EmeraldCoast.com has more on the Apalachicola Oyster Festival. The women’s & overall winner, Mel Tyler, has a married daughter.

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Matt “Foracious” Forss, who will compete in the posole contest on November 18, has forwarded me some of the expected entrants in that event:

Pat Bertoletti
Joey Chestnut
Tim Janus
Matt “Foracious” Forss

Rich LeFevre will probably participate as well since he has done almost all southwestern contests.

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A gallery of Kobayashi at the lobster roll eating contest at the Phantom Gourmet Festival in Boston which I just discovered can be viewed at http://flickr.com/photos/travelingrhinos/sets/72157594301121345/

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The Chattanooga Pulse has an excellent writeup of Krystal Square Off III with a lot of interesting information.

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A press release previewing the posole contest at the Sky City Casino in Acoma NM on November 18 is now available. The release does not list any eaters expected to attend.

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El Toro’s pictures of the Fry Bread contest at the Arizona State Fair can be viewed at Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane’s flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lookatthis/sets/72157594364360900/

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In a recent blog entry, Wing Tut expresses skepticism about the claims that Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss are the only people to complete Denny’s 96er burger in under three hours. There is a good deal of evidence to support Denny’s claims that Lori Weiss did accomplish what the restaurant claims. Lori Weiss ate the three pound burger (5+ pounds with toppings) in 36 minutes at a contest recorded for the Food Network in 2002, setting a record (which I believe still stands based on megamunch’s picture of the recent finishers of that burger) The archived versions of Denny’s websites have two articles about that contest:

Lancaster New Era
Clearfield Progress

I am not sure if this contest was ever televised by the Food Network since I have not been able to find any information about the show it was on. If it was, Lori’s appearance might have been cut.

Lori’s conquest of the 96er last July was documented in a blog entry at
http://baxojayz.blogspot.com/2005/07/4th-of-july-weekend-dennys-beer-barrel.html (Surprisingly, the blogger claims that the record Lori was aiming to break was under 2 hours, when the official mark by Kate Stelnick is 2:54. I am not sure if there is a lower unpublicized record or if he just got confused.)

If Lori Weiss’ feats are hoaxes, they are extremely well constructed ones.

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There will be a wing eating contest between teams from Yale and Princeton before Saturday’s football game. The Broad Recognition blog has a response to the requirement that the teams must contain one female.

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A team of three Michigan police officers has accomplished what Kobayashi could not in the Man vs. Beast Fox TV Special. The Lenawee Connection reports that the policemen finished 15 chili dogs before a bear named Lakota did. A team of three firefighters also competed. The bear was apparently not very interested in the chili dogs.

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Megamunch has a trip report and gallery from yesterday’s meeting of the United Eaters of Pennsylvania at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA. Ian “The Invader” Hickman, Pete “Broken Wing” Maurizio, Derek “Wing Tut” Payne joined Dave “Megamunch” Shoffner in attempting Denny’s giant burger. Megamunch attempted the 3 pound burger, while the others tried the 6 pound 96er. Ian Hickman ate the most, finishing over 2/3 of his megaburger, but the 96er finishers and 3 lb burger finsher plaques will not need to be updated following their visit. Congratulations to the UEPa for some great efforts.

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Tallahassee.com has a report on the Apalachicola (Florida) Oyster Festival with results for the oyster contests. Separate contests for men and women were held, and a woman Mel Tyler had the best overall performance with 196 oysters eaten in twelve minutes. Hyer Dement won the men’s contest with 190 oysters.

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The Slashfood food blog has a post about the Clinton Station Diner’s 105 pound “Eigth Wonder” burger which debuted last week.

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Super Paul Bonebreaker Barlow Jr. has a gallery from Krystal Square Off III and the post party.

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Wing Tut has a report from last night’s second Uncle Charley’s qualifier and says that Pete Maurizio was the victor. Wing Tut was fighting a cold and placed 4th, denying entry into the finals.

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The Connection has more information about the pizza eating contest to be held at Bugsy’s restaurant in Alexandria, VA on Saturday. The first place prize is tickets to the Redskins Giants game with transportation by limousine included.

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Erik “The Red” Denmark has a report from the Fry Bread contest at the Arizona State Fair in his blog.

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Ernie attended the Krystal Square Off finals and wrote a blog entry and recorded the last 39 seconds of it from the audience.

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The new poll asks how the best eater will perform at the United Eaters of Pennsylvania meeting at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA Saturday.

Megamunch that the gathering will be advertised in a local paper, so some unexpected eaters might show up.

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Las Palapas 25th anniversary Macho Burrito contest results from Dan Calderón:

10 hungry hopefuls scarfed down two of Las Palapas’ famed Macho Burritos. The three fastest times were rewarded with checks for $1,000, $500 and $250.

Chris Flores, a 32-year-old San Antonio resident who lives near Helotes, won the top prize of $1,000 and set a new record by finishing his Macho Burritos in 68 seconds. Flores said it was his first eating contest.

Adolph Perez, a 19-year-old Converse resident who played right guard for the Judson High School football team last season, took the $500 second place prize. Perez, who is studying radiology at St. Philip’s College, took 1 minute, 15 seconds to finish the two one-pound burritos.

The $250 third-place prize went to San Antonio’s John Smavely, a 19-year-old construction worker with Handy Solutions. Smavely also was entering his first eating contest.

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(Thanks Skinnyboy) In his blog entry about the AZ Fry bread contest, Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a link to a direct video capture of the Krystal Square Off final (.ASF format, 11 MB).

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A video of the Fry Bread Eating Contest is availabe on the AZCentral videos page (under AZ Republic videos) and a picture of the contest is currently on the home page of azcentral.com

UPI has an article about the contest which says Rich LeFevre competed and Kobayashi ate 95 Krystal burgers yesterday.

Updated Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane competed (he thinks he finished 5th) and has a blog entry about the contest

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(from AICE News) The Clinton Station Diner unveiled, its latest creation, a megaburger with the working title of “The 8th Wonder of the World” which weighs 105 pounds, the same weight as Sonya Thomas.

In the three person team nano bite burger eating contest the results were:

1st Place: “Champion Stomachs” (Ian “The invader” Hickman, King Van Laar and Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman) $1,000 and “Eighth Wonder ”

2nd Place: “Nano-Ninjas” (Elliot “The Savage” Cowley, Chris “The American” Schlesinger and Sean “Flash”Gordon) $300 and “Mt. Olympus”

3rd Place: “Meat Manglers” ( Joel “The Cannon”Podelesky, John ‘Chowin’ McGowan, Brian ‘ Food-University’ Stanford) “Zeus Burger”

4th Place: “The Hamburglars” (Debbie ‘The Package’ Sisco, Joe ‘Killer’ Krongold and Demetris ‘Meatis’ Zambus)

updated Pictures are available, including a gallery of the 8th wonder burger

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AZCentral reports that Erik “the Red” Denmark won yesterday’s Sky City Casino Fry Bread Eating Contest at the Arizona State Fair. Jed Donahue was 2nd. Jason Erb took 3rd place according to a result entered into the eatfeats database. Congratulations to Erik for winning his first non-qualifier contest.

1. Erik Denmark 9.75 fry bread slices in 8 minutes
2. Jed Donahue 8.5
3. Jason “The Erbivore” Erb 6.5

Also listed as competing:
Jeremiah “El Toro” Jimenez, Frank “Fraggle” Wach, Russell “The Black Hole” Blackwell, Shane McBride and Ralph Cunningham

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I will not be able to blog this afternoon due to other commitments. Krystal-lover will have a live blog of all the events in Chattanooga, not just the telecast, so I doubt my absence will be missed.

krystaladventure is a blog I just discovered which has some posts about the Square Off finals and qualifiers I you need some KSO material to read while you are waiting for the telecast to begin.

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The East Valley Tribune has an article about the Heart Attack Grill’s dispute with nursing organizations in which the owner of the restaurant, Jon Busso is quoted as saying “To say there is any massagany (sic) here is absolutely ridiculous”

It is somewhat difficult to accept the denial of misogyny in light of the restaurant’s blog entry for October 25:

The entire Grill was taken aback at the sight of this woman as she literally decimated a Quadruple Bypass Burger in front of our very eyes. Every macho man at the bar suddenly gave up his chauvinistic preconceptions of meat being a “man’s game” when she put us all to shame.

SADLY THOUGH, we found out that she was cheating! It turns out that she’s four months pregnant, so it’s obvious the little guy inside of her was helping her eat all that beef in record time. Our Quadruple Bypass Burger challenge is a sport of honor among gentlemen. Her cheating brought such disgrace to the Grill that we had to take her out back and work her over a bit. Hey, I know what you’re all thinking, but we confined our punches to the upper rib cage section to avoid the fetus. I mean we’re not Barbarians for Christ sakes!

Absolutely hilarious, if you find violence against pregnant women a laughing matter. The claims of male superiority in meat eating are difficult to accept given that Sonya Thomas is the only person to win the 9 pound Barrick Burger contest and Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss are the only people to complete Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 96er burger. Closer to the Grill, 115 pound Becky White of Tucson has completed the 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan Grill.

The nurses have put out a press release detailing their grievances against the restaurant.

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