ToastedRav.com has a blog entry and gallery about the “Tour de Frankfurter”, an attempt to eat 24 hot dogs in 24 hours in 24 different St. Louis area locations. The Southside Journal also has an article about the tour.

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• Registration for the NYC Famous Famiglia pizza contest opens at noon today
• SE Missouri cross country runner Amy Guignon wins the SE Missouri fair hot dog eating contest (women took the top 3 places)
• Kevin Ross is robbed at gunpoint in his home according to BB’s Bits and Pieces
• Miss Busy Lady has a video of her competitive eating souvenirs
• Videos from the gyoza contest by the Trash Talkin Juicers
• Alex from Panama is traveling to New York and Boston between September 22 to 30 and would like to meet up with other eaters for eating challenges (from email)

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Schiappa’s Pizza in O’Fallon, Illinois has started a 36 inch pizza challenge for three people. The time limit is a half an hour.

Schiappa’s held an eat-off for the two-person teams who finished the 29 inch pizza challenge on July 26 to determine who would receive the grand prize of a trip to Cancun, Mexico. Two of the teams that completed the challenge consisted of Joey Chestnut and Hall Hunt along with Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus. Neither pair competed in the eat off and Ryan Maassen and Bill File won the contest.

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• St. Louis sushi contest September 21. First prize is a trip to Japan.
• Sushi Bowl eating contest held in New York City
• PETA takes credit for cancellation of cockroach eating contest
• Miss Busy Lady’s friend eats 50 chicken wings in one sitting
• WLOCE hires Terry Barker to MC
• Nathan Biller’s Nathan’s gallery (facebook registration required)

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane competed in today’s Nathan’s qualifier in Kansas and has a blog entry with the results:

1 Erik Denmark 24
2 Chris Abatsas 23
3 Nic “The Incredible Bulk” 21 – Great Bend, KS
4 Pat Bruss 20
? Jason Erb 12
? Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane 10

There was one DQ, but he is not sure who it was.

update KansasCity.com has a contest report

update #2 Skinnyboy has a contest travelog and a gallery This was probably not his favorite eating contest trip

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I have not been able to find any information online about Saturday’s Kansas City area Nathan’s qualifier, but commenter ticate Munito says an article about the contest appeared in the Overland Park, KS newspaper and listed expected entrants as Pat Bruss, Erik Denmark, Chris Abatsas, Andrew Lane and Jason Erb.

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• Steakbellie and Wild Bill have blog entries about their qualifiers today
• Furious Pete is taking suggestions about the topic of his next competitive eating article for bodybuilding.com
• Patrick Vandam was listed as the record holder for the Vermonster in a previous Wikipedia entry
• Rib eating contest at Kansas City barbecue festival Sunday
• Blog entry about Durham, NC Doughman quadrathlon
• Tomoko Miyake has posted some samples from her upcoming book of photographs
• List of the world’s saltiest foods from Paul Barlow
• Pat Bertoletti has posted videos of his ice cream record on “Regis & Kelly” and the Apple Valley qualifier to his yardbarker blog.

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• Beautiful Brian starts a “Bigger Bits” page
• Medical researcher Carl DeSelm wins Bar Louie’s national tater tot eating contest with 4.5 pounds in 6 minutes (video of another Bar Louie contest in which the winner ate almost 3 pounds)
• Youtube video from CBS about the Collegiate Nationals
• Ken Hoffman of the Houston Chronicle defends competitive eating in a reader mailbag
• Tampa Bay Rays Fan Fest video, include Hall Hunt’s eating contest
• $10,000 to enter pie eating contest?
• Mango eating contest in India

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• “Badlands” Booker is Sonya Thomas’ featured eater for the second quarter of 2008
• Page on the eating contest at CollegiateNationals.com – only the winner of the qualifier will appear in the finals
• A press release for Phoenix Battle of the Bone says it is restricted to amateurs. The rules appear to make no such restriction
• Lufkin, TX tamale festival runs out of tamales, but still manages to put on a tamale contest.
• Joey Chestnut’s matzoh ball contest victory mentioned in the Vallejo Times Herald
• Nashua, NH hot dog contest report
  
• “Stretch” eating contest at Missouri University
• Group burger challenge attempt at Mount Airy, NC

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In the comments to a video of a Pointersaurus attempt, “socca4u” announced that she and her sister became the first all female team to complete the 12+ pound pizza and win $500, but their feat had yet to be recorded on Pointer’s web site. The finishers list has now been updated to include Pam and Jennifer Cooney of Katy, Texas. Another comment says the two women finished in 20 minutes (I believe one of the two IFOCE teams took 14 minutes).

“socca4u” is most likely Pam Cooney because she was a member of University of Alamaba at Birmingham soccer team. She competed in the Maccabiah Games in Israel and was named both all-American by the Jewish Sports Review and to the first team of the 2005 NSCAA/adidas College Women Scholar All-South Region after posting a 3.77 gpa.
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StlToday.com reports that a sausage eating contest will be held at the Soulard Octoberfest this weekend. Soulard.org has more details:

This year, the Soulard Oktoberfest Benevolent Association has added even more reasons to attend St. Louis’ most authentic German festival. Along with the annual World’s Largest Bratwurst Competition, SOBA is sponsoring Fat Toney’s Sausage Eating Contest for those brave and hungry enough to enter. With a grand prize of a trip to Las Vegas,compliments of Fat Toney Goucher himself, this competition is sure to attract a crowd. Fat Toney’s Sausage Eating Contest will take place on Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. Sign up for the Herculean task or simply cheer on the brave and the hungry.

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KansasCity.com notes that the Royals have started a new class of ticket:

This weekend, the Royals held the first of what will become a semi-regular promotion in which fans can buy a club-level seat with unlimited hot dogs, nachos, peanuts and soda.

“Oh, we’ve seen a lot of people through here who could do some damage (in competitive eating contests),” says Shawn, who worked the All-You-Can-Eat concession stand Friday night. “Especially peanuts and hot dogs.”

The article also has some quotes from “Humble” Bob Shoudt

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From AICE news:

1. Gentleman Joe (“AKA Eatmeiser”) 3.87 lbs
2. Mark Lyle “The Human Vacuum” 2.67 lbs
3. Veto “The Machine” Porter 1.96 lbs
4. Shawn “Taz” Wiggins 1.85

MyFoxKC has a video clip and gallery of the contest

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(From AICE news) The predictions for the AICE ribs contest in Kansas City Sunday expect half the top 4 to be filled by AICE novices:

1. Veto “The Machine” Porter 4.22 lb.
2. Gentleman Joe Menchetti 4.11 lb.
3. Mark Lyle “the Human Vacuum” 3.77 lb.
4. Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Canady 3.66 lb.

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(Thanks megamunch) Supersized Meals has some pictures from Pat Bertoletti from his trip to Pointer’s Pizza in Missouri in which he and Tim Janus finished the 10+ lb 28 inch Pointersaurus pizza in under an hour, winning $250 each. Joey Chestnut and Hall Hunt also succesfully completed the challenge. The best team needed only 14 minutes to complete the challenge.

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From AICE news:

Mark Lyle “The Human Vacuum” 3.84
Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 3.80
Chris “The American” Schlesinger 2.97

This is Mark Lyle’s fourth AICE victory in 2006. The other three are meatballs, fair food and reuben sandwiches.

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(from supersizedmeals.com) Talayna’s Restaurant in Saint Louis has a 30 inch pizza challenge that no one has completed. Challengers are required to drink two pitchers of soda as well. The prize for completing the challenge has been listed at both $500 and $1000.

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kansascity.com and hutchnews.com have reports from yesterday’s team hot dog eating contest at the Kansas State Fair. The National Guard team won with a combined total of 46 hot dogs. Radio personality Lucky Kidd had the best individual mark with 13 or 14 HDB. (The contest is not a qualifier for the Nathan’s finals in Coney Island)

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On March 3, the Masticators, (Joey Chestnut & Hall Hunt) and the Space Dockers (Pat Bertoletti & Tim Janus) both finished Schiappa’s 29 inch pizza challenge for two person teams in O’Fallon, Illinois (greater East Saint Louis). This article mentions their feat and says both duos took under six minutes (the limit is 30) to finish the pizzas. In addition to being placed on the Wall of Fame, the teams won a gift certificate for another 29 inch pizza and are entered in a drawing for a trip to Cancun that will be held after two other teams have finished the challenge. (Is the Whaler’s boat equipped for tropical latitudes?) 😉

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