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The twitter for Lady Luck Casino in Caruthersville, Missouri announces a MLE moon pie eating contest on October 16. August 20, 2010 at 10:05 pm by
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The Rafu Shimpo has a preview of tomorrow's gyoza eating contest at Nisei Week in Los Angeles. August 20, 2010 at 9:20 pm by
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Ian's Pizza in Madison, Wisconsin will hold a pizza eating contest on September 23 that will award an Apple Ipad to the winner. August 20, 2010 at 1:35 pm by
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Esquire has a blog entry about the Firecracker Burger offered by the Skybox at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas, which has Bhut Jolokia peppers mixed into the hamburger meat. August 20, 2010 at 12:00 pm by
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Would I Buy it Again? has a negative review of the Indianapolis episode of Man vs. Food and says that anyone who can eat more than Adam Richman's total of 2.25 Big Ugly burgers will have his or her picture featured on the website. August 20, 2010 at 11:40 am by
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Red Cup Yogurt in Oceanside, CA (San Diego area) will hold an eating contest on August 28 where competitors will try to eat a gallon of yogurt as fast as possible. The contest purse is $300. August 20, 2010 at 11:01 am by
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The facebook page for Saturday's Day-Lee Foods Nisei Week Gyoza Eating Championship in Los Angeles lists all the expected professional and amateur entrants. August 19, 2010 at 5:13 pm by
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The New York Times has an interview with Mortimer Matz, who was Max Rosey’s partner in promoting the Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest in the 1970’s. Matz says that there is no basis for the claimed origin of the contest during World War I:
We said this was an annual tradition since 1916. In Coney Island pitchman style, we made it up.
After being contacted by the New York Times, a Nathan’s spokesman said the company had no evidence of pre-1970s competitions. (A Nathan’s contest held in 1967 in honor of the 100 year anniversary of the creation of the hot dog was reported by the UPI. Walter Paul reportedly won the contest by eating 127 hot dogs in an hour).
Matz also says that Nathan’s turned down the opportunity to be the sponsor for the New York City Marathon in 1976.
update Aug 20 Gothamist has a blog entry about Matz’ admission. Matz is featured in a 1979 New York Magazine article about press agents. The article does not bring up Matz’ work for Nathan’s, but the restaurant is mentioned in Godfather author Mario Puzo’s cover story about Coney Island.
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The Buffalo News reports that Man vs. Food will record at The Silo in Lewiston, NY tomorrow. update Buffalo News has a report on the filming. The other two Buffalo area restaurants in the episode will be the Riverstone Grill on Grand Island and Mick & Angelo's Eatery and Bar in Niagara Falls, Ontario. August 18, 2010 at 8:54 pm by
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InsideBayArea.com: Mike Thierry took first place and won $250 at a taco eating contest at El Taquito in Hayward, California after eating ten 6 ounce tacos in 10 minutes. (via Stephanie Wu)
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The Forest Grove News Times has an article about Jonathan Kaiser who won the Tualatin (Portland area) crawfish eating contest on Saturday. August 18, 2010 at 3:37 pm by
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Boring Pittsburgh has a report on the Bacon Bash with some pictures of the bacon eating contest. AJ was the winner of that event. August 18, 2010 at 3:32 pm by
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Cabrito's in New York City has started a taco challenge that will award free tacos to a diner who breaks the house taco record. The current record is 14 tacos in an hour. update the record is now 20 tacos August 18, 2010 at 2:23 pm by
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The Dawg House in Pendleton, IN (Indianapolis area) has a five foot long Coney dog which is free if finished in less than an hour. August 18, 2010 at 8:05 am by
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Fat Sam's in Venice, Florida (Sarasota area) will hold a pizza eating contest on Labor Day awarding $500 to the winner. Qualifiers take place on August 22 and 29. August 18, 2010 at 12:21 am by
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Pho Vietnam in Southaven, Mississippi (south Memphis area) has a pho noodle challenge consisting of 2 pounds of noodles and 2 pounds of meat that awards $200 to a diner that finishes it in an hour. August 17, 2010 at 4:46 pm by
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Gothamist reports that the BK Whopper Bar in Times Square will offer the NY Pizza Burger, a quadruple burger on an oversized bun topped with mozzarella, marinara sauce and "Tuscan Herb" mayonnaise. update The Stir has more details: the sandwich on a 9.5 inch bun will cost $12.99 and have one pound of hamburger meat. August 17, 2010 at 4:11 pm by
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Westword has a gallery of the Jimmy John's makers vs. eaters contest held at the Mile High Music Festival. August 17, 2010 at 12:25 am by
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Stephanie Wu has started a website documenting her eating challenges at http://stephaniesamerica.com/eating.html. Stephanie has set two overall records and nine women's records since she started doing eating challenges in northern California in December. August 16, 2010 at 10:41 pm by
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The MLE facebook lists some entrants in Saturday's gyoza eating contest at the Nisei Week in Los Angeles: Ben Monson, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Erik "the Red" Denmark, Damon Wells and Kevin Ross. August 16, 2010 at 2:10 pm by
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Registration for the September 1 rib eating contest at the Nugget in Sparks, NV (Reno area) will open today at 4 pm eastern. Registration for the September 25 Upper Crust Pizza contest in Boston and the September 11 burrito eating contest at the New Mexico State Fair will open tomorrow. August 16, 2010 at 2:08 pm by
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Missosology has pictures of Miss Phillipines, Venus Raj winning the eating contest held for Miss Universe competitors in Las Vegas. (Miss Hungary did not show much hunger and does not appear to have touched her wings ;) ) August 16, 2010 at 1:41 pm by
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Jake's Burgers facebook has the top 3 of Friday's Chowdown Showdown burger eating contest: 1) "Furious" Pete Czerwinski, 2) "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti, 3) Dale Boone August 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm by
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The Plain Dealer has a blog entry about "Mushmouth" Mariano Pacetti, who competed in a weekly pizza eating contest on local Cleveland television in the 1970s. Pacetti now lives in Newnan, Georgia, home of Loren "Bubba" Yarbrough. August 16, 2010 at 1:21 pm by
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