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Some competitive eating reality programs: Reality Wanted has a casting call for a big eater to appear on a cable program to be recorded in Milwaukee, the facebook page for "If You Can Out Eat Me" by Stacey R McCarthy ("Eataroma") has a request for competitors for Stacey and Ron Sambrano is looking for Maui residents to compete in an eating contest on a local television program.

May 11, 2011 at 11:52 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Maui, Milwaukee, Television | Permalink * Comments

Ellis Island Casino & Brewery will hold qualifiers today and May 19 for a hot dog eating contest on May 28 awarding $1,000 to the winner.

May 11, 2011 at 12:47 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Las Vegas, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (3)

Makin the Play has an article and video from Saturday's boneless wing eating contest at the Isle of Capri in Boonville, MO. (via RJ1542)

May 11, 2011 at 12:36 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Jefferson City, Videos | Permalink * Comments

The Bert Show has a podcast of Grace Lee's on-air practice session for the Newnan, GA Nathan's qualifier this morning in which she ate 2 hot dogs in 2 minutes. A representative of the Newnan Nathan's said the qualifier is looking for female competitors, but is closed to male entrants. update a video of the practice session has been posted in which Grace says she ate 9 hot dog in 10 minutes at the end (via Andrew Lane) update May 12 A gallery of the appearance is available.

May 11, 2011 at 12:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Atlanta, Grace Lee, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (50)

Syracuse.com has interviews with Joey Chestnut and Bob Shoudt about the Salt Potato Eating World Championship in Baldwinsville, NY on Saturday.

May 11, 2011 at 12:08 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Notorious" Bob Shoudt, Contest Previews, Joey Chestnut, Syracuse | Permalink * Comments

Joe Menchetti has taken the lead in qualifying for the Go! Go! Curry! finals with a time of 38.63 seconds. The Manhattan restaurant will hold one more qualifying session on May 15.

May 11, 2011 at 7:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joe Menchetti, New York City | Permalink * Comments

Atlantic City Weekly lists Sonya Thomas, Crazy Legs Conti, Pat Philbin and Larell Marie Mele as expected entrants in the Nathan's qualifier at Trump Plaza on May 28. (George Shea claims that Conti will be the first person to compete in the Nathan's finals 10 years in a row if he qualifies, which might be incorrect. The eatfeats database lists Eric "Badlands" Booker as competing in the finals from 1997 to 2006.)

May 10, 2011 at 6:39 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Atlantic City, Contest Previews | Permalink * Comments (29)

A press release announces that Pat Bertoletti will compete in an Armour Pepperoni with Cheese eating contest in Austin, Texas on May 19 against four randomly selected entrants. via arhakim

May 10, 2011 at 1:47 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Austin, Pat Bertoletti | Permalink * Comments (10)

The Cantina in Columbus, Ohio will hold a taco eating contest tonight awarding a pair of Bon Jovi tickets.

May 10, 2011 at 12:35 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Columbus, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Grace Lee announces that she will attempt to qualify for the Nathan's finals and will do a live practice session on Q100 tomorrow morning. A video of Grace's recent Macho Totcho challenge is available.

May 10, 2011 at 12:32 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Atlanta, Grace Lee | Permalink * Comments (11)

PizzaSlaugherFest.com has a page about Saturday's pizza eating contest at Tony Boloney's in Atlantic City, NJ listing Jon Squibb, Dave Goldstein and Dale Boone as expected entrants.

May 10, 2011 at 7:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Atlantic City, Contest Previews, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (21)

Muldoon's in El Campo, TX (southwest Houston area) will hold a crawfish eating contest on Thursday awarding $500 to the winner. ($50 entry fee)

May 9, 2011 at 8:11 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Houston, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Kobayashi calls IFOCE contract a “slave contract”

May 9, 2011 at 12:14 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contracts, Kobayashi (小林尊), Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, New York City

AOL Weird News has an article about Takeru Kobayashi being removed from the Nathan’s “Wall of Fame” which includes the following statement from Kobayashi via his translator Maggie James:

By not signing their contract, they will erase you from the wall. They are not deep about the spirit of history. They do as they wish. They are not presenting a contract that protects the league as a whole. They only present individual slave contracts which control each player in their category of value. Nothing protects the sport.

A picture of the old wall with Kobayashi still appears on the Nathan’s Famous facebook page.

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Some news about a 2011 Krystal eating contest: the Clean Plate Charlie blog is looking for an entrant to compete in the Krystal eating contest at the Riverwalk Trust Burger Battle in Fort Lauderdale this Friday.

May 9, 2011 at 12:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fort Lauderdale, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Times Herald has an article listing several expected entrants in Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Newnan, Georgia: Tim "Gravy" Brown, "Super" Paul Barlow, Steve Martin and rookie Patrick Dogan. No female competitors are named.

May 8, 2011 at 9:37 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Atlanta, Contest Previews | Permalink * Comments (20)

Woody's will hold a foot long eating contest at the Culturefest in Brighton on June 4 awarding $2,000 to the winner. The contest is limited to amateurs.

May 8, 2011 at 7:50 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Denver, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (1)

Chickie's & Pete's, site of the Wing Bowl weigh-ins, will hold a pizza eating contest for charity on May 21 awarding $1000 (or a Bermuda cruise) to the winner and $500 to the runner up. Entrants will need to raise $500 in ticket sales or donations.

May 7, 2011 at 7:07 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Philadelphia, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (1)

Bertoletti breaks Boonville Boneless benchmark

May 7, 2011 at 2:44 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Jefferson City, Pat Bertoletti

update May 8 The Columbia Missourian has an article about Shari “Missouri Mouth” Child competing in the contets

The Eating contest twitter has full results part 1 | part 2 for today’s boneless wing eating contest at the Isle of Capri in Boonville, MO

1) Pat Bertoletti 9 pounds in 10 minutes
2) Tim Janus 8.25
3) Adrian Morgan 6.5
4) Aaron Osthoff 5
5) Ben Taylor 3.9
6) Dave Solomon 3.75
7) Matt Raible 3
8T) Gary Klucken 2
8T) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 2
10) Greg Degeneffe 1.95
11) Shari Childs .25

3:37 The casino twitter reports Pat Bertoletti set a record with a total of 9 pounds.

3:32 The contest is over.

3:23 The contest has started.

3:12 Entrances have started. The Isle of Capri Boonville yfrog is posting pictures

The contest should start at 2 pm central, 3 eastern

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Lumiere Place casino in St. Louis has posted a video of Randy Santel finishing its six pound Reuben sandwich in 13:45 at the grand opening of the Stadium Sports Bar & Grill.

May 7, 2011 at 8:03 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Randy Santel, Sandwich Eating Challenges, St. Louis | Permalink * Comments (1)

The Facebook for Mac 24/7 in Honolulu has a picture of bodybuilder Nikki Warner, who finished the Mac-Daddy pancake challenge on April 16 and then ate an order of chicken wings. Her time of 25 minutes is listed as the third fastest overall behind Joey Chestnut (15 minutes) and the woman who finished the challenge in 24 minutes without leaving her name who was given the pseudonym "Jane Dough".

May 6, 2011 at 11:40 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Female Athletes, Honolulu, Pancake Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

AndysBurgers and "Furious" Pete Czerwinski have videos of the 4th annual "Big A Burger Challenge". Pete also has a video of David Brunelli's post-contest "reversal of a reversal".

May 6, 2011 at 11:31 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Eastern NC, Unafilliated Contests, Videos | Permalink * Comments (10)

The facebook for ESPN Cleveland announces that "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti won the Wing King of Cleveland contest held on Wednesday. Chris "The Mad Greek" Abatsas was the runner-up.

May 6, 2011 at 11:19 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cleveland, Contest Results, Joe Menchetti, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

The facebook for Tres Hermanos Restaurant in Milwaukee has a video of Sylvia Ortiz winning last night's jalapeno eating contest and receiving a trip to Las Vegas. (via Martita's Mixers)

May 6, 2011 at 2:19 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Milwaukee, Unafilliated Contests, Videos, Women | Permalink * Comments

A Morning Call blog entry lists Joey Chestnut, Bob Shoudt, Eric "Steakbellie" Livingston, Micah "Wing Kong" Collins, Sean Gordon, Brian Dudzinski and Larell Marie Mele as expected entrants in the cheesesteak eating contest to be held on May 21 at Dorney Park in Allentown, PA.

May 6, 2011 at 10:13 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Allentown, Contest Previews | Permalink * Comments (6)

Teresa Fullen wrote a blog entry about winning last year's queso eating contest at Mattito's in Dallas. Patrick Michels also interviewed Teresa for the Dallas Observer about her victory.

May 6, 2011 at 7:51 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dallas, Women | Permalink * Comments

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