AICE news has full results for the latke contest at Zan’s Deli in Lake Grove, NY. The top three finishers are:

Tom “Goose” Gilbert 31 latkes; 5.80 pounds – improvement of 10 over last year’s winning total
Ian “The Invader” Hickman 29.5 latkes; 5.53 pounds
Mark Lyle “The Human Vacuum” 27.5 latkes; 5.16 pounds

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nyblueprint says a latke eating contest will be held in conjunction with the lighting of Brooklyn’s official menorah. It is not clear what day the contest will be on. The contest is called the “2nd World Championship Competitive Latke Eating Contest” so it is probably an IFOCE contest since IFOCE sponsored a latke contest in Brooklyn last year. AICE will hold a latke eating contest in Lake Grove, NY on Sunday.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has uploaded a segment from Food Network’s “Unwrapped” about the 2004 pickle eating contest held at the Carnegie Deli at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9yONbnC3_s Winner Ed “Cookie” Jarvis, Don “Moses” Lerman, returning champion Brian Seiken and Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman are quoted and Kevin Lipsitz, Badlands Booker and Joe Menchetti appear in the background.

Skinnyboy has also uploaded a Food Network segment about the Hardee’s Thickburger to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a68SrzBiHhY

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competitiveeatingevents has released the expected roster for the Chuck Full O Nuts cream cheese sandwich contest:

Arturo Rios, Jr.
Bob Shoudt
Crazy Legs Conti
Erik Denmark
Joey Chestnut
Juliet Lee
Justin Mih
Pat Bertoletti
Tim Janus
William Myers

The contest will be held December 20 at Madison Square Garden. A Knicks vs. Charlotte game will be held that day. I am not sure if the contest will take place during that event.

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NYMag.com has a blog entry with some good pictures of last month’s turkey eating contest.

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In his blog, Kobayashi says he will be travelling to New York City next weekend. He intends to see the Rockerfeller Center Christmas tree and visit with Tim Janus and Crazy Legs and Rona Conti. He apparently does not intend to compete in the Chock Full O Nuts cream cheese sandwich contest at this moment.

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AICE news reports that the latke contest to be held at Zan’s Deli in Long Island scheduled for Sunday has been pushed back a week to December 17. This is the second schedule change for the event; the original date was December 3.

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Brooklyn Papers reports that the Astroland theme park in Coney Island has been sold to developers who intend to build a mini Las Vegas on the site. Tim Janus is quoted.

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The Chock full o’Nuts (Coffee) World Date Nut Bread Eating Championship, to be held December 20 in New York City, has been added to the IFOCE schedule. The purse is $5000.

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Steakbellie first person report

AP video

Chicagoist blog entry (has picture of Bertoletti w/ Boone doll)

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Brian Seiken has a full video of Wednesday’s turkey contest at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/page8.html and a 10 minute clip on youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=PQJN72Wf5f4

Beautiful Brian has also posted a clip of Don “Moses” Lerman breaking the bologna eating record on Feats of Strength at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/mas44.html

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IFOCE.com results:

Patrick Bertoletti: 4.8 lbs
Tim Janus: 3.8 lbs
Arturo Rios: 2.8 lbs
Crazy Legs Conti: 2.38 lbs
Justin Mih: 2.375 lbs
Eric “Steak Bellie” Livingston: 1.80 lbs
Brian Subich: 1.42 lbs
Sonya Thomas DQ – first DQ of 3.5 year IFOCE career

Does anyone have prize money breakdown?

ABC news article / photo gallery
AP article
news.com.au article

Reuters video

The video shows it is rather clear cut that Sonya merited disqualifying. She is taking the DQ with equanimity on her website.

Brian Seiken will also have video he recorded later today. He spoke to Sonya after the contest and said she told him she got turkey caught in her adam’s apple.

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The Toronto Star has an excellent writeup of the Eat Your Face Off contests:

With the salesmanship of Ron Popeil and the bombast of Ed McMahon, the heavily-sideburned Chapman is emceeing this competition, frantically barking the play-by-play throughout — “You’ve got to finish your milk! Your momma always told you, you’ve gotta finish your milk!” — including the two amateur meets, the first of which kicked off the entire show, right in the middle of the casino.

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from AICE news

Milk & Cookies, 5 minutes, top 3 spots separated by 2 cookies
1. “King” George Van Laar, 59 cookies & milk
2. Mark “The Human Vacuum” Lyle, 58
3. Chris “The American” Schlesinger 57
4. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne 49.25
DQ Tom “Goose” Gilbert, 80 but did not finish all the milk

Canadian Back Bacon & Bun
1. Tom “Goose” Gilbert, 7.5 6oz sandwiches
2. Lew “The Chew” Porchiazzo, 6.5
3. Mark “The Human Vacuum” Lyle, 5.67
4. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne 5

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(From IFOCE.com) The Thanksgiving Invitational will take place on November 22 at Artie’s Delicatessen in New York City. Heartburn medication Axia 3 takes over sponsorship from goldenpalace.net. As in 2005, the food will remain whole turkeys, but larger birds will be used this year. Spectators from the general public will not be allowed at the contest.

Eaters invited (not a complete list)
Sonya Thomas (defending champion)
Tim Janus
Crazy Legs Conti
Justin Mih
Arturos Rios Jr.
Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston
“Big” Brian Subich

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amny.com has some pictures (#7 – #10) of last Friday’s cannoli eating contest at the San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy.

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From IFOCE.com & Rhonda

1. Tim Janus: 26 (ties Jarvis’ record last year)
2. Crazy Legs Conti: 22
3. Justin Mih: 18

Updated 9/16 9:00 AM MosesNews.com has galleries of:

The contest and
Cookie Jarvis’ lifetime achievement award. There is a new Major League Eating T shirt out.

(fixed 1:14 pm – Thanks Don “Moses” Lerman)

1:45 pm – NY1 has an article and video of the contest. Tim Janus says he has a sports psychologist.

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IFOCE.com has a retirement announcement for Don “Moses” Lerman and says that he will help judge tomorrows’s cannoli contest. Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will receive a lifetime achievement award before the contest.

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The University of Buffalo student newspaper has an article by Alex Nye, who was called out of the Buffalo Wing Festival crowd to fill a vacant spot in the Buffalo Buffet Bowl. The items eaten in that event were three full beef on wecks (roast beef sandwiches on kummelweck rolls) smothered in gravy, about eight hot chicken fingers, a half dozen pierogies and around 25 chicken wings. No information is given about the other competitors other than Bob Shoudt won in a little over five minutes.

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The results page of buffalowing.com says that Humble Bob Shoudt won the Buffalo Buffet Bowl eating contest (no other information is given)

Updated 9/4 5:33pm Results from Brian Seiken
1. Humble Bob Shoudt 5:25 needed to eat 5 lb food
2. Arturo Rios
3. Joe LaRue
? Erik Denmark
? Jim Reeves

Food items were 3 roast beef sandwiches 4 large buffalo chicken strips 5 empanadas and loads of chicken wings

Jammin’ Joe LaRue won most creative wing sauce for his apple chipotle chutney

A video of the last 45 seconds of Saturday’s contest is available

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From IFOCE.com, Brian Seiken, Luther, City of Lewisville:

Buffalo Wing Festival
1. Chip Simpson, 158 wings
2T. Sonya Thomas 146
2T. Bob Shoudt 146
? Jim Reeves 108

Updated 9/3 9:18am The Buffalo News has an article about the contest which says the contest ran out of wings

The results were given as wings but I think the judging was based on pounds eaten

Lewisville TX Tamale Contest
1st place – Tim Janus, 51 tamales (world record)
2nd place – Rich LeFevre, 50 tamales
3rd place – Seaver Miller, 30 tamales

GoldenPalace.net World Kolache Eating Championship at the Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, NE
1 Pat Bertoletti 44 Kolaches
2 Jason Erb 24
3 Frank Wach 22
4T David Amiel, Michael Netzinger and J. Varuch 19
7 Andrew Lane 18
8 Jason Smith 17

(Updated 9/3 5:32 pm – thanks Laura)

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The current projected path of tropical storm Ernesto has it passing over western New York state Saturday afternoon and evening.

Updated 9/1 8:28 am – The Buffalo Wing Festival has an inclement weather plan that says they will have several huge tents.

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from IFOCE.com

GoldenPalace.net World Sausage Sandwich Eating Championship, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY

Chip Simpson–13.25 sandwiches, $2000
Humble Bob–13 sandwiches, $1000
Tim Janus–12.5 sandwiches, $750
Crazy Legs Conti–9 sandwiches, $250

Full results are available on IFOCE.com

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baynewsbrooklyn.com has a report on last Saturdays Frank’s Red Hot Battle to the Bone wing eating competition held at the beach volleyball tournament in Brooklyn. The top three finishers (who are all unknown) are listed without their places.

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(from speedeat.com) Joe Menchetti will appear on CBS’ Early Show to promote Frank’s Red Hot wing eating contest to be held at the AVP beach volleyball contest on Coney Island Saturday. The expected time of the appearance is 8:36 am eastern. franksredhot.com has more information about the contest. go-brooklyn.com says the contest will take place at 3pm and registration will occur from 10 am to 11:30 am.

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