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Brittany Albrecht attempts Kookamonga challenge
Brittany Albrect has a blog entry about her attempt at the Kookamonga burger challenge at Kooky Canuck’s in Memphis in which she ate more of the 7.5 pound burger than any previous female challenger (and more than Adam Richman did in the Memphis episode of Man vs. Food as well).
update Feb 14 Brittany has competed in three bodybuilding contests (Perhaps she could become the female “Furious” Pete)
Greg Albrect is uploading pictures of Brit's attempt to be the first female finisher of the Kookamonga challenge at Kooky Canuck's in Memphis. update Brittany says she did not complete the burger but the restaurant staff told her she came closer to finishing that any previous female and that she ate more than Adam Richman did when he recorded an episode of Man vs. Food
Rachel Cooper is in Memphis this evening attempting to become the first woman to complete the 7 pound Kookamonga challenge burger at the Kooky Canuck.
Kooky Canuck (formerly the Big Foot Lodge) now has a King Kookamonga burger challenge weighing 12 pounds, which is free if completed by a team of 2 diners in less than an hour. A video of the first customers to order the burger is available.
Jackson Sun: Christine finished the Name-It-Burger challenge at the Community Grocery in Jackson, TN and renamed it the "Girlie Burger"
Pat Bertoletti has posted a blog entry to his Yard Barker blog about breaking the Kookamonga (Sasquatch) burger record at the Kooky Canuck in Memphis.
(From kookycanuck twitter) Youtube has a video of Pat Bertoletti breaking the 7.5 lb. Kookamonga burger challenge record. update KookyCanuck.com has a gallery.
Pat Bertoletti breaks Kookamonga burger challenge record
The twitter for Kooky Kanuck (formerly Big Foot Lodge) reports that Pat Bertoletti will attempt the Kookamonga (formerly Sasquatch) burger challenge tonight at 8 pm (9 pm eastern). After completing the burger, he will attempt the 18 scoop Avalanche sundae.
update The Kooky Canuck twitter reports that Pat Bertoletti finished his Kookamonga burger in 7 minutes and 15 seconds, breaking Joey Chestnut’s previous record by 21 seconds.
Pat Bertoletti to do Kookamunga Challenge March 20
The twitter for KookyCanuck reports that Pat Bertoletti will attempt to break Joey Chestnut’s record of 7:36 for the Kookamunga Challenge on March 20.
The Memphis restaurant is also developing a 12 pound burger and a burger with pizzas as buns.
Big Foot Lodge (TN) changes name to Kooky Canuck
The Memphis Business Journal reports that The Big Foot Lodge in Tennessee has changed its name to Kooky Canuck to settle a lawsuit from a California restaurant with the same name. The Sasquatch Burger challenge has been renamed to the Kookamunga Challenge.
The restaurant’s website has been redesigned and the URL has changed to KookyCanuck.com from eatatbigfoot.com
Information about December 3 “Man vs. Food” restaurants
Here is some additional information about the challenges featured in the Man vs. Food episodes which debuted on December 3:
Big Texan Steak Ranch 72 ounce steak Amarillo, Texas
- BigTexan 72 ounce steak statistics home page
- 72 ounce steak challenge webcam
- List of all finishers 1991-2005 in the eatfeats.com database
- BBC article about the Big Texan Steak Ranch
- Amarillo.com article about Joey Chestnut breaking the Big Texan’s 72 ounce steak record
- News video (without audio) about Joey Chestnut breaking the record
- Former Big Texan record holder Frank Pastore’s blog entry about Joey Chestnut breaking his record. Pastore was a Cincinnati Reds pitcher when he broke the record for the seventh time in 1987 and is now a conservative talk radio host.
- Video clip from 2000 episode of Ripley’s Believe it or not about the Big Texan starring Rich & Carlene LeFevre
Big Foot Lodge Sasquatch Burger Memphis, TN
update Dec 22, 2008 The Big Foot Lodge changed its name to Kooky Canuck and its challenge burger is now called the Kookamunga Challenge to settle a lawsuit with a California restaurant
- The Big Foot Lodge’s page about the challenge
- The Big Foot Lodge’s Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame. Joey Chestnut is the current record holder at 7 minutes 36 seconds. Roger Robinson has completed the challenge 3 times in 2008.
- Memphis Commercial Appeal article about Jeremy Payne becoming the second finisher of the challenge
- Memphis Flyer article about Pat Bertoletti becoming the first person to finish the challenge
- The picture of the burger below was photographed at a ball in Memphis, so it is probably the Sasquatch Challenge burger. According to the photographer, the woman holding the burger completed it.
Man vs. Food on Travel Channel Dec 3
(From Kevin Ross email) A web page has been set up for the Travel Channel series Man vs. Food. The program will feature Adam Richman traveling around the country to attempt restaurants’ eating challenges. The first two episodes will be televised on December 3 and the locations will be Amarillo, Texas (Big Texan Steak Ranch) and Memphis (The Big Foot Lodge). A list of all locations is available on the website.
Earlier this year, a producer placed a casting call on eatfeats for a host for the show.
Link Buffet: September 24, 2008
- Videos and galleries of Birmingham and Memphis Krystal qualifiers available
- Brown students attempt Spike’s hot dog challenge
- Picture from eating contest held in Beijing during the Olympics
- Don Lerman gets an impostor on his own blog
- FutureFeed sees a “glass ceiling” in the fact that only 2 of the IFOCE top 50 are females (6 of the AICE top 50 are women)
Rich LeFevre wins Memphis Krystal qualifier
The Krystal Square Off twitter has the top 3 of this afternoon’s qualifier in Memphis:
1. Rich LeFevre 52 burgers
2. Juris Shibayama 51
3. Erik Denmark 50
If these are the official results the 3 wild cards will be:
1. Sonya Thomas 55
2. Juris Shibayama 51
3. Badlands Booker 51
If a fourth wild card is added Crazy Legs Conti or Erik Denmark would claim the slot with 50 burgers depending on whether Conti broke Denmark’s previous result of 43.
Memphis qualifier expected entrants
The Krystal Square Off blog has a preview of today’s qualifier in Memphis. Listed ranked entrants include Rich LeFevre, Crazy Legs Conti, Juris Shibayama, Erik Denmark and Chris Abatsas, Damon Serignet. Juris Shibayama’s competing in a second qualifier will give him the tiebreaker over Badlands Booker regardless of how much he eats.
Sonya Thomas will get in unless the top four breaks 55. Booker will have to hope that the runner-up does not exceed his total of 51.
Erik Denmark has blog entries about last weekend’s jalapeno contest and Krystal qualifier in Memphis. He has the following account of the Krystal overtime in Memphis:
In the 10 burger overtime eat-off, Rich Shea announced clearly to keep the eating clean – Juliet did not, she continued to stuff multiple burgers in and around her mouth getting about half of them in and half of them on the table and ground. She raised her hands in the air when her 10 burgers were out of the boxes, the crowd booed and the judges told her to eat the mess she had made. She continued to sweep up the sloppy burgers from the table and with every sweep of burger mess in to her mouth she raised her hands again looking for victory and the crowd booed louder. This continued for about the next 60 seconds, the crowd was now hoping that either Badlands or Juris would get through their 10 burgers before Juliet was done cleaning her mess.
But it didn’t happen, Juliet finally ate enough of what she had spilled to get the decision. Not a popular decision at all.
Erik Denmark also says that Kobayashi’s bye slot in the Krystal finals will be filled by an amateur pulled from the crowd and not a fourth wild card entrant.
Link Buffet: August 9, 2008
- Roger Robinson finishes Sasquatch burger challenge 3 times in less than 2 months
- NYC falafel eating contest returns August 31
- Louisville, KY cheesesteak eating contest August 31
- MLE video game ranked at #14 in top WiiWare games
- Guinness World Record attempt hot dog eating contest in Reno today
Jeremy Payne completes Sasquatch burger challenge
CommercialAppeal.com reports that Jeremy Payne finished a Sasquatch burger from the Big Foot Lodge in Memphis in 53 minutes earlier this month, becoming the second person to complete the burger in under an hour. Pat Bertoletti completed the sandwich in 11 minutes in January 2007. The listed total weight of the burger is 7.5 pounds.
update Joey Chestnut became the third person to complete the challenge on March 23 and is the current record holder with a time of 7 minutes and 36 seconds.
Memphis Krystal qualifier results
From KrystalSquareOff.com
1. Tim “Eater X” Janus, 73 burgers
2. Erik “the Red” Denmark, 43 burgers, current wild card leader
3. Chris Abatsas 24
4. Jim Hamrick 23The current wildcards are Erik Denmark, Allen GoldStein(42), Juliet Lee(41), and Juris Shibayama(39)
Eater X, Erik the Red, Justin Mih in Memphis
KrystalSquareOff.com reports that Tim “Eater X” Janus, Erik “The Red” Denmark and Justin Mih will compete in Sunday’s Krystal Square Off qualifier in Memphis.
Pat Bertoletti finishes Sasquatch burger
The Memphis Flyer reports that Pat Bertoletti was the first person to finish the 7 pound (4 lb of meat) Sasquatch burger at the Big Foot Lodge in Memphis. Pat stopped at the Big Foot Lodge on his way to New Orleans to break the Acme Oyster House record and his time of 11:05 is less than 1/5 of the hour allowed.
The burger in the “Big Burger Girl” picture (from a July post) is most likely a Sasquatch burger because the picture is tagged with “Memphis” The photographer claims the unknown trencherwomen finished her burger in the picture comments, but this would not count because it took place outside the restaurant.
Memphis qualifier reports
Steakbellie ,Wing Kong and The Whaler have blog entries about their trip to Memphis for the Krystal qualifier.
Memphis Krystal qualifier: Eater X 53, Locust 51
Mid South Fair, Memphis TN
1st Tim Janus, 53
2nd Rich LeFevre, 51
3rd Seaver Miller, 41
4th Arturo Rios, 36
The current wildcards with two contests left are Rich, Seaver, Arturo and Crazy Legs.
The webcam quality was by far the best I have seen. Good job to the Krystal people improving its quality.
updated 10/2 Full results are available
The liveblog follows the jump
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2 minute Krystal results: Rios 21, Locust 18
krystalsquareoff.com has a report on today’s 2 minute prequalifiers. Arturo Rios, another northeastern eater heading west, had today’s best mark of 21 burgers. Rich LeFevre managed 18. The strength of the field makes conceivable that all four wild card entrants could come from Memphis.
updated – the full Memphis roster is now available
Rich LeFevre to compete in Memphis Krystal qualifier
IFOCE.com has a list of the expected out of town eaters at Sunday’s Krystal qualifier in Memphis which include:
Tim Janus
Rich LeFevre (will compete in 2 minute contest Sat.)
Seaver Miller
Sam Vise
Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston
Chris “the Mad Greek” Abatsas
Jim Hamrick
Updated krystalsquareoff.com has a preview mentioning Steakbellie and Wing Kong of Drexel Hill, PA
Tim Janus to compete in Memphis Krystal qualifier
Be on the lookout for whaling boats on the Mississippi. IFOCE announces that Tim Janus will compete in the Memphis Krystal Square Off qualifier Sunday despite being virtually guaranteed a wild card entry into the finals.
IFOCE also warns that the 5 second dunking rule might be more strictly enforced in future Krystal contests.
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