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The video of Ben Monson attempting to break Joey Chestnut's Quadruple Bypass burger record in August is available at the Heart Attack Grill's facebook.
WeAreAustin.com reports that Chris Floyd won the pizza eating contest held at Home Slice Pizza's Carnival O' Pizza for the fourth year in a row. Home Slice's blog and the Austin AV Club have interviews with Chris Floyd.

Ben Monson wins Jose’s flautas

WINNER!! Bad Ben Monson with 65 flautas in 8 min.!! on Twitpic

update #5 Jose’s facebook has a contest gallery

update #4 SDNN has a slideshow

update #3 NBCSanDiego has a video and article which calls the winner “Ben Munson”.

update #2 The rest of the results are on the MLE facebook

update The top 5 from the MLE facebook:

1) Ben Monson 65 flautas
2) Joey Chestnut 56
3) Erik “The Red” Denmark 45
4) Eric “Badlands” Booker 43
5) Ben Taylor 41

Joses twitpic page has some pictures

Joses’s flauta contest is expected to start a 4 pm Pacific time (7 pm eastern)

Badlands Booker has posted a picture from the contest site.

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Man vs. Food season 3 to start recording in Jan

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article about Adam Richman’s appearance at at the Giant Eagle Market District in Robinson, PA which reports that the third season of Man vs. Food will begin recording in January and that book project for the program is in the works.

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TampaBay has an article about several attempts at various Tampa Bay area eating challenges.
The web site for the Krispy Kreme Challenge announces that the 2010 contest will take place on February 6. 5500 competitors particpated in the 2009 contest.
David McGraw has a video of the hot dog eating contest for area college students at last night's Washington Capitals game. Sonya Thomas attended previous Capitals contests, but does not appear in this video.
IFOCE.com announces that registration for the the World Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwich Eating Championship at the Isle Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi will open on December 7 and the purse will be $5,000. Notorious B.O.B. Shoudt stated he will compete in a philly.com article.
Queens Chronicle has the prize winners of the Famous Famiglia pizza contest restricted to La Guardia airport workers. Israel “Big Iz” Jimenez received $2,000 for winning the contest by eating 12 slices of pizza in six minutes.
CharlestonCityPaper announces that The Charleston Crab House on James Island will hold a crab leg eating contest on December 18 awarding a 32 inch TV.
The Go! Go! Curry! twitter announces that an unnamed Japanese champion might be competing in a curry eating contest.

Notorious B.O.B. wins Slammin’ Salmon chowder

From the eatingcontest twitter:

1) “Notorious” B. O. B. Shoudt, 9.75 32 oz. bowls
2) Tim “Eater X” Janus 9.5
3) Eric “Badlands” Booker 5
4) Crazy Legs Conti 4.25
5) Allen “Shredder” Goldstein

update Full results are available on IFOCE.com

A video of one of the amateur contestants reversing after the contest is available

update #2 Philly.com has a column reporting that Shoudt consumed 2.4 gallons, which will be a total volume record.

update #3 A video of the entire contest is available

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Jose's La Jolla Facebook page lists the pro competitors in Sunday's flauta eating contest which include Joey Chestnut, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Erik Denmark and Ben Monson.
Post-Gazette reports that Adam Richman of Man vs. Food will be in Pittsburgh on Sunday.
Jose's La Jolla facebook page has posted the seven competitors in Sunday's flauta eating contest who competed in the qualifiers.
Applications are now being accepted from amateurs for the "Clash of the Clucks" wing eating contest. The first round will take place at 25 Long Island sites from January 29 to January 31.
Peter Mucha's column on philly.com about Wing Bowl 18 announces that tickets will go on sale December 15 on ComcastTix.com. The grand prize has not been finalized but will probably be a car.

Man vs. Food December 2 (Tuscon) episode links

Travel Channel episode guide | slideshow

AZStarnet intreview with Adam Richman about the episode

Restaurants


List of Tuscon eating challenges
in the eatfeats database

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The IFOCE facebook announces that a peanut butter & banana sandwich eating contest will take place at the Isle Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi on January 9, 2010.

Guidelive: Adam Richman Dallas show cancelled

Guidelive reports that Adam Richman’s appearance in Dallas tonight has been cancelled. The House of Blues home page does not mention the cancellation, but the event is no longer listed on the calendar. A Houston appearance that was to have taken place tomorrow was previously cancelled.

update LiveNation lists the cancellation of all 4 Adam Richman appareances this month. The December 15 Anaheim show has been postponed to an unlisted date.

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Going.com lists Tim "Eater X" Janus, Crazy Legs Conti and Eric "Badlands" Booker as entrants in Thursday's Slammin' Salmon Chowder Eating Contest. Bob Shoudt has also been announced as a competitor. Amateurs will be selected to compete at the contest site.
RoyRogersRestaurants has a video of the roast beef slider contest and MajorLeagueEating's youtube channel has coverage of Martorano's meatball eating contest.
The facebook for Jose's La Jolla reports that Joey Chestut will compete in the flauta eating contest Sunday.
Dan Gross' column for philly.com has Dave "U.S. Male" Goldstein's reaction to the continuation of the amateur-only restriction for Wing Bowl entrants. John Squibb may not be allowed to defend his title due to his winnings in independent contests.
Wylie News has a report on the rib eating contest sponsored by Bily Sims BBQ focusing on third place amateur Troy Cox.
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