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Link Buffet: November 9, 2008
- The meat in Denny’s Beer Barrel’s big burgers gets a bad review
- Tim Rauscheder beer drinking video
- NYC wing eating contest tonight
- Gal Sone wins a poll of the Japanese celebrity people most want to see without makeup
- A large image of the Joey Chestnut baseball card
- Picture of victorious (and wet) Juliet Lee at Nashville qualifier
- Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara wins the Morioko wanko soba noodle eating contest with 383 bowls in 15 minutes
Link Buffet: November 6, 2008
- Pat Bertoletti has some videos from the Trnkobrani Festival in the Czech Republic
- AICE ranking of the top collegiate eaters
- Beautiful Brian says he will return at an undisclosed date
- Video of Denny’s Beer Barrel 2 pound burger attempts
- Podcast about a 50 apples in 90 minutes proposition bet
- Report on Denny’s Belly Bruiser contest for 12 person teams
New look for DennysBeerBarrelPub.com
The website for Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub has been revamped and now has a blog listing challenge burger attempts and other news. No links to the old finishers database appear to be present on the new site, but the database still works. Brad Sciullo finishing the Belly Bruiser is not mentioned on the new site, but a picture of Brad is present.
Brad Sciullo interview in Mouthpiece Sports
The Mouthpiece Sports blog has an interview with Brad Sciullo about his successful completion of the Belly Bruiser challenge. Brad finishes the interview in the following manner:
It’s opening some eyes. This is great for all competitive eaters. Everyone of us is going to benefit from this because this raises the bar. I’m guaranteeing you that from this day forward bigger numbers will be put up — numbers like no one’s ever seen. Things that make this look ridiculously easy because everyone’s going to realize that this is possible. That someone like myself — who isn’t as good as the top-ranked eaters — can do this this is going to send everyone into a frenzy. And it’s going to be great for the sport in general.
And what’s next:
I’m either going to go back to Denny’s and eat every one of their burgers on their menu in the same day, which will equal about what that burger weighed. I’ll eat the two-pounder, the three-pounder, and the Ye’ Olde 96er in the same day. Or I’m going to do a pizza competition.
Brad Sciullo finishes Denny’s Belly Bruiser
update Oct 2, 2009 A post about Brad Sciullo’s appearance on The Colbert Report has been made
(from Kelly Jordan email) Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s homepage reports that Brad Sciullo was the first person to complete the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser burger by himself. The burger is listed as having 15 pounds of meat and its total weight was 20.2 pounds. Sciullo’s time was 4 hours and 39 minutes, 21 minutes under the 5 hour limit.
update The burger Brad Sciullo finished was not the 9-11 pound “Ye Olde 96er” burger completed by Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss. It is the next larger size.
update #2 The Evening Sun has an article about Brad Sciullo completing the burger which says he won $400 and three T-shirts. He made three trips to the bathroom where he was accompanied by a cook to make sure he did not throw up.
update #3 Yahoo’s story about Brad Sciullo is currently the most-emailed article (from Steakbellie)
update #4 PittsburghLive has an article There is also a blog entry in an Indian language
update #5 The Herald Standard has an article about Brad Sciullo. He says his next contest will be Wing Bowl 17 and he will use his technique which involves eating part of the wing bones at that event.
Elizabeth Canady sets Denny’s 3 lb. burger record
The website for Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub reports that Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Canady set the record for consuming the Super Pub Challenger burger, which contains three pounds of meat, on July 31. Her time of 20 minutes was 10 minutes faster than the previous record of a half an hour and almost halved the previous female record held by Lori Weiss of 36 minutes.
Elizabeth Canady is not the most recent female finisher of the Super Pub Challenger, April Frisco (picture on right) completed the challenge on August 8.
% of female finishers by Denny’s burger size
According to the online Wall of Fame, As the size of Denny’s Beer Barrel burger increases, the percentage of female finishers does as well:
2 pounds 3 female finishers (Coleen Kasanovich, Holly McCarty, Lori Weiss) / 295 total finishers (duplicates removed) = 1%
3 pounds 4 female finishers (Lori Weiss, Michelle Goldstein, Nichole Yankevich, Stacy Frantz) / 51 total finishers (duplicates removed) = 7.8%
6 pounds 2 female finishers (Lori Weiss & Kate Stelnick) / 2 total finishers = 100%
Denny’s sets up online Wall of Fame
The database of challenge finishers on Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s website has been set up after being empty for over a year. There are still two listed finishers for the 6 pound burger.
2002 Denny’s Beer Barrel segment on youtube
A segment about Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub containing footage from a 2002 event in which diners attempted 3 and 6 pound burgers has been uploaded to youtube. No one was able to finish a 6 pound burger, but Lori Weiss did manage to set the record for the three pound burger.
“Alll You Can Eat Paradise” video captures
Some captures from the segment about Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub on the Travel Channel’s “All You Can Eat Paradise” have been attached. The program will be televised tomorrow at 8pm and the following times:
TRAV Wed 4/30 8:00 PM
TRAV Thu 5/1 12:00 AM
TRAV Sun 5/4 9:00 PM
TRAV Mon 5/5 1:00 AM
$500 to Denny’s “Belly Buster” finisher
A segment about Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub was televised on the Travel Channel’s “All You Can Eat Paradise” this evening. Denny says that $500 will be awarded to a diner who can finish the 15 pound “Belly Buster” burger in under 4 hours and that 357 customers have finished the 2 pound burger and 111 people have completed the 3 pound burger challenge. There are still only two finishers (who are not mentioned by name) of the 6 pound 96er burger. The program will be rerun 2 times this week.
Denny’s honors Lori Weiss
DennysBeerBarrelPub.com announces that the restaurant presented a trophy to Lori Weiss on her recent birthday to honor her eating achievements at that establishment. Ms. Weiss is one of two people to have completed the monster 96er burger and also holds the female speed records for the two and three pound burgers. (The website lists Lori’s last name as “Weis”, but her 96er finisher plaque and other articles list it as “Weiss”. )
Denny’s website also mentions that it will be featured on a Travel Channel program, “All You Can Eat Food Paradise”, later this month. The program will debut on April 26 at 6pm eastern and be rerun on April 30 at 8pm.
Groundhog Day trip to Denny’s
Philip Maramba of the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail went to Punxsutawney, PA on Saturday for the Groundhog Day festivities and then drove an hour to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub to attempt the two pound burger challenge.
Denny’s 100+ lb. burger on the Rachael Ray show
Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 100+ lb. burger was recently featured on a recent episode of the Rachael Ray Show. The segment can be viewed online. The segment shows how the burger was created.
Australian claims she can finish 96er
In a thread about Kate Stelnick’s completion of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 96er burger, a commenter from Australia calling herself “QueenQeeko” makes the following claim:
And I look at that burger and I seriously think I could devour that in less than two hours tops.
Here is one small example of what I am capable of. I went to the mall with two friends not all that long ago. This was their silly attempt at making me more of a girly-girl and made me wear pink. I showed them later. Anyways, by late morning we decided for an early lunch. My friend Kitty Kat and I went straight for the Chinese buffet. Now here is where I’m also a master of stacking food. I don’t know how tall the pile was but I know that I did it well. I ordered a large size plate and stacked it up with at least 8 pounds of food. Huge meal. Kitty Kat did the same (she’s taller than me too and said I’d never down my meal).
In the space of 20 minutes, I chowed down all of the food I had bought, then ate half of what Kat had bought (she couldn’t make it pass a third of it). I took the rest home in a plastic container. Immediately after this I bought a tray of doughnuts and a gigantic smoothie that was 90% fruit, yogurt and icecream.
That day I out-ate what every member of my family can do and they are all big eaters. And I still felt I had room for something else.
ABC 23 article about Niner Diner challenge
The following paragraph is currently at the bottom of ABC 23’s list of local news stories. I have quoted it since it will probably scroll off soon:
Tiny’s Challenge
Dec 01, 2007The holidays are times when many of us – whether intentionally or not – overeat. But today one group is stuffing their stomachs to the max – all in the name of competitive eating. Niner’s diner in Nanty Glo serving up five helpings of Tiny’s Challenge this afternoon. It’s three pounds of ground beef – a pound of cheese – and a pound of toppings – complimented by five pounds of fries. Five eaters from across the state – one even as far as Brooklyn -taking on the challenge today. In the five-year history of Tiny’s Challenge only one person has been able to put down all ten pounds of food. For today’s eaters the challenge ranks up there with some of the best in the state.
Niner Diner videos
Four videos of the UEPa’s attempts on the Niner Diner challenge can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/user/SweetJillStoler
Niner Diner report
Megamunch has a report from yesterday’s UEPa meeting at the Niner Diner in Nanty Glo, PA. Two eaters finished the three pound burger, but noone finished the five pounds of fries required to complete the challenge. The restaurant’s owner claims the only successful finisher of the entire eight pounds was an unnamed 90 pound woman who works in a Wal Mart. Ian HIckman did not attend due to a film session. The meeting received local media coverage. A gallery is available.
Next UEPa meeting December 1 in Nanty Glo
Megamunch has a post on the date & site of the next UEPa meeting which will probably take place on December 1 at the Niner Diner in Nanty Glo, PA. The diner offers a 3 pound burger challenge which includes 5 pounds of fries along with a pancake challenge. At $5.95, the pancake challenge is the cheapest eating challenge that will be free if eaten under a time limit I am aware of.
Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub has fallen out of favor with some UEPa members due to lack of notification about the team 15 pound burger contest and confusion on whether the Wall of Fame has been updated to include the successful challenges at the last UEPa meeting at Denny’s. DennysBeerBarrelPub.com has an online wall of fame, but it has been completely empty for at least 6 months.
Denny’s 96er burger on “Inside the NBA”
A segment from “Inside the NBA” about Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 11 pound “Ye Olde 96er” burger can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdRnqoQLIU After Kate Stelnick is mentioned as the first person the finish the burger in under three hours, Charles Barkley inquires about her appearance. (Embedded video after the jump)
Denny’s Beer Barrel on CMT this weekend
The Clearfield High School football team’s attempt to eat Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 100+ pound burger will appear on Country Fried Home Videos (epsisode title is “Slightly Used” on Country Music Television this weekend (all times eastern):
Friday Aug. 17th at 8:30 pm
Saturday Aug. 18th at 1:00 am
Saturday Aug. 18th at 7:30 pm
Sunday Aug. 19th at 1:30 am
Denny’s 100+ lb. burger on CMT August 17
After the “Science of Speed Eating” documentary appears on the National Geographic Channel at 9pm eastern and pacific (midnight eastern), the next appearance for competitive eating on cable television might be the Clearfield High football team attempting to eat Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 100+ pound burger on Country Music Television’s “Country Fried Home Videos” on August 17 according to dennysbeerbarrelpub.com
Belly Buster roadtrip video
A video from a road trip to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub to attempt the 15 pound Belly Buster burger is available at http://youtube.com/watch?v=OUkcRa-d-jU
Denny’s 123 pound burger attempt filmed for CMT
dennysbeerbarrelpub.com reports that more than 25 members of the Clearfield High football team attempted to eat the restaurant’s 123 pound burger on April 13. The attempt was filmed for CMT’s Country Fried Home Videos.
In a more successful group megaburger challenge, life’s a fight’s livejournal reports that the 50+ pound burger was completed by a group of unlisted size.
Denny’s 123 lb. burger turned into dog food
StarGazetteNews.com has a column about Denny’s Beer Barrel 123 pound burger and its unveiling ceremony February 24. The burger did not have the most glorious ultimate fate:
The burger party included a burger-eating competition won by a Virginia man. Ian Hickman, 23, downed his 5-pound burger in 14 minutes, 45 seconds. Pat said five minutes later, the guy was chomping down on a big piece of chocolate cake. Pat said the 123-pound burger, after people gawked at it for a few days, was turned into dog food.
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