Upcoming eating contests
(All New York eating challenges and contests in database)
Health Dept. closes shop selling $25,000 sundae
WCBSTV reports that Serendipity 3, a New York City dessert shop, was shut down by the Health Department after an inspector found a live mouse, mouse droppings and over 100 cockroaches in the restaurant. Last week, the shop introduced the “Frozen Haute Chocolate”, a sundae costing $25,000 which contained five grams of edible gold.
2007 wrapup and other new BB.com material
BeautifulBrian.com has a report on Joe Menchetti’s behavior at the Black & White Cookie Contest, a preview of the Opie & Anthony egg nog drinking contest and a summary of the year in competitive eating.
New York wanko soba contest
F. Sasaki has a blog entry about the wanko soba noodle eating contest sponsored by the city of Hanamaki, Japan held in New York City on October 27. The event was based on the Morioko eating contest and used Japanese bowls and server costumes. There were children’s and team divisions as in the Japanese contest.
Ramen noodle contest video & pictures
PRNewsWire.com has videos and some pictures of Saturday’s ramen noodle eating contest.
Eater X wins ramen noodle contest
From IFOCE.com
Naruto Clash of the Ninja Ramen Noodle Eating Championship, Rockefeller Center, NYC, 10 minutes
1. Tim “Eater X” Janus, 10.5 lb.
2. Micah “Wing Kong” Collins, 7.2 lb.
3. Arturo Rios, 6.64 lb.
4. Allen “Shredder” Goldstein 6.46
5. Crazy Legs Conti 6.16
6. Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston 5.74
7. Pete Davekos 4.95
Justin Mih: DQ, reportedly led through much of contest
update, added full results from Steakbellie
Epicurious: Joey to do ramen noodles
Epicurious has a preview of tomorrow’s ramen noodle contest which states that 9 eaters will compete in that event. Joey Chestnut is the only entrant listed who was not in the original press release, leaving 3 other unnamed eaters. A picture of Kevin Carr at the 2004 noodle contest appears in the preview.
updateNYMag.com also has a preview:
This masticating Felix and Oscar have been competing against each other frequently, with the younger, leaner, but less eloquent Janus trumping Conti every time. (The elder statesmen of the New York competitive-eating scene, such preening behemoths as Ed “Cookie†Jarvis, Eric “Badlands†Booker, and “Hungry Charles†Hardy, are now retired from the game.) World champion Joey Chestnut, the man who returned the Nathan’s Mustard Yellow Belt to America, will likely win the contest, but he doesn’t count. He’s from California.
Wanko soba contests in Hot Springs and NY
From breitbart.com
The city of Hanamaki in Iwate Prefecture will host the region’s famous “wanko-soba” noodle-eating competition in two U.S. cities, according to city officials.
In the competition, participants will eat as many bite-size portions of buckwheat noodles in a lacquered bowl as possible in a limited time. A champion from a February competition held in the city finished 225 bowls of noodles in five minutes.
The competition is also popular in the Iwate capital of Morioka.
The city will host the events in the Arkansas city of Hot Springs, a sister city of Hanamaki, on Wednesday, and in New York on Saturday, where the association of Iwate expatriates marked the 10th anniversary.
I have not been able to find any details online about the Arkansas or New York contests.
Hatsuyo Sugawara, the top woman in the recent “Gluttonous King” contest, won the February contest
Ramen noodles preview
NintendoWorldReport.com has a preview of the Major League Eating ramen noodle contest which lists some of the expected competitors:
The contest will feature not merely an all-star cast of competitive eaters, but a virtual cornucopia of interesting characters to boot. The focus will be on 4th-ranked Tim “Eater X” Janus of New York City, the face-painting tiramisu champ who recently ate 20 pounds of grits in ten minutes. Nipping at Janus’ heels will be his roommate and training partner, Crazy Legs Conti, a man who once ate his way out of an 96-cubic foot box of popcorn, earning the nickname, “the Evel Knievel of the Alimentary Canal.” Arturo “Grande” Rios, the 13th-ranked pigs’ feet-eating champ from New Jersey , will be fending off best friend duo Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston and Micah “Wing Kong” Collins, as well as 18th-ranked Justin Mih, a Harvard graduate student and chopstick specialist.
update The IFOCE.com page about the contest consists of paragraphs 1, 3 and 4 of the press release, with the second paragraph listing the competitors edited out.
Bronx black & white cookie slideshow
(From Jill Stoler) A slideshow of the black and white cookie eating contest held at the Bronx can be viewed at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1930283492704953611&hl=en The eating contest pictures start about 4 minutes in.
Competitive eating articles from NY Times archive
Several articles about competive eating from the New York Times archive which previously required payment are now available for free (in reverse chronological order)
preview of 2005 NJ pizza contest, mentions Pat Philbin
2005 Review of Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating
Short article about Kate Stelnick (she claims to have drunk 14 glasses of water while eating the 96er)
Long 2003 profile of Carson “Collard Green” Hughes
Preview of 2003 Wing Bowl, focuses on Bill “El Wingador” Simmons and “Belly” Donna Villec
Report on the 2002 pelmeni contest
2002 preview of Nathan’s finals, mainly about the Sheas
2002 article about Don Lerman, Badlands Booker & Cookie Jarvis, calls George Shea a “competitive eater since 1988”
2001 profile of Kevin Lipsitz
Article on quick start controversy at 1999 Nathan’s finals
Report on 1999 Nathan’s finals
preview of 1999 Ben’s Deli’s matzoh ball contest
1998 article about Mike DeVito, also mentions start of the IFOCE, originally the International Federation of Hot Dog Eating
1997 interview with Ed Krachie
Report on December 1996 duel between Ed Krachie and Nakajima
1996 Nathan’s final report
1995 Nathan’s finals results
Report on 1995 Nathan’s New Jersey qualifier, contest was 10 minutes long
article on 1994 Nathan’s finals, mentions Curtis Sliwa’s participation
Report on 1990 Nathan’s, says Jay Green & Mike DeVito tied for first place
Preview of 1987 Nathan’s, registrations were still being accepted by phone on July 3
Report on 1984 women’s only pancake contest
Cluckbucket goes to the Buffalo Wing Festival
The cluckbucket blog has a lot of entries about last month’s Buffalo Wing Festival, a gallery of the wing eating contest and a lot of other wing related pictures.
Belmont Park Nathan’s contest October 20
A Nathan’s hot dog eating contest will be held at Belmont Park’s New York Showcase Fall Festival on October 20. I am assuming this event is not a qualifier for the 2008 finals, but qualifiers have been held at that location previously.
Article on B/W cookie controversy
(From NYMag) The Norwood News has an article about Saturday’s black and white cookie eating contest in the Bronx.
“Everyone out there knows I dominated that competition,” the Mouth shouted in a surprisingly high, nasal southern twang, his lips red and chapped. “They wanted their own people to win.”
“They” are the Association of Independent Competitive Eaters (AICE), which organized the cookie battle. To promote their regular eaters (guys like Hickman) Boone claims the organizers rigged the count. The Mouth said he ate at least 15 cookies.
Boone is notorious for claiming victory and making a scene, Hickman said. It’s just what he does, like a pro wrestler’s trademark leg lock.
In the end, the Invader happily put his $500 check, plus a half dozen extra cookies, into his backpack and headed home. As for the Mouth, he eventually settled down, gave his half to his mama, and walked off to the thumping of Latin hip hop.
MLE NYC Ramen noodle contest October 27
From ActiveAnime.com
The Nintendo World Store will be filled with gaming stations, collectible card game areas and a professional Ramen Noodle Eating Contest (using chop sticks!) featuring some of the world’s most renowned competitive eating athletes in an event sanctioned by Major League Eating (MLE). Also featured during the NARUTO Launch Event will be game tournaments with prizes, costumed NARUTO characters, free give-away items and much more!
WHEN: Oct 27th 2007, 10am – 4pm (eating contest at 11.30am)
WHERE: Nintendo World Store, 10 Rockefeller Plaza, NY, NY
WHY: NARUTO Wii LAUNCH PARTY
WHO: Presented by TOMY and D3P, Nintendo and Major League Eating
It will be interesting to see how the chopsticks affect the contest if they are required.
See also NY Post
Pinata’s burrito challenge video
A video of Joey G attempting to win a free meal by eating two three pound burritos at Pinata’s on Long Island has been uploaded to youtube. Cookie Jarvis’ record in the challenge is mentioned at the start of the video.
Ties in B/W cookies & corny dogs
From AICE news Black & White Cookie Eating Championship
1. Ian “The Invader” Hickman 11.0 cookies
1. Dale Boone 11.0 banned from AICE contest following event
3. Chris “the American” Schlesinger 9.66
4. Mike “The Real Skinny” Hoffman 7.50
5. Joel “The Cannon” Podelsky 7.00
6. “Sweet” Jill Stoler 3.00
Joe Menchetti was present, but was prevented from competing by Boone’s objections.
There was also a tie in the Texas State Fair corny dog eating contest with Brent Ricord and Mike Wilkes with 12 corny dogs in 10 minutes. DallasNews has an article about the contest. Both first place finishers received the original prize amount.
Downtown Express reports from San Gennaro
DowntownExpress.com has a writeup from last week’s cannoli eating contest at the San Gennaro Fair.
Update link fixed – thanks Don Lerman
Eleanor Reynolds, 1915 Harlem lobster winner
The New York Times archives from before 1923 are now available free of charge, making accessible an article describing Eleanor Reynolds’s victory in a 1915 eating contest in Harlem in which she ate 22 lobsters, defeating the male runner up by 5 lobsters.
An excerpt from the article’s PDF file follows after the jump
Eater X repeats in cannolis
Cannoli results from IFOCE.com
1. Tim “Eater X” Janus, 21 cannolis
2. Crazy Legs Conti, 17
3. Allen Goldstein, 16
3. Nate Biller, 16
?. Will Bill Myers, 7
Noriaka Takada ?
update NY1.com has an article with an incorrect headline and video. Tim Janus describes this year’s cannolis:
“My best cannoli performance is 26 in six minutes,†said cannoli-eating champ Tim Janus. “This year they were so fresh, so crunchy, a little more difficult to eat, but you know a lot more tasty.”
update #2
BeautifulBrian.com has a contest report and video.
Lowernotes has a very good blog entry about the contest.
For Flemish speakers, an exchange student from Belgium did a blog entry about the contest.
Beautiful Brian on WB 11 (NYC) morning show tomorrow
Brian Seiken reports that he will appear on WB 11’s (New York City) morning show tomorrow along with Crazy Legs Conti and possibly some other MLE current and/or former members to promote the cannoli eating contest at the San Gennaro Festival.
Brian has a preview of the contest which contains the eaters he expects to compete against:
This time around some of the old faces will also return. A much stronger and wiser Crazy Legs Conti, a more determined Allen Goldstein, a nearly unbeatable Tim Janus and a very experienced Brian Subich. Of course there will be others but these are the names i assume will be competing.
Don “Moses” Lerman will judge.
Sonya’s Buffalo win receives international publicity
Japanese CNN.com and ChosunOnline.com have articles about Sonya’s victory Saturday at the Buffalo Wing Festival.
update CNN.com has a video of the contest (from Bill Myers)
ABC News has a video which calls Sonya “Sonya Thompson”
Melody Andorfer – Nathan’s 1972 Labor Day champion
In the 1970s, Nathan’s held hot dog contests at times other than the fourth of July. The winner of the 1972 Labor Day weekend contest was Melody Andorfer, who ate 12 hot dogs & buns in 5 minutes. The AP did an article on her victory which was printed by several newspapers in the Google News archive:
Nathan’s 23rd annual hot dog eating contest separated the women from the boys at Coney Island Saturday. The woman went to the top. “I can’t believe I ate that all” said the winner, a 105-pound brunette, after she finished 12 seven-inch hot dogs in five minutes, rolls and all. Eighteen-year-old Melody Andorfer, of Astoria, Queens, who belongs to the National Organization for Women and several other liberation groups, drank three large colas with her male runner-up after she beat seven other women and eight men in the contest. Then she had a sandwich for lunch. The runner-up, 260-pound Gary Silverman, 19, Brooklyn, asked the winner for a date after he managed to devour 10 hot dogs during the event. Miss Andorfer, who said she did not feel queasy after the contest, asserted she had ham and eggs, coffee, and orange juice for breakfast. Asked why she entered The contest, Miss Andorfer said, “I’m determined not to let those male chauvinist pigs dominate us any longer.”
No other reports of Ms. Andorfer defending her title or entering another contest can be found online. (A 1973 Coney Island Labor Day weekend hot dog contest was converted to a corn contest due to lack of beef):
Throngs of people flocked to Coney Island on Saturday and some of them found they beat the heat only to encounter another problem: the beef shortage. Because of the lack of beef, a hot dog eating contest was turned into a corn-on-the-cob eating contest. The winner downed four ears of corn in less than three minutes.
After her victory, Melody Andofer does appear on the front pages of two newspaper modeling swimwear at Coney Island:
Charleston Daily Mail Thursday, July 05, 1973
PATRIOTIC DISPLAY- Melodie Andorfer displays a stars and stripes bikini Wednesday at New York’s Coney Island. She was one of thousands who migrated to the beaches on the Independence Day holiday.
The Chronicle Telegram June 1, 1974, Elyria, Ohio
Displaying the Colors One of Melody Andorfer’s lesser known attributes is her ability as a seamstress. Here she models a swim suit she put together for the opening of Coney Island, New York’s summer playground.
BeautifulBrian.com: Sonya wins buffet bowl
Sonya takes Buffalo doubleheader with back to back victories in Wings and Buffet Bowl update top 4 results have been posted now
1. Sonya Thomas
2. Humble Bob Shoudth
3. Joe LaRue
4. “Buffalo” Jim Reeves
update BuffaloNews.com has an article mentioning Sonya’s victory. Jeremy Cuevas, of Thibodaux, LA, won the amateur wing contest by eating 2.72 pounds of wings in six minutes. Buffalowing.com has a video of the last two minutes of the buffet bowl.
Sept 1 IFOCE contest results
From BeautifulBrian.com via “Farooq”
Buffalo Wing Festival results
1) Sonya Thomas 5.16 lbs, first Buffalo victory since 2004
2) Chip Simpson 4.77 lbs. angry at weighing
3) Brad Sciullo
4) Humble Bob Shoudt
Sonya will be competing in the Buffalo Buffet Bowl tomorrow for the first time
Yahoo news has an article and some pictures of the contest
update BuffaloNews.com has an article and gallery of the contest Chip Simpson’s total increased from 4.77 lb to 4.33 lb after he received a recount.
From IFOCE.com & City of Lewisville
BBQ sandwich eating contest, Beach, Boogie and BBQ Festival, Myrtle Beach, SC, 10 minutes
1) Joey Chestnut: 45 Sandwiches, almost doubles Sonya’s 2003 record
2) Pat Bertoletti: 43.5 Sandwiches, led for most of contest
3) Juliet Lee: 22.5 Sandwiches
4) Patrick Vandam: 20 Sandwiches
5) Todd Hennessey: 12.25 Sandwiches
6) Bill Roth: 10.5 Sandwiches
City of Lewisville World Tamale Eating Championship, Lewisville, TX, 12 minutes
1) Tim “Eater X” Janus, 71 tamales, new record
2) Rich LeFevre, 51 tamales, competing w/ injured tooth
3) Mongo Marquez, 27 tamales
4) Timm Dilling, 24, Garland, Texas, first contest
5) Jeff Bennett, 21
DallasNews.com has an article about the contest
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