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Patrick Michels has a blog entry and gallery about Lester Tucker winning the pickled quail egg eating contest at Traders Village for the 16th year in row.
2011 Dallas Wingstop wings results
update Apr 20 WingstopOfficial produced a video about the contest.
update Apr 18 #2 Brad Holt has uploaded a video in which Pat Bertoletti estimates his
total at 180 wings.
update Apr 18 Philly.com has an article about Bob Shoudt who thinks the Wingstop contest judging was superior to Wing Bowl judging.
update Apr 15 Pepper Hastings attended the contest and posted a comment to the MLE facebook about what he observed after the competition.
update Apr 14 The Chitown Hustler has a short video with the following amounts in the caption:
1) Pat Bertoletti 171 oz
2) Bob Shoudt 164 oz
3) Joey Chestnut 127 oz
4) Sonya Thomas 126 oz.
(Were 5th ($750) and 6th ($250) places ever announced? Both places awarded prizes.)
Patrick Michels has a Dallas Observer gallery. The date on the novelty check was not changed from February 1 and the check makes it appear that the entire $10,000 purse goes to the winner. update A contest report has been added containing an interview with Pat Bertoletti, who thinks the totals might be exaggerated.
Here is Pat Bertoletti’s wing eating contest resume according to the eatfeats database. He more than tripled his amount from his previous 12 minute wing contest at the 2009 Buffalo Wing Festival.
| 2010 Nov 11 | 2nd | 34 | 5 min | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Battle Of The Bhut XXX Wing Eating Contest | Chicago, IL |
| 2009 Sep 5 | 4th | 3.18 | 12 min | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | U.S Buffalo Wing Eating Championship | Buffalo, NY |
| 2008 Feb 1 | 2nd | 227 | 30 min | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Wing Bowl 16 | Philadelphia, PA |
| 2007 Oct 9 | 1st | 4.1 | 8 min | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | MLE Chowdown – chicken wings | Las Vegas, NV |
| 2007 Feb 2 | 2nd | 170 | 30 min | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Wing Bowl 15 | Philadelphia, PA |
| 2005 Nov 12 | 7th | 2.8 | 10 min | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Verizon VoiceWing Buffalo wing finals | Boston, MA |
| 2005 Oct 1 | 4th | 2.93 | 10 min | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Verizon VoiceWing Buffalo wing qualifier | Everett, WA |
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Joey Chestnut's appearance on Good Morning Texas can be viewed online. Bam Martinez also appears and competes in a contest to promote today's Wingstop wing eating contest.
Matt Stonie announces that he was the first person to finish the pho challenge at Pho King Way in Fort Worth, TX, which awards a prize of $1,000.
Patrick Michles has an article about Lester Tucker's quest to win pickled quail egg eating contest for the 16th year in a row.
A page on AmericanAirlinesCenter.com lists Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas, Pat Bertoletti & Bob Shoudt as expected entrants in the Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship rescheduled for April 13.
Patrick Michels has a report on Wednesday's eating contest sponsored by the Dallas Observer held at Jersey Mike's.
DallasObserver.com reports that the Wingstop wing eating contest cancelled during Super Bowl week has been rescheduled for April 13 before the Dallas Mavericks vs. New Orleans Hornets game. The Dallas Observer is also looking for pariticipants in a Jersey Mike's subs eating contest on March 23. update registration will open tomorrow at 1 pm
The Heart Attack Grill website announces the restaurant will be opening a Dallas location on June 1. (via D Magazine)
Patrick Michels has a report and slideshow on the vegan pancake eating contest held at the Spiral Diner in Dallas.
Youtube has a parody of Man vs. Food titled Mavs vs. Food in which Dirk Nowitski appears to attempt a 20 pound cinnamon bun.
Tonight’s Dallas Wingstop wing contest postponed
The Dallas Observer reports that a spokesperson for Wingstop says that the fate of tonight’s eating contest has not been decided yet. (Joey Chestnut is already in Dallas and appeared on local news yesterday)
update 1:30 pm The MLE facebook announces the contest has been postponed (no makeup date is listed)
Competitors and spectators traveling to the Wingstop wing eating contest should bring their winter clothes. A winter storm is predicted for the south central and north east united states next week. Weather.com predicts the Dallas weather on Tuesday will be a wintry mix (chance of precipitation 80%) with a high of 43 and a low of 19.
Some of the competitors in the Wingstop wing eating contest in Dallas on Tuesday have been announced: Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas, Bob Shoudt, Pat Bertoletti, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Erik Denmark, Crazy Legs Conti, Nate Biller, David Solomon, Bryan Beard, Sean Brockert, Gary Klucken, Bam Martinez, Shawn Heiser.
The Star Telegram reports that plans for recording a 10 pound burrito offered by a Fort Worth food truck for an upcoming episode of Outrageous Food have been hindered by a ban on all non-NFL vendors from downtown until the Super Bowl is over.
The Dallas Observer reports that a judge at the Fiery Food Challenge was hospitalized after sampling a hot sauce.
A press release lists several expected entrants in the Wingstop wing eating contest in Dallas February 1: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Sonya Thomas & Bob Shoudt.
DallasNews.com has a few details about the Wingstop eating contest. The contest will be 12 minutes long and take place at 6pm central before a Dallas Stars hockey game. Joey Chestnut is expected to compete, no other expected entrants are listed. (Dave Solomon reported he received a slot today.)
Patrick Michels wrote a blog entry for the Dallas Observer about the Wingstop wing eating contest containing a quote from George Shea attributing the discrepancy between total contest purses and claimed total compensation to competitors to endorsements and appearance fees.
The MLE facebook announces that Wingstop will hold a wing eating contest in Dallas on February 1. Registration opens tomorrow and the contest purse is $10,000. update Registration will open at 2pm eastern.
DallasNews reports that Pete MacGillis was the first person to finish the El Jefe Grande 7 pound burger challenge at Kenny's Burger Joint in Frisco, Texas.
Tonight's episode of Meat & Potatoes (10 pm eastern) on the Food Network will feature the 10 pound chicken fried steak meal at the Cowtown Diner in Fort Worth, an 8 pound burrito at Amigo's in Kansas City, and a 5 pound burger from Giant Burger in Springfield, Oregon.
Nate Biller appears on the current cover page of the current Dallas Observer.
7 part Patrick Michels article in the Dallas Observer
In a seven-part article for the Dallas Observer, Patrick Michels uses Nathan Biller’s career as a starting point to explore the history of the IFOCE/MLE and competitive eating in general. While quite thorough, the article does not mention the cancellation of the Krystal Square Off or the admission by Mortimer Matz, Nathan’s promoter in the 1970’s, that the 1916 “origin story” of the Coney Island contest was a fabrication.
The City of Lewisville, TX produced a video about last month's tamale eating contest.
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