An associate producer for the TLC program Cake Boss sent the following email:

Next Wednesday, September 2nd, Timothy Janus (Eater X, ranked #4 in the world) and Crazy Legs Conti (ranked #14) will be meeting up at a downtown restaurant in Hoboken, New Jersey for some cake-eating craziness.

Currently, we have limited openings for seating at the event but I’d love to get people passionate about competitive eating in the audience! We need NY/NJ-based individuals interested in attending to RSVP to hobokenproject@gmail.com with their full name, age, contact info (including phone number for confirmation) as soon as possible. Guests will need to arrive at the site at 3pm on Wednesday, and with confirmation of their email we’ll send them an address to the location.

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A picture of a list of burger challenges offered by the Clinton Station Diner can be viewed on flickr. $5,000 will be awarded to a team of 10 diners that can finish the “8th Wonder” burger (listed at 105 pounds) in an hour or less.

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(From the Consumerist) The website for ABC News has an article about restaurants’ eating challenges. The reporter, Scott Mayerowitz, attempted the 50 pound Mount Olympus burger from the Clinton Station Diner in New Jersey with “King” George Van Laar. According the the article, $1000 will be awarded to a five person team that can finish the Mount Olympus in under three hours.

Other eating challenges mentioned:

• The Pancake Challenge from the Seiad Valley Café in California
• Dare to be Great Sundae from The Parlour in Jackson, Michigan
• 76 Ounce Steak, J & R Steakhouse in Long Island, NY

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NJ.com reports that the Newark Bears minor league baseball team will have a pre-game eating contest tomorrow in which competitors will eat a hot dog, cotton candy and funnel cake.

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Some captures from the Clinton Station Diner giant burger contest footage at the start of the History Channel’s Evolve: Guts have been attached.

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Pictures and videos of Furious Pete’s attempt at the Clinton Station Diner’s Zeus burger challenge have been posted to bodybuilding.com. It is estimated he finished about 60% of the burger. The current prize for finishing the burger is $500. Forks are apparently allowed at the Clinton Station Diner (they are prohibited in Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s challenges)

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• Jill Stoler has a belated birthday tribute to Pat Bertoletti
• Poll about biggest eating baseball players: (1st Babe Ruth 2nd John Kruk 3rd Tommy LaSorda)
• Sonya has a commentary about the Nathan’s finals
• Furious Pete is seeking a dining partner for his attempt at the Zeus Burger at the Clinton Station Diner July 5.
• Kobyashi reports he is now in New York City
• Tomoko Miyake has an autograph signing session for her new book
  

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• Article about Portland mayoral race with coverage of doughnut contest for candidates
• Gothamist preview of Tuesdays promotional watermelon eating contest at Rockefeller Center
• Steakbellie on qualifying for Nathan’s
• Reporter attempts to set personal wing eating record during morning newscast
• Cheeseburger eating contest to be held at Jimmy Buffet night at Newark Bears game May 23.
• Cameron McKirdy uploads 3 new videos
• Jill Stoler gets into Wednesday’s pickle contest at the Carnegie Deli
• Gal Sone gets a haircut and a new hair color

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(From Save The Deli) The New York Times has an article and slideshow about restaurants near the exits of the New Jersey Turnpike. Harold’s New York Deli in Edison, NJ was visited near exit 10:

Harold Jaffee cut his teeth as general manager at the Carnegie Deli in Manhattan, where the sandwiches are big enough. But there’s something about New Jersey that made him want to do things bigger.

At Harold’s New York Deli, in a Holiday Inn just a kreplach’s toss from Exit 10, Mr. Jaffee serves a 26-ounce pastrami sandwich, two little triangles of bread teetering like a farce atop twin peaks of meat. The house-cured pastrami is soft, warm and mildly spiced. You can feed a carload on it, supplemented by slices of rye and half sours from the “world’s largest pickle bar.”

The 26 ounce sandwich is not the largest item on the menu; triple decker sandwiches are available.

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A video of the giant burger eating contest for three person teams recorded at the Clinton (NJ) Station Diner on February 2 televised on NTV March 20 can be seen at http://www.veoh.com/videos/v6482620yWdSfN4E The video focuses on the Japanese team consisting of Takuya Yamamoto, Tomoko Miyake and Taku Izumi and the team of Ian Hickman, Elizabeth Canady and Pete Maurizio, but Jill Stoler’s team also makes an appearance. The video also contains footage from a contest for Japanese team members at a Windmill Hot dogs.

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Tomoko Miyake reports that the team burger eating contest held at the Clinton Station Diner on Super Bowl weekend will be televised on March 20. The contest will be televised by NNN news, which usually posts its competitive eating videos online.

In other Japanese contest news, R Suzuki reports that Hatsuyo Sugawara won a televised sushi eating contest. The top 5 in that contest:

1. Hatsuyo Sugawara, 107 plates
2. Takuya Yamamoto, 104 plates
3. Nobuyuki Shirota, 102 plates
4. Tomoko Miyake, 81 plates
5. Taku “Artist” Izumi, 74 plates

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Pennlive.com has a blog entry with a picture of the 286 pound burger produced by the Clinton Station Diner that was consumed at the World’s Largest Menu Burger Eating Championship today. Contest results are not provided; they will be listed in an article on Sunday.

update nj.com has an article with results:

1) Tomoko Miyake, Takuya Yamamoto, Taku Izumi – 26.4 lb in 45 minutes
2) Ian Hickman, Elizabeth Canady, Pete Maurizio – 18.1 lb in 45 minutes
? McGowan brothers 6 lb

updated AICE news has full results and a galleries of the burger’s creation and the contest

update #2 Jill Stoler has pictures in her myspace page and a blog entry about the contest

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The New York Times has an article about “beefsteaks”, which refers to an event and not a type of food in northern New Jersey:

About 350 men, seated shoulder to shoulder at long tables, were devouring slices of beef tenderloin and washing them down with pitchers of beer. As waiters brought trays of meat, the guests reached over and harvested the pink slices with their bare hands, popping them down the hatch.

Each slice was perched on a round of Italian bread, but most of the men ate only the meat and stacked the bread slices in front of them, tallying their gluttony like poker players amassing chips. Laughter and uproarious conversation were in abundance; subtlety was not.

As anyone in northern New Jersey could tell you, this was a beefsteak.

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A new show on the Travel Channel called “Food Paradise” has started production by recording trips to the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas and the 17th Street Bar & Grill in O’Fallon, Illinois. I am not sure if this is the same show that is currently seeking a host.

In other television news, AICE news reports that a film crew from the History Channel will be present at the burger contest at the Clinton Station Diner on Saturday.

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Jill Stoler needs team members for the Clinton Station Diner burger contest.
CalorieLab on Eddie “Bozo” Miller
San Diego 12 egg omelet challenge
Krystal opening in Arkansas, a year’s supply of burgers to the first 12 adults in line.
American Stomach author on NPR at 11 am, will discuss competitive eating
Competitive eating parody on Shark Divers
Nathan’s hater Peter King of Sports Illustrated compares Seahawk Shaun Alexander to a Coney Island hot dog competitor.
Gal Sone dines with assistance of a crab cracker.
Mike Huckabee responds to Frank Pastore, the Big Texan steak record holder, questioning his conservatism.

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Youtube clip of the eating contest at Rutgers from “The Apprentice”
blog entry by runner up in the UK breakfast eating contest
North Jersey hot dog eating contest, winner ate 11 hot dogs in 5 minutes and won $250
“Mean” Gene Okerlund of the WWE opens a fast food restaurant and oversees a burger eating contest
CBS News article about the pumpkin farm where the US-Japan pumpkin eating contest took place (Joe Menchetti is not mentioned)
Howard University anti-CE (really anti-obesity) editorial
Kansas U corn dog contest video
Parody about high school eating competitive eating clubs
Branson, MO pizza contest
Evansville, Indiana donut contest video
Billy Blanks (Tae Bo) does eating contest in Japan

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AICE news reports that the Clinton Station Diner intends to create a burger larger than 123 pounds to break the world record and that a team of 25 eaters is being assembled to attempt to consume it.

DennysBeerBarrelPub.com reports that Team Hawg won a 15 pound burger eating contest that was held on October 20 involving four teams of 10 people. The time and amount eaten was not listed.

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HudsonReporter.com has an article with information about last weeks pigs feet eating contest at the New Jersey State Fair. Arturo Rios’ winning amount was 2.89 pounds, more than one pound more than the second place finisher.

update Erik Denmark also has a blog entry about the contest.

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