Upcoming Minneapolis eating contests
Minneapolis eating challenges
(All Minneapolis eating challenges and contests in database)
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.
145 pound “Juicy Lucy” burger created
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.
Patrick Vandam interview in TwinCities.com
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.
Link Buffet: May 14, 2008
- 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
LV and MN qualifier galleries available
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
Pat B wins Minneapolis, Vandam w/30 HDB
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
Minneapolis burger contest this weekend
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.
Mall of America qualifier gallery
A gallery of the Nathan’s qualifier held at the Mall of America is available at nathansmoa.com
Crazy Legs Conti post-MOA interview
Liz has an interview with Crazy Legs Conti from after his victory at the Mall of America qualifier in Minnesota
Crazy Legs Conti wins at Mall of America
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.
Website for Mall of America qualifier
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.
Minnesota Vikings compare their appetites to Kobayashi’s
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.
Pat Bertoletti Digest interview
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
Pioneer Press article about Mall of America qualifier
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
June 17 Great Lakes contest results: Chip Simpson upsets Pat Bertoletti
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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