Upcoming eating contests
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(All Minnesota eating challenges and contests in database)
Time Magazine on the 1933 Ortonville corn contest
The archives for Time Magazine have an article with a paragraph about the 1933 corn eating contest held in Ortonville, Minnesota, where an AICE contest will take place this year:
At the Ortonville, Minn, harvest festival last year Mrs. L. W. Lindstrom munched hard for the women’s corn-eating championship, finished second to Pauline Lewis who set a women’s record of 25 ears. Ed (“Korn King”) Kottwitz won the men’s championship with a world’s record of 37 ears. Last week at the festival, with two dozen waitresses rushing supplies from steaming boilers chocked with Golden Bantam corn, Mrs. Lindstrom, 71 and every tooth her own, beat Pauline Lewis, 22, by one ear with a new women’s record of 45 ears. Ed Kottwitz kept his championship by chomping down 50 ears.
Mrs. Lindstrom’s performance is the best performance by an eater over the age of 70 I am aware of.
It is surprising that an eating contest would be held during the trough of the Great Depression.
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.
Central Lakes Eating Team autographed napkin on ebay
(from Dave Chrisinger) A napkin autographed by all 5 members of the Central Lakes Eating Team has been put up for sale on ebay. The current bid is 99 cents and the auction ends Friday.
Central Lakes Eating Team on myspace
The Central Lakes (Minnesota) Eating Team has a page on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/centrallakeseatingteam Their heros are Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas and Eater X. Could this be the start of UEMN?
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
Volleyball star is also pudding eating champion
The Elk River (Minnesota) Star has a profile of Jenny Olson who is not only a volleyball star, but also a pudding eating champion, consuming 16 plates of pudding in 3 minutes.
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