Qdoba is sponsoring the Rice & Bean Pot Burrito Eating Contest. The contest is open to teams of 4 from the “Bean Pot” colleges: Boston U, Boston College, Northeastern & Harvard. Proceeds will go to the Cam Neely foundation. Finals will be on February 8, with preliminary rounds in late January and early February. A video promoting the contest can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab7QPQq9mNY

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The home page of the Heart Attack Grill reports that Jed Donahue broke his own Quadruple Bypass burger record by completing that sandwich in 3 minutes and 55 seconds, almost 2 minutes less than his previous record of 5:39.

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The Philadelphia City Paper reports that Chabaa Thai is holding a spiciness toleration contest with finals to be held in Februrary. The winner will receive a $1000 gift certificate to the restaurant.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has uploaded a segment from Food Network’s “Unwrapped” about the 2004 pickle eating contest held at the Carnegie Deli at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9yONbnC3_s Winner Ed “Cookie” Jarvis, Don “Moses” Lerman, returning champion Brian Seiken and Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman are quoted and Kevin Lipsitz, Badlands Booker and Joe Menchetti appear in the background.

Skinnyboy has also uploaded a Food Network segment about the Hardee’s Thickburger to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a68SrzBiHhY

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competitiveeatingevents has released the expected roster for the Chuck Full O Nuts cream cheese sandwich contest:

Arturo Rios, Jr.
Bob Shoudt
Crazy Legs Conti
Erik Denmark
Joey Chestnut
Juliet Lee
Justin Mih
Pat Bertoletti
Tim Janus
William Myers

The contest will be held December 20 at Madison Square Garden. A Knicks vs. Charlotte game will be held that day. I am not sure if the contest will take place during that event.

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The philly.com Wing Bowl page reports that Dave “The Dumpster” Moyer was allowed to change to a saltine stunt after failing to complete his original stunt of finishing a box of doughnuts. (Direct link to RealVideo file).

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NYMag.com has a blog entry with some good pictures of last month’s turkey eating contest.

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Todd “The Butler” Yeates, who competed in the Arizona Fry Bread contest and the Posole contest, has started a blog at http://toddthebutleryeates.blogspot.com/ with galleries of those two contests.

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philly.com reports that Khalil qualified for the Wing Bowl by eating a turkey hoagie in 90 seconds, becoming the first unranked eater to successfully complete a Wing Bowl stunt.

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nj.com has an article about Rob Peachey, who pressured WIP to allow residents of Salem County, New Jersey to participate in Wing Bowl stunts and qualifiers. For his qualifying stunt, Mr. Peachey will attempt to eat six sausage, egg, and cheese sandwiches from McDonald’s in 2 minutes and 50 seconds Tuesday, Dec. 19.

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610wip.com has a page about the first Wing Off Wing Bowl qualifier. “Gentleman” Jerry, a veteran of Wing Bowl 8, won the contest. Wing Bowl veterans Hungry Hebrew, Wing Tut (presumbably the Wing Tut of eastern PA), Dr. Slob and The Ox also competed.

Another Wing Off has been added:
Dempster’s Pub
Wednesday January 10, 2007
38 Pine St
Mount Holly, NJ 08060

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In a comment to a supersizedmeals.com post about Bear Silber finishing a 20 inch 5+ lb. pound pizza in 37 minutes at Pizza and Pipes in Santa Clara, Bear Silber mentions that Joey Chestnut completed the challenge on Wednesday in 15 minutes.

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In his blog, Kobayashi says he will be travelling to New York City next weekend. He intends to see the Rockerfeller Center Christmas tree and visit with Tim Janus and Crazy Legs and Rona Conti. He apparently does not intend to compete in the Chock Full O Nuts cream cheese sandwich contest at this moment.

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PhillyEdge has an article about Bill “El Wingador” Simmons new restaurant. El Wingador To Go will be takeout only with no seating area.

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(From Liz K) A bikini string french fry eating contest at Bikini’s Bar & Grill has been added to the IFOCE schedule on January 27, 2007. The total purse is $2000.

The press release on the restaurant’s website lists Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas and Tim Janus as the expected out of towners. (I am not sure if this means that Sonya has reconciled with IFOCE or if they added her as an entrant without consulting her. )

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timesherald.com reports that Dave “the Dumpster” Moyer, a competitor in Wing Bowl 14, won a hot dog eating contest at Montgomery Lunch in Norristown, PA by eating 11 hot dogs (with toppings) in 15 minutes.

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The Central Lakes (Minnesota) Eating Team has a page on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/centrallakeseatingteam Their heros are Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas and Eater X. Could this be the start of UEMN?

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from a comment by “anonomous” (December 5, 2006 10:53 AM) on urbanhonking.com/eaterx

Why is there no eating news on this site. with everything that is happening you would think the whaler would have something to say. with humble bob cheating at meatballs …

from the main page of humblebob.com:

I am offering my first place purse of $2,500 to anyone, (eater, fan, official, anyone) that has evidence that this (cheating) happened at any Carmine’s Meatball Contest (2004, 2005, 2006). This offer is for payment in cash. Bring the evidence, take the cash. It is that simple.

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Tremont 647 in Boston is holding a haiku contest. The writers of the seven best haikus will gain slots in a momo (dumpling) eating contest to be held on December 17. Haikus must include the words “Momo” and “Tremont 647”. The person who can eat the most dumplings in 10 minutes will win a $1,000 gift certificate to the restaurant.

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AICE news reports that the latke contest to be held at Zan’s Deli in Long Island scheduled for Sunday has been pushed back a week to December 17. This is the second schedule change for the event; the original date was December 3.

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Videos of this morning’s successful Wing Bowl stunts by Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston and Micah “Wing Kong” Collins are now available on philly.com’s Wing Bowl page. (Micah is misspelled as “Micha”) Both Steakbellie and Wing Kong have written blog entries about their attempts.

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610wip.com reports that all tickets for Wing Bowl 15 sold out in 24 hours. Some free tickets will be given away at the Wing Off at Landmark Tap + Grille in Glassboro, NJ Thursday. You can also try to obtain entrance to the contest by becoming a competitor, as Steakbellie and Wing Kong will attempt Wednesday morning.

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The Inqlings column in philly.com has several paragraphs about the controversy following Saturday’s meatball contest. Sonya Thomas is threatening to sit out Wing Bowl 15 in protest of the decision awarding Bob Shoudt the victory in that event.

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IFOCE report Joey also received a 1 oz. deduction
beautifulbrian.com commentary
urbanhonking truefan report with interview with Bob Shoudt
competitiveeating.net commentary on controversial judgement

Top 10 finishers – all results available at ifoce.com
Bob Shoudt 9.97 lbs, $2500
Sonya Thomas 9.91 lbs, $1000
Joey Chestnut 9.35 lbs, $750
Chip Simpson 9.23 lbs, $500
Rich LeFevre 9.03 lbs, $250
Tim Janus 8.93 lbs
Juliet Lee 5.53 lbs
Allen Goldstein 4.96 lbs
Seaver Miller 4.75 lbs
Pat Philbin 4.73 lbs

Juliet Lee was the best finisher not ranked in the top 8 and she defeated the #10 and #11 eaters

update AICE news lists Hun Juliet Lee as an expected entrant in Sunday’s latke eating contest

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Wing Bowl 15 tickets will go on sale at 10 am. Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.comcasttix.com/ or in person at the Wachovia Center box office.

updated philly.com reports that former 76ers owner Pat Croce will be the Wing Bowl commissioner.

updated #2 Angelo Cataldi has a post about Wing Bowl 15 on his blog in which he says that Sonya Thomas has been chosen to be one of the 5 IFOCE entries.

update #3 A video of Bob Shoudt’s successful Wing Bowl stunt is available on philly.com (along with an unsuccessful one by Hollywood Jeff involving the Wendy’s Value Menu)

competitiveeatingnews.com confims that Sonya has received on of the 5 out of town slots.

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