The Portland Mercury blog has a report about last night’s doughnut eating contest for mayoral candidates at Voodoo Doughnuts. Craig Gier was the first to finish his two doughnuts. Sho Dozono was hurt by not having any doughnuts at the start of the contest. 7 of the 13 mayoral candidates participated.

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Joey Chestnut has written an entry for his yardbarker blog about last Saturday’s contest at the Asparagus Festival in Stockton, CA. Joey is disappointed with his training and focus compared to 2007. He closes the entry with his thoughts on the official results:

In the end of this contest, I was given credit for eating 8.9 lbs of fried asparagus (I think I only ate about 8.3 lbs., and Pat was close behind). People that are new to Competitive Eating will learn that sometimes the numbers do not exactly add up, but it is rare for the actual placing to get screwed up. Pat did great and he would have edged me out, if there weren’t so many people pushing me to win in this contest. I don’t know if the video shows it, but I could feel myself respond to the cheers from the audience.

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The Houston Chronicle has an article about David “SykoBOZO” Cagle’s preparation for the May 17 gyro eating contest. Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus, Bob Shoudt and Erik Denmark are listed as other expected entrants. The contest is negotiating with Joey Chestnut to have him compete.

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Erik Denmark has a blog entry about his participation in last Saturday’s asparagus eating contest in Stockton, California which contains what he believes are more accurate totals for the top four finishers:

1 – Joey Jaws Chestnut (1) – 8.25 lbs. (reported as 8.8), $1500
2 – Pat Deep Dish Bertoletti (2) – 8.125 lbs. (reported as 7.14) , $750
3 – Erik the Red Denmark (12) – 4.875 lbs. (reported as 4.75), $500
4 – Juris Dr Big Time Shibayama (17) – 4.625 lbs. (reported as 4.5)

(As noted in a previous post, Pat’s counter displayed 8 when the contest was over)

Erik also has a photo gallery of the contest.

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The Las Vegas Sun reports that Joey Chestnut is expected to compete in the Nathan’s qualifier to be held at the New York, New York Casino in Las Vegas on May 8. Previous defending champions did not need to qualify. Other expected entrants are Rich LeFevre and Ron Koch.

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Some captures from the segment about Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub on the Travel Channel’s “All You Can Eat Paradise” have been attached. The program will be televised tomorrow at 8pm and the following times:

TRAV Wed 4/30 8:00 PM
TRAV Thu 5/1 12:00 AM
TRAV Sun 5/4 9:00 PM
TRAV Mon 5/5 1:00 AM

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Ryan Spoon of berecruited.com attended Saturday’s asparagus eating contest in Stockton, CA and recorded three videos of the contest from the crowd.

update Deadspin has a blog entry about the video of Ryan Nerz’s pre-contest request to have competitive eating become an Olympic sport.

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SonyaTheBlackWidow.com has today’s results from the the Sweet Corn Festival in West Palm Beach, Florida:

1. Sonya Thomas: 32 1/2 ears
2. Joe Larue: 31 (or 31 1/2)
3. Crazy Legs Conti: 30
4. Hall Hunt: 28
? Justin Mih
? Billy Perry Jr

update PalmBeachPost.com has an article about the contest.

update #2 Sun Sentinel also has an article

update #3 Hall Hunt has a blog entry about the contest with pictures of his finished ears of corn and of the ears of another top 3 eater and UPI has an article

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SupersizedMeals.com announces that a 19 pound “Bigger Mac Daddy Burger” eating contest will take place at the Burger Joint in Bethesda, Maryland on May 17. Prizes and other details are not listed. The restaurant has a burger listed at 15.4 pounds on its regular menu which is free if completed.

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A segment about Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub was televised on the Travel Channel’s “All You Can Eat Paradise” this evening. Denny says that $500 will be awarded to a diner who can finish the 15 pound “Belly Buster” burger in under 4 hours and that 357 customers have finished the 2 pound burger and 111 people have completed the 3 pound burger challenge. There are still only two finishers (who are not mentioned by name) of the 6 pound 96er burger. The program will be rerun 2 times this week.

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Today’s results from the Stockton Asparagus Festival from erikdenmark.blogspot.com:

1 – Joey Chestnut 8.8 lb.
2 – Pat Bertoletti 7.14 lb.
3 – Erik Denmark 4.75 lb.
4 – Juris Shibayama 4.5 lb.
5 – Jason Erb
6 – Nate Biller
? – Eric Louie

update The top 4 have been updated with amounts from IFOCE.com

update #2 The Sacramento Bee and Record Net have articles about the contest. Record Net has a gallery (eating contest pictures begin at #59)

update #3 Video of KCRA’s coverage of the contest can be seen on youtube. Pat’s counter has 8 pounds when the contest ends (see above)

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The Indepedent of London has an article about the oyster eating challenge at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile Alabama:

The genuine smile is harder to find in the US than anywhere else on earth. On the East and West coasts, people smile because they’re feeling smug. But in Alabama, people smile because they want you to be happy. It’s evident in the 1920s canteen-style interior of Wintzell’s, where the walls are covered with ancient, handwritten signs of folksy, homespun wisdom (“Unfortunately, there is a widespread view that the proper lubricant for a political machine is palm oil rather than elbow grease” is one example).

An Indepedent reporter took a tour with Famous Fat Dave in New York City.

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(Thanks Super Paul Barlow) Dateline Carolina, the student newspaper for the University of South Carolina, has a mini-documentary about last Saturday’s eating contest at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach. The documentary includes footage of Beautiful Brian and Badlands Booker performing.

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• Hall Hunt says the press release for the sweet corn eating contest announces that Sonya Thomas, Crazy Legs Conti and Joe LaRue will compete
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(from Hangman comment) An IFOCE gyro eating contest sponsored by Niko Niko’s Greek American Restaurant will take place at the Festival of Greece in Houston, TX on May 17. The purse is $4000 and registration opens on Monday April 28 at noon eastern.

Results from Broadway at the Beach have yet to be posted on IFOCE.com. Beautiful Brian speculates that the lack of coverage could be due to dissatisfaction with Badlands Booker’s comeback.

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RecordNet.com has an article about Saturday’s eating contest at the Stockton Asparagus Festival.

Erik Denmark announces in a blog entry that he will be competing in the contest. This makes the known field:

Joey Chestnut
Pat Bertoletti
Erik Denmark
Juris Shibayama
Nathan Biller (from comment)
Eric Louie (reporter)

Other possible entrants:
Rich LeFevre
Kevin Ross
Jason Erb
Shawn Kirby
El Toro

Deadspin has a post about Joey & Pat’s new blog.

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“Footlong”, a documentary about the impact of hot dogs on American culture, can be viewed on revver.com. There are two segments about the 1998 Nathan’s hot dog contest in which Hirofumi Nakajima defended his title by beating Ed Krachie: Segment #1, Segment #2 The second segment ends with a prediction that one day the 30 HDB mark will be broken.

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Joey Chestnut has posted a video to his yardbarker blog of him preparing for Saturday’s asparagus eating contest by eating 3 pounds of asparagus in 3 minutes. The video is also available on youtube. Joey makes the following prediction for the contest:

Pat is a great eater and whenever I get lazy he pulls off an upset. The chances of Pat walking away with a win in this contest are slim to none. I will let you all know how the contest goes down.

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CommercialAppeal.com reports that Jeremy Payne finished a Sasquatch burger from the Big Foot Lodge in Memphis in 53 minutes earlier this month, becoming the second person to complete the burger in under an hour. Pat Bertoletti completed the sandwich in 11 minutes in January 2007. The listed total weight of the burger is 7.5 pounds.

update Joey Chestnut became the third person to complete the challenge on March 23 and is the current record holder with a time of 7 minutes and 36 seconds.

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Kristin Day has a column in reflector.com about her plans to attempt Andy’s Big “A” Challenge. She received advice from former moon pie champion Mort Hurst and will be posting videos of her training which will culminate in her challenge attempt.

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It has now been over 48 hours (and one full working day) since the eating contest at Broadway at the Beach concluded and there does not appear to be any contest results or other coverage on IFOCE.com or any of its affiliated websites.

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BeautifulBrian.com has a report on his experience at the Broadway at the Beach contest

Dave US Male has emailed some pictures from his trip which can be seen after the jump. Beautiful Brian and Badlands Booker are performing the Bonebreaker Barlow song.

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