abcnews.com has a slideshow of some of the competitors in the Nathan’s finals. Pat Bertoletti is pictured with his Dale Boone doll.

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The weather in Coney Island July 4 is currently predicted to be 85 degrees with a 40% chance of precipitation.

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Eric Fields has a first person account of his participation in last month’s goldenpalace.net World Ice Cream eating championship.

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Jed Donahue says that Nathan’s representatives told him that qualifier winners must eat at least 18 HDB to reach the finals in Coney Island. The new poll question asks what you think the threshold should be, if any.

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from IFOCE.com: a new Nathan’s qualifier will be held in Coney Island on July 3 to replace the Thailand qualifier that was cancelled due to storms. The contest will be open only to people who have competed in a qualifier in 2006 and Thai citizens.

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Thanks Brian Seiken

NYC Civil Service qualifier, South Street Seaport, Manhattan, NY
1. Eric “Badlands” Booker 30.5 HDB
2. John Sclafani 12.5 HDB (spelling updated 7/1)
3. Frank Fumanante 10 HDB

Booker turns in an impressive performance and indicates he is still a force to be reckoned with despite not having competed in many contests recently.

Updated June 28 12:53 pm – Digest has posted an interview with Badlands.

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Liz has uploaded interviews of the 1st and 3rd place finishers, “Humble” Bob Shoudt and “Beautiful” Brian Seiken, at Sunday’s Shea Stadium Nathan’s qualifier.

Updated 9:24 PM – The Chip Simpson interview has been appended to the Pat Bertoletti interview.

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from Brian Seiken

Shea Stadium, Queens NY Nathans’ qualifier results
1. “Humble” Bob Shoudt – 29 HDB – 11th qualifier is first victory – personal best
2. “Fast” Eddie Hardy 17 HDB – same debut amount as father Hungry Charlese
? “Beautiful” Brian Seiken 11 HDB – retired from Nathan’s qualifiers after contest

this myspace blog has an eyewitness account

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Eric “Badlands” Booker will perform at Mo Pitkin’s in the East Village on June 7 at 7:30 (tickets are $5) Booker has also placed some of his songs on his myspace page.

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Liz and Krista have uploaded their writeups of last week’s pickle contest held at the Carnegie Deli and goldenpalace.net ice cream contest held at the Water Club in Manhattan.

Fixed 1:50 pm – Changed Brooklyn to Manhattan – Thanks Krista

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nbc30 has an article, gallery and video of Pat Bertoletti at Friday’s goldenpalace.net ice cream contest. The article confuses pounds with gallons.

ESPN displayed a very brief clip of Pat Bertoletti (1 second at most) at the goldenpalace.net ice cream eating contest was shown on the Monday night / Tuesday morning Sportcenter. There might have been a longer video on an earlier edition of sportscenter.

Pat Bertoletti was also named athlete of the week by a Saint Louis Post Dispatch columnist.

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If anyone recorded a video of the last week’s pickle contest at the Carnegie Deli from start to finish I would like to host it on this website in order to resolve the controversy about the duration of that event. Kevin Lipsitz had the Hartford Nathan’s qualifier recorded in its entirety so hopefully he has a complete video of the pickle contest. If any participant or spectator timed the contest with a stopwatch, please report your results in the comments to this post.

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The Gothamist blog has an entry about today’s Schnack Stahl-Meyer 30 inch Hot Dog Eating Contest in Brooklyn. Joe Menchetti easily defended his title and won $500 by finishing his megafrankfurter in 1 minute 53 seconds.

Tien Mao has also has a blog entry and gallery of the contest.

Updated May 30, 3:21 PM – Jesse has another gallery of the contest.

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Brian Seiken has a gallery and video clip and Krista has a gallery of Friday’s ice cream eating contest. Krista will have a report on the contest for urbanhonking/digest.

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The BBC website has an article and audio clip about Pat Bertoletti’s record setting performance at the goldenpalace.net ice cream eating contest yesterday.

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Marketwire has a press release listing the top four finishers in today’s ice cream eating contest. A video clip of the contest with brief interviews of Pat Bertoletti and Crazy Legs Conti is also available.

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from IFOCE.com

1) Pat Bertoletti 1.75 gallons
2) Crazy Legs Conti 1.5 gallons
3) Tim “Eater X” Janus 1.25 gallons

Pat almost doubles the previous IFOCE ice cream record of 1 gallon 9 oz. in 12 minutes set by Cookie Jarvis despite having only 8 minutes for his contest.

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The IFOCE web page has posted a preview of Friday’s goldenpalace.net ice cream contest listing Pat from Moonachie, Loren Yarbrough, Bob Shoudt, Brian Seiken, Pat Bertoletti, Eater X and Crazy Legs Conti as expected entrants.

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The IFOCE website lists two new contests that will be held this week. The goldenpalace.net ice cream eating contest will be held in New York City on Friday ($4000 in prizes) and the House of Blues Wing Eating championship ($1000) in prizes will be held in Cleveland on Saturday.

Corrected 6:24 pm – Thanks Pat Bertoletti

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(Thanks Loren Yarbrough) A Japanese competitive eating website has been set up at http://www.d2.dion.ne.jp/~193cm/ which has galleries of Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota at the 2004 Nathan’s finals and Tokyo qualifier.

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The AICE news page lists the expected contestants for the United Pickle contest that will be held May 24 at the Carnegie Deli. According to that roster, “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz will attempt to reclaim the pickle crown that he won in 2000. Joe Menchetti has also apparently decided that the contest is sufficiently lucrative to enter.

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Ryan Nerz has uploaded his chapter about “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz which was excised from the published version of “Eat This Book” by his editor. Nerz will appear at a reading at the Park Slope Barnes & Noble in Brooklyn on May 10 at 7:30 pm.

Newsday has an article on both “Eat This Book” and “Horsemen of the Esophagus.”

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Jason Fagone will read from “Horsemen of the Esophagus” at the KGB Bar in the lower east side of Manhattan on May 9 at 7pm.

Philadelphia Weekly has an interview with Fagone.

The Washington City Paper has a long review of Horsemen and Boldtype has a shorter critique.

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The Gothamist blog has a short writeup of the “Eat This Book” release party Wednesday night.

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Nichelle Newsletter has pictures from last night’s “Eat This Book” release party and mini-cupcake contest results, which Eric “Badlands” Booker won by eating 29 mini-cupcakes in 2 minutes without water.

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