The home page of 610wip.com says that there will be an announcement about the upcoming Wing Bowl tomorrow during Angelo Cataldi’s show. No details are provided.

An article about Dave “US Male” Goldstein reports that tickets for Wing Bowl 16 will go on sale November 26 at 10 am eastern.

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Greene County (Indiana) Daily reports that Jessica Beall has repeated as winner of the pizza eating contest held at the Apple Festival. She has won a division of the pizza contest at the Apple Festival for four of the past five years. The year she did not win, she was ineligible due to being an employee of the restaurant sponsoring the pizza contest.

2006 contest report, 2005 contest report

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Two contests next month have been listed on craigslist:

A rice eating contest in Chicago on December 2 with a $50 first prize.

A falafel eating contest in Manhattan on December 7. The prize is free falafels for a year. There is also a yelp thread about the contest.

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The San Jose Mercury has a new article about 99 year old Bozo Miller, listed by Guinness at the “world’s greatest trencherman” when that book had an eating records section.

No one could eat or drink like Bozo, and he took on all comers. He once ate 27 two-pound chickens in a row. He drank two quarts of liquor in an hour, chug-a-lugging each quart separately. Both feats landed him in Guinness.

Such drinking could kill a man. But everyone Bozo knew at his age, even those who observed sensible diets and drank moderately, is dead.

Bozo – no one calls him Eddie or Miller – is the last of Oakland’s true characters. When he managed to push back from the table, he was a bookie, a gambler, a fight manager and a restaurateur.

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The Kobayashi the MLB.com article refers to is relief pitcher Masahide Kobayashi, who signed a two year contract with the Cleveland Indians.

Masahide will not be the first Kobayashi to throw a pitch at Jacobs Field. Takeru Kobayashi threw the first pitch at an Indians game in 2005.

Other links: baseballthinkfactory thread, cleveland.com blog entry

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ZWire.com has a report on a “Wing Bowl” held at Wissahickon High School. David “Dr. Wing Love” Interbitzin, a teacher at the school and a competitor in the main Wing Bowl, won the contest the previous two years but did not participate this year. The event raised $14,000 before expenses.

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The following request has been made on craigslist:

Are you a big eater? Can you do it fast? Have you always wanted to be on National TV in an eating contest??

If you think you can compete, you have the opportunity to eat a Thansgiving Dinner as fast as you can on a Morning TV Show this Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. You will be competing against a former eating champion!!

Please contact me, Matt, ASAP at morningshowmatt@hotmail.com, reply to this post, or call (212) 301-5312.

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(From competitiveeatingnews) Cleveland.com reports that a fire on November 8 destroyed a building owned by Chris Abatsas which housed his adult entertainment club, Monroe’s Cabaret, and a dry cleaners. No injuries were reported but a witness believed someone was trapped in the fire. Two other fires have destroyed buildings in Cleveland this month, one started several hours after Abatsas’ building burned and one the week before. Abatsas did not have insurance. The cause of the conflagration is unknown, but police will investigate it as if it was arson.

A 1999 article in the Cleveland Scene reports efforts by the police to shut down Monroe’s Cabaret due to alleged drug transactions and safety inspection violations.

Fox TV article & video

WKYC video

fire gallery

Cleveland.com blog entry

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Valerie Bromann drove to the Krystal Square Off from Chicago and wrote a contest writeup and a trip report for her blog. She also has galleries of the contest and her road trip

Valerie also attended the Chicago jalapeno contest in September and has a contest report and gallery from that event.

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WJZ.com reports that Ian Hickman set a record at the annual pancake eating contest at Pete’s Grill in Baltimore by eating 20 pancakes in an hour.

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PittsburghLive.com reports that not many people have expressed interest in today’s gingerbread house eating contest in Kittanning, PA despite a first place prize of $250.

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WCBSTV reports that Serendipity 3, a New York City dessert shop, was shut down by the Health Department after an inspector found a live mouse, mouse droppings and over 100 cockroaches in the restaurant. Last week, the shop introduced the “Frozen Haute Chocolate”, a sundae costing $25,000 which contained five grams of edible gold.

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The following results were announced after the first fourteen minutes of this year’s Wing Bowl:

1. Gentleman Jerry, 112 wings
2. Beast from the Northeast, 91
3. Dave “US Male” Goldstein, 89
4. Sonya Thomas, 84
5. Pat Bertoletti, 83
6. Damaging Doug, 81
7. Bulldog, 78
8. Curly von Burly, 77
9. Joey Chestnut, 75
10. Dr. WingLove, 73
? Micah “Wing Kong” Collins
? Rich LeFevre
? Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston
? Bob Shoudt
? Chip Simpson

Seven local eaters were reported as having defeated 3 top 8 IFOCE members (Bob Shoudt, Rich LeFevre, Chip Simpson), but Dave “US Male” Goldstein is the only local finishing in the top 10 who entered an IFOCE or AICE contest following the Wing Bowl.

If “Gentleman” Jerry can repeat the 49% advantage he had over Joey Chestnut in other contests lasting less than 14 minutes, that would correspond to him eating 98.5 hot dogs or 154 Krystals.

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In her debut competition, Samantha Begoun wins Chicago area hot dog eating contest by eating 9 hot dogs in 10 minutes, defeating the male runner up by half a hot dog
Asian food eating contest for New Jersey college students
Joey Chestnut article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, requires payment to read whole article
Forum thread on running message board about the McDonald’s Dollar Menu Challenge
Slideshow of hot dog eating contest at the Southern Illinois University
Kalamazoo restaurant brings back the “Bomb Burger”, one pound with one pound of fries
Austin TX pizza contest November 17

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BeautifulBrian.com has a report on Joe Menchetti’s behavior at the Black & White Cookie Contest, a preview of the Opie & Anthony egg nog drinking contest and a summary of the year in competitive eating.

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The online Wall of Fame at HeartAttackGrill.com has been restored. There is also a new picture of record holder Joey Chestnut on the home page.

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Hungry Sisters KSO IV galleries: Part 1, Part 2
Pro CE column in U of Oregon paper. Russ Keeler is quoted.
Article about the Borough, a Raleigh, NC restaurant which hosts a monthly eating contest.
Anti Cayman Island conch fritter contest editorial
62 year old spicy chili eating champion from India
Eating contest for Corgi dogs
MTV In N Out burger eating contest video (from Laura)
Anti – CE rant on youtube , not safe for work (from Beautiful Brian)

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F. Sasaki has a blog entry about the wanko soba noodle eating contest sponsored by the city of Hanamaki, Japan held in New York City on October 27. The event was based on the Morioko eating contest and used Japanese bowls and server costumes. There were children’s and team divisions as in the Japanese contest.

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HungrySisters is a new blog describing its focus as: “food, especially (but not necessarily limited to): Dairy Queen, Tacos, and the fine art known as competitive eating.” The sisters traveled west from their home in North Carolina to go to the Krystal Square Off finals and wrote a trip report about it.

The next morning we were ready for the festivities to begin. We ate breakfast at this awesome cafe connected to our hotel. Sadie and I both ordered Chocolate Chip Pancakes. After breakfast, we checked out of the hotel and walked to the riverside where the contest was to take place. We arrived about 2 hours early, but we didn’t have anything better to do, so we watched the Krystal People set up the area for the contest. While we were waiting, we met Crazy Legs Conti!!!! It was the coolest thing ever. It was our first encounter meeting a real-live competitive eater; one who we have seen on TV many, many times. Very exciting!!!

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Steve Reeves wrote a negative review of Eagle’s Deli in Boston which mentions the removal of the Polaroid pictures of diners who finished a large burger. The owner of the restaurant responded to the negative review on Digg and says he will set up an online wall of fame at an unspecified time in the future:

The pictures were of people who ate the Godzilla burger (1lb of beef, 4 slices of cheese and 1lb of fries) or higher, most of the pictures were people who ate the Godzilla as very few have finished more then that.
a. The pictures were taken down because their simply was no more room, we have pictures hanging just about everywhere you could pin one and there was no room left and we had stacks of photos to put up with no where to put them.
b. We had 2 ideas
i. Make the new photo level the “Cowabunga” (2lbs of beef, 8 slices of cheese, 2lbs of fries)
ii. Put the pictures up and every year take them down and move them to the web-site making room for new pictures
c. After taking down the photos, patching the walls and painting, we were complemented by many customers, most of them regulars who had been coming for 5, 10 15 some even 20 years on how much cleaner and brighter the places looked and asking us not to put the photos back up. After long considerations we decided to stop the Polaroid photos.
i. At some point all old photos will make it to the web-site and we will look into doing a direct to web-site pictures.

The Phantom Gourmet reports that the first person to finish the deli’s 5 pound burger and 5 pounds of fries will have the sandwich named after him or her. The website also has a list of the best restaurants in Boston serving huge portions.

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Don “Moses” Lerman has a blog entry about his history in the Wing Bowl and his negative experience in Wing Bowl 13. Lerman’s difficulty in entering the arena in that event is mentioned on page 185 of “Horsemen of the Esophagus” by Jason Fagone:

The media-door supplicants aren’t all pretenders. Some are even participants, like Mr. IFOCE himself, George Shea, his neatly slicked hair and sharp suit putting the Philly mooks to shame. Butter champ Don Lerman is here, too. I’m standing right next to him. I know it’s Don Lerman because it says so on his wool hat.

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NJ.com reports on Bill “El Wingador” Simmons’ preparations to win his sixth Wing Bowl crown at Wing Bowl 16:

“A lot of people in the Delaware Valley are ticked off somebody from San Jose won Wing Bowl,” says Wingador. “Many have asked me to come back and keep the title local. So I am.”

Simmons is warming to the task by eating 10-15 pounds of food a day, wings three times a week. He feels he balances the scales by working out on a regular basis and drinking three gallons of water daily. He currently weighs 332.

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Hall Hunt and Erik Denmark have both posted trip reports with several pictures on their experiences at the Krystal finals.

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Liz has posted her trip report from the Krystal Square Off IV finals where she served as Pat Bertoletti’s bunnette. A gallery is available.

I really enjoyed cheerleading.
Like, maybe I should have been a cheerleader. I mean, if I hadn’t gone to the hippie high school with no cheerleading. Or sports. And if I hadn’t quit gymnastics in middle school after hitting my head trying to do a back handspring. And that I would never have been caught dead cheerleading when I was 16. I mean all that aside, I would have made a killer cheerleader.

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The website for Doc Chey’s Noodle House reports that Dale Boone won a noodle eating contest in October. The contest writeup describes Boone as a “world-ranked professional eater with 20 world records in the US and Asia”

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