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Lumpy's Diner in Antioch, CA will hold a burger eating contest on October 15 awarding $1,000 in cash and prizes to the winner. September 21, 2011 at 7:36 am by
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KenExcellence has about 30 minutes of video from Saturday's eating contest at the NYC Dumpling Festival. September 20, 2011 at 10:53 pm by
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NESN.com has more about Sonya Thomas' meatball record attempt at the Phantom Gourmet Food Festival in Boston on September 24. Pete Davekos will attempt to set a fruit eating record in the undercard event. September 20, 2011 at 12:17 pm by
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The Whole Enchilada Fiesta in Las Cruces, NM will hold an eating contest on September 24 awarding $1,000 to the winner. September 20, 2011 at 7:35 am by
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Sasha Flores reports that a female competitive eater from New Mexico (probably Stephanie Torres) won Friday's Sonoran hot dog eating contest at Sir Veza's in Tucson. update Sept 19 Sir Veza's announces that Stephanie Torres was the winner (gallery) September 18, 2011 at 7:23 pm by
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Will Millender reports that "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti won today's pie eating contest at NYC Apple Day with a total of 2.5 pies in 7 minutes. (A gallery. September 18, 2011 at 6:25 pm by
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Ian's Pizza by the Slice in Madison, WI will hold an eating contest on Friday awarding a Xbox 360 with Kinect. September 18, 2011 at 7:02 am by
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Emily Case and Kristin Decker of WGN will attempt the three pound Triple Undisputed Cheeseburger at Wiener and Still Champion in Evanston, Illinois tomorrow. update Videos of Emily Case discussing the attempt have been posted. September 17, 2011 at 11:27 pm by
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September 17, 2011 at 4:02 pm by
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update 11:15 Full results have been posted. Oktoberfest Zinzinnati has a facebook gallery. Cincinatti.com has an article.
5:03 The top 3: 1) Joey Chestnut 35 2) Tim “Gravy” Brown 31.5 3) Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff.
4:46 Joey Chestnut reportedly won the contest with a total of 35 sausages.
4:20 The contest has started. Pat Bertoletti does not seem to be competing.
Pat Bertoletti is reportedly present at the contest site, but says he will not compete.
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September 17, 2011 at 1:30 pm by
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update 11:15 Ekavet has a flckr gallery. Will Millender has videos of the women’s contest and first heat of the male contest. Feeding the Dragon has a video of the second heat won by Joe Menchetti.
update 2:41 Miss Korea BBQ reports that Joe Menchetti won the men’s contest with a total of 69 dumplings, breaking his record of 66. Will Millender reports that he took 3rd w/ 45 and that Dave Brunelli was runner up with 60. Marcos Owens was 4th with 44.
update 2:30 Floria Lee has repeated as the women’s winner with a total of 37 dumplings.
update 2:20 Will Millender reports that Dave Brunelli is the current leader of the men’s contest with 60 and that Joe Menchetti broke the stairs to the stage, which others confirm.
Today’s eating contest at the NYC Dumpling Festival should start at 2pm. Will Millender reports he is at the contest site along with Joe Menchetti, Mike Longo and Marcos Owens. Floria Lee and Olia Zaitseva will attempt to fill the top two spots in the women’s contest for the third straight year.
The shirt Will Millender is wearing at the contest displaying Mike Longo’s severed head can be purchased online.
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A corn dog eating contest awarding $1000 to the winner will be held at the Tehama District Fair in Red Bluff, CA (120 miles north of Sacramento) on September 24. A qualifier will take place on September 22. September 17, 2011 at 9:17 am by
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Mezcal in Denver will hold a women-only taco eating contest on September 20 awarding $300 in gift cards. September 17, 2011 at 7:56 am by
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The Boston Herald reports that Sonya Thomas will attempt to set a record for eating meatballs at the Phantom Gourmet Food Festival in Boston on Saturday. (The article claims that Sonya's hot dog record is over 50). update The meatball record attempt will be on September 24 and Sonya Thomas will be at the grand opening of the new Nathan's Famous in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada (Calgary area) tomorrow. (via comment)
September 16, 2011 at 7:16 am by
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September 15, 2011 at 1:54 pm by
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update Sept 17 The NY Daily News has an article.
update Sept 16 The Daily Mail has an article with pictures and Larell Marie has a gallery. Lagalagny has a contest video.
update 4:50 i-Italy has a gallery
The results:
1) Pat Bertoletti 32 cannolis in 6 minutes, new record
2) Eric “Badlands” Booker 16
3) Marcos Owens 15
4) Crazy Legs Conti 14.5
5) Allen “Shredder” Goldstein 14
6T) Yasir Salem 13
6T) Larell Marie Mele 13
8 Maria “Edible” 11
update Pat Bertoletti has set a new record with 32 cannolis.
Pat Bertoletti, Eric “Badlands” Booker, Allen “Shredder” Goldstein, Maria “Edible”, Larell Marie Mele and Yasir Salem are expected to compete in this afternoon’s cannoli eating contest at the San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy, NYC.
Richard Shea called the winner of last year’s cannoli contest “US Fail”.
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The Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh will hold Pierogi Bowls on September 18 and all Sundays when Pittsburgh Steelers home games take place awarding two tickets to an upcoming Steelers game.
September 15, 2011 at 1:05 pm by
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Patch.com has an article about the Cleveland Pizza Challenge. Qualifying is underway for the finals that will take place on October 10. The winner will receive an Ohio State VIP weekend, a year's supply of Coca-Cola and a championship bracelet. September 15, 2011 at 10:19 am by
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Metromix reports that Joey Chestnut will compete against teams of amateurs at a bratwurst eating contest at Oktoberfest Denver on September 24. September 15, 2011 at 8:05 am by
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WingStock '11 will take place during Friday's soccer doubleheader at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. The winner of the wing eating contest will receive $500 and the runner-up will get two Washington Capitals suite tickets. September 14, 2011 at 3:51 pm by
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Dickey's BBQ facebook has a list of all the qualifier sites and dates for its pork barbecue sandwich eating contest: "Raleigh, NC- 9/15; San Antonio, TX 9/16; Overland Park, KS 9/17; Plano, TX 9/23; Meridian, ID 9/24 & Pleasanton, CA 9/24" September 14, 2011 at 3:14 pm by
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Michael's Cafe in Timonium, MD will hold a crab cake slider eating contest at its Crab Ball on September 24 awarding $500 to the winner. Two guaranteed contest spots are still available. September 14, 2011 at 1:45 pm by
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The Press-Enterprise has an article about Kevin Ross and his runner up finish in last month's Battle of the Bone in Arizona. September 14, 2011 at 8:38 am by
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Joey Chestnut, Tim "Gravy" Brown, Aaron Osthoff and Bill Myers are expected to compete in Saturday's bratwurst eating contest in Cincinnati. September 13, 2011 at 7:36 pm by
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September 13, 2011 at 3:03 pm by
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The MLE facebook announces that Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti will attempt to break the record for banana eating on tomorrow’s episode of Live with Regis & Kelly.
Regis Philbin had previous involvement with competitive eating before the debut of Live with Regis & Kelly. In 1963, he served as a referee for an eating contest between San Diego Charger defensive lineman / pro wrestler Ernie “Big Cat” Ladd and Nick Cordileone. Flickr has a picture of the program for the contest.
Pat Bertoletti will stay in New York City and compete in Thursday’s cannoli contest in an attempt to obtain his 36th record. Eric “Badlands” Booker and Maria “Edible” have also been announced as entrants.
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Lucky's Sandwich Co. will hold an eating contest for amateurs at Friday's University of Illinois Chicago soccer game awarding a $300 Best Buy gift card. After the amateur a group of unnamed professional eaters will attempt to eat three Lucky's sandwiches as fast as possible. September 13, 2011 at 2:25 pm by
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