The Newport News Times has an article about last weekend’s rib contest at the Chinook Winds casino in Lincoln City, OR.

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A gallon of milk drinking contest will be held at Rockland State Park in New York on August 12. 90% of the proceeds will go to charity, so prizes will be minimal. Contestants will have an hour to finish the gallon.

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DelawareOnline reports that “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won a wing eating contest at Dewey Beach by eating a record 141 wings (without liquids) in 30 minutes. The win was Menchetti’s second of the weekend; he also won the Italian sausage contest in Boston.

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From IFOCE.com:

Chinook Winds Rib Championship, Chinook Winds Casino, Lincoln City OR

1. Joey Chestnut 8.4 lb in 12 minutes, beats last year’s mark almost 3lb., $1500
2. Rich “the Locust” LeFevre 5.03 lb, repeats as runner up., $750
3. Erik “the Red” Denmark 4.1 lb, $500
4. Jason “Erbavore” Erb 3.05 lb
5. Scott “the Pork Slayer” Sayer ?

Updated 7/17 1:34 pm with results from erikdenmark.blogspot.com

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The Battle Creek Enquirer has a report on yesterday’s Reuben Sandwich Eating Championship, won by Mark Lyle.

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A hands-free tofu eating contest will be held at the Tofu Festival in downtown Los Angeles on August 12. The winner will receive an 11 night tour of Asia.

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The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that Dale Boone won Frank’s RedHot Battle to the Bone wing eating contest in Atlanta Saturday by eating 30 wings in 4 minutes. Boone’s victory came a day after he placed third in a rib eating contest at Harrah’s casino in Cherokee, NC.

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The Courier News has a short article and some pictures from yesterday’s QuickChek Italian Sub Eating Qualifier at Bridgewater, NJ won by “King” George Van Laar.

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Cyberfyber, who uploaded videos of Nathan’s contest to youtube, has also posted an informal press conference Kobayashi held at the Nathan’s weigh in on July 3.

Cyberfyber has also sent George Shea’s pre-contest “sermon” to youtube.

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A documentary about Fino “Chili Dawg” Cachola at Wing Bowl X in 2002 has been uploaded to youtube. The film shows the challenges a Wing Bowl hopeful faces as Chili Dawg attempts to improve his third place finish in Wing Bowl IX. The program lasts about an hour and merits a PG rating, so it is not suitable for all workplaces. Don “Moses” Lerman and “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz have cameos.

Part 1 – Introduction
Part 2 – Qualifying stunt – two chickens & mashed potatos
Part 3 – Training
Part 4 – Weigh In
Part 5 – Pre Contest
Part 6 – First Round
Part 7 – Conclusion

Part 1 hung up on me on two computers so the video file might be corrupt. Parts 2-7 work fine.

Chili Dawg died on December 26, 2004 after qualifying for Wing Bowl XIII. His qualifying stunt is described in Horsemen of the Esophagus and his death is one of the more compelling segments of that book. The documentary provides a lasting tribute to Chili Dawg’s enthusiasm and fighting spirit.

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Kobayashi’s judge at Nathan’s, journalist Gersh Kuntzman, has a column in the Brooklyn Papers explaining the decisions he made at that contest.

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The Salem Statesman Journal has a preview of this weekends rib eating contest that will be held at the Chinook Winds casino in Lincoln City Oregon. Joey Chestnut, Erik Denmark and Scott Sayer are expected to attend.

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An SexyFeast blog entry from January claims that Kate Stelnick finished the 12.5 pound Zeus burger from the Clinton Station Diner. Since I have not located any information that Kate has done any challenges outside Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, I am assuming that the author saw the picture of Kate with the Zeus burger from the May 2005 AICE Zeus contest, in which Kate served as an honorary official and not a contestant, and jumped to the conclusion that she completed the burger. A Steakbellie blog entry from February says that the diner told him that no one had finished the burger in the three hour limit. Of course, both blog entries could be correct if Kate needed more than three hours.

The blog entry has an accompanying podcast, but no information about Kate’s potential feat can be found in it.

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The Sheboygan Press reports that ESPN will broadcast the finals of the Johnsonville Bratwurst contest on August 5 at 4 pm Eastern. Kobayashi will compete in the contest. Press Release

Updated 1:34 PM – registration for the 20 person lottery for the last five entrants to that contest is now open.

7/13 1:31 AM – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article

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It has been over a week since the July 3 goldenpalace.net BBQ ribs contest in Memphis won by Dale Boone and results for that event have yet to be posted on the IFOCE website. The new poll question asks what you believe the reason for this delay is.

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Some URLs from the last week have been added to the post containing articles & other links about last week’s Nathan’s finals.

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The Boston Globe has a preview of the Italian Sauage Eating contest in East Boston, MA and the Battle Creek Enquirer has a preview of the Reuben Sandwich Eating contest in Marshall, MI. Both contests will take place on Saturday. The Italian Sausage contest will be held at the Italia Unita Festival, so wearing a Zinadine Zidane jersey is not recommended.

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Kobayashi’s blog has an entry about last Tuesday’s Nathan’s finals.

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The Pittsburgh Tribune review has an article about Denny’s Beer Barrell Pub’s new 50 pound burger, The Belly Bruiser. Lori Weiss is listed as a finisher of the 96er in the article. Denny’s weill be on the Food Network in November.

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from beautifulbrian.com bulletin

Harrah’s casino, Cherokee, NC

7/8 Results updated from sonyatheblackwidow.com

1. Sonya Thomas, 5.45 lb
2. Tim “Eater X” Janus, 4.3 lb
3. Dale Boone, 3.9
Rich LeFevre DQ

Hopefully this will shut Luther up for a while.

It will be interesting to see what extracurricular activities Dale Boone was involved in. Brian Seiken claims Boone and Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough almost came to blows in Memphis.

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If Dale Boone is looking to follow up his corndogorama victory with another local contest, a buffalo wing eating contest sponsored by Frank’s Red Hot will be held at Atlantic Station in Atlanta on Saturday.

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NBC4 (Washington DC local news) interviewed Sonya Thomas after Nathan’s, which is mentioned in the station’s blog. Sonya said that she intended to do Friday’s rib contest at Harrah’s casino in Cherokee, NC. Dale Boone is also expected to compete in that contest and interesting (in the Chinese curse meaning of the word) things tend to happen when those two compete. I don’t believe that Sonya has ever lost in VA, DC, MD, DE or NC.

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At 10pm (eastern) The History Channel will broadcast an episode of American Eats about the history of the hot dog. There will be some information about Nathan’s hot dogs and competitive eating.

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IFOCE.com has posted a full list of Nathan’s results. Some observations:

• Jed Donahue only is listed with 1 HDB
• Kenji Oguni did 16 HDB, second to last, barely half of what he did in 2005.
• The European entrants did respectably with 20 and 18 HDB. I would not have expected the Europeans to both beat the Tokyo qualifier

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I wondered what Joey Chestnut pointing to Kobayashi around the 10 minute mark signified, and this article in the San Francisco Chronicle says that Joey Chestnut was indicating that he believed that Kobayashi might have regurgitated at that time. Joey’s brother Patrick says that a quarter hot dog was found in Kobayashi’s cup. The article says that three additional eating contests will be televised on ESPN, which compensates for the loss of the US Open of Competitive Eating.

updated 7/5 3:11 pm – headline changed

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