A burrito eating contest will be sponsored by Costa Vida Big Kahuna Burritos in South Portland, Maine on September 22. Registration opens August 9.

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Tim League, who works for the Rolling Roadshow, has a blog entry about the “Stand by Me” event where he competing in the pie eating contest and ate 3 pounds.

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Madison.com has a preview of the frog legs contest to be held before the Madison Mallards minor league baseball game Monday. The game will be against the Green Bay Bullfrogs. Three out of state eaters are expected:

* Ian “The Invader” Hickman of Virginia, who has eaten 4.78 pounds of fried zucchini in eight minutes.
* “Gentleman Joe” Menchetti of Connecticut, whose world records include pumpkin pie (5.89 pounds in five minutes) and Cajun-fried cicadas (89 in one minute).
* Mark “The Human Vacuum” Lyle of Ohio, who has eaten 8.3 pounds of chili in five minutes, also a world record.

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Andrew “skinnyboy” Lane has uploaded two videos from last Saturday’s handless pie eating contest to http://youtube.com/user/iamskinnyboy

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The Sheboygan Press has an article about the amateur bratwurst contest to be held at the Brat Days festival this weekend which includes the following quotes on the cancellation of the IFOCE contest:

Officials at Johnsonville Sausage, which sponsors the brat-eating contest and the festival itself, declined to comment Tuesday.

Johnsonville dropped the event as part of a public relations “strategy shift,” Johnsonville Marketing Manager Cory Bouck said early in July. The contest “wasn’t the exact message we want to get out,” he said.

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The contests to be held at the Buffalo Wing Festival are now on the IFOCE contests page and registration for those events is open at buffalowing.com

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a report from his trip to compete in the handless pie eating contest held in conjunction with the showing of “Stand by Me” in Oregon. A picture of Ryan Nerz’s scoring calculations is included.

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Cincinnati.com reports that the Hamilton County Fair will have an inter-species competition:

Then there’s the daily pizza-eating contest. Fairgoers go bite for bite with a bear. The winner gets $100. The bear, Ingle warns, “has only lost once.” No word on how the bear plans to spend the 100 bucks.

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manassasjm.com has a report on the competition between Ian Hickman and three four person teams in eating the OutrageouSplit, a large mixing bowl-sized sundae, at BR Frozen Custard and Sweets in Lake Ridge, VA. Ian came in 2nd.

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From blogspot.dogsarefunyes.com

update Corrected results from Pat Bertoletti via Liz K
1. Pat: 9.17
2. Tim Brown: 8.47
3. Mongo Marquez: 6.56
4. Kevin Ross: 5.58
5. Erik and Crazy Legs: 4.88
7-Jason Erb 4.63
8-Cameron McKirdy 3.75
9-Scott Sayer 3.34
10-Shawn Kirby 3.03
11-Skinnyboy 2.92
12-Tim League 2.84

update #2 The IFOCE results are the same as Liz’s results

update #3 Added full results from Jason Erb. The Corvallis Gazette Times has an article which misidentifies Crazy Legs Conti as Erik Denmark.

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Erik Denmark reports that he appeared in a local sketch comedy television show, Seattle Untimely:

Click Here to watch the most recent episode where I play a proponent of ‘supply-side economics’ in a competitive eating/political issue debate with Charlie Stockman, a proponent of ‘green economics’ with anchor, Charles Armstrong as moderator. The show turned out really well and it is damn funny.

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Saturday September 1 IFOCE Buffalo Wing Contest
Sunday September 2 Buffet Bowl contest

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From a press release by the Coney Island Cyclones minor league baseball team:

KNISH-EATING CONTEST: Want to test your skills at competitive eating? To entertain fans on Jewish Heritage Night, the Cyclones have teamed up with Gabila’s Knishes, and will be holding a knish- eating contest on the field before the game. The fan that eats the most knishes in 4 minutes will win a prize pack and a trophy! If you’re interested in competing, please contact Rebecca at rebecca@brooklyncyclones.com before Sunday.

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From a press release to announce the grand opening celebration of Phase 2 of Atlantic City Outlets:

Other fun activities include Stewart’s Hot Dog Eating Contest to be held at 2:00 p.m. with a $500 first place prize. Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Atlantic and Cape May County will be on hand to serve water ice, smoked Barbeque and other summer treats.

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Video clips of Erik Denmark appearing on local news programs to promote the Chinook Winds Ribs contest and the “Stand by Me” pie eating contest are available on his blog. Carlene & Rich LeFevre also appear in the Chinook Winds video.

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JaNugget has a press release about the 2007 Rib Cookoff:

Returning to this year’s Cook-off, the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE), the governing body of all stomach-centric sports, will host the second Best in the West Nugget World Rib Eating Championships on Wednesday, August 29. The country’s best competitive eaters will vie for $5,000 and the title of World Champion. The IFOCE conducts more than 90 events annually, including the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, NY. It’s estimated the top competitors will consume eight to nine pounds of meat during the 12-minute competition. Last year’s winner, prolific gurgitator Joey Chestnut, is expected to attend, along with more than one dozen other top-flight athletes. The rib eating contest will take place in front of the main stage starting around 5 p.m.

IFOCE.com reports that the Lewisville, TX tamale contest will be held on September 1. Registration opens tomorrow at noon eastern.

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HamptonRoads.com has an article about Uncle Al’s Hot Dogs which mentions the restaurant’s hot dog eating challenge: a diner who can break the record of 22 hot dogs in 90 minutes will receive his or her meal free.

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Register-Guard has a preview of Saturday’s handless pie contest which says that the top seed will be Pat Bertoletti, so Joey Chestnut is not expected to compete. One competitor inquired about using a wide straw.

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Kobayashi has a report from the P’Zone eating exhibition in New York which includes praise for one of his rivals (automatically translated)

[sonia] (the woman hood fighter the greatest in the world) with the goal of, when it keeps persevering from now on, the [tsu] [te] you thought.

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From crazylegsconti.com/plate.php

In conjunction with the DVD we have a couple great events that you may be interested in. On July 24th at the DVD release will will screen some scenes in Taste-O-Vision, where what you see me eat on screen, the audience gets to eat (color coded jelly beans for hot dog, oyster, butter, etc). It is also a feature on the DVD.

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Tuesday, July 24th DVD release screening in Taste-O-Vison, Millennium Theater 7:33 PM (66 East 4th street between 2nd ave Bowery). After-Party @ Coyote Ugly (1st ave and 9th street).

Conti also reports that he broke Sonya’s popcorn record from the 2005 MTV movie awards contest at the Las Vegas Home Media Expo and that Corey Feldman will be the head judge at Saturday’s pie eating contest.

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The Herald Dispatch announces that Hillbilly Hot Dogs in Huntington, West Virginia has introduced a 10 pound burger called Bubba’s Big Bad Doublewide. The burger costs $31.95 and requires one day’s notice. A video of the burger is also available and HuntingtonNews.com has an article with some pictures.

No time limit for getting the burger free is listed, but Hillbilly Hot dogs does have a one pound hot dog, the Homewrecker, which is free if it is eaten in under 12 minutes.

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Kobayashi has continued his New York travelog with blog entries about a visit to the Museum of Modern Art, the Peter Luger steakhouse and a performance by Eric “Badlands” Booker. He does not mention the size of the steak he ate.

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Charlotte.com has a preview of the first AICE event in the Carolinas:

The event — for amateurs only — is sponsored by the Association of Independent Competitive Eaters. Register at www.competitiveeaters.com, or on the day of the event from 10:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

Other activities will include face painting for kids, giveaways and a burger trivia contest.

Back Yard Burgers is at 13736 Conlan Circle off Johnston Road just south of I-485. Details: 704-752-3805.

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(from AICE news) Pastrami Joes’ Reuben sandwich contest, 8 minutes

1 Gentleman Joe Menchetti 5 sandwiches
2. Jake “The Butcher” Casey (last year’s amateur winner) 4.6 sandwiches
3. Chris “The American” Schlesinger with 4.5
4 Mark Lyle “the Human Vacuum”
5 Chuck “The Chomper” Davidson

update The Battle Creek Enquirer has an article about the contest

East Boston Italian Festival sausage results from Derek “Wing Tut” Payne
1st – Tom “Goose” Gillbert – 4.84 New World Record!
2nd – Ian “The Invader” Hickman – 4.38
3rd – Nate “The Nibbler” Gayman – 2.78
4th – Jared Kaiser “Roll” – 2.39
5th – Tim “Chomps-A-Lot” Brien – 2.00
6th – Bruce “Captian RU” Sinclair – 1.83lbs
7th – Tim “Im Not Tom” Crews – 1.47lbs
8th – “princess” Diana Boro – 1.39lbs
9th – Mikey Canoli Saffie – 1.26lbs
10th – “big” David gore – 1.17lbs
11th – Jim “the Heater” Fallon – .87lbs
12th – Pat capagreco (pres I.U.) – .86lbs
13th – Jeff “big show” freeman – .83lbs

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Don Lerman believes he has found the location and day job of the maintainer of this website.

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