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• Salvador Molly’s challenge restaurant
  home page | “Great Balls of Fire” challenge | “Great Balls of Fire” eating contest March 1
  reviews: yelp | citysearch
• Voodoo Doughnut
  home page | Tex-ASS doughnut eating challenge (Pat Bertoletti currently holds the record of 23 seconds)
  UrbanHonking blog entry about 4 Portland eating challenges, including the Tex-ASS doughnut challenge
  Doughnut eating contest held for Portland mayoral candidates last May
  reviews: yelp | citysearch
• Stepping Stone Cafe
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  reviews: yelp | citysearch

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A emailed press release announces a March 1 contest at Salvador Molly’s in Portland, OR, the challenge restaurant in next week’s Man vs. Food:

So get out your habanero barbells and train your tongue…and your stomach…for this event, which pits contestants against each other to eat as many Great Balls of Fire as possible. The contest takes over Salvador Molly’s, 1523 S.W. Sunset Blvd., in Hillsdale on March 1st, 2009, and the winner gets a prize package from Salvador Molly’s, including a party for a table of 10 at the restaurant.

Diners who complete 5 “Balls of Fire” between January 31 and March 1 will qualify for this contest.

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June 14 Tigard, Oregon (Portland area), $250 first prize with $30 entry fee. All proceeds to be donated to the Lance Armstrong foundation – craigslist listing, meetin thread

July 5, Payson, Arizona, $200 first prize with $10 entry fee, registration deadline is June 15

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The Portland Mercury blog has a report about last night’s doughnut eating contest for mayoral candidates at Voodoo Doughnuts. Craig Gier was the first to finish his two doughnuts. Sho Dozono was hurt by not having any doughnuts at the start of the contest. 7 of the 13 mayoral candidates participated.

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Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, Oregon will host a doughnut eating contest for mayoral candidates on May 2. The competition appears on the calendar of candidate Sho Dozono. Voodoo Doughnuts made a doughnut in honor of Dozono’s birthday.

Liz K blogs that she will travel to Portland next week and plans to make a trip to Voodoo Doughnuts.

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TigardTimes.com has an article about the Tualatin crawfish contest, which requires that competitors eat the meat in the claws:

But in Tualatin, the claws are an intricate piece of the flavored tradition of the Crawfish Eating Contest. Cotton Scheckla, 80, stills holds the Tualatin crawfish-eating record from 1970 when he ate 170 crawdads – tails and claws – in 15 minutes.

Scheckla, now a retired longshoreman and Newberg resident, admits using his teeth to crack open the claws wasn’t a smart idea. After spending three weeks picking shells out of his bleeding gums, Scheckla had to get his teeth capped. His dentist and family weren’t happy with his style of eating, but still it was the best technique Scheckla had for the fast-paced competition.

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(Thanks Liz K) UrbanHonking.com has a blog entry about the writer’s attempts to accomplish 4 eating challenges in the Portland area. There are videos of all the attempts.

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