Jynx productions has uploaded a video to youtube about Pat Bertoletti’s victory in the 2007 Waffle House waffle eating contest at the Texas State Fair. Bertoletti wears a Steakbellie t-shirt during his training session at a Waffle House the day before the contest.

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WFAA.com reports that the next stop in the La Costeña Feel the Heat Jalapeño Eating Challenge Tour will be in Dallas Sunday at the Taste of Dallas food festival. The contest will be one minute and award $500 to the winner.

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• “Humble” Bob article in Philly.com in which he says that Krystal Square Off V is his priority for 2008
• Beet eating contest in “The Office Games” in Scranton, PA July 19
• Micah “Wing Kong” Collins on his second place finish at QVC
• Blog entry about winner of Austin veggie dog contest
• Bodybuilding.com water drinking contest final results
• Bristol, RI hot dog contest
• Radio bacon eating contest between Paul Barlow and Bubba Yarbrough July 2 (details from Super Paul after the jump)

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Austinist has a gallery of the vegetarian hot dog eating contest held last Saturday. Contest results can be obtained by combining the gallery captions with this blog entry by the runner-up.

1. Spencer “Tree” Lockwood 21 VHDB, 12 minutes
2. Colin “Tim Duncan of CE” Kalmbacher 20 VHDB
3. Sean “Mongo” Kelly

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Results from IFOCE.com & “results”

1. “Nasty” Nate Biller 25 HDB (20 at end of regulation, 5 in 2 minute eatoff)
2. Kevin Ross 24 (20 at end of regulation, 4 in 2 minute eatoff)
3. Ken Mansfield 18 (from Florida)
4. Timm Dilling 15
4. Chris Floyd 15

update TexasStumps has a blog entry about the contest with pictures.

DallasNews.com has an article about the qualifier with a video

update #2 The blog for the Dallas Observer has an entry about the qualifier with videos which reports that Kevin Ross had a post contest reversal. (from Daniel Rodrigue)

WFAA has an article about the contest

Youtube also has a video

update #3 D Magazine’s Sidedish blog has an entry about the contest

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• Dallas Observer interviews Timm Dilling and veterinarian Jim Clawson
• Next UEPa meeting scheduled for R U Hungry? at State College, PA July 12 or 13
• Captain Lou Albano vs. King Kong Bundy pie eating contest from 1985 WWE Halloween Special
• Sales video for Don Lerman’s dentures
• Pat Bertoletti videos on Yardbarker: post Wing Bowl drinking with Steakbellie, Promo for Spike TV Ham & Eggs contest
• Beautiful Brian on Scozzy Bone
• Brooklyn Stinky Cheese eating contest preview
• Egg McMuffin eating contest for Bank of America interns. Megamunch’s office probably has better eaters:
  

  It took the “winner” FIFTY MINUTES to eat FOUR NON-EGG McMuffins. Pretty much makes you want to vom, doesn’t it? You’re in good company, because according to one of the overseers of the event, the “winner” just asked if he could go throw up. He was told that he loses if he does. Meaning that the other intern who ATE THREE McMUFFINS AND THEN GAVE UP would be declared the winner.

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The Dallas Observer continues its series about entrants in the Plano, TX Nathan’s qualifier with an interview with “Nasty” Nathan Biller, who is getting a master’s degree in sports business at New York University.

update The Fort Worth Star Telegram has a short preview. Walter Duke is one of the expected entrants

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• Parody about Kobayashi and Badlands Booker using their stomach capacity to smuggle heroin
• Pat Philbin’s head is the subject of a bodybuilding.com thread (Picture on the right is the picture originally in the thread)
• Yardbarker blog entry about Pat Bertoletti’s appearance on “The Early Show”
• Spectator report of Mattituck strawberry shortcake contest and Booker’s & BB’s musical performances.
• Blog entry by Dallas qualifier entrant Chris Floyd
• Megamunch’s report on his office “Six Pack Challenge”
• Videos of the Denver hot dog qualifier
• Paul Barlow to do on-air hot dog contest on Star 94 on Friday about 8AM

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The blog for the Dallas Observer has an interview with Marc Laureys, who says he hopes to reach the mid 20s in the Nathan’s qualifier in Plano, TX. The entry also says that the #29 (Kevin Ross) and #30 (Nate Biller) ranked IFOCE members are expected.

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The Dallas Observer is starting a series of blog entries about local entrants in Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Plano, TX with an interview of Bryan “The Chazzer” Lipchitz whose nickname is based on the Yiddish word for pig.

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• Interview with Jill Stoler in CheapAssFood.com
• Logo made for “Furious” Pete
• Regrets email from Crazy Legs Conti
• Austin, TX Veggie Dog contest Saturday
• French supermarket chain Carrefour sponsors eating contest for Thai children

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(From The Big Lead) Yahoo’s hockey blog, Puck Daddy, has an interview with Krista Lander about her preparations for competing against two members of the Odessa Jackalopes minor league hockey team in Fuddrucker’s one pound burger challenge. Ms. Lander is the sports anchor for CBS 7 and the contest will be a part of “Krista’s Sports Challenge” segments in which she competes against local athletes in various activities. The contest is expected to be televised on Thursday.

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The blog for the Team Emerica skateboarding team reports that several team members attempted the Big Texan 72 ounce steak challenge last night. Danger Ehren from the MTV show Jackass also tried to win a free meal.

Skinnyboy caught the webcast of their attempt last night and has some video captures. He thinks the mohawked diner looks like Pat Bertoletti, but apparently does not eat like him.

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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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(From BaseballThinkFactory) Susan Polgar, the first woman to obtain the rating of chess grandmaster in regular competition, recently dined at the Big Texan and wrote about that restaurant’s signature meal. According to the blog entry, Joey Chestnut was not the first Nathan’s champion to attempt the challenge:

Former Cincinnati Reds Pitcher Frank Pastore did it in a record time of 9 ½ minutes, and held that record for 21 years until Joey Chestnut took the title on March 24, 2008 with a time of 8 minutes and 52 seconds. Another famous person who tried this was Takeru Kobayashi, the six-time hot dog-eating world champion.

It is not clear from the blog entry if Ms. Polgar attempted the 72 ounce steak. She is currently the chess coach at Texas Tech so it was not that long a trip for her. (Picture is from chessphotography)

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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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• Minnesota qualifier ABC News video
• Apparently no one was able to register for the Dallas Nathan’s qualifier after the food blog for D Magazine announced the contest (Nathan Biller and Jason Erb did get in)
• Video of “Furious” Pete eating 8 McD’s double cheeseburgers in 2.5 minutes for bodybuilding.com contest (thread #1, thread #2)
• Some pictures from last year’s Nathan’s finals on mosesnews
• 10 woman team attempts 15 pound Denny’s Beer Barrel Belly Buster
• Megamunch’s office cereal contest
• Mike Fitzgerald, the Apple Valley, MN 3rd place finisher, won last years amateur Sheboygan bratwurst contest
• Blog entry about Amos Wengler, the “Coney Island Songwriter”
• Wing Tut’s 5k race report
• Kobayashi leaves Japan for a while
• Cruise for Takuya Yamamoto and fans (Yama3’s event report)
• Blogger will vote for presidential candidate who will ban competitive eating

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Local news video broadcast March 24 on KAMR about Joey Chestnut breaking the Big Texan’s 72 ounce steak record has been posted to youtube.

Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a blog entry and gallery about his attempt at the Big Texan.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane announces in his blog that he will attempt the Big Texan’s 72 ounce steak at approximately 4:30 pm eastern, which can be viewed on the restaurant’s webcam.

update Skinnyboy reports that he had about 7 ounces of steak remaining along with the potato when an hour elapsed.

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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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Flancer’s Cafe in Gilbert, Arizona is hosting a pizza eating contest April 20 that will award $500 to the winner. The contest entry fee is $30.

Delicious Tamales in San Antonio is holding a tamale eating contest on April 26. The competition will have separate divisions for men and women and each contest will award $250 to the winner. The registration deadline is April 18.

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(From anonymous comment) A youtube video of Joey Chestnut setting the Big Texan 72 ounce steak record is available. The video appears to be taken from the Big Texan webcam and lacks audio.

update The 72 ounce steak videos from Joey Chestnut and “Furious” Pete are embedded after the jump
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Frank Pastore, former Cincinnati Reds pitcher and current radio talk show host, reports in his blog that Joey Chestnut broke his record for the Big Texan’s 72 ounce steak and side items. Chestnut’s mark was 8 minutes and 52 seconds, breaking Pastore’s 21 year old record of 9 and a half minutes.

update A podcast of Frank Pastore’s appearance on the Hugh Hewitt show is available. Pastore’s segment starts around the 18:50 mark.

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