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• Beth’s Cafe Challenge Meal – 12 egg Southwestern exposure omelet
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  # 4 Listing on the Travel Channel’s World’s Best Places to Pig Out

• Red Mill Burgers
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• Crab Pot
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• BeautifulBrian.com has a farewell address
• Cherry Pie & Cherry Pie Eating Contest winner costumes for sale on craigslist
• Skinnyboy has posted his health report
• Billy “the Fridge”, winner of a Seattle donut contest has joined WLOCE according to its myspace page
• Will Millender has posted a report about the Goya bean eating contest he wrote for his English class to his myspace blog

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• Colley Handspike wins Atlanta La Costena jalapeno eating contest
• Seattle clam contest report
• $100 awarded to finishers of 7 pound Frankenstein burger in Sikeston, Missouri
• Sonya Thomas adds 2 FAQs
• Article about Gal Sone’s nail salon, “Jill & Lovers”. One of Jill’s products is called “Jewnail”, presumably short for jeweled nail
• Takuya Yamamoto eats a 10 kg cake

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• Juliet Lee has an Ash Creek rib contest report
• Clam eating contest in Seattle Saturday, first prize is $100
• Ryan Nerz podcast interview in Conversations on the Road
• Furious Pete is doing marketing research on a Furious Pete hat
• A Washington Post article on the rise of college Food Studies programs reports that “Horsemen of the Esophagus” is required reading one course.
• The Wall Street Journal reports that Japanese convenience store chain Lawson announced an annual increase in same store sales of 13%. Gal Sone endorsed a line of meals for Lawson in May.

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• Myspace page for Billy “the Fridge”, winner of Saturday’s donut contest in Seattle
• Forest City, PA pierogi eating contest Saturday
• A more positive review of the MLE video game
• Long blog entry about the Singapore contest
• Bodybuilder / competitive eater Isabelle Turell wins a bodybuilding contest and gets engaged
  

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Erik “the Red” Denmark reports on his attempts to set two Guinness pepper eating records at the Groz-with-Gas-a-Thon on Friday:

I was on the docket of guests that included a superstar lineup of Seattle sports stars past and present. I think I was able to entertain everyone who was in attendance by putting myself through some serious pain and establishing some pepper eating records that I am very proud of:

Guinness World Record Jalapeno Eating Results (1 minute):

26 Jalapenos (beats previous record of 16)

Habanero Pepper Eating Results (1 minute eating with no substances during and for 5 minutes following):

32 Habaneros (establishes new record)

A gallery and videos of the attempts are available.

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Erik Denmark reports that he will attempt to break two pepper eating records today for jalapenos and habaneros at the 11th annual 950 KJR Groz-with-Gas-a-thon charity auction. The attempts will take place at Anthony’s on Pier 66 in Seattle around 5:00 pm PST and can be listened to at 950KJR.com.

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Erik Denmark reports that he appeared in a local sketch comedy television show, Seattle Untimely:

Click Here to watch the most recent episode where I play a proponent of ‘supply-side economics’ in a competitive eating/political issue debate with Charlie Stockman, a proponent of ‘green economics’ with anchor, Charles Armstrong as moderator. The show turned out really well and it is damn funny.

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(From Erik Denmark) A video clip of Erik Denmark’s appearance on Komo – TV’s Northwest Afternoon can be viewed at http://www.komotv.com/nwa/6410947.html?video=pop&t=a

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From Erik Denmark’s blog:

For those of you in Washington State, you can see me on the popular mid-day talk show, Northwest Afternoon on KomoTV (ABC)tomorrow – Thursday, July 18 at 3:00 pm PST.

During the segment I will answer questions from the hosts Kent and Natasha and we will have a one minute jalapeno eating contest.

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The Seattle Times has a long article about Erik “the Red” Denmark with coverage of his victory at the Shea Stadium qualifier. Denmark had about $10,000 in travel expenses last year.

Rich Shea says he is unaware of any diabetic eaters, which would come as news to Pat Philbin.

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NorthKitsapHerald.com has an article about a lutefisk eating contest in Poulsbo, Washington.

Local lutefisk eating legend Eric Perkins almost regretted encouraging Jake Watrous to enter Sunday’s Viking Fest lutefisk eating contest at the Kvelstad Pavilion.

Before bowing out at the three-and-a-half-pound mark, Watrous put a scare into both Perkins and reigning champion, Puyallup’s Charles Jensen. Even so, Jensen retained his title by consuming more than four pounds. Perkins literally lost his ‘fisk as he finished second for the second straight year.

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Erik Denmark reports that a podcast of his interview on Seattle sports radio is available.

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The pain of the Seattle Seahawks’ loss to the the Chicago Bears last weekend has subsided enough for Erik Denmark to write about the hot dog challenge he did during the game.

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Erik “The Red” Denmark has a blog entry on his attempt at his NFL playoff hot dog eating challenge, which he performed at the Seahawks-Cowboys game after receiving a ticket. Erik was able to get around the $5+ stadium hot dog prices.

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After trying to eat 40 hot dogs during Super Bowl XL, Erik “The Red” Denmark will attempt a challenge with more complicated rules during the Seattle Seahawks / Dallas Cowboys playoff game tomorrow evening.

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Erik “the Red” Denmark has a blog entry about his breaking the IFOCE spot shrimp record which has a gallery & videos: introduction, last 10 seconds

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Erik “the Red” Denmark’s attempt at the spot shrimp record should be coming up on http://www.kjram.com/ in a few minutes. Ray “the Bison” Meduna is serving as judge.

7:56 Erik dedicates his performance to the Washington Huskies and puts on a purple bandana.

7:59 The contest starts. Erik is using hot sauce.

8:00 The house band starts and the station cuts to commercial.

8:10 the station returns from commercial and Erik has broken the record with 1:30 left

8:12 the contest ends with the record broken. The station has yet to announce the amount.

8:26 back from another long commercial break – Erik is credited with 4 lb 15 oz. Erik says he feels great. Ray “the Bison” Meduna says the record is certified. Erik says he thinks he might have used too much cocktail sauce. Erik will do the Texas State Fair jalapeno contest next.

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Erik “the Red” Denmark announces that he will attempt to break the IFOCE record of 4 lb. 9 oz. of spot shrimp in 12 minutes tomorrow. The record is currently held by “Hungry” Charles Hardy. The attempt will be part of a charity event and broadcast on internet radio around 7:30 eastern / 4:30 pacific.

Crazy Legs Conti claims to have done 5 pounds in 10 minutes:

Q Do you have a favorite eating contest? Hot dogs? Ice cream?

A I turned pro on Acme Louisiana Oysters (20 dozen in ten minutes) and earned the moniker, “The Mollusk King”. I’ve done well in Alaskan Spot Shrimp (5 lbs in ten minutes). I am training for Delaware Crab Cakes, so seafood is my specialty. My father weaned me on seafood, calling it, “low tide food – nothing that grows above the ankle”. Favorite Eating Contest? Lobster, Lobstah, and Ayuh, Lobsta.

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(Thanks Ken Wong) CBS news has a video clip of the Seattle Wing contest with brief interviews with Joey Chestnut and Badlands Booker at

http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2004/11/05/world/videoarchive653991.shtml

Scroll down until the contest is found

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(From beautifulbrian.com)

1. Joey Chestnut, 4.5 lb.
2. Eric “Badlands” Booker, 3.6 lb.
3. “Humble” Bob Shoudt 3.5 lb.
4. Patrick Bertoletti 2.93 lb.
5. Jason “The Erbivore” Erb 2.9 lb.

(Updated 10/7 9:51 am – Thanks Jason Erb – added #4 and #5 totals and correctly
listed Jason Erb’s name and nickname)

(Updated 10/5 12:33 am #6 finisher Ken Wong has provided me with a listing of the remaining finishers)

#6 – Ken “The Demolisher” Wong, about 2.29 lb. surrey.bc.ca unranked
#7 to 11 – Scott”Pork Slayer” Sayer, ?.?? lb., Albany,OR IFOCE Rank #44
#7 to 11 – Brian McDonald, about 1.05 lb. Everett, WA, unranked
NOTE: Brian McDonald was the top local eater from Washington unranked
#7 to 11 – Keith Gerhart Less than about 1.05 lb. Everett, WA unranked
#7 to 11 – Robert Cochran Less than about 1.05 lb. Everett, WA unranked
#7 to 11 – ?? Less than about 1.05 lb. ??-Everett, WA unranked

No Sport Illustrated (on Campus) jinx for Joey Chestnut as he continues the momentum he established in August and Labor Day weekend, easily beating “Badlands” Booker, who is unable to upset a top 3 eater in chicken wings for the second time in a month. All three (and the next two places) qualify for the finals in Boston next month.

Updated 10/02 12:38 am Yahoo news has a picture of Chestnut and Booker along with a results summary

Updated 10/02 9:53 am Heraldnet.com has an article about the contest

10:50 am Seattle Times article

Updated 10/03 11:30 pm places #4 and #5 added (from humblebob.com)

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The Seattle Times has a preview of Saturday’s Verizon VoiceWing chicken wing qualifier focusing on expected entrants Joey Chestnut and Eric “Badlands” Booker. The training methods of both competitiors are described. The article incorrectly states that Booker holds the Buffalo Wing Festival contest record (which was set by Sonya Thomas in 2004). It is surprising that Joey Chestnut would make the trip north when he has a qualifying contest in his hometown in two weeks. “Humble” Bob Shoudt states on his website that he and Patrick Bertoletti are also planning to compete. The top five competitors in the three qualifiers (also in SF and DC) will make the finals in Boston.

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