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2012 World Hands Free Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship
update YNN.com has a video. Jamie McDonald says he is going to take a break from eating contests until February.
update The top 3 have been posted update Mike Longo has the rest of the top 8
1) Jamie McDonald 33 slices
2) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 29 (won eat-off)
3) Stephanie Torres 29 (lost eat-off)
4) Chris “The Mad Greek” Abatsas 25
5) Matt Bonanno 21
6) Naader Reda 20
7T) Mike Longo 18
7T) Dave Werrick 18
The World Hands Free Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship at The Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, NY has started.
WGRZ.com has a short article about Naader Reda eating 9.5 pounds of pumpkin pie in 30 minutes in Clarence, NY, which was billed as a record. Naader will compete in the World Hands Free Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship tomorrow along with Jamie McDonald, Stephanie Torres, Mike Longo and reportedly "Furious" Pete Czerwinski in his first AICE/APE contest since AICE tried to introduce contracts in 2009.
New York Magazine's Grub Street blog has an entry about Crazy Legs Conti's attempt to eat as much of the menu at Guy Fieri's American Kitchen and Bar as possible.
Jamie McDonald wins Bierhaus bratwurst, Graham Kist 2nd
update Oct 15 The restaurant facebook has a gallery
The Deadly Sins has a video and podcast
The Rake and Herald has a contest report
Will Millender has the top 7 at today’s bratwurst eating contest at Bierhaus in Manhattan
1) Jamie McDonald 33.5 sausages 8 minutes
2) Graham Kist 21
3) Dave Brunelli 20.5
4) Stephanie Torres 18.5
5) Wayne Algenio 18
6) Will Millender 17.5
7) Mike Hoffmann 15.5
Wayne Algenio reports that Joe (fixed) Menchetti won a wing eating contest at Play Lounge in Elmhurst, NY tonight. The first prize was a trip to Las Vegas.
Play Lounge in Elmhurst, NY will hold a wing eating contest on October 8 awarding a trip to Las Vegas.
Don Lerman announces he won a rib eating contest held in Hempstead, NY.
The Southern Tier Wingfest in Johnson City, NY (Binghamton area) will hold a wing eating contest Saturday awarding $500 to the winner and $100 to the runner-up.
Nathan's Famous at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY will hold a hot dog eating contest tomorrow as part of its Grand Opening Celebration.
NewsDay.com reports that Ed "Cookie" Jarvis will return to competitive eating at a garlic eating contest at the Long Island Garlic Fest this weekend.
Ken Excellence has a series of videos recorded at the Chef One Dumpling eating contest held in Brooklyn. Shay Neary, the fourth place finisher in the women's contest, has a blog entry for Citizen Brooklyn. update Sept 25 Chef One has posted their own videos of the contest.
Gino's of Kissena in Flushing, NY will hold a pizza eating contest on September 24 awarding up to $500.
Sag Harbor Online has a report on the lobster roll held Sunday won by Emory Fiveash.
Syracuse.com has an article about Hofmann's Hot Dogs strategy to become a national frankfurter brand which includes signing Takeru Kobayashi on as an endorser and minority investor. The company plans to hold hot dog eating contests on college campuses. (via Teri Weaver)
Dave Brunelli ends GJoe’s dumpling streak
update Sept 18
Chef One has galleries and has provided the women’s prizewinners: gallery 1 | gallery 2
Will Millender has a video with interviews
update #2 Womens results
1) Floria Lee 46, women’s record
2) Andrea Johnson 40
3) Taway Yang 38
update Will Millender has the men’s top 7
1) Dave Brunelli 74 – new record, ends Joe Menchetti’s streak
2T) Joe Menchetti 69
2T) Jamie McDonald 69
4) Wayne Algenio 55
5) Will Millender 50
6) John “Oink Oink” Bradley 44
7) Pat Philbin 36 Joe Menchetti has a seven year winning streak in the men’s contest, which might be jeopardized by Jamie McDonald, who is listed as going on the contest facebook event page. The contest is expected to start at 1 pm. (Menchetti’s winning streak is listed after the jump)
The contest will have equal amounts of men and women competing, which is a rarity in competitive eating.
A press release about the Bierhaus NYC National Oktoberfest Bratwurst Eating Championship bills Jamie McDonald as "2012's Competitive Eating Rookie of the Year". Stephanie Torres and Will Millender are also listed as expected entrants.
Badlands Booker wins San Gennaro cannoli contest in eat-off
update Sept 17 Lagalagny has a video of the entire contest
update Sept 15 Larell Marie has a gallery
update Sept 14 Gothamist has a blog entry
The results
1) Eric “Badlands” Booker 22 after 2 cannoli eat-off
2) Yasir Salem 21
3) Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle 18
4) Crazy Legs Conti 17
5) Larell Marie Mele 15
6) Timothy “Tomahawk” Connelly 11
7) Crescenzo Rillo 8
The LJessie has a video of the end of the contest
The Rake and Herald has a contest report
Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will serve as a judge.
The MLE facebook page still lists the contest date as Friday, September 14.
1998 World Trade Center qualifier clips in Footlong documentary
Footlong is a documentary (full movie) about “the social impact of the hot dog on American Culture” that opens with coverage of the 1998 Nathan’s finals (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3) including interviews with George Shea, Gersh Kuntzman, Ed Krachie, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and defending champion Hirofumi Nakajima along with brief snippets of the 1998 Nathan’s qualifier held in Windows on the World on top of the World Trade Center.
Bay Burger in Sag Harbor, NY will hold a lobster roll eating contest on Sunday awarding $250 ($50 registration fee).
Registration for the cannoli eating contest at the San Gennaro Festival in Manhattan on September 14 (or September 13 according to the festival website) will open on Monday. update Sept 10 Registration will apparently open at 4pm eastern today. The date is still listed as both September 13 and September 14. update Sept 11 Registration is now open.
Registration for the Chef One Dumpling Eating Contest at Smorgasburg in Brooklyn on September 15 closes today. As in previous years, the contest will pay out $1000/$500/$300 to the top 3 men and women. A contest will award $100 to a person who guesses the total for the male or female winner correctly.
Hold the Soup, a documentary about the 2005 Ruthie & Gussie's matzo ball eating contest, can be viewed on youtube. Don Lerman, Ron Koch, Brian Seiken, Badlands Booker and Crazy Legs Conti are interviewed.
Joe Menchetti reports that Jamie McDonald won the 5.5 burrito eating contest at American Burrito in New City, NY and then finished a bonus burrito after the contest to win a total prize of $800. update Jamie says his time for both burritos was 11:15 update #2 NewsDay has a gallery (which does not list the result)
Joey Chestnut ends Sonya Thomas’ WingFest streak at 5
update Sep 3
The festival facebook, Peter Dunn and Legend Larry’s have galleries.
Brian Seiken has videos: Contest | Interview with Badlands Booker | post-contest trays
jkoszcela also has a video.
Dan Gronkowski of the Cleveland Browns attended the contest
Gersh Kuntzman has an article for the New York Daily News about the contest.
The Daily Mail asks if Sonya Thomas has lost her bite
update 7:53 The Buffalo News reports that Sonya Thomas was the runner up with 6.36 lb. Joey Chestnut’s poundage was 7.61. With Mike Landrich’s comment below and Brian Subich’s claim he was 5th & Badland Booker was 6th, the top 5 is:
1) Joey Chestnut 7.61 lb new record
2) Sonya Thomas 6.36 lb 5 contest winning streak ended
3) Juliet Lee
4) Jim Reeves
5) Brian Subich
6) Eric “Badlands” Booker
update 6:04 Sonya Thomas and Juliet Lee apparently both finished in the top 3 according to the Wingfest twitter, but does not list their order. I have not seen any other placings besides the winner.
update The festival twitter announces Joey Chestnut won with a record total of 191 wings. This breaks Sonya Thomas’ five year winning streak at the contest.
The contest page on the festival website has not been updated with the 2012 field; it still lists last year’s competitors.
The Buffalo News has a list of seven tips for competitive eaters from Sonya Thomas.
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