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The Brooklyn Burger facebook page reports that Joe Menchetti won the burger eating contest at Friday night's New York Mets game.
IFOCE.com announces registration for the two contests at the Buffalo Wing Festival Labor Day weekend will open tomorrow, July 30 at 1 pm eastern. Registration for the Isle Casino World Pickle Eating Championship in Pompano Park, Florida will open Monday at 2 pm.
The MLE youtube page has a new highlight video from the 2010 Nathan's finals with original footage. The video does not mention Kobayashi's absence from the competition or his post-contest arrest.
SimplyEverywhere has a gallery of the frozen yogurt eating contest held at the Grand Opening of The Wicked Spoon in Brooklyn Saturday.
Man vs. Food July 28, 2010 (Long Island) Episode links
Travel Channel Episode Guide | Gallery
Restaurants
- Port Royal Grille challenge – Davy Jones Locker seafood feast
Home Page | Facebook
Page about challenge on restaurant website.
Online Wall of Fame / Shame
Episode clip about cooking the challenge - Ciao Baby meal – Old World Meat Platter
Home Page | Yelp - International Delight Cafe meal – The “World”, a 2.5 gallon ice cream dish topped with waffles
Home Page | Facebook | Yelp
List of Long Island eating challenges in the eatfeats database
NewYorkCraigslist.org has a request for female models to compete in a hot dog eating contest that will be used in a promotional video for Central Park Weekend. The video will be recorded over the next two weekends and the models appearing in it will receive $100 on Saturday and $120 on Sunday.
Will Millender reports that Pat "The Viper" Viviano won a frozen yogurt eating contest at the Wicked Spoon in Brooklyn. Sean Lennon also competed. update Will has uploaded a video.
Will Millender reports that "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti won the Wing Bowl at the New York Mets stadium today.
newyork.craigslist.org has a request for a competitive eater who is not a member of IFOCE for a documentary. The politics of competitive eating will be a topic of the documentary.
Wicked Spoon in Brooklyn will hold a frozen yogurt eating contest on Saturday as part of its grand opening that will award something worth $150 to the winner.
The Wall Street Journal's Metropolis has an entry about Brick Lane Curry, which has experienced a big increase in the number of orders for its "Phaal Challenge" after it was featured on an episode of Man vs. Food.
McFadden's in the New York Mets ballpark in Queens will hold a Wing Bowl on Friday awarding $500 to the winner.
YourNabe has an article about last week's Brooklyn Burger eating contest, won by Joe Menchetti, and Atomic Wing eating contest, where Sean Lennon successfully defended his title.
WFFTV has a news video about the Atomic Wing eating contest at the Coney Island Siren Festival. Sean Lennon repeated as champion by eating 46 wings in 8 minutes.
Caroline Shin of the Columbia School of Journalism has produced a video about the "Punisher" spicy tequila challenge at Mojave in Astoria, NY.
MCBrooklyn announces that a burger eating contest will take place at the Coney Island Cyclones ballpark tonight. The winner will compete in a contest at the NY Mets stadium on July 30.
Val Bromann has posted blog entries and galleries about the 2010 Nathan's Finals and its afterparty.
NYCZombieCrawl has a gallery of the Zombie Crawl held at the Nathan's finals in support of Tim "Gravy" Brown.
New York competitive eater wanted for story
Caroline Shin of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism has emailed the following request for a New York City area competitive eater. Respond to cs2804@columbia.edu if you are interested.
WGRZ reports that Man vs. Food will record in two Niagara Falls restaurants in Canada this weekend. The challenge for the Niagara Falls episode will be the 48 ounce rib eye at the Riverstone Grill in Grand Island, NY. Buffalo News reports septuagenarian Marilyn Gratto has completed the challenge steak 8 times.
More 2010 Nathan’s Finals links
Galleries: Deadspin | Gothamist | TimeOutNY | FireTheCannon
Deadspin blog entry titled “The 4th Of July Hot Dog Eating Contest Was Just A Big Old Mess Of Sweat And Vomit”
NY Time City Room blog entry
Yahoo MMA blog entry comparing Kobayashi to Fedor Emelianenko
Hungry Sisters blog entry and gallery
Val Bromann blog entries: Day 1
ESPN behind the scenes video, has interviews with Badlands Booker & Gravy Brown
Driven By Boredom blog entry & gallery about the afterparty for the eaters
Slate.com has a column by William Saletan
Shelby Kerin reports that Man vs. Food is recording in Buffalo, NY today. DazzleMeFormal confirms
DanisHouseofPizza.com has a page about its 2010 pizza eating contest. Qualifiers will start on July 17 and award a bonus of %50 to non-competitive eaters (not defined). The finals on August 14 will award $850 ($500 to the winner).
Joey Chestnut Fourpeats Nathan’s, Kobayashi arrested after contest
update July 5 #2 CNN has a video of Kobayashi after his release. Kobayashi’s next appearance in court will be on August 5.
CalorieLab has a human translation of Kobayashi’s July 3 blog entry.
update July 5 The Associated Press reports that Kobayashi has been freed from jail and will have a court appearance today.
update 10:55 pm Some more links
An updated New York Daily News article
Yahoo News has an AP article with over 1000 comments
Deadspin has a blog entry with a video
Youtube has another video
New York Metromix has a gallery
“Kobayashi arrested” is #6 in Google Trends, over 8 hours after the incident
Gastroboy noted that someone claiming to be Kobayashi has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/FreeKobayashi
update 2:39 The New York Post has a more detailed article about Kobayashi’s arrest. (via gastroboy)
Two beefy men, wearing polo shirts with NYPD logos, stopped Kobayashi as he attempted to hop a barricade and reach Joey Chestnut after the San Jose, Calif., eating machine won his fourth consecutive Nathan’s title.
The muscle men put Kobayashi in a headlock and dragged him backstage. Witnesses said that it appeared Kobayashi had no ill intent and wanted to congratulate Chestnut.
update 1:42 The Associated Press reports that Takeru Kobayashi was taken into custody by police after he went on stage after the contest.
The results: Results #4 – #16 from the eating contest twitter
1) Joey Chestnut 54, fourth victory in a row
2) Tim Janus 45
3) Pat Bertoletti 37
4) Sonya Thomas 36
5) Bob Shoudt 34
6) Erik Denmark 32
7) Tim “Gravy” Brown 31
8) Allen “Shredder” Goldstein 28
9) Juliet Lee 27
9) Ben Monson 27
11) Sean Gordon 26.5
12) Eric “Badlands” Booker 24
12) Pete Davekos 24
14) Crazy Legs Conti 20
15) Bryan Beard 15.5
16) Krystopher Adams 11
12:53 Joey Chestnut wins comfortably
12:48 At the halfway point. Joey Chestnut has a comfortable lead. Rich Shea alludes to the controversial escondido qualifier.
12:43 The contest starts. “Joey Chestnut” and “dog eating contest” are twitter trending topics. Kobayashi is shown in the crowd.
12:28 The eaters’ entrances start
The Nathan’s commercial showed Kobayashi, Dale Boone & Cookie Jarvis.
Paul Page called Joey Chestnut “Joey Chitwood”.
It is official that Takeru Kobayashi will not compete. This will be the first finals without a Japanese competitor since 1996.
SillyAmerica, HungrySisters, Will Millender and Gothamist are live blogging
BadlandsBooker and the eating contest twitter have posted a lot of pictures.
Gothamist has a blog entry and gallery from today's weigh in for Nathan's and JoeyJawsChestnut.com has a video from that event.
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