Video footage from the 2004 NC State Fair Sweet Potato Casserole Eating Contest can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3yyOq4DTE Sonya Thomas won the contest, but she only makes an extremely brief appearance in the film.

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(from “the Hangman”) Two contests have been added to the goldenpalace.net World Series of Competitive Eating:

Oct 13 fried chicken strips, South Carolina State Fair, Columbia, SC
Oct 16 pickles, North Carolina State Fair, Raleigh, NC

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The Reflector reports that Donald Whichard and Darlene Pollard each won $100 by eating six pounds of collard greens in the men’s and women’s division of the collard-eating contest at the Collard Festival in Ayden, North Carolina on Saturday. Ms. Pollard claims that her collard victory was “a mission for God.”

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The Greensboro (NC) News-Record blog has a writeup of the second round Moe’s Burrito for Life contest. One of the contestants was police reporter Eric Townsend

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from beautifulbrian.com bulletin

Harrah’s casino, Cherokee, NC

7/8 Results updated from sonyatheblackwidow.com

1. Sonya Thomas, 5.45 lb
2. Tim “Eater X” Janus, 4.3 lb
3. Dale Boone, 3.9
Rich LeFevre DQ

Hopefully this will shut Luther up for a while.

It will be interesting to see what extracurricular activities Dale Boone was involved in. Brian Seiken claims Boone and Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough almost came to blows in Memphis.

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NBC4 (Washington DC local news) interviewed Sonya Thomas after Nathan’s, which is mentioned in the station’s blog. Sonya said that she intended to do Friday’s rib contest at Harrah’s casino in Cherokee, NC. Dale Boone is also expected to compete in that contest and interesting (in the Chinese curse meaning of the word) things tend to happen when those two compete. I don’t believe that Sonya has ever lost in VA, DC, MD, DE or NC.

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Two hot dog eating contests will be held this extended weekend. A hot dog eating contest will be held at Green’s Lunch in Charlotte on Saturday at 1 pm in honor of that establisment’s 80th birthday. On Monday, a hot dog eating contest will take place at Mother’s Grille in Baltimore at the conclusion of the Oriole’s season opener. Call the restaurants for contest details.

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A hot dog eating contest for Duke University students Tuesday was won by senior Tom Eberly who defeated last year’s champion Adedayo Adeniran with a result of 15 hot dogs in 4:21. Ms. Adeniran (who shows that great petite eaters do not need to be Asian) consumed 11 hot dogs in that time, a considerable improvement from last year’s result of 10 hot dogs in 6:22. Eberly’s graduation will give Adedayo the opportunity to regain the title next year.

There is no word on whether the champion will face off with the best hot dog eater from UNC.

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Thanks Bubba Yarbrough:

Hall Hunt 20
Bubba Yarbrough 19
Frank Wach 17 1/2
Brian Subich 15
Larry McNeil 14 1/2

Congratulations to Hall “Pretty Boy” Hunt, whose win combined with a 2nd place finish in the SC contest nets him $1,500 for the extended weekend. The final grilled cheese qualifier in Phoenix on Friday is apparently Joey Chestnut’s to lose.

Updated 10/18 8:47 am The Greensboro News-Record has an article about the contest.

9:29 am the blog for WRAL TV has an entry (and a photo gallery) about the contest.

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Anyone driving from the northeast to the NC State Fair ought to take I-95 to new US 64 (which is not yet on any online maps) and not I-85 to US 1.

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WLTX has a video of ultramarathoner/competitive eater Ray Krolewicz competing against one of its anchors.

The Durham Herald sun has a general preview of the fair mentioning that Joe LaRue will attend the grilled cheese contest.

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This forum thread describes Mara Thomas’ efforts to compete in the 2004 Sweet Potato Casserole contest held at the NC State Fair. (Based on the comments in the thread, she is apparently an eater of considerable abilities). She wound up having to miss the contest because it was held during working hours. If she enters the 2005 grilled cheese contest held at the same site she will not have to face Sonya Thomas who won the previous year’s event.

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This column by G. D. Gearino at newsobserver.com laments the replacement of last year’s sweet potato contest at the NC State Fair with a grilled cheese qualifier.

This article profiles an ultramarathoner, Ray Krolewicz, who plans to compete in the South Carolina State fair grilled cheese qualifier and then run a 50K (31 mile) race the next day.

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