AICE news reports that a multiple round, tag team eating contest between two person mixed gender teams from the United States and Japan will take place at Ron Wallace’s pumpkin farm in Greene, Rhode Island on August 21. The food will be a variety of pumpkin based dishes. Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Tomoko “Esute” Miyake will represent the Japanese, while the home team will consist of “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti and Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Cassidy. Ms. Cassidy was predicted to come in fourth at May’s AICE rib contest in Kansas City, but no results for her from that event were listed and I have not been able to find any other competitive eating information about her on the internet.

In his blog, Shirota reports that he will be going abroad next week, but does not provide further details (automatically translated):

By the way next week, almost it is the foreign country.

There is no sight-seeing, is.

Today, because carrying which can be used even in the foreign country was rented, when perhaps it does

Perhaps, it renews [burogu] from the foreign country, perhaps, but it does not do.

AICE news also reports that Joel “the Cannon” Podelsky won the knish eating contest held on the Coney Island Cyclones Jewish Heritage Night.

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From WashingtonPost.com:

A few months ago, the Palace of Wonders was sold to the owners of Mount Pleasant’s Radius Pizza and Tonic Restaurant. They’ve decided to resurrect the H Street funhouse’s competitive eating events, but with a twist: Instead of racing to eat hot dogs, 10 contestants have to finish an entire large pizza from Radius, crust and all. There will be gift certificates for the winners

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The Herald Mail of Hagerstown, MD has a preview of Saturday’s Three Brothers Pizza contest containing several quotes from Pat Bertoletti in an article about a local ice cream eating contest. After graduating, Bertolletti has found employment at a fish store and gourmet shop and is also cooking for a catering company.

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The Clearfield High School football team’s attempt to eat Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 100+ pound burger will appear on Country Fried Home Videos (epsisode title is “Slightly Used” on Country Music Television this weekend (all times eastern):

Friday Aug. 17th at 8:30 pm
Saturday Aug. 18th at 1:00 am
Saturday Aug. 18th at 7:30 pm
Sunday Aug. 19th at 1:30 am

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The first qualifier for the 2008 Nathan’s finals will be held at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga, New York on Monday August 20. Registration is now open.

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Andrew “skinnyboy” Lane has a trip report and gallery from last Wednesday’s peanut butter & jelly eating sandwich at Knott’s Berry Farm in southern California.

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A video of Monday’s AICE frog leg eating contest can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=756lc6jFXhc Full results from that event are available on the Madison Mallards web site.

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Top 3 of the Windmill hot dog eating contest:

Ian Hickman 14.75
Gentleman Joe 11.5
Brian “Eatin” Keaton 9

update results above have been corrected to results listed on AICE news Neither Dale Boone nor any other IFOCE member appears in those results

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WECT.com has an article about a burger eating challenge at Andy’s restaurant in eastern North Carolina:

The challenge is this: eat 50 ounces of hamburger plus fries and a huge drink.

All that food must be consumed within 30 minutes or less. If a customer can eat it, the meal is free.

If the customer can’t finish the meal then they owe Andy’s $22.

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Tim Brown has uploaded a video of himself practicing for the September jalapeno eating contest in Chicago.

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AsiaWeek has an article about Sunday’s Chef One Dumpling Eating Contest in Flushing, Queens, on Sunday. The third place finishers are not mentioned.

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TigardTimes.com has an article about the Tualatin crawfish contest, which requires that competitors eat the meat in the claws:

But in Tualatin, the claws are an intricate piece of the flavored tradition of the Crawfish Eating Contest. Cotton Scheckla, 80, stills holds the Tualatin crawfish-eating record from 1970 when he ate 170 crawdads – tails and claws – in 15 minutes.

Scheckla, now a retired longshoreman and Newberg resident, admits using his teeth to crack open the claws wasn’t a smart idea. After spending three weeks picking shells out of his bleeding gums, Scheckla had to get his teeth capped. His dentist and family weren’t happy with his style of eating, but still it was the best technique Scheckla had for the fast-paced competition.

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Top 4 of Monday’s frog leg eating contest in Madison, Wisconsin from AICE news:

1. Matt “The Mad City Masticator” Detroit MI 1 LB 10.8 OZ $500, Chemistry Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit
2. Mark Lyle “The Human Vacuum” Columbus OH 1 LB 8.6 OZ $250
3. Aaron “Hot Legs” Mitchell Chicago IL 1 LB 8.4 OZ $100
4. Ian “The Invader” Hickman Sterling VA 1 LB 7.2 OZ

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A pulled pork barbecue sandwich eating contest will be held at the Beach, Boogie and BBQ Festival in Myrtle Beach, SC on September 1. Registration for the contest is now open.

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Bloomberg.com has an article about redevelopment plans for Coney Island which quotes Mike DeVito:

Michael Devito, a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. vice president, has a special attachment to Coney Island. He’s a three-time winner of the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot-dog-eating contest and loves the all-beef franks.

“The big draw has to be the original Nathan’s,” said Devito, 45, whose last victory was in 1994, when he downed 20 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. “If I’m anywhere near that area, I always shoot over.”

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CheapAssFood.com has a video from the women’s and men’s dumpling eating contest at the Dragon Boat Festival in Queens, NY Sunday. Floria Lee’s technique is quite impressive.

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OCRegister.com reports that Joey Chestnut will not attend Wednesday’s Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwich eating contest at Knott’s Berry Farm, but Pat Bertoletti will.

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Please place results from the dumpling eating contest at the Dragon Boat Festival in Queens, NY today in the comments to this post. BeautifulBrian reports that Dale Boone competed in the contest, which is not an AICE contest, but has had AICE eaters compete in previous years.

This blog entry reports that the women’s winner outate the men’s 43 dumplings to 41. I will be very interested to learn who the female winner is if that is the case.

update results from Joe Menchetti

Men
1. Joe Menchetti, 60
2. Chris Yee, 41 1st ever eating contest
3. Dale Boone, 39

Women
1. Floria Lee, about 43
2. Tang Na Way ?
3. ?

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TulsaWorld.com has a report from yesterday’s Backyard Burgers qualifier. Stephen “Cue Ball” Cue won set a qualifier record of 5.5 burgers to win.

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FDLReporter.com has an article about the amateur bratwurst eating contest held at the Brat Days Festival in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Mike “The Hammer” Fitzgerald of Menasha, WI won the contest with a respectable 19 bratwursts in 10 minutes.

update Sheboygan Press has a slideshow and video of the contest.

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Consumption23 has 7 videos from last Saturday’s blueberry pie eating contest in Oregon at http://www.youtube.com/user/consumption23

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The rib eating contest to be held August 29 at the Annual Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off in Sparks, NV is now on the official IFOCE schedule. Registration for that event opens on August 6.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that federal prosecutors have forced wild animals to be removed from the Hamilton County Fair due to lack of a proper license, terminating the pizza eating contests between a bear and human opponents:

Then, Ingle said, there were complaints that the bear was being treated poorly because he was being “forced” to participate against people in a pizza-eating contest.

That’s true.

“He loves pizza. Pepperoni is his favorite. We think he’s Italian because he likes pizza,” said Mazzola, whose heritage is Italian.

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Bill Simmons (the Sports Guy) of ESPN.com lists Joey Chestnut’s victory as one of the few high points in a bleak summer for sports:

It’s impossible to rank these events from most depressing to least depressing, so I won’t even try. Making matters worse, the enjoyable moments have been few and far between. Basically, it’s been Joey Chestnut’s toppling Kobayashi, Stephon Marbury’s surreal Mike’d Up appearance and the actor who played Reggie Jackson in The Bronx Is Burning’s inadvertently looking like C. Thomas Howell in Soul Man.

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BusinessWire has a press release about the peanut butter & jelly sandwich eating contest to be held on August 8 at Knott’s Berry Farm. Spectators must purchase a ticket to the amusement park to view the contest. No expected eaters are listed.

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