Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All Texas eating challenges and contests in database)
A web page for the Austin veggie hot dog contest has been set up at http://veggiedogcontest.com/. This year's contest will take place on July 4.
Levi Oliver has an interview on youtube in which he provides tips for competitors in the raw onion eating contest to be held at the Texas Testosterone Festival on August 9.
The Big Texan's website has restored the list of 72 ounce steak finishers. The restaurant would like customers who finished the steak before 1991 to send a copy of their finisher certificate to restore records lost in a fire.
MySanAntonio has an articleand blog entry about the visit of Man vs. Food to the Alamo City.
BeloBlog: Man vs. Food will record at Chunky's Burgers in San Antonio tomorrow, where the challenge will be the "Four Horsemen" spicy burger challenge.
Man vs. Food returns to Texas
The Man vs. Food twitter reports that the program will film in San Antonio this week. TN9Design reports that the program will be at Big Lou’s (home of the 37 inch pizza) on June 2.
ChouTran reports that Man vs. Food will film at Fogo de Chao in Dallas (date unlisted)
Will Millender reports that a shake and burger challenge from Chick and Ruth’s Delly in Annapolis, MD will debut on an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food. (a video of Will doing the challenge)
http://twitter.com/AgentBodah: The new NBC reality show The Great American Road Trip recorded at the Big Texan Steak Ranch today. The show will debut on July 7 and Reno Collier will host. Seven families will travel from Chicago to Los Angeles in RVs and attempt challenges along the way.
Ken Hoffman of the Houston Chronicle, who serves as a judge in the Nathan's finals, has a column about "Humble" Bob Shoudt which lists the date for the 2009 Houston Astros kolache contest as September 4.
Pat Bertoletti wins Niko Niko’s Gyros
unoffical Gyro results from Rich Shea, verified by Pat Bertoletti’s twitter
1 Pat Bertoletti 21 gyros
2 Bob Shoudtv16.5
3 Erik “the Red” Denmark 13.5
Crabby Daddy in Tomball (suburban Houston), TX will host a crawfish tournament on Sunday, May 17. The winner of the final contest will receive $100.
The Ranger: The 72 ounce steak competition to be held in 2010 to honor the 50th anniversary of the Big Texan will be an IFOCE contest and Nathan's Famous will participate in the event.
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman and other participants in the Gumball 3000 transcontinental race stopped at the Big Texan. No racer attempted the 72 ounce steak.
Houston gyros entrants listed before registration opens
IFOCE.com reports the 2009 Niko Niko’s World Gryo-Eating Championship will be held on May 16 in Houston and registration will begin today at 3pm eastern. The contest page already lists four expected entrants (Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Erik Denmark) even though registration has not officially opened.
The Prairie News: The Big Texan will hold a 72 ounce steak eating contest next year to celebrate its 50th birthday. The contest will have professional and non-professional divisions which will both award $10,000 to the winner.
On a recent Jimmy Kimmel Live, Billy Bob Thornton talked about two members of the road crew for his band attempting to complete the 72 ounce steak challenge at the Big Texan after doing damage control for a controversial Canadian interview (The Big Texan segement starts at about the 6 minute mark of the video)
Austin, TX pizza contest at Pie Guys Saturday April 25, $500 prize
The winner of the women's division at the San Antonio tamale contest ate 19 tamales in 2 minutes according to JD Flores' twitter.
College Station, Texas Wing Bowl May 6
The Arctic Wolf Ice Center in College Station, TX will hold a Wing Bowl on May 6. As in the Philadelphia Wing Bowl, entrants can qualify by winning a preliminary Wing Off contest or doing an on-radio eating stunt. The final Wing Off will take place tomorrow at Buffalo Wild Wings.
Delicious Tamales will sponsor a tamale eating contest in San Antonio on Saturday, April 18. $250 will be awarded to both the winner of the men's and women's division (registration)
The Dallas Observer has a blog entry and gallery about Saturday's World Championship of Quail Egg Eating. Lester Tucker won the contest for the 14th consecutive year.
A crawfish eating contest will be held this month at the Mardi Gras Grill in Houston: qualifiers April 7/14/21, finals April 29 with a $100 gift certificate prize - registration form (entry fee $10)
Hotel by Big Texan owner to have 89 ounce steak
Amarillo.com has an article about a planned hotel for downtown Amarillo. Big Texan Steak Ranch owner Bobby Lee is one of the investors in the project and a hotel restaurant will have an 89 ounce steak to pay homage to both the 1889 founding of Amarillo and the 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan. Diners who complete the 89 ounce steak will not only receive the meal free, they will also get their hotel room at no charge as well. The planned opening date is summer 2010.
"A-Bomb" from Colorado will appear at the Blue Baker World Cookie Eating Championship in College Station, Texas on Saturday according to AICE News.
Runner to attempt breakfast taco record after 200 mile run
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.
Woman has fastest time on online “Mega Mel” Wall of Fame
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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