Carolyn Prophet of Rockport won the women’s division of the eating contest at the Fulton Oysterfest. Her mark of 118 oysters won her $200 and was 4 behind the third place finisher in Saturday’s mens division and 16 behind the men’s winner.

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George Curry of Bantam won a pizza contest in Litchfield, CT by eating a 12 inch cheese pizza in about 2 1/2 minutes. Funds raised by the contest will go to Healing the Children, a local charity that arranges for donated medical care for children.

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The Sheboygan Press has an editorial supporting Clarence Mertz’s efforts to put a referendum about the bratwurst eating contest on the ballot. The column stops short of agreeing with Mertz that the contest should be banned. A referendum in 1966 did result in the termination of the bratwurst festival due to excessive drunkenness.

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MSNBC has an article about the Volvo Ocean Race which is held every four years. The Phillips Crabcake eating contest will be held while the ships are stopped in Baltimore in late April.

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The town of Fulton Texas is holding an oyster festival and eating contest this weekend. Joel Pruitt won the men’s contest (registration or bugmenot.com required) and a prize of $200 by eating 134 oysters in five minutes. The event was obviously not an IFOCE affair because a four year old participated in it and there were separate contests for men and women. The women’s division will be held today.

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The Doodle Burger online Hall of Fame has now been updated with Tim “Eater X” Janus’ result of 33 burgers in 2.5 hours. The page has set Eater X’s home page as badlandsbooker.com

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Dan Reed of the San Jose Mercury News has an article about San Jose State student Joey Chestnut. Reed takes Joey to the Wendy’s on Monterey Highway in San Jose (where an extortionist claimed she found a fingertip in her chili) and he tries to consume eight containers of chili in 2 minutes. Chestnut will be competing in the Stockton Asparagus Festival, the site of his first victory last year.

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Mike Nichols of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a column in favor of the Sheboygan bratwurst contest. He would consider banning the contest if it used Chicago style hot dogs. George Shea and Chowhound Chapman are both quoted and they have diverging opinions on the frequency of vomiting in contests. Nichols says that Oleg Zhornitskiy’s mayonaisse eating record is much more disgusting than the bratwurst contest.

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The undelicious blog, a food blog based in southeastern Wisconsin, does not agree with Clarence Mertz’s claim that his referendum would pass by a 10:1 ratio.

Mertz’s requested referendum has put competitive eating in the news during a period of few contests. Many newspapers have picked up the AP article about the contest.

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This column by Rick Horowitz from 1997 states that Clarence Mertz has been trying to stop the Sheboygan Bratwurst Eating Contest for almost a decade. In 1996, only five local competitors entered and the vomiting = disqualification rule was not in effect.

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Several paczki (polish pastries similar to filled doughnuts) contests were held throughout the country yesterday in honor of Fat Tuesday. The Connecticut Post reports that “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won a contest at Eddy’s Bakery in Ansonia for the third straight year by eating 11 paczkis in 5 minutes. The Muskegon Chronicle reports that petite teenager Valerie Wilcox won a contest by consuming 5 paczkis in three minutes. She was tied with Trent Swanson at the end of regulation, but he capitulated in the overtime period.

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The Sheboygan Press reports than Clarence Mertz, a former Sheboygan city attorney, has requested that the city hold a referendum to decide if the city will continue to hold the Johnsonville Bratwurst contest during the Bratwurst Days Festival. The contest is sponsored by the Sheboygan Jaycee’s and not the city of Sheboygan, so it is not clear what authority the city has to prohibit the contest. The festival generated a $30,000 profit last year and lost money before it had a sanctioned bratwurst contest.

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The Duluth News Tribune has an AP article about the dispute which mentions that Sheboygan County Clerk Julie Glancey said it was too late to get an advisory referendum on the April ballot. The next possible referendum could not occur until September, one month after the August contest.

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103.1 FM in Albany has a photo gallery of Friday’s Steer Burger contest at Sutter’s Mill and Mining Company which “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won by eating 7.5 burgers in 20 minutes. The burgers contained a half a pound of meat and Menchetti claims they are equivalent to 3-4 Doodle Burgers.

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The San Bernardino Sun has a flashback from 43 years today ago about a pancake contest for college students sponsored by the International House of Pancakes. Teams from over 50 colleges participated, including a team from Tokyo. Two San Bernardino Valley College students, Bruce James and Susan Moncrief, won the contest by eating 270 pancakes in 30 minutes. A breakdown of the amount of pancakes eaten by James and Moncrief is not provided.

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“Beautiful” Brian Seiken has a new article about Tim Janus’ new Doodle Burger record and Eric “Badlands” Booker’s previous record. Seiken was an eyewitness to Booker’s record and has some pictures and a video clip of that endeavor.

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Both Brian Seiken and speedeat.com report that Tim “Eater X” Janus has set the record at The Doodle by eating 33 hamburgers in about two hours. The Doodle’s Wall of Fame has yet to be updated to contain Tim’s feat.

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GoldenPalace.net will sponsor a corned beef and cabbage eating contest at Ned Devine’s Irish Pub in Boston on March 16. This will be the second corned beef contest in two months and the third goldenpalace holiday themed contest since Thanksgiving. Since Pat Bertoletti won the first corned beef contest in Arkansas last month, the fact that the contest is on Saint Patrick’s Eve might be an omen.

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After a top 10 finish in Wing Bowl 14, blogger steakbellie is considering making an attempt at the 12.5 pound Zeus burger from the Clinton Station Diner, which no single eater has finished. In the comments, steakbellie says he contacted Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, who repeated their assertion that Lori Weiss tied Kate Stelnick’s time. Denny’s has not updated their website to provide information about Ms. Weiss’ feat despite having over four months to do so.

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IFOCE.com announced that goldenpalace.net will sponsor two eating contests open only to college students that will be held at the Spring Break destinations of South Padre Island, TX and Panama City Beach, FL. The food item and duration have not yet been determined, but the first place prize will be $1000. If graduate students are allowed entrance, Hall Hunt will be the probable favorite for the Florida contest if Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti stay at home. Contests at other Spring Break destinations are expected.

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“Dog” Davis, the last place finisher in the Queen Mary chili cheese fries contest, wrote an article for LA Weekly about his experience in that event.

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The Laredo Morning Times’ article is now available in .pdf format: Part 1 (with Menchetti picture), Part 2

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Two contests in late April have been added to the IFOCE schedule, the asparagus contest in Stockton, California and the Sweet Corn Contest in Palm Beach, Florida.

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This blog entry provides an update on the efforts of the creators of the documentary Swallow Your Pride to obtain distribution for their film. The movie filmed at Wing Bowl 13 was screened last summer and received positive reviews but apparently no additional showings have taken place since that time. The film was not accepted by the Sundance Film Festival, but the documentarians sent Bill “El Winagdor” Simmons a copy that was forwarded to Mike Tollin, who is producing a fictional Wing Bowl movie starring (according to the blog) Adam Sandler . Tollin loved the movie and connected the film’s creators with the distributor of Napoleon Dynamite, Super Size Me and other independent films.

Swallow Your Pride has a domain name reserved at swallowyourpridemovie.com, but that URL is completely content-free.

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Cindy M of the Sugar Savvy blog attended Monday’s chocolate contest in Chicago and wrote a report with a few pictures.

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This article in ynet news describes how the publicity garnered by Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest inspired efforts to create the worlds largest hummus platter. A circular trampoline was modified to serve as the platform for the hummus. Unfortunately, the record snowstorm in New York City last weekend thwarted the delivery of the ingredients for the hummus.

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