Upcoming eating contests
(All New York eating challenges and contests in database)
Pat Bertoletti’s corned beef streak
Pat Bertoletti now has a 4 contest corned beef contest streak dating back to early 2006 (2006 Arkansas, 2006 Boston, 2007 Savannah, 2009 NYC). The only people to have defeated Bertoletti in a corned beef contest are Cookie Jarvis and Molly Carey in a 2004 competition in Milwaukee.
A press release announces that the new NY Mets stadium ("Bailout Ballpark") will host a Nathan's qualifier.
Pat Bertoletti wins Stroehmann Sandwich Slamm
update #7 The Philadelphia City Paper has a blog entry about Bob Shoudt’s third place finish
update #6 March 17 NBC and CBS have local news videos
update #5(from NewYorkology) Vidiot has uploaded a gallery
update #4 GiggleSugar has some pictures
update #3 The New York Post has an article and full results are available on IFOCE (from comment)
update #2 A twitter update from George Shea announces that Pat Bertoletti wins the contest with 16.75 sandwiches in 10 minutes. The top 5
1. Pat Bertoletti, 16.75 sandwiches
2. Joey Chestnut 15.5
3. Bob Shoudt 13
4. Tim Janus 12.5
5. Hall Hunt 11.25
Please place comments about today’s corned beef sandwich eating contest held at Gallagher’s Steakhouse in this thread. 5 of the IFOCE top 7 will compete according to an anonymous comment:
Pat Bertoletti Joey Chestnut Juliet Lee Eric Booker Hall Hunt Bob Shoudt Brian Seiken Tim Janus Crazy Legs Conti ?????????
UpdateGeorge Shea has started providing updates from the contest site at http://twitter.com/gcshea. Vidiot is also twittering from the contest site.
Stroehmann Sandwich Slamm field
TimeOutNY reports that Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus are expected to attend Monday’s corned beef sandwich eating contest. HumbleBob.com announces that he will also attend and Sonya Thomas’ home page reports that Badlands Booker will compete.
Jill Stoler has posted a video recorded before her attempt at the women's record at Yummy Village Sushi. updateA video of the challenge attempt has also been posted
Stroehmann Sandwich Slamm sweepstakes
ESPN radio 1050 is sponsoring a lottery that will award a trip to Ireland. The winner will be chosen at the Stroehmann Sandwich Slamm corned beef contest a week from today. Entries (from NY, NJ or CT residents only) can be submitted until March 13.
As Will Millender mentioned, the wing eating contest at Play in Queens, NYC has been rescheduled for tomorrow.
NYC Ottomanelli Brothers burger challenge
The New York Times local news blog has an entry about the burger challenge offered by the Ottomanelli Brothers New York Grill, which is located near Central Park. If a 24 ounce burger, fries and a 20 ounce soda are consumed in under 20 minutes, the meal is free. The listed price is $12.95, which seems low. 71 year old former Knick Cal Ramsey was one diners to attempt the challenge.
(From crawfish comment) The prize breakdown for the Stroehmann Sandwich Slamm has been posted on IFOCE.com. All 10 slots will receive something with prizes ranging from $5,000 to $25.
A myspace page says that there will be a wing eating contest at Play in Queens, NY tomorrow.
Registration for the March 16 Stroehmann Sandwich Slamm will open tomorrow at noon eastern.
“Will Work for Food” CE episode reruns
The segment of Will Work for Food in which Adam Gertler competes in the Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest held last October will be televised at 9:30 pm and rerun tonight at 12:30 am and Sunday at 4:30 pm (all times eastern)
The segment will be available on the Food Network’s website if you are unable to watch it at those times.
Milton Parker of the Carnegie Deli dies at 90
The New York Times reports that Milton Parker passed away at the age of 90. Parker purchased a share of the Carnegie Deli in 1976 and handed control to his son-in-law, Sanford Levine, in 2002. While the Carnegie Deli hosts a pickle eating contest in even numbered years, the first eating competition it sponsored used a different food:
The Carnegie had opened in 1938; knishes came half a century later. In 1988, Mr. Parker placed them on the menu — but only after staging a publicity-seeking knish-eating contest.
The favorite was Jay Resnick, the 1985 Brighton Beach Baths knish-eating champion. The $250 prize went to Mark Litman, a soft-drink route salesman from Brooklyn who said he had never before eaten a knish. In 15 minutes, Mr. Litman downed four and half knishes. Each whole knish weighed in at one pound — an indicator of Carnegie deli portions.
A 1988 article about the knish contest is available in the New York Times archives.
New poll: Kobayashi in 2009 Nathan’s finals
The new poll asks if you think whether Kobayashi should receive a bye to this year’s Nathan’s finals and if he deserves travel expenses if you believe he merits an automatic invitation to Coney Island.
In more Nathan’s news, this column credits William “The Refrigerator” Perry’s participation in the 2003 contest with making the Nathan’s finals the Super Bowl of competitive eating.
CE is one of Adam Gertler’s favorite food jobs
Philly.com has an interview with Adam Gertler, host of the new Food Network show Will Work for Food who has the following comments about his participation in the Famous Famiglia pizza contest in October:
Asked which of the taped episodes he likes best, he said, “They are kind of like all of my children. I think, though, I really like the competitive-eating segment.”
That one, airing Feb. 9, has Gertler gobbling pizza alongside some professional competitive eaters on a stage in Times Square in Manhattan. He downed 16 slices before throwing in the towel.
The episode will be televised at 8:30 pm eastern time.
Kobayashi reports jaw issues in NYC last month
Kobayashi announces in his latest blog entry that he had difficulty with his jaw during his attempt to break the IFOCE fruitcake record in New York City on December 26. A section of the blog translated by Google follows:
In deciding to eat is not prepared to break the jaw
And there was a conflict while eating.
I do believe that can be! And so it is
The embarrassing truth is conflict.
Food was like clay.
To assert that the food is bad for the jaw before.
January 21 (New York City) Man vs. Food links
Commercial co-starring Adam Richman’s mother, facebook gallery
Facebook photo gallery
Restaurants
- Brick Lane Curry House Challenge Restaurant
Home Page – Reviews: Citysearch, Yelp
Serious Eats blog entry about Phall of Fame curry challenge attempt - Katz’ Deli
Home Page – Reviews: Citysearch, Yelp - Sylvia’s
Home Page – Reviews: Citysearch, Yelp
Brooklyn Papers on Nathan’s rezoning
The Brooklyn Papers has an article about about the possible effects of the Coney Island rezoning plans on the original Nathan’s location:
The beloved frankfurter franchise — which has stood on the corner Surf and Stillwell avenues since 1916 — is a possible casualty of the controversial plan because it sits on land whose value could soar after a rezoning opens it up to development.
“[Nathan’s is] assumed to be replaced under the proposed actions with a new building, containing hotel, amusement, retail and enhancing uses,†according to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, which was posted online by the city on Friday afternoon, but not announced until the Department of City Planning distributed a press release that is embargoed until Tuesday morning.
ConeyIsland.com has a forum thread about the article.
Building a tower on top of the original Nathan’s building was mentioned as another post-rezoning possibility last February.
update The NY Post has an article and curbed.com has a blog entry containing a statement from Nathan’s CEO Eric Gatoff:
Nathan’s Famous supports all efforts to revitalize Coney Island. We remain committed to Coney Island in the long-term and we fully intend to maintain our historic flagship restaurant at 1310 Surf Avenue, which has been the heart of the company since it was established in 1916.
As to the latest report issued by the City, we believe the information relating to Nathan’s Famous is being misinterpreted and that there is no intention to replace or demolish our flagship location. In fact, the Coney Island Development Corporation’s own drawings of its intended redevelopment continue to show Nathan’s Famous in the same location on which it has stood for 93 years, on the corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues, at the front door to the ‘People’s Playground.
update #2 The Brooklyn Paper has another article which points out that Nathan’s did not rule out replacing the existing Nathan’s restaurant on Surf & Stillwell with a completely new building.
New NYC contest flickr galleries
Several galleries of New York City IFOCE contests have been uploaded to flickr recently:
- Famous Famiglia pizza contest gallery with French captions. There are additional pictures in the slideshow embedded in the blog entry about the contest
- Gallery with pictures from both the 2005 and 2006 Nathan’s finals
- 2005 Nathan’s gallery, mainly of the TV van
- 2006 Nathan’s gallery, with no pictures of the actual contest
- The men’s record is not turned on in a picture of the Wall of Fame taken today
Kobayashi fails to break Sonya Thomas’ fruitcake record
The New York Daily News has a report on Kobayashi’s attempt to break Sonya Thomas’ IFOCE fruitcake record at Gabriella’s Restaurant. Kobayashi fell 6 ounces short of the mark set by the “Black Widow” in a 2003 contest (and Badlands Booker’s amount in that competition as well). Kobayashi said the density of the fruitcake, which he had never eaten before, made it difficult to consume quickly.
MSNBC has a picture. Cookie Jarvis also attended the event.
NBC San Diego has video from the event. 14 pounds of fruitcake were on hand.
update NBCNewYork has two videos. Cookie Jarvis and Badlands Booker ate alongside Kobayashi at the end of his attempt to get him past the threshold. Kobayashi did not resort to dunking the fruitcake even when the record appeared in doubt.
Sonya Thomas has a comment about Kobayshi’s record attempt on her news page.
Update #2 Kobayashi’s attempt was mentioned on ESPN Sportscenter. Here is a clip (20 seconds .9 MB)
NY1 News also has a video clip
Site of Kobayashi fruitcake event changed
Merry Christmas. Fans considering attending Kobayashi’s fruitcake record attempt in New York City tomorrow should be aware that the site of that event appears to have changed. The New York Daily News reports that Kobayashi will appear at Gabriela’s Restaurant on Columbus and 93rd.
The New York Times blog reported on Monday that the record attempt would take place in the plaza of Madison Square Garden.
“For Lease” sign above Boardwalk Nathan’s
(from Gothamist) Commenters to the message board on ConeyIsland.com have noted that “Stores for Lease” signs have been placed above several businesses. One of the locations is the Nathan’s Famous on the boardwalk, which is not open year-round. This is not the site of the main Nathan’s Famous at Surf & Stillwell where the hot dog eating contest is held, so the competition should not be threatened by this action.
Kobayashi fruitcake record attempt details
The New York Times local news blog has a post about Friday’s fruitcake record attempt by Takeru Kobayashi. The event will take place at 11 am at the plaza of Madison Square Garden located at 34th Street and Seventh Avenue.
update The Gothamist blog entry says the event will take place at Gabriella’s Restaurant on Columbus and 93rd.
Furious Pete wins Zan’s Deli latkes
Newsday reports that “Furious” Pete Czerwinski won the National Potato Latke Eating Championship held at Zan’s Deli. Czerwinski’s total of 46 latkes in 8 minutes broke “Goose” Gilbert’s previous record of 31 latkes. Will Millender came in second with 29 latkes. A caption in the picture gallery reports that “King” George Van Laar came in third with 26 latkes in what may be his farewell performance.
update The article about the contest has been picked up by the AP and is currently one of the most viewed Odd News articles on yahoo.com. The contest was mentioned by NPR this morning and Healthy Comedy also has a blog entry about Furious Pete’s victory.
update #2 The video in the Newsday article can be viewed on youtube and Torontoist has a portrait of Furious Pete
update #3 A contest video has been uploaded
Link Buffet: December 19, 2008
- Pictures from 2005 have been added to the Major League Eating flickr gallery
- Video clip about the Buffalo Wing Festival contest containing a Sonya Thomas interview
- Kobayashi highlight video clip
- Man vs. Food videos playlist on youtube
- Gal Sone and Tomoko Miyake have late birthday parties
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