United States eating challenges and contests category

Tomorrow's schedule for the French Quarter Festival. The Acme oyster eating contest will begin at noon at the Louisiana State Museum’s Old U.S. Mint.
Will Millender's twitter reports he set a "Hulk" burger challenge record of 2:18 at Ottomanelli's. Paul "Porkslap" Arcaria also finished in under 5 minutes.
Vincent Jackson of the San Diego Chargers will compete in a wing eating contest on Sunday to benefit the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

College Station, Texas Wing Bowl May 6

The Arctic Wolf Ice Center in College Station, TX will hold a Wing Bowl on May 6. As in the Philadelphia Wing Bowl, entrants can qualify by winning a preliminary Wing Off contest or doing an on-radio eating stunt. The final Wing Off will take place tomorrow at Buffalo Wild Wings.

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Competitive Eating preview on TheAltGames.com

TheAltGames.com has a preview of Saturday’s eating contest with profiles of the three seeded competitors. The Alt Games twitter will report on the qualifier tonight at San Diego State.

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Man vs. Food one of Joba Chamberlain’s favorite shows

In an interview for LoHud.com, Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain says that Man vs. Food is one of his favorite TV shows (along with Fresh Prince of Bel Air reruns).

The Man vs. Food home page has been updated to say “Catch an all-new season of “Man v. Food” this summer”, which would be an earlier starting date for season 2 than the fourth quarter of 2009 the previous press release announced.

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Go! Go! Curry! to hold NYC curry eating contest

(from fc2) Go! Go! Curry! in Manhattan is holding a curry eating contest this spring. The finals will take place on May 30 and qualifiers will be held on days ending in 0 or 5 until May 20. The first prize is a $500 American Express gift card and the registration fee is $20.

The Feedbag has additional information
about the contest. Entrants in the qualifiers will try to consume 24 ounces of curry rice as quickly as possible and the final contest will last 15 minutes.

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Would I Buy It Again? (Indianapolis area focus) and Epic Portions (Michigan) are two new food blogs with some competitive eating related posts.
Delicious Tamales will sponsor a tamale eating contest in San Antonio on Saturday, April 18. $250 will be awarded to both the winner of the men's and women's division (registration)
SpartanDailyPhoto has a slideshow of Joey Chestnut's victory at the funnel cake eating contest held at Great America. Joey Chestnut will be the subject of a profile in the SJSU student newspaper next week.
Derek "Wing Tut" Payne has a message for fellow Wing Madness finalist Brad Sciullo on his blog. He also has posted his Wing Madness odds and is looking for a manager for the finals on Friday.
NewOrleansCVB.com has a preview of Saturday's Acme oyster eating contest, but no expected entrants are listed.
A website about a hot dog eating contest to be held in Minneapolis on Saturday April 18 has been set up at http://www.hotdogyum.com/
Two of the restaurants featured on Extreme Fast Food on the Travel Channel tomorrow night at 9 pm have eating challenges: Voodoo Doughnuts (the Tex-Ass challenge) and Cluck U Chicken (911 hot wings)
Lily "Miss Busy Lady" Pham and Bear Silber have posted blog entries about the funnel cake eating contest.
The Wave Magazine has an article about San Jose eating challenges which mentions the Burritozilla and the Belly Buster Pizza. Reportedly 15 to 20 people a day have been ordering the Burritozilla since it appeared on Man vs. Food
Pat Bertoletti has posted a blog entry to his Yard Barker blog about breaking the Kookamonga (Sasquatch) burger record at the Kooky Canuck in Memphis.
MLive reports that 107 Fifth Third burgers were ordered during the West Michigan Whitecaps opening night. 17 out of 32 competitors managed to finish the burger. Steve Landis was the fastest finisher.
The 30's Pizza Factory in Arlington (Chicago), Illinois has a facebook page with a wall of fame for the three person teams who have successfully completed its 30 inch pizza challenge.

Furious Pete eats 4 lb. burrito in 40 sec for documentary

“Furious” Pete Czerwinski reports he ate a four pound burrito in 40 seconds in a bodybuilding.com forum thread. The feat was recorded for a documentary about his life.

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in the thread says he saw Joey Chestnut and three friends (probably funnel cake competitors) eat Burritozillas at Iguana’s last night. The fastest time was 1:39.

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twitter.com/erikdenmark: Joey Chestnut wins funnel cake

update #3 The San Jose Mercury has an article and Bear Silber has a blog entry containing several videos.

update #2 Full results have been posted on IFOCE.com

update Funnel cake results according to http://twitter.com/erikdenmark/status/1499175294:
1. Joey Chestnut 5.4 lb
2. Pat Bertoletti 4.7
3. Bob Shoudt 4.12
4. Erik Denmark 3.56
5. Nate Biller 2.7
6. Kevin Ross 2.5
? Sean Kirby
? Lily Pham

Erik Denmark will be posting updates from today’s funnel cake eating contest at http://twitter.com/erikdenmark He expects Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Nate Biller and Nic Fry to also compete.

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The San Francisco Chronicle has an interview with Joey Chestnut about tomorrow's funnel cake eating contest at Great America.
The twitter for the Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn announces an April 25 cupcake eating contest with a $75 prize and $25 entry fee.
(via twitter) Youtube has a video of Aymad Ahmed eating a burrito for a contest held at a Dinkytown (Minneapolis) Qdoba in 17 seconds (which includes some debris completion time)

Man vs. Food season 2 in 4th quarter 2009

The Futon Critic has a press release from the Travel Channel which announces that the second season of Man vs Food will be televised in the fourth quarter of 2009.

The twitter
for Munchies 420 Cafe in Sarasota (Tampa Bay area) announces that Man vs Food will be recording on May 4.

Adam Richman has set up a personal twitter at http://twitter.com/BrooklynAdam, but it only has 3 updates at this moment.

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