The Herald Dispatch has an article about Dale Boone’s recent trip to West Virginia where he won $1,000 in a pumpkin pie eating contest and and an article about Hillbilly Hot Dogs where Boone set the record for the Homewrecker hot dog challenge.

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The Aiken Standard reports that Dale Boone won the eating contest held at the Chitlin Strut in Salley, SC. Dylan Davidson was second. update The Augusta Chronicle has an article reporting that Dale Boone claims to have just returned from a cobra eating contest in Bangalore, India.

update #2 Jamie Brinck has a contest video

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AZStar has an interview with Adam Richman to promote next week’s episode of Man vs. Food set in Tuscon.

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Travel Channel: episode guide | slideshow

Meal Sites

• The Mean Pig BBQ challenge – sandwich with “Shut Up Juice” sauce
  Home Page | Facebook | Citysearch | Yelp
  KATV article and gallery
• Cothan’s Mercantile meal – Quadruple hubcap Hamburger
  Home Page | Citysearch | Yahoo | Urbanspoon
  Blog entry about Food Network Magazine listing the hubcap burger as the best burger in Arkansas
• Osborne Family Farm (not a restaurant)
  Family home page | BBQ page
  episode commercial about the farm

List of Little Rock eating challenges in the eatfeats database.

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Rick “The Manager” Russo has emailed that Wing Bowl 18 was officially announced on 610 WIP AM this morning. The contest will take place on February 5, 2010 and will be for amateurs only like Wing Bowl 17.

update Jan 12 This thread is now closed to additional comments. If the dispute between Rick & his critic must proceed, it should continue via email.

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After successfully completing the “State Champion” burger at Digger’s Diner, Andrew “A-Bomb” Lane had the restaurant create a custom burger challenge weighing 4.5 pounds. The contest report includes a picture of the “Wall of Fame” for challenge finishers which has a photo of a woman who reportedly claimed to be the “#3 pro eater”.

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Der Standard of Austria has an article about Jamie Oliver recording an episode of Food Revolution in Huntington, West Virginia, which mentions that Dale Boone now holds the “Homewrecker” hot dog record at Hillbilly Hot Dogs: (Automatically translated by Google)

Just one was here, a young man named Dale Boone, who has broken the record for Schnellmampfen. Three minutes and 45 seconds he needed to cram in the “Home Wrecker” in itself, a hot dog, a foot long and thick as three fingers, covered with onions, peppers, cheese and cabbage, all wrapped in pasty bread. The fifteen-pound hamburger creates as big as the wheel of a small car, not only that they serve only to happy laps. Jamie Oliver? “Good idea,” says Sherry, the waitress. “Unfortunately, he has runtergeputzt us rather than we were clowns.”

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AnnArbor.com has a flickr gallery of a pizza eating contest held at the University of Michigan Thursday as part of Go Blue, Beat OSU spirit week.

Google News archives has an 1949 AP article about a series of eating contests held at the University of Michigan which culminated in a man vs. hog competition. An unnamed female student ate 12.5 burgers in another event, half a burger short of the listed collegiate record. Dr. Warren E. Forsythe of the university health service described the contests as “disgusting and silly”.

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