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Chick’s Tavern, Bridgeport, PA

Josh Cifelli, 266 mussels
Megan “Irish Lassie” Moreland, 253 mussels
Mark Zimmer 250
Frank Dillworth 250

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ThePittsburghChannel.com reports that Bob “Killer” Kuhns won a pierogie eating contest at Clara’s Pittsburgh Pierogies on Sunday after repeating in the Wing Championship Series on Friday. There will be an AICE pierogie contest at the restaurant on June 23.

updated A video clip can be seen at http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/video/index.html (Thanks Boy King) Click on the Entertainment category.

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heartattackgrill.com says a webcast reality show will begin filming at the restaurant in March.

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nj.com reports a two minute oyster eating contest will be held on February 4 to benefit breast cancer research. Two women, Kristina Costa and Barbara Devaney broke a record by eating 83 oysters in two minutes. A one minute overtime was held which Costa won with 40 oysters.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a blog entry about competing in the french fry contest at Bikini’s Bar & Grill. J’aime has a post about viewing that event.

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newsobserver.com has an article about the Krispy Kreme Challenge held yesterday in Raleigh, NC. 722 participants registered to eat a dozen doughnuts at the midpoint of a 4 mile run. NC State senior Auburn Staples won the event in about 24 minutes and required approximately 7 minutes to finish his doughnuts. He did the first two miles in about 8 minutes. KrispyKremeChallenge.com has full results.

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Philly.com has an article about the Wing Bowl competitors ranked in the top 10 which says that Bill “El Wingador” Simmons says that there is a 1 in 5 chance that he will compete in Wing Bowl 15.

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from IFOCE.com:

update #2 Full results have been posted – Thanks Bill Myers

update Patrick Michels has posted a flickr gallery of the contest Some of the competitors (not necessarily women) wore bikini tops:

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VeryStrangeNews.com made up an entry about Kobayashi appearing at a Nathan’s hot dog eating contest at the Kansas State Fair. The first part is plagiarized from this article. The second part is original but lacks any factual basis:

Takeru Kobayashi, who on July 4, 2004, ate 53 1/2 hot dogs and buns in just 12 minutes was the winner and afterward when he went to rid himself of his full stomach he saw Pat Garety blocking his way to the bathroom. Garety held in his hand five one hundred dollar bills and requested Takeru deposit his vomit in a special “clean” bag. Takeru obliged and left $500 richer. It appears Garety is planning on selling his bag of hot dog chunks on Ebay and expects to net a quick two – three thousand dollars for the mess.

I am not sure if this is supposed to be a a parody, (it is tagged as a “Mostly True” story”) but about.com accepted it as an actual article.

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From an El Toro email:

Subject: Kevin Ross just called me from Houston

1) JOEY 2) TIM 3) CHIP he wasn’t sure about the rest of the totals.

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From AICE News:

1 Bob Killer Kuhns 132
2 Ian ‘the Invader’ Hickman 124
3 Joe Menchetti 117

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Austin360.com has a preview of the french fry eating contest to be held at Bikini’s Bar and Grill. Sonya Thomas is listed as a possible competitor.

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The IFOCE Bikini String Fry preview lists the following expected entrants: Joey Chestnut, Tim Janus, Chip Simpson, Seaver Miller, David Braunstein, Crazy Legs Conti & Larry McNeil

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DennysBeerBarrelPub.com has replaced the picture of the United Eaters of Pennsylvania on its home page with an events calendar. Tomorrow the restaurant will host a meet & greet with former PSU football players Blair Thomas and Kenny Jackson.

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nj.com has a profile of Michael “Liberty” Belh, who will compete in Wing Bowl 15. Belh played on the Rutgers football team. According to the roster on his myspace blog, Belh is the second lightest non-IFOCE entrant at 240 pounds.

The article also says that Bill “El Wingador” Simmons is being pressured to enter Wing Bowl 15.

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The Wing Bowl “outsiders” page at 610wip.com lists Wing Bowl 14 runner-up Rich LeFevre as the recipient of the final IFOCE Wing Bowl 15 slot.

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Steakbellie’s blogging will be limited the next 9 days as he focuses on more pressing matters.

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610WIP.com reports that “Damaging” Doug won the Wing Off in the WIP studio by eating 44 wings in 5 minutes.

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There will be another megaburger event in Pennsylvania for eaters who cannot make it to the unveiling of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 100+ pound burger on February 24. The Wrightsville Inn in York will have a King Kong burger eating contest for teams of 5 on February 17. The King Kong burger weighs 22 pounds and was inspired by Denny’s giant sandwiches. The team entrance fee is $104 and proceeds will go to the Children’s Home of York.

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The weekly Wing Bowl column at Philly.com reports that Bill “El Wingador” Simmons’ restaurant has opened and is doing enough business for El Wingador to quit his truck driving job to focus on the restaurant and his wing sauce. The column also says that Hank “The Tank” Goldey admits to stealing the Wing Bowl throne from El Wingador.

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The pain of the Seattle Seahawks’ loss to the the Chicago Bears last weekend has subsided enough for Erik Denmark to write about the hot dog challenge he did during the game.

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There will be a haggis eating contest at San Francisco University on Thursday to celebrate the Chinese New Year. An attempt will be made to set the record for the largest number of people eating haggis simultaneously. The contest was instituted to honor both SFU’s Scottish traditions and the university’s large Asian population.

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The Blinq blog at philly.com reports that a trivia contest has been scheduled for the same weekend at the Wing Bowl. The organizer of that contest describes his objectives:

“This is about more than making Quizzo sexy,” he writes by e-mail. “It’s about making Philadelphia sexy.” The 215 unsexiness, he offers, is “a stereotype perpetuated by the Neanderthal eating contest that takes place every year. Trashy has had it too good in this town for too long. On February 3rd, sexy fights back.

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(Thanks Hall Hunt) There is an interview with Hall Hunt in the University of Florida magazine, Orange & Blue. Hall describes his start in competitive eating:

I was a manager of the UF women’s soccer team, and the coach, Becky Burleigh, liked to take us out to Dragonfly Sushi & Sake Co. for dinner. When she heard they were having a competition, she kind of challenged me to do it. I did really well, but couldn’t go to the finals because I was traveling with the team for the SEC Tournament.

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miami.com has an article about yesterday’s Pretzel Twister contest. Sonya received a deduction for having too much food outside of her mouth.

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