The Lefevres’ attempts to eat the famous 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan steakhouse recorded by Ripley’s Believe it or Not in 2000 will be rerun on the SciFi Channel at 4 pm (eastern) Friday This might be the first appearance of competitive eating on national cable TV. The steak contest segment will probably occur at the end of the show near 5pm.

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Rockvale Outlets has put out a press release about the 2006 Shoo Fly Pie contest that will take place on June 24. The contest has a website which has a gallery of the 2005 contest. Tim Janus is expected to defend his 2005 title. There will be an amateur contest before the IFOCE event which will award a $250 gift certificate to the winner. The website has shoo fly pie recipes if entrants want to make some practice pies.

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The Genessee (Michigan) board of commissioners decided to use $150 of county funds to sponsor a hot dog eating contest at Capital Coney Island in Flint Township despite Commissioner Rose Bogardus’ opinion that the contest promotes gluttony and eating disorders. The contest will take place on May 20 from 2-6 pm and an entrance fee of $10 will enable competitors to eat as many hot dogs as possible in 15 minutes. Unspecified prizes will be awarded to the best performers. Funds will go towards the Consortium on Child Abuse and Neglect. Hopefully Sharon Scholten will not show up or there might not be any money left for charity after hot dog expenses have been deducted.

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Philly.com has an interview with Jason Fagone, who has a strange response when questioned about the lack of Sonya Thomas content in his book.

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Ryan Nerz has uploaded his chapter about “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz which was excised from the published version of “Eat This Book” by his editor. Nerz will appear at a reading at the Park Slope Barnes & Noble in Brooklyn on May 10 at 7:30 pm.

Newsday has an article on both “Eat This Book” and “Horsemen of the Esophagus.”

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IFOCE.com has posted their writeup of Saturday’s Tamale contest at the Berryhill grill in Houston won by Chip Simpson. I am curious if any notables besides Chip, Pat, Rich, Tim & Levi competed and what were the circumstances of Rich’s post-contest reversal.

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Jason Fagone will read from “Horsemen of the Esophagus” at the KGB Bar in the lower east side of Manhattan on May 9 at 7pm.

Philadelphia Weekly has an interview with Fagone.

The Washington City Paper has a long review of Horsemen and Boldtype has a shorter critique.

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Just as the Beatles’ performance on the Ed Sullivan Show created Beatlemania, Rich and Carlene Lefevre’s appearance on Ripley’s Believe It or Not in 2000 launched their career as the world’s greatest competitive eating couple. The episode (#109) was recorded at the Big Texan steakhouse in Amarillo, Texas and both LeFevres finished the restaurants famous 72 ounce steak (two women, Tammy Hooker and Annette Havard, also finished the steak) The SciFi channel will rerun this episode on May 12 at 4pm. The Amarillo Globe News has an article about the taping.

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Reports from last weekend’s bike rally to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA, along with some nice pictures of the PA mountains can be found in this forum thread. I don’t think any biker made a serious attempt at one of Denny’s larger burgers, but at least one group ordered a 96er which they split.

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The Gothamist blog has a short writeup of the “Eat This Book” release party Wednesday night.

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The Dallas Observer has an report about last year’s tamale contest that was held in suburban Dallas. The article has information on yet another competitive eating film project.

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Nichelle Newsletter has pictures from last night’s “Eat This Book” release party and mini-cupcake contest results, which Eric “Badlands” Booker won by eating 29 mini-cupcakes in 2 minutes without water.

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goldenpalaceevents.com has a gallery of the Key Lime Pie eating contest at Panama City Beach held during spring break. I think most of the pictures are from the amateur contest held the day before the contest won by Pat Bertoletti because I do not recognize the majority of the contestants. Several females competed in the amateur contest and apparently did reasonably well judging by the post-contest pictures.

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The B List has a brief and positive review of last night’s party to celebrate the release of “Eat This Book.”

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The Houston Chronicle has a preview of Saturday’s tamale eating contest written by a local competitive eating judge. The article also contains an interview with “Horsemen of the Esophagus” author Jason Fagone in which Fagone claims that eating contests have been banned in Japan (???) after the competitive eating related deaths.

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Pictures from Saturday’s Phillips crabcake contest at the Baltimore Waterfront Festival can be viewed in this arstechnica.com forum thread. There are several pictures of “Eater X” and one commenter suggests that Tim ought to wear a costume.

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In this article about a hot dog contest at Princeton University, the organizer of the contest says he was inspired by MTV’s True Life episode about competitive eating. The contest raised $6,539 for charity and each competitor took pledges for donated amounts for hot dogs eaten. Ruben Pope won with 16 hot dogs in 15 minutes.

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Reminder: The release party for “Eat This Book” will be May 3 from 7pm to 9pm at the Delancey rooftop in the lower east side of Manhattan. Admission is free.

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Liz has uploaded her writeup and gallery of Saturday’s crabcake contest in Baltimore.

According to Liz, Sonya will attend the Philadelphia qualifer (which Joey Chestnut also apparently intends to compete in) and not the Norfolk qualifier she won last year.

Liz also has instructions on how to attend the taping of Don Moses Lerman’s attempt at the bologna record on Saturday. Tickets are needed, but free.

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An excerpt from “Horsemen of the Esophagus” about Sonya Thomas’ record setting victory in the 2005 Acme oyster contest has been uploaded to jasonfagone.com.

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Updated results for the sweet corn contest at the Sweet Corn Festival in Palm Beach, FL

1. 34 ears “Jammin” Joe LaRue in 12 minutes
2. 30 ears by Jason Smith
3. 28 ears by Bryan “the Lion” Miller

The Sun Sentinel and the Palm Beach Post have articles about the contest.

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(Thanks Chip Simpson) Kevin Cowherd, the humor columnist for the Baltimore Sun, has a column about Sonya Thomas’ winning performance at the crabcake contest at the Baltimore Waterfront Festival on Saturday.

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from IFOCE.com & Brian Seiken

1. 34 ears “Jammin” Joe LaRue in 12 minutes (breaks Cookie Jarvis’ 2004 record by .5 ear)
2. 30 ears Jay Smith
3. 28 ears Larry McNeil

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The Philadelphia City Paper has a short column about “Horsemen of the Esophagus” by Jason Fagone.

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The Baltimore Sun has a report on the Baltimore Waterfront Festival and its crabcake contest. Crazy Legs Conti’s choice of beverage is mentioned.

Megamunch also has a very good contest writeup.

A Japanese blog has a few pictures.

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