I recently came across this article and video on wjz.com about a pancake eating contest held at Pete’s Grille in Baltimore in November. Johns Hopkins student Liz Gilbert won the women’s division with 10.5 pancakes in a hour. She won the division in 2004 and was DQed in 2005. There is an article about Ms. Gilbert in the Johns Hopkins newsletter in which she describes why she competes in eating contests:

“Eating is such a faux-pas for women. Eating and food, for American women, is too big a deal. I like to see people take it less seriously, take their bodies less seriously, and this is something that’s emblematic of that,” she said.

“[Expletive deleted] it. I don’t care if people think I eat a lot. If you keep a regular diet and exercise and feel good about yourself, I don’t see why you can’t go out and do something excessive every once and a while.”

5th place men’s finisher Scott Yin also gets an article in the Johns Hopkins newsletter. Only the first name of the men’s division winner, Lee, is listed.

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A column in the University of Wisconsin student newspaper has a list of possible new jobs for fired San Diego Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer (this column was mentioned by Rhonda Evans in a previous comment) One potential new employer for Marty is listed:

Thomas certainly is no slouch when it comes to scarfing down Nathan’s hot dogs, Moon Pies or creamed spinach casserole.

But, she can’t beat Kobayashi, the Roger Federer of digestion. Ol’ Tabasco Schott knows a little bit about eating, as legend has it he once out ate the entire Charger offensive line at a team lunch meeting. He might not get her to the top, but the practice throw-downs should be more fun than watching sumos high dive.

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Philly.com has an article mentioning an eating contest held in Burlington, New Jersey a century ago:

A friend, doing research for a book, was browsing through microfilm in the Lehigh University library last week when he found an item headlined “Man Eats 33 Sandwiches.”

The story was from the South Bethlehem Globe of Dec. 9, 1907, and was datelined Burlington, N.J.

Arthur Wilcox (it said) of Burlington ate 33 ham sandwiches, four dozen small pickles, and two pounds of cheese during an eating match in which he was pitted against a man from Delanco. He washed the grub down with 12 cups of coffee.

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Videos of recent contests on youtube

Miami Pretzel Twister contest from Hall Hunt (6 parts)

Pittsburgh pierogie contest local television news reports

Boston bacon contest

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Kobayashi wrote a blog entry about his arrival in Los Angeles and says he intends to travel to the US east coast before he returns to Japan. Kobayashi appears in the blog of the Japanese version of Iron Man Magazine which says he might appear at Iron Man’s Fitness Expo to be held in Pasadena next weekend.

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The Phillyist blog has an interview with Leslie McKenna, who was a wingette for Dave the Dumpster at Wing Bowl 15.

What do you say to people who think it’s a joke – nothing more than a drunken Bacchanal?
It’s a serious contest. A title and a car. Go to a football game and there are half-naked girls there. It’s a serious competition and we’re there to support them. These guys take a lot of time preparing and promoting.

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Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti appear in a recent Village Voice cartoon by Stan Mack. The subject of the cartoon is redevelopment plans for Coney Island. The cartoon is not viewable online, but Liz scanned it and it can be viewed after the jump.
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b_sting competed in last Sunday’s Oyster Bowl and has some pictures on his myspace blog. He says that winner Kristina Costa is an employee of the restaurant where the contest was held.

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citypaper.net has an article about “Gentleman” Jerry Coughlan’s meal at the recently opened El Wingador To Go the day after he was the top local finisher in Wing Bowl 15. The restaurant closes at 8pm (6pm Sunday) which is surprisingly early for a takeout only restaurant.

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Megamunch has a blog entry about the United Eaters of Pennsylvania meeting at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub on February 24 which says that 6 eaters are needed for the event. (Eaters do not have to be residents of Pennsylvania). The format of the contest has yet to be determined.

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(Thanks Liz) Liz has written a post for urbanhonking/truefan about eating challenges and the IFOCE ban on those smorgasborgs. Liz relays the following offer from Heart Attack Grill owner “Dr.” John Basso:

Basso is offering the $10,000 dollars for the person who can beat Joey’s time, he says, because he knows he’ll see $11,000 in business as a result. His dream right now is to have Kobayashi, the world’s #1 ranked eater, come in and claim that money. He says after Joey did the stunt, he had someone teach him the correct Japanese phrasing in the hopes that the Kobayashi would hear the challenge he broadcast over the television. “And if someone can beat Kobayashi’s time, I’ll give them $12,000,” he said. Though for now, that challenge will have to be put on the shelf.

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The most convincing evidence that Kate Stelnick did finish the 96er burger in under three hours without assistance is probably found in this fark forum thread in which RSquared18 posts several times. Rsquared18 was a member of Kate’s travel part to Denny’s and the photographer of her eating the giant burger. Rsquared18 says that Kate needed 2:53 to finish the burger, one minute shorter than the official time.

2005-01-15 02:46:28 AM Rsquared18

I was with her when she did it. The 4 of us drove almost 5 hours this wensday morning to do this. All the pictures you will see of this have been taken by me. I will post all the pictures of our adventure if someone can help me with hosting/html (i have no idea how to post pictures)
/I know someone famous!

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The Suburban Advertiser has an article about Wing Bowl 15 that focuses on Timothy “Dr. Slob” Cusick. The article says that “Peter” Bertoletti was the runner-up;

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The Pittsburgh public television station, WQED, will show an episode of the “Dave & Dave” show about the Pittsburgh Wing Championship Series on February 20 at 7:30 pm.

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There are several Wing Bowl videos viewable at ripe.tv (Go to channels, then Wing Bowl)

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The Boston Phoenix has an article about a bacon eating contest held at Atwood’s Tavern. The winner is reported as having eaten 6.5 ounces of bacon in 5 minutes.

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951wayv.com reports that Candace Kelsey won the women’s only Wing Fling III wing eating contest at Trump Marina in Atlantic City by eating 25 wings in 15 minutes, an 8.5 wing drop from the amount eaten by last year’s winner. The website claims that bigger wings were used this year. There is a gallery and video of the contest.

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News of Delaware County has an article about the three Wing Bowl locals, Gentleman Jerry, Steakbellie and Wing Kong. The article is mainly about Gentleman Jerry, but you can get more information about the other Wing Bowl experiences at the Wing Kong & Steakbellie blogs. Steakbellie has posted part 1 of a planned 6 which covers the Thursday night weigh in.

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In his most recent blog entry, Kobayashi says he will be in Los Angeles starting on February 9th, but he does not plan to compete in the chili cheese fries contest. He might film another commercial.

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from JMGroupPrinceton.com:

Kristina Costa, 82 oysters in 2 minutes, women’s & overall winner, repeat winner
Dan Schwartzmann, 76 oysters in 2 minutes, men’s winner

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The Memphis Flyer reports that Pat Bertoletti was the first person to finish the 7 pound (4 lb of meat) Sasquatch burger at the Big Foot Lodge in Memphis. Pat stopped at the Big Foot Lodge on his way to New Orleans to break the Acme Oyster House record and his time of 11:05 is less than 1/5 of the hour allowed.

The burger in the “Big Burger Girl” picture (from a July post) is most likely a Sasquatch burger because the picture is tagged with “Memphis” The photographer claims the unknown trencherwomen finished her burger in the picture comments, but this would not count because it took place outside the restaurant.

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(from AICE news) National Hard Boiled Egg Eating Championship, Marina Grille, Brick, NJ

1. Goose Gilbert, 46 eggs
2. Mark Lyle, 42 eggs
3. Joe Menchetti, 41 eggs

Mark Lyle believes that his plate had 35 eggs when it should have had 25 and that his actual result is 10 more than his listed result.

Rio Wraps Burrito Bowl, Dearborn MI, gallery

1. Justin Swarbrick, 4 burritos in under 10 minutes

Oyster Bowl VIII, Princeton, NJ

no official results yet, but Joe Menchetti says that last year’s winner, Kristina Costa, repeated with 82 oysters in 2 minutes.

(Women’s) Wing Fling III

no official results yet, but a competitor says the winner ate 25 in 15 minutes, one more than Keighrah ate in 45 seconds in this youtube video.

update Feb 9 This post is now closed to comments

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Angelo Cataldi has his thoughts about Wing Bowl 15 on his blog:

The dramatic announcement at the end of Wing Bowl 15 that El Wingador is coming out of retirement to face Chestnut next year will make it the most anticipated Wing Bowl ever. Between them, El Wingador and Joey Chestnut have won seven out of the last nine Wing Bowls, but they have never faced each other. In fact, Chestnut said he would not have returned unless he got a shot at the all-time Philadelphia champion in 2008.

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The Whaler has his first new entry in over two months. The topic is Eater X’s performance in the Miami Pretzel Twister contest:

As the contest began and the eaters dug in, Eater X took a curious tack: he untied each of his pretzels, wasting precious time. And when the dust had settled and the food had been chewed and all the pretzels counted, Eater X had finished a distant second to the winner, Joey Chestnut. It broke my heart, it turned me red and made me want to break things.

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