Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All Minnesota eating challenges and contests in database)
The June 26 hot dog eating contest at 49er days in Fridley, Minnesota will award $250 to the winner.
WCCO has a video about a matzo ball eating contest at Mort's Deli in the Twin Cities won by Gus. Betsy Soderlund was the runner-up in her first eating contest.
SEIU Local 26 will stage a protest in Minneapolis at Baja Sol's taco eating contest tomorrow due to the owner's support of the controverial new Arizona immigration law.
C C Kung wrote a blog entry about a trip to Pho Garden in Mountain View, CA where he encountered Joey Chestnut setting the record for the pho noodle challenge (4 lbs. in 21 minutes). Pat Bertoletti posted to his facebook that he set the pho challenge record at Saigon in St. Paul, MN.
Mort's Deli in Golden Valley, MN (Minneapolis area) will hold a matzo ball eating contest on May 22 that will award $500 to the winner.
StarTribune reports that former heavyweight boxing champ George Foreman visited the Twin Cities for his birthday and dined at all three restaurants featured in the Minneapolis episode of Man vs. Food.
(via HitchcockBlonde) Adam Richman will judge a baby bratwurst eating challenge at Majors Sports Cafe in Minneapolis tomorrow. The top performer will receive a $500 gift card.
Randy's Pizza in Oakdale, Minnesota has put out a press release about the attempts of two 5 person teams to complete a 48 inch pizza challenge.
MN Guy Expo wing winner admits cheating
In MetroMag.com, Scott Schneweis describes the techniques which resulted in him being named the winner of the wing eating contest at the Guy Expo in St. Paul, Minnesota:
Desperate and miserable, I picked up a wing with my left hand and slid it into the side of Todd’s tray while I ate another one with my right hand. He laughed, sending chicken wing bits flying. Then he grabbed my chicken wing and put it in on the top of his pile. Chewing, we looked around. No one seemed the wiser.
Realizing what was at stake, Todd started making weird eating noises and talking to the crowd and the judge with his mouth full. It wasn’t a pretty sight, but he was distracting the crowd. I slid him four more chicken wings.
Pat Bertoletti has posted a video of him eating a 3 pound burger and 2 pounds of fries at Gronk's Grill (Duluth area) to his yardbarker blog.
Minnesota funnel cake results thread
Bryan Beard just posted funnel cake results:
1. Tim Janus
2. Hall Hunt
3. Bob Shoudt
4. Erik Denmark
5. Tim Brown
6. Bryan Beard
update CNN has a video and WCCO has a slide show (from A Bomb)
update #2 7th place finisher Jon Lapolla has posted full results and a contest report to a bodybuilding.com forum thread.
The MLE facebook page lists five of the 15 competitors in this weekend's funnel cake eating contest in Minnesota: Tim Janus, Bob Shoudt, Tim "Gravy" Brown, Hall Hunt & Erik Denmark.
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.
A hot dog eating contest to be held at the Water Carnival in Hutchinson, Minnesota on June 20 will award two round trip plane tickets to New York City.
(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
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