hotsauceblog has the press release for Sunday’s GoldenPalace.net Jalapeno Eating Contest at the Texas State Fair. Sonya Thomas, Pat Bertoletti, Rich LeFevre and Erik “the Red” Denmark are expected to attend. Sonya & Pat had a recent Southern Plains showdown at the fried okra eating contest at the Oklahoma State Fair last month. Pat Bertoletti won a jalapeno eating contest in New Mexico in August.

updateddfw.com also reports that Sonya & Pat are expected

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Bo Bice has a blog entry about his participation in the Corny Dog Contest at the Texas State Fair in his myspace blog. He has a longer blog entry in his fanclub blog.

Bo Bice’s connection to competitive eating predates the Corny Dog Contest. The Whaler wrote a blog entry about Bo Bice in January.

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DallasNews.com reports that American Idol runner up Bo Bice competed in the Corny Dog Eating Contest at the Texas State Fair Sunday and ate a single corny dog. Nathan Biller, 5th place finisher in the Lewisville tamale contest, won with 12 corny dogs in 10 minutes, 6 behind Rich LeFevre’s mark from last year.

updated khou has a picture

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IFOCE.com announces that an 8 minute jalapeno pepper eating contest will be held at the Texas State Fair on October 8. Will Don “Moses” Lerman come out of retirement to compete in his speciality?

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The 4th annual Corny Dog contest will be held at the Texas State Fair on October 1. The first place prize is $500 with 2 Southwest Airlines tickets. The registration deadline is September 18.

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courier-gazette.com has a writeup of Saturday’s tamale contest with quotes from winner Tim “Eater X” Janus.

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A Krystal press release says that Joey Chestnut, Crazy Legs Conti, Hall Hunt and Joe LaRue will appear at the Jacksonville Krystal qualifier. Hall Hunt will enter the 2 minute preliminary round. Fox30 has an article about the qualifier. “The Hangman” Bruce Pobanz is also expected.

A Buffalo Wing Festival press release says that Sonya Thomas will appear at the festival (but does not explicitly state she will compete in the contest) Bob Shoudt and Brian Seiken say they will attend on their websites.

An IFOCE press release says that the top three finishers in last years Waffle House contest: Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas and Pat Bertoletti are expected back in this year’s contest. “The Hangman” Bruce Pobanz will also compete.

Hall Hunt has withdrawn from the Lewisville tamale contest and a comment says he will be replaced by Rich LeFevre

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courier-gazette.com has a preview of Saturday’s tamale eating contest in Lewisville, TX. Expected competitors include Tim “Eater X” Janus (who returns to his college (SMU) metropolitan area), Hall Hunt, Seaver Miller and Larry McNeil.

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The Big Texan steakhouse in Amarillo, TX, famous for its 72 ounce steak challenge, has updated its website hosted at bigtexan.com. Unfortunately, the online database of steak finishers is no longer available at that URL (It had not been updated since early 2005). The database can still be viewed at http://www.houseofapps.com/bigtexan/view.php

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dallasnews.com has a preview of Saturday’s World Tamale Eating Championship in Lewisville, TX.

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Congratulations to Levi Oliver for finishing the Capital of Texas Triathlon on Memorial Day (400m swim, 10K bike, 5K run) in steamy conditions. The Austin Statesman has an article on how he did it.

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The Austin Statesman has a brief article on Levi Oliver who planned to compete in the Capital of Texas triathlon on Memorial Day. Levi will not enter any future eating contests until his weight drops below 280 pounds.

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Thanks to supersizedmeals.com for making video captures of the video clip of the LeFevres at the Big Texan steakhouse.

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The clip from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not of the steak contest at the Big Texan steakhouse in which Rich LeFevre almost finished two 72 ounce steaks and Carlene sets a women’s record is available at:

http://eatfeats.com/LeFevresSteak.WMV

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Some pictures of the Houston tamale contest (and the contest afterparty) have been posted to Pat Bertoletti’s myspace page.

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The Lefevres’ attempts to eat the famous 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan steakhouse recorded by Ripley’s Believe it or Not in 2000 will be rerun on the SciFi Channel at 4 pm (eastern) Friday This might be the first appearance of competitive eating on national cable TV. The steak contest segment will probably occur at the end of the show near 5pm.

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IFOCE.com has posted their writeup of Saturday’s Tamale contest at the Berryhill grill in Houston won by Chip Simpson. I am curious if any notables besides Chip, Pat, Rich, Tim & Levi competed and what were the circumstances of Rich’s post-contest reversal.

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Just as the Beatles’ performance on the Ed Sullivan Show created Beatlemania, Rich and Carlene Lefevre’s appearance on Ripley’s Believe It or Not in 2000 launched their career as the world’s greatest competitive eating couple. The episode (#109) was recorded at the Big Texan steakhouse in Amarillo, Texas and both LeFevres finished the restaurants famous 72 ounce steak (two women, Tammy Hooker and Annette Havard, also finished the steak) The SciFi channel will rerun this episode on May 12 at 4pm. The Amarillo Globe News has an article about the taping.

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The Dallas Observer has an report about last year’s tamale contest that was held in suburban Dallas. The article has information on yet another competitive eating film project.

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The Houston Chronicle has a preview of Saturday’s tamale eating contest written by a local competitive eating judge. The article also contains an interview with “Horsemen of the Esophagus” author Jason Fagone in which Fagone claims that eating contests have been banned in Japan (???) after the competitive eating related deaths.

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The Austin Stateman has an update about Levi Oliver’s training for the Capital of Texas Triathlon at the end of May. “The Prophet” will also attempt to defend his tamale title. A documentary is being filmed about Oliver’s efforts to transform himself.

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If Tim “Eater X” Janus believes he has conquered all the eating challenges in the midwest, there are some southwest eating challenges he can try. The El Paso Times has an article about local eating challenges. A burrito eating contest was cancelled at one of the restaurants because it was giving away too many free burritos.

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Here are the top three finishers of yesterday’s huevos rancheros contest in South Padre Island, Texas courtesy of Erik “the Red” Denmark:

1st – Rich LeFevre 7.75 lbs. $1500
2nd – Crazy Legs Conti 4.5 lbs. $750
3rd – Erik the Red Denmark 3.5 lbs. $250

Joey Chestnut was scheduled to be at the event but the news just before the contest was that he missed his flight. This opened the door for LeFevre to run away with this competition, which he did. He left Crazy Legs and I behind at about the 4 minute mark where he got in a serious zone and plowed through the rather disguisting huevos rancheros at a frantic pace. Nice work Rich, that was impressive.

IFOCE.com lists Bobby Bodea as the winner of Friday’s amateur contest. No additional finishers are given.

I believe this victory gives Rich his fourth Texas win in four contests in that state. Rich’s previous wins:

2005 Oct 2 1st 35 burgers 8 min Krystal Square Off qualifier Dallas, TX
2004 Sep 26 1st 15.5 corny dogs 10 min World Corny Dog Eating Championship Dallas, TX
2004 Apr 3 1st 6.25 spamburgers 12 min Spam Burger Eating contest Austin, TX

And this does not include all the free steaks Rich and Carlene have won at the Big Texan steakhouse in Amarillo.

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Please list any results from yesterday’s and today’s goldenpalace.net huevos rancheros contests in South Padre Island, Texas in the comments of this post. I have not been able to find any articles or other information about those events.

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Carolyn Prophet of Rockport won the women’s division of the eating contest at the Fulton Oysterfest. Her mark of 118 oysters won her $200 and was 4 behind the third place finisher in Saturday’s mens division and 16 behind the men’s winner.

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