports that the 5-8 Grill in Maplewood, Minnesota created a 145 pound “Juicy Lucy” burger on Saturday containing a 100 pound beef patty filled with 50 pounds of cheese. (100 pounds must be the pre-cooked weight since the sum of the beef and cheese weighs less than the listed sandwich weight.)

The burger was submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records under the assumption that the current record holder is a 78.5 pound sandwich created by Bob’s BBQ and Mexican Grill in Thailand. Denny’s Beer Barrel and Mallie’s Sports Grill & Bar in Michigan have requested Guinness recognition for larger burgers. Mallie’s website reports that it created a 164.5 pound burger in August, beating the giant Juicy Lucy by almost 20 lbs., which will appear in the next edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.

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Patrick Vandam, runner-up in the most recent Nathan’s qualifier, answers some questions on TwinCities.com. Vandam is planning to compete in Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Chicago.

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• Minnesota qualifier ABC News video
• Apparently no one was able to register for the Dallas Nathan’s qualifier after the food blog for D Magazine announced the contest (Nathan Biller and Jason Erb did get in)
• Video of “Furious” Pete eating 8 McD’s double cheeseburgers in 2.5 minutes for bodybuilding.com contest (thread #1, thread #2)
• Some pictures from last year’s Nathan’s finals on mosesnews
• 10 woman team attempts 15 pound Denny’s Beer Barrel Belly Buster
• Megamunch’s office cereal contest
• Mike Fitzgerald, the Apple Valley, MN 3rd place finisher, won last years amateur Sheboygan bratwurst contest
• Blog entry about Amos Wengler, the “Coney Island Songwriter”
• Wing Tut’s 5k race report
• Kobayashi leaves Japan for a while
• Cruise for Takuya Yamamoto and fans (Yama3’s event report)
• Blogger will vote for presidential candidate who will ban competitive eating

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Galleries of the recent Nathan’s qualifiers held in Las Vegas and Apple Valley, Minnesota are now available. Captions for the Las Vegas gallery report that Rich LeFevre ate 32 hot dogs and not the 31 in the official report.

The Las Vegas Sun has an article containing a picture of Rich LeFevre and Sarah Jane from one of the galleries. Sarah Jane was the only female competitor and previously auditioned for “American Idol”. Like Ron Koch, she works as a casino photographer. She finished with 8.5 hot dogs, which puts her in the company of 8 females who are known to have broken the 8 HDB mark:

39 Sonya Thomas, 2007, 12 minutes
28 Juliet Lee, 2007, 12 minutes
25 Carlene LeFevre, 2005, 12 minutes
22.25 Takako Akasaka, 2000, 12 minutes
18 Miyuki Iwata, 2004, 12 minutes
12 Melody Andorfer, 1972, 5 minutes
9.5 Birgit Felden, 1984, 10 minutes
8.5 Sarah Jane, 2008, 10 minutes

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From IFOCE.com via the Sicilian:

1) Pat Bertoletti 41 HDB in 10 minutes
2) Patrick Vandam 30
3) Mike Fitzgerald 23.5

update KARE11.com has a short article with a video

update #2 StarTribune.com also has an article

update #3 May 19 – Pat Bertoletti has posted a blog entry to his YardBarker blog about the contest

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StarTribune.com reports that Fatso’s will celebrate its grand opening in downtown Minneapolis by holding a burger eating contest. The restaurant offers a 4.5 pound burger, but the article does not say if that size will be used in the contest.

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A gallery of the Nathan’s qualifier held at the Mall of America is available at nathansmoa.com

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Liz has an interview with Crazy Legs Conti from after his victory at the Mall of America qualifier in Minnesota

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Mall of America results from IFOCE.com:

1. Crazy Legs Conti, 24 HDB
2. Mongo Marquez, 20 HDB
3. Justin Mih, 18 HDB
3. Nathan Biller, 18 HDB

update Twin Cities has an article. Other competitors were Russ “The Mad Stork” Witzke, “Big Al” Scaletta, Bill “The Hungry Hungarian” Roth and Jim “Hammer” Hamrick. Crazy Legs Conti will compete in the strawberry shortcake eating contest.

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A website for the Nathan’s qualifier to be held at the Mall of America has been set up at nathansmoa.com. There is a gallery of last year’s qualifier.

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twincities.com asks several members of the Minnesota Vikings how close they could come to Kobayashi’s mark of 58 bratwurst in 10 minutes. (Sonya Thomas destroyed the best eater on the Washington Redskin’s, Randy Thomas, when she had a shrimp eating contest with him)

Kobayashi has returned to Japan and has written a blog entry about the contest.

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Liz has an interview with Pat Bertoletti after he was upset by Chip in the Mall of America Nathan’s qualifer, who had the second-best American result (38 HDB) of all time.

updated 6/20 1:11 am – changed Chip Simpson to Pat Bertoletti

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The Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) has an article about yesterday’s Nathan’s qualifier at the Mall of America won by Chip Simpson with 38 hot dogs.

Updated 6:27 pm – Brian Seiken has commentary

7:13 pm – a volunteer judge has a myspace blog entry about the contest

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From IFOCE.com, Andrew Lane’s blog & Liz K.

Bloomington MN – Mall of America Nathan’s qualifier

Chip Simpson 38 HDB
Pat Bertoletti 32 HDB
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane 12 HDB
Kevin Carr 11 HDB
16 other locals

Chip is one of four people to eat 38 or more hot dogs (Joey Chestnut, Kobayashi & Nobuyuki Shirota are the others)

from Domenico Alesi’s comment:

Milwaukee Harley Davidson Johnsonville bratwurst qualifier
top 5 qualify for Johnsonville bratwurst finals in August

Tim “Eater X” Janus (NY)- 29 Brats
Frank Wach (Chicago)- 20 Brats
Tim Brown (Chicago)- 19 Brats
Crazy Legs Conti (NY)- 17/18 Brats
Jim “Hammer” Hammerick (Springfield, IL) -14 Brats
Domenico “The Sicilian” Alesi (Chicago)- 13 Brats

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