Furious Pete wins Zan’s Deli latkes
Newsday reports that “Furious” Pete Czerwinski won the National Potato Latke Eating Championship held at Zan’s Deli. Czerwinski’s total of 46 latkes in 8 minutes broke “Goose” Gilbert’s previous record of 31 latkes. Will Millender came in second with 29 latkes. A caption in the picture gallery reports that “King” George Van Laar came in third with 26 latkes in what may be his farewell performance.
update The article about the contest has been picked up by the AP and is currently one of the most viewed Odd News articles on yahoo.com. The contest was mentioned by NPR this morning and Healthy Comedy also has a blog entry about Furious Pete’s victory.
update #2 The video in the Newsday article can be viewed on youtube and Torontoist has a portrait of Furious Pete
update #3 A contest video has been uploaded
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North Pole said (Registered April 28, 2008)
December 21, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
Great job Pete! 50% increase over the old record is pretty impressive. You better watch out for Ian at the Pulled Pork contest…
sons of moses said
December 21, 2008 @ 10:43 pm
This is an outrage. Don Lerman is the true latka champ. Lerman should have been competing or judging this event. A non jew taking this title is a total disgrace. Long live the matzah champ Don moses lerman
EatChugMore said
December 21, 2008 @ 11:00 pm
Congratulations Pete, you are definitely one of the best eater out there right now, it would be good to see you against guys like Joey, Pat, Tim or Japanese guys like Kobayashi. Hopefully that would happen in 2009? I know that you would need to be part of IFOCE for that but well, you never know, you have no competitor in AICE and that is against your performances because you don’t have anyone to compete with but yourself. Also, I think it would be a good idea to have a different league for people over 40 years old because it is shown that right now top guys are in the 20’s or early 30’s and it would be nice to see a women league and the best from there get to compete with guys (I think that way it would be easier to attract more female competitors because some of them do not dare to take part because they think they will have no chance competing against guys unless you are Sonya or Juliette for saying some names.
Happy Holidays (Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year, etc.) to everybody from Panama
Alex
P. S. Besides Pat Philbin, does anyone have ever tried an eggnog drinking challenge?
Anonymous said
December 21, 2008 @ 11:58 pm
http://eatfeats.com/paul-barlow-wins-radio-station-egg-nog-contest.html#comments
Steakbellie said (Registered August 11, 2006)
December 22, 2008 @ 7:29 am
Currently the #2 most popular news article on Yahoo News!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081222/ap_on_fe_st/odd_latke_eating_contest;_ylt=AkQW1OqTv.R_Di2NJNn.OzUDW7oF
Congrats Pete!
Anonymous said
December 22, 2008 @ 11:02 am
1.”Furious Pete” Czerwinski 46
2. Will “The Champ” Millender 29
3. “King” George Van Lar 26
4. Mike “The Real Skinny” Hoffman 21
5. Joel “The Cannon” Podelsky 18
anonymous said
December 22, 2008 @ 11:59 am
Looks like Jill Stoler removed her blog. I guess too many hurtful remarks
Furious Pete said
December 22, 2008 @ 3:15 pm
Not sure how 138 oz of latkes is 7 lbs? Was a fun contest.
Steakbellie said (Registered August 11, 2006)
December 22, 2008 @ 5:01 pm
Pete,
The confusion is in the conversion from Canadian oz to American oz.
br fudge said
December 22, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
Pete. Congrats- you need to sometime come to Virginia and try to beat Ian’s record on “The Outrageousplit” Or in April come to our custard eating championship- Keep Eating. (BR).
Furious Pete said
December 22, 2008 @ 5:16 pm
Well 31 latkes was 5,8lbs…we in Canada don’t use oz, we use grams…so there is no difference Steakbellie
Badlands Booker said (Registered October 9, 2008)
December 22, 2008 @ 9:19 pm
Congrats Furious Pete. Very Impressive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BynqflYQTcc
"Tiny" said (Registered March 5, 2008)
December 23, 2008 @ 12:24 am
7 grams is a quarter of an ounce.
14 grams is a half.
28 grams is an ounce.
1 gram is a dime bag.
LOL.
Yo Pete, have you ever eaten a pierogi?
EatChugMore said
December 23, 2008 @ 3:44 am
It would be nice to have an online eggnog drinking challenge, does anyone want to join? I may try this weekend, half gallon in the least time.
EatChugMore@yahoo.com
Will said
December 26, 2008 @ 1:22 am
EatChugMore
I was at the O&A eggnog challenge the year Booker won. (2005?)
They did not hold it this year…
EatChugMore said
December 28, 2008 @ 9:13 am
I see Will, liquid challenges or records are not done that often because they would last a few minutes, even a few seconds with these guys drinking as fast as they eat, I still remember Joey drinking the gallon of milk in 41 seconds, just amazing, too bad I am not in my 20’s again, being over 40 makes things different the exception would be Rich Lefevre and his wife Carlene.