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Furious Pete wins Go! Go! Curry!
update June 9 Rebecca Davis / NY Daily News video
update June 7 Furious Pete has a video
A picture of the results
Mike Longo has the results of today’s contest at Go! Go! Curry!
1) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski
2) “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti
3) Will Millender
4) Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria
5) Brian Kenny Pham
update Metromix NY has a gallery
Nathan’s president on new Wall of Fame
AOL Weird News has an article about the new Nathan’s Wall of Fame with quotes from Ed “Cookie” Jarvis and Wayne Norbitz, president of Nathan’s:
“The reason that we changed the graphic is that the wall is in the sun — the design fades,” said Norbitz. “We needed to upgrade the look of it, so we decided to not just redo it the way it was.
“We decided to make the picture more current with people who have competed more recently,” added Norbitz, who noted that the wall’s bottom continues to list all of the winners of past Nathan’s contests — though insiders are quick to point out that many top eaters retire without ever winning big in Coney Island.
No reason is given for the omission of Eric “Badlands” Booker and Bob Shoudt.
update The article has been posted to the AOL News facebook if anyone wants to comment there.
Booker, Jarvis, Lerman & More removed from Wall of Fame
Gersh Kuntzman has a column about the updating of the “Wall of Fame” at the Coney Island Nathan’s. A summary of the changes:
- In: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus, Juliet Lee, Tim Brown, Crazy Legs Conti
- Out: Eric “Badlands” Booker, Cookie Jarvis, Don Lerman, Charles Hardy, Kevin Lipsitz, Ed Krachie, “Kid” Cary DeGrosa, songwriter Amos Wengler.
- Staying: Takeru Kobayashi, Sonya Thomas
- Neither in nor out: “Notorious” Bob Shoudt (current #2 IFOCE ranking)
George Shea is quoted:
“The question is this: Do you listen to Lady Gaga or The Who?†Shea asked. “The bottom line is that it’s a ‘Wall of Fame.’ None of the people you mentioned, plus Don ‘Moses’ Lerman, ‘Krazy’ Kevin Lipsitz or Ed ‘Cookie’ Jarvis, have fame anymore. The guys on that wall now have eclipsed all of them.â€
Badlands Booker ate 38.5 hot dogs in a Nathan’s qualifier last month. Three of the new entrants (Juliet Lee, Tim Brown, Crazy Legs Conti) have never eaten that much.
A picture of the old Wall of Fame
A poster of the five finalists for the Go! Go! Curry! eating contest is available. (via Will Millender twitter)
Midtown Lunch has a blog entry about Will Millender's contest that will award one of his spectator tickets for the June 5 Go! Go! Curry! finals to a "a Flavor Flav style Hypeman (or hypewoman) to cheer him on."
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has uploaded videos of his record setting qualifiers yesterday at Go! Go! Curry! and Rocco's Pizza.
Will Millender reports that "Furious" Pete Czerwinski did his qualifier at Go! Go! Curry! in 35 seconds, the best time in 2010. If no one else qualifies today, the five finalists will be Pete Czerwinski, Will Millender, Joe Menchietti, Paul Arcaria and Brian Kenny Pham. Brian Seiken did a qualifier in 57 seconds, which would have qualified if he opted to participate in the finals.
The New York Daily News has an article about Hot Dogs: The Competitive Eating Musical. Characters in the play include Crazy Arms Conway, Venus Flytrap, Eater Q and Miro Atakoshi.
twitter.com/bigwillthechamp: "whew, they gave us a bottle of water. winner here - 17 slices in 10 mins [@ Hell's Kitchen pizza contest]. joel the cannon 2nd with 14. 3rd to damon serignet"
To entice Lebron James to sign with the New York Knicks, the Carnegie Deli has added a "Lebron MVP" sandwich to its menu costing $19.95 containing pastrami, corned beef, brisket, turkey and American cheese.
Go! Go! Curry! is holding a lottery for tickets for spectators for the finals of the curry eating contest June 5, which will be televised on Fuji TV in Japan.
Will "the Champ" Millender is the profiled Midtown Lunch'er of the Week on MidtownLunch.com
VietBlackBoi has videos of "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti and Will Millender's qualification attempts at Go! Go! Curry!
Don Lerman reports he tied for first place with Will Millender in the burrito eating contest held today at two Baja Fresh locations in Manhattan.
A Moses can be found on the recently updated Go! Go! Curry! qualifying leader board. Moses Perez is in the #5 spot.
Eater.com has an interview with Kristyn Pomranz and Katherine Steinberg, the writers of Hot Dogs: The Competitive Eating Musical which will hold a staged reading in New York City Monday. One of the play's characters is named Joey Cashew.
GJoe & Big Will lead Go! Go! Curry! qualifying
Will Millender has the current qualifying leaders at Go! Go! Curry! after tonight’s attempts:
1) Joe Menchetti 41:90
2) Will Millender 42:31
3) Paul “porkslap” Arcaria 1:15:45
4) Brian Kenny Pham 1:25:47
Joe Menchetti had the fastest time last year of 37:57
A contest has started at NathansSweepstakes.com awarding the winner a trip to New York City to judge the Nathan's finals (video). A Nathan's judgeship is also on sale in a charity auction (current bid $395)
Tickets ($10) are on sale for the May 10 staged reading of Hot Dogs: The Competitive Eating Musical at The Red Room in Manhattan. (via Kelly Reeves)
The Wall Street Journal has an article about Goldman Sachs' mortgage unit, which reports that the division held White Castle burger eating contests in which about 10 mortgage traders participated.
Will Millender reports that Brian Kenny Pham won today's cupcake eating contest at Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn by eating 19 cupcakes in 12 minutes.
The New York Daily News has an article about tomorrow's all-amateur cupcake eating contest at the Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn containing a disparaging quote from George Shea.
Defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh, expected to be a high draft choice in the upcoming NFL draft, ate at the Carnegie Deli in New York City and got a giant sandwich.
Tonic.com reports that a Nathan's finals guest judgeship is an item for sale in an online auction at BiddingForGood.com to benefit the Children's Museum of the Arts. The minimum bid is $340 and the closing date is May 13.
The Go! Go! Curry! twitter reports that Paul "Porkslap" Arcaria did his qualifying run tonight in 1:15. Last year's cutoff for the finals was 1:02.
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