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(From Erik Denmark) Erik Denmark has written a preview of tomorrow’s pigs feet contest that he will compete in. Some of the other expected entrants are Crazy Legs, Justin Mih and Skinnyboy.

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(From Domenico Alesi comment) An IFOCE pigs feet eating contest will be held at the New Jersey State Fair on June 23. Registration opens today at 2pm eastern.

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From AICE News:
(5 minutes, 1/4 Windmill hot dogs)

1st 6.875 Lew “The Chew” Porchazzio Colonia, NJ
2nd ? Chris “The American” Schlesinger Bohemia, NY
3rd 6.67 Carey “Powerhouse” Poehlmann Willow Grove, PA
4th 5.5 Steve “The Real Savage” Oddo Hazlett, NJ
? ? Richard “Food Tray” Brockway
? ? Kevin “The Hurls” Hurley
? ? Jess “The Best” Sheft-Ason

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AICE news reports that Dave ‘US Mail’ Goldstein, who finished in 5th place in February’s Wing Bowl, will compete in the Windmill hot dogs qualifier on Sunday. If he enters that event, he will be the second eater (after Pat Bruss) to cross over to AICE after a strong performance in an IFOCE contest. Megamunch’s friend Carey Poehlmann is also expected to enter.

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NorthJersey.com has an article about Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin which focuses on his suspension and reinstatement.

“We felt that the video that he did for ‘Opie & Anthony’ was somewhat outrageous,” Shea said. “But I think that, given the overwhelming support that he has among fans, there was a sense that we reacted too quickly and too strongly.

“There was a rush to judgment,” Shea said. “And we reversed it.”

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Don “Moses” Lerman has a blog entry & gallery about his meal at Big Ed’s BBQ where he got the all you can eat special with Kevin & Lorraine Lipsitz and some other family members. The “clash of generations” originally envisioned could apparently not be scheduled, but Kevin’s nephew Kyle made a strong showing for younger eaters by eating 21 ribs.

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The Slashfood food blog has a post about the Clinton Station Diner’s 105 pound “Eigth Wonder” burger which debuted last week.

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(from AICE News) The Clinton Station Diner unveiled, its latest creation, a megaburger with the working title of “The 8th Wonder of the World” which weighs 105 pounds, the same weight as Sonya Thomas.

In the three person team nano bite burger eating contest the results were:

1st Place: “Champion Stomachs” (Ian “The invader” Hickman, King Van Laar and Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman) $1,000 and “Eighth Wonder ”

2nd Place: “Nano-Ninjas” (Elliot “The Savage” Cowley, Chris “The American” Schlesinger and Sean “Flash”Gordon) $300 and “Mt. Olympus”

3rd Place: “Meat Manglers” ( Joel “The Cannon”Podelesky, John ‘Chowin’ McGowan, Brian ‘ Food-University’ Stanford) “Zeus Burger”

4th Place: “The Hamburglars” (Debbie ‘The Package’ Sisco, Joe ‘Killer’ Krongold and Demetris ‘Meatis’ Zambus)

updated Pictures are available, including a gallery of the 8th wonder burger

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Zwire has a preview of tomorrow’s Nanobite burger eating contest at the Clinton Station Diner. The recipe for the 70+ lb. megaburger to be unveiled has apparently not been finalized and there is a $300 prize for naming it. Contest spectators are encouraged to bring at least $15 worth of groceries which will be used in care packages sent to overseas troops by Operation Shoebox.

The wayawesome blog has a picture of the Nanobite burger on top of a Mt. Olympus burger claiming that the burger patty weighs .4 oz, and the total weight is 1.4 oz, only .6 oz less than a Krystal / White Castle burger.

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AICE news announces that the Clinton Station Diner will unveil a burger weighing over 70 pounds called the “8th Wonder of the World” in conjunction with the Nano Burger contest on October 28. The burger will have to exceed 78.5 pounds to take the title of “World’s Largest Hamburger” from Bob’s BBQ in Thailand.

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The AICE home page says that the Clinton Station Diner will unveil the new heavy weight 8th Wonder of the World burger at the nano burger contest on October 28. The burger will presumbaly exceed the new burgers at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub and Bobs Barbecue in Thailand.

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(from AICE news) The AICE contest at the Clinton Station Diner on October 28 will use “Nano” burgers, claimed to be the world’s smallest hamburger instead of the restaurant’s giant Zeus or Mt. Olympus burgers. The contest will be a team event. The goal will be to eat 1,000 miniburgers to celebrate the diner’s 1000 days of operations.

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AICE News announces that they will hold a contest at the Clinton Station Diner in New Jersey in honor of that restaurant’s 1000th day on October 28. The size of the burger in that contest has not been determined yet. A team contest for the 50 pound Mount Olympus burger is a possibility.

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A video clip of the Clinton Station Diner’s 50 pound cheeseburger, the Mount Olympus, has been uploaded to youtube.

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An SexyFeast blog entry from January claims that Kate Stelnick finished the 12.5 pound Zeus burger from the Clinton Station Diner. Since I have not located any information that Kate has done any challenges outside Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, I am assuming that the author saw the picture of Kate with the Zeus burger from the May 2005 AICE Zeus contest, in which Kate served as an honorary official and not a contestant, and jumped to the conclusion that she completed the burger. A Steakbellie blog entry from February says that the diner told him that no one had finished the burger in the three hour limit. Of course, both blog entries could be correct if Kate needed more than three hours.

The blog entry has an accompanying podcast, but no information about Kate’s potential feat can be found in it.

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NorthJersey.com has a report on yesterday’s Quick Chek Italian sub qualifier held in Hackensack, New Jersey. Ian Hickman won the contest, and Joshua “the Lumberjack” Hearne and Mike Grove also gained entrance into the finals.

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The Rutgers University student paper reports that Christine Ma won a pizza eating contest by eating almost an entire pizza in an unspecified period of time.

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After a top 10 finish in Wing Bowl 14, blogger steakbellie is considering making an attempt at the 12.5 pound Zeus burger from the Clinton Station Diner, which no single eater has finished. In the comments, steakbellie says he contacted Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, who repeated their assertion that Lori Weiss tied Kate Stelnick’s time. Denny’s has not updated their website to provide information about Ms. Weiss’ feat despite having over four months to do so.

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The Clinton Station Diner has added new challenges to its original offer of a free Zeus burger (7 meat, 12.5 lb. total) to diners who can complete that sandwich in under three hours. A two person Zeus challenge is now available with a time limit of 90 minutes. The west New Jersey eatery also now offers challenges for its burger containing 3 pounds of meat with a maximum of 2 hours for one eater and 45 minutes for a team. The diner increased the team size for its 50 pound Mount Olympus burger challenge to 5 eaters from four.

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With the Big Daddy burger contest tomorrow, it is an appropriate time to look back on the last megaburger contest, the AICE Zeus burger contest held at the Clinton Station Diner in New Jersey in May. Three person teams were allowed 75 minutes to finish the 12.5 pound sandwich. The only group to beat the deadline, the Tri-State Titans, finished with a time of 71 minutes, consisted of “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti, Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman, and Dominick “The Doginator” Cardo. The Titan’s efforts were almost invalidated by Chowhound’s vomiting soon after he completed the burger.

Kate Stelnick served as celebrity judge, her only involvement in an eating contest. The article does not state if it was her call if Chapman’s “reversal of fortune” occured after an allowable time. That experience might have been distasteful enough for her to withdraw completely from competitive eating. Another possible theory for her absence is suggested by her quote that she won a lot of bets from people who did not think she could finish the 96er burger. She could be winning a lot of money betting people in buffets and wants to keep a low profile so none of her potential victims recognize her (which could be the premise of a possible movie: “Svelte Co-eds Can’t Eat.” 😉 )

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“Humble” Bob Shoudt and “Eater X” Tim Janus were the first to conquer the “Pauliesaurus” megapizza from Paulie’s Pizza in New Brunswick, NJ, winning them a prize of $350. Beautiful Brian has a writeup of their evening on his website.

With the vanquishing of the Pauliesaurus, notable unconquered eating challenges include:

• Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 15 pound Belly Buster burger
• Clinton Station Diner’s 50 pound (4 person team) Mount Olympus burger and 12 pound Zeus burger
• The Rockford (MI) Corner bar’s 42.5 chili dogs in 4 hours. The current record has been held by Sharon Scholten, a 110 pound woman, for almost a quarter century. If this mark is bested, it is debatable if the victor should have an asterisk if he/she does not eat a giant Mexican lunch before like Sharon did. (As far as I know, Ms. Scholten’s mark is the most hot dogs ever eaten by a woman in a single session, but Sonya Thomas might change that on July 4, 2006)

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(From ahamburgertoday.com comments:) Pictures of the 50 pound “Mount Olympus” burger are available at the website of radion station NJ 101.5 FM.

It is surprising that no local news articles about the “Mount Olympus” are available. Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub 15 pound burger received a substantial degree of national media attention. I guess the media is “megaburgered” out.

Never eat more than you can lift — Miss Piggy

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The AICE website’s news page mentions that the Clinton Station Diner in western New Jersey has developed the world’s largest hamburger, the Mount Olympus, weighing 50 pounds total. No local news articles are avaiable and the sandwich is not currently mentioned on the restaurant’s website. The only details about the burger that I have been able to find come from a Mini Cooper forum page:

25 lbs. of beef
5 tomatoes
4 onions
5 cups of pickles
17 lbs. of bread

5 people are allowed 3 hours to eat it.

It appears that the diner will not have to give out many free 50 pound burgers. The challenge requires each team member to eat 10 pounds, so the average member of a succesful team needs to have the gastronomic capacity of Kate Stelnick. Kobayashi, Sonya Thomas, Joey Chestnut, Rich LeFevre and Kate Stelnick could probably finish it, but some members of that group require more significant remuneration than a free meal.

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