The200MileRun.com announces a non-stop run by Christopher Huang which will begin in Houston on Thursday, March 19 and end in Austin on Saturday. After completing the run, an attempt will be made to break the breakfast taco record at Juan in a Million, which is currently 7 by the “Hong Kong Hero”. The goal of the run is to raise money for Space12, a community center in East Austin.

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The website for Mel’s Country Cafe in Tomball, Texas (suburban Houston) has a web page with pictures of several finishers of the Mega Mel burger and their times. Lindsay has the fastest time of 19 minutes on that page.

The page about the restaurant on localism reports that the all time record is 9 minutes and apicture of the finishers list reveals that Eric Attayi is the record holder.

In a youtube comment, the son of the restaurant’s owner reports that Lindsay is the new female record holder and she came back a month later and finished another Mega Mel in 21 minutes.

FullFiguredFella is organizing a Mega Mel eating contest.

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(from comment) The Houston Chronicle has a video of David “SykoBozo” Cagle attempting to eat a “Bacon Explosion” at Lucky’s Pub. There is also a blog entry about the challenge.

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MLB.com has announced that the Houston Astros baseball game tomorrow has been postponed due to hurricane Ike with the makeup date undetermined, so the kolache contest cannot be held in conjunction with that event.

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Ken Hoffman of the Houston Chronicle has a preview of Friday’s kolache eating contest. The expected entrants are Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Hall Hunt, Crazy Legs Conti, Erik Denmark and Sean “The Cablinasian” Pendergast.

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An anonymous comment claims that the kolache eating contest at the Houston Astros game Friday night and the grits eating contest in Louisiana on Saturday will be cancelled due to hurricane Ike. No official decision appears to have been announced, but the Houston Astros website does report that the Astros game on Friday will be played at 1:05 pm if it appears that Ike will threaten Houston.

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(From crawfish comment) The Houston Kolache Factory World Kolache Eating Championship has been added to the IFOCE calendar for Friday, September 12 (same as the NYC cannoli contest) and its purse will be $10,000. Registration opens today at 1 pm eastern.

The Costa Vida World Burrito Eating Championship has also been added to the calendar and it will take place September 20 in South Portland, Maine. Registration opens August 6 at noon eastern.

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The Houston Chronicle reports that Sam Houston Race Park will hold a brownie eating contest during their telecast of the Belmont races on Saturday in honor of Big Brown’s attempt at a Triple Crown. The contest purse is listed at $500.

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• Article and gallery of crawfish eating contest at the Mudbug Festival in Shreveport, LA
• Report about Niko Niko’s gyro eating contest in Houston
• Pat Bertoletti’s May 16 appearance on the Steve Dahl show is praised
• Man with Mohawk wins shoo fly pie eating contest held on Amish Night at Wilmington, DE minor league game
• http://swallowyourpridemovie.com/ appears defunct
• Geeling Ng, who co-starred in David Bowie’s “China Girl” video, competes in oyster eating contest in New Zealand

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Results from today’s gyro contest in Houston from IFOCE.com

1. Pat Bertoletti, 12 gyros in 10 minutes, $2000
2. Joey Chestnut, 11 gyros, $1000
3. “Humble” Bob Shoudt 9.5 gyros, $700
4. Nathan Biller 6 gyros, $300

This ends Joey Chestnut’s winning streak at 6 contests (in which he defeated Pat Bertoletti 5 times)

update HoustonPress has a slideshow of the contest (from Liz)

update #2 The Blot Says has a contest report with some pictures

A youtube video is also available.

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The Houston Chronicle has an article about David “SykoBOZO” Cagle’s preparation for the May 17 gyro eating contest. Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus, Bob Shoudt and Erik Denmark are listed as other expected entrants. The contest is negotiating with Joey Chestnut to have him compete.

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(from Hangman comment) An IFOCE gyro eating contest sponsored by Niko Niko’s Greek American Restaurant will take place at the Festival of Greece in Houston, TX on May 17. The purse is $4000 and registration opens on Monday April 28 at noon eastern.

Results from Broadway at the Beach have yet to be posted on IFOCE.com. Beautiful Brian speculates that the lack of coverage could be due to dissatisfaction with Badlands Booker’s comeback.

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Pat Bertoletti has written a blog entry about his trip to Houston for the matzoh ball eating contest at Kenny & Ziggy’s Deli. He believes he was leading Joey Chestnut until about the five or six minute mark. The report closes with Pat’s thoughts on his current status in the IFOCE:

3 years on the circuit have driven me to reflection. Throught this reflection I have realized that eating is tier based. You start on a natural talent tier and as time, contest experience, and training sets in you have a break through. You then plateau and level off as your body gets used to its new capacity. I have gone through these and am on a plateau. I am trying to get over the hump as we speak. It’s one giant hurtle to overcome. To beat joey and kobey in nathans or krystal is no walk in the park. I don’t know if it’s possible for my body to hold 70 nathans but I am going to damn well try to hit that number on the 4th. One can only play 2nd fiddle for so long before he gets the itch and wants to be the lead. But, there is something to be said when you’re number 2. Motivation comes easier when you know that ever contest you need to up your game and compete on the top level.

The Jewish Daily Forward also has an article about the contest.

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The Jewish Herald Voice has a report on Sunday’s matzoh ball eating contest held at Kenny’s & Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen in Houston. Hopefully the event did not produce a loss for the Marvin Zindler Fund for Pancreatic Cancer Research; only four non-professionals (who contributed at least $250) competed. The contest had a representative from a CPA firm counting each competitor’s total.

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• Another video of Kenny & Ziggy’s Matzoh Ball Eating contest
• Video from the 2003 matzoh ball eating contest held at Ben’s Deli
• Acme Oyster contest returning in 2008?
• Commenter reports that winner of Des Moines bacon eating contest, Manni, is a gym owner
• Benefit Saturday to preserve Coney Island as an amusement district
• Hall Hunt has a report on his appearance at the Rays Fan Festival
• Collegiate Nationals eating contest mentioned in USA Today

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Kenny & Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen, Houston, TX, 8 minutes

1. Joey Chestnut – 78
2. Patrick Bertoletti – 76
3. Juris “Dr. Big Time” Shibayama – 40
4. Nathan Biller – 30
? Rubik – 14
? Elizabeth – 9

Juris Shibayama reports that the balls were about racquet ball sized in a small amount of broth and were cooked, but cold. He also says that Joey donated $500 (1/2 of his cash prize) to the MD Anderson Cancer Center and he donated $250. Patrick Bertoletti also donated an unknown amount.

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Galleries: llamarama, smugmug (has a lot of pictures of Elizabeth)
Contest video

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The Houston Chronicle has a preview of Sunday’s World Championship Matzoh Ball Eating Contest. The contest will probably have the best field since the Krystal Square Off finals despite a relatively modest purse of $1,500. Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti are expected along with Chip Simpson, Juris “Dr. Big Time” Shibayama and Dave “SykoBozo” Cagle. Nathan Biller has also said he will compete.

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The Houston Chronicle has a preview of the matzo ball eating contest that will be held March 2 at Kenny & Ziggy’s Deli. The restaurant’s web site also has a page about the contest.

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The Matzo ball contest at Kenny and Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen in Houston is now listed on the IFOCE schedule for March 2. The contest purse is $1500 and registration opens February 6. Unlike the contest listing on my-table.com, the IFOCE contest page does not mention a minimum $250 donation for entrance into the contest.

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Chron.com on Houston matzo ball soup contest
Ansonia, CT paczki contest Tuesday – GJoe is expected
List of top 10 eating contests – The Wing Bowl is not listed
Des Moines bacon festival with bacon eating contest
Las Cruces, NM 6 pound burger challenge
Canadian 2.5 pound burger contest – via AICE news
Leeds rugby team has burger eating contest at Florida training camp

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Hall Hunt has some pictures from the Kolache contest in Houston on his blog.

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Kolache results from Sonya:

1. Joey Chestnut, 56 kolaches
2. Pat Bertoletti, 54
3. Bob Shoudt, 36
4. Sonya Thomas, 34
5. Hall Hunt, 27

Sonya will also compete in the Chicago jalapeno contest, where she expects to compete against Pat Bertoletti, Rich LeFevre and Erik Denmark.

Chron.com did a preview of the contest yesterday containing an interview with George Shea, who estimates the value of the publicity produced by Nathan’s contest at $100 million.

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Chron.com has a column mentioning the Kolache contest which says that Joey is expected to compete in it. Sonya, Pat & Tim are also listed as possible entrants.

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The Kolache Factory World Kolache Eating Championship will be held in Houston after an Astros game on September 14. The purse will be $10,000 and registration is now open. The cannoli eating contest at the Feast of San Gennaro will also be held that day. Registraton for the cannoli contest opens August 24.

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(Thanks Patrick Bertoletti) The Texas Observer blog has an entry about last Saturday’s BerryHill tamale eating contest won by Joey Chestnut with several pictures.

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