Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 123 pound burger is the subject of a Japanese blog entry.

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The “Las Vegas” episode with the hot dog eating contest will be rerun on TNT at midnight eastern tonight (9 pm Pacific)

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Videos of Joey Chestnut entering the Wachovia Center before Wing Bowl 15 can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI0Isq0cJdk and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS5ihrNV4jw

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The Gant Daily has an article about the making and unveiling of the 123 pound burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub which mentions the United Eaters of Pennsylvania. Ian Hickman’s record breaking performance appears in the article and there is also a picture of the Invader in the article slideshow.

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Megamunch has a blog entry about his experience MCing two local contests in Harrisburg, PA on Sunday.

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The following names appear three or more times in the database of finisher of the 72 ounce steak from the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. The database is incomplete before 1991 and after early 2005.

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The new poll asks how many eaters in the world do you believe are capable of finishing Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 15 pound Belly Buster burger (10.5 pounds of meat) in under 3 hours without assistance. No one has yet to complete that sandwich singlehandedly.

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Crazy Legs Conti has a column on competitiveeating.net which predicts that Brian Seiken will qualify for Nathan’s at the qualifier restricted to civil service workers at the South Street Seaport.

That’s right, Beautiful Brian is going to Coney as the 2007 Civil Service champ. Could it be that in his tenth year of competing Beautiful Brian will walk the catwalk of Stillwell Ave and ascend the grand stage at Coney Island for his debut at the finals? If the stars and spreadsheets align, on June 27th, Double B will rock the Civil Service contest as the lyrical stylings of Stephen Morrissey blare from the speakers. “ Please, Please, Please, Let me get what I want. Lord knows it would be the first time.”

updated Brian has his own thoughts about qualifying for Nathan’s

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Videos of Pat Bruss winning the wing eating contest at the Chicago WingFest can be viewed on Google video at http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=bruss+pat (Audio is not safe for work or families)

AICE news confirms that Pat Bruss won the WingFest and says he is expected to compete at Bartolini’s Meatball contest in Illinois.

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The Turn Up the Heat Chili Cook-Off, to be held in Harrisburg, PA tomorrow, has a web page at http://yhst-14711175495285.stores.yahoo.net/chilicookoff.html Dave “Megamunch” Schoffner will MC a hot sauce drinking contest and a cooldown eating contest during that event.

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(from heartattackgrill.com) There is an article about the Heart Attack Grill and its owner, “Dr.” John Basso, in entrepreneur.com:

His advice for wannabe entrepreneurs? “I’d tell people to create controversy,” suggests Basso, who refers to himself as the Patch Adams of the restaurant industry. Though he won’t release any financial information, Basso insists that word-of-mouth marketing has given the grill plenty of business. “What I’ve got, in marketing terms, is the purple cow,” he says. “We’ve designed something that people talk about naturally. We’ve never spent one penny, and never will spend one penny on advertisements. We simply have a website, and that’s it.”

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Chip Simpson offered advice over the phone to an Orlando columnist competing in a single hot dog eating contest for local celebrities.

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Dave “Megamunch” Schoffner has been requested to MC a local hot sauce drinking contest to be held in Harrisburg, PA on Saturday.

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PRNewswire has a press release about the Saint Patrick’s Day contest to be televised on Spike TV. The field will consist solely of the eaters in the top 8 of the IFOCE rankings: Takeru Kobayashi, Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, “Humble” Bob Shoudt, Patrick Bertoletti, Timothy “Eater X” Janus, Richard LeFevre and Chip Simpson.

The first round food will be corned beef & cabbage, the second round will have jalapenos and green doughnuts will be used in the final round. Beef tongue will not be in the tournament, contrary to early reports.

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Kobayashi has blog entries with pictures about the Tampa Bay Devil Rays fan festival and spring training practice.

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Philly.com’s Inqlings column says that a Wing Bowl movie remains in production even though a script for it has yet to be finalized several years into the project.

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Prices are from this ad, weights are the amount of meat in the burger. Total weight is around twice the weight of the meat.

Pub Challenger: $15.95 / 2 lb. = $7.98 / lb.
Pub Super Challenger: $21.95 / 3 lb. = $7.32 / lb.
Ye Old 96er : $35.95 / 6 lb. = $5.99 / lb.
Belly Buster: $49.95 / 10.5 lb. = $ 4.76 / lb.
Belly Bruiser: $179.95 / 50 lb. = $3.60 / lb.
Main Event Charity Burger: $379 / 80 lb. = $4.74 / lb.

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(from slashfood) The New York Times has an article about the Penthouse Executive Club, where Crazy Legs Conti works as a buyer. The article consists mainly of a review of Robert’s Steak House inside the club. Frank Bruni only gives the restaurant one star despite his claim that it has some of the best steaks in New York City. A slideshow is available.

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The Clearfield Progress has an article about the unveiling of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 123 pound burger. The burger took 6-8 hours to cook and a heat shield had to be installed on the oven. The burger meat will be used in chili and other non-burger items.

The article also mentions the UEPa meeting, the German television crew and Ian Hickman breaking the 2 lb burger record. The previous record of 15 minutes was set by Daryl Teats of Woodland, PA in 1993. Dave Schoffner is quoted.

A shorter version of the article was produced by the Associated Press which has been picked up by dozens of outlets. (From flash383)

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nj.com reports that the Delaware Valley International Chili Society cookoff and festival will have a chicken wing eating contest in which Bill “El Wingador” Simmons will compete.

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The Sponichi Annex has an article about Kobayashi’s appearance at the Devil Rays practice.

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(Thanks Laura Flynn) Brian Seiken’s new episode was not the only Las Vegas themed competitive eating program last weekend. There was a hot dog eating contest on NBC’s “Las Vegas” Friday in which Sam (Vanessa Marcil) competed. This was not Sam’s first eating contest; she competed against “Cookie” Jarvis in 2004. The episode will be rerun on cable on TNT on March 8.

There was also an immunity challenge eating contest on Survivor Thursday. Pig snouts were one if the items consumed.

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A writer for the Wilmington (NC) Star-News wrote a column about being coached by Crazy Legs Conti for a Girl Scout cookie eating contest. One piece of advice offered by Crazy Legs:

“Make sure the Girl Scouts don’t get hit with cookie detritus or shrapnel,” Crazy Legs said. “Nothing ruins a green sash like cookie detritus.”

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There will be oyster eating contests (men on Saturday, women on Sunday) this weekend at the Fulton Texas Oysterfest. The purse for both divisions is $350.

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sptimes.com reports that Takeru Kobayashi attended yesterday’s Devil Rays practice and recorded some commercials with third baseman Akinori Iwamura, a longtime star of Japanese baseball.

Kobayashi also has a blog entry about his trip to Tampa.

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