Upcoming New York City eating contests
(All New York City eating challenges and contests in database)
Two contests will award trips to the 2012 Nathan's finals. Specialty Food Group is running a sweepstakes that will award a trip for four to the 2012 finals and the St. Paul Saints will award a trip on July 23 for two to a person who tweets a picture of a wiener from the grill.
The Brooklyn Eagle has a report on the pizza and ice cream eating contests held Sunday at the Fifth Avenue Spring Festival. Pizza contest winner "Furious" Pete Czerwinski produced a video about his trip to New York City. T L Magazine reports that the protest threatened by gay marriage advocates for the ice cream contest failed to materialize.
Why did my Dad make me a Mets fan? has a blog entry about Laura Leu's first (and also last) place finish in the women's division of Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Queens. (This is the first coverage of the qualifier I have seen.)
Will Millender has the top 5 from today's Rocco's Pizza eating contest in Brooklyn: 1) "Furious" Pete Czerwinski 17 slices, 2) "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti 14 slices 3) Will Millender 11.875 slices 4) Mike Hoffman 11 slices 5) Joel "The Cannon" Podelsky 10.
“Madoff Meadows” (Mets) Munchathon
update 7:30 The rest of the results.
update 6:36 Results have been posted
1) Tim “Eater X” Janus 45
2) “Notorious” Bob Shoudt 37
3) Eric “Badlands” Booker 24
Laura Leu 7 – top woman
The qualifer will take place before tonight’s Mets game, which has a 7:10 starting time.
The MLE twitter reports that Bob Shoudt, Tim Janus and Eric "Badlands" Booker and former bunnette Laura Leu will compete in tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier in Queens.
The Brooklyn Eagle has an article on Sunday's pizza eating conetst at the Fifth Avenue Spring Festival in Brooklyn. Queerty reports an ice cream eating contest held before the pizza contest at state Senator Marty Golden's office will be infiltrated by homosexual activists.
The Fortune Magazine blog has reposted a 1938 article about Coney Island with a section about how Nathan's five cent hot dogs were damaging the business of Feltman's, an eatery famed for its frankfurters costing a dime. The article makes no mention of any hot dog eating contests. (via longreads)
Eric "Badlands" Booker's facebook page announces that he will appear at the Nathan's qualifier at the NY Mets ballpark in Queens on Saturday.
Go! Go! Curry! announces that Joe Menchetti won today's curry eating contest.
Patch.com reports that Brooklyn Boulders will hold a hot dog eating contest tonight. The totals will be divided by the bodyweights of the competitors to produce an overall champion.
A poster of Joe Menchetti, Will Millender and three other competitors has been produced to promote Saturday's eating contest at Go! Go! Curry! in Manhattan.
Evan Bindelglass has a blog entry with several pictures about Wednesday's pickle eating contest held at the Carnegie Deli in Manhattan.
CBS New York reports that Mike "The Real Skinny" Hoffman won today's pickle eating contest held at the Carnegie Deli in Manhattan. update Gothamist reports Hoffman ate 1.8 pounds of pickles. update May 19 The NY Daily News has the rest of the top 3: Francis Arpaia (1.35 lb.), Brenda Mathis (1.19 lb., was not aware of contest and came to the deli for breakfast)
Gothamist reports that walk-on competitors will be accepted at tomorrow's pickle eating contest at the Carnegie Deli. The blog entry also says that Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa is the contest record holder with a total of 3.8 ponds.
Qualifying is closed for the 2011 Go! Go! Curry! eating contest and the competitors in the May 28 finals have been announced. Joe Menchetti, Will Millender and Dave Goldstein had the top three times.
PSbklyn in Brooklyn will hold a slider eating contest for amateurs on May 25 awarding $730 in gift certificates.
This year's pickle eating contest at the Carnegie Deli in Manhattan will take place on Wednesday, May 18.
The new poll asks who you think is the most significant omission from the new Nathan's "Wall of Fame" currently ranked in the IFOCE top 20.
Joe Menchetti has taken the lead in qualifying for the Go! Go! Curry! finals with a time of 38.63 seconds. The Manhattan restaurant will hold one more qualifying session on May 15.
Kobayashi calls IFOCE contract a “slave contract”
AOL Weird News has an article about Takeru Kobayashi being removed from the Nathan’s “Wall of Fame” which includes the following statement from Kobayashi via his translator Maggie James:
By not signing their contract, they will erase you from the wall. They are not deep about the spirit of history. They do as they wish. They are not presenting a contract that protects the league as a whole. They only present individual slave contracts which control each player in their category of value. Nothing protects the sport.
A picture of the old wall with Kobayashi still appears on the Nathan’s Famous facebook page.
The current standings for the contest at Go! Go! Curry! in New York City have been posted on the restaurant's website. Tsuyoshi Shiina is the current leader with a time of 1:44. Qualifiers will be held today and on May 10 and 15.
The Brooklyn Paper has an article about the new post-Kobayashi Nathan's wall with a picture of the completed mural. Sonya Thomas, Tim Janus, Pat Bertoletti, Crazy Legs Conti, Tim Brown, Juliet Lee and Joey Chestnut remain. No new eaters were added. Animal New York has a picture of the previous wall.
NY Daily News reports that Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa has announced that he has prostate cancer and will undergo surgery this week. Sliwa competed in the Nathan's finals several times in the 1990's and finished third in 1994.
The New York Post has an article (without a picture) about the new Nathan's wall. An image of Sonya Thomas will replace Takeru Kobayashi's picture on the wall.
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