MinorLeagueBaseball.com has a report on Tuesday's "Gluttony Night" promotion held by the Reading, PA Phillies mentioning the contest won by Joe Menchetti.
Furious Pete & numbers dropped from AICE rankings
(via email) The AICE rankings have been redone and “Furious” Pete Czerwinski is no longer listed. According to an email from Pete, no reason was provided for his delisting. Numerical rankings have also been dropped in place of a two-tier system. (Cached previous AICE rankings)
With the removal of Pete Czerwinkski, 3 (also Joe Menchetti & Ian Hickman) of the AICE top 5 at the start of 2009 no longer appear in the AICE rankings. Ian Hickman, winner of a cupcake contest Saturday, remains listed in the Hall of Fame.
update Furious Pete has started two forum threads on bodybuilding.com about his ejection (Thread 1 | Thread 2) which report that AICE contracts have started.
NewsObserver.com has a preview of tomorrow's Durham, NC quadrathlon (triathlon + eating). Adam Richman of Man vs. Food is expected to participate.
A hot dog eating contest awarding $80 will be held tomorrow in Taneytown, Maryland.
Last night's episode of the Tonight Show is available on the NBC web site. Adam Richman of Man vs. Food appears in segment #5.
AICE / All Pro Eating is under new management as of today
Hall Hunt has a preview of the three IFOCE Memorial Day weekend contests listing Sonya Thomas, Tim Janus, Crazy Legs Conti and Brian Seiken as entrants in Pete's Clam Bar's eating contest. update The preview was copied from IFOCE.com
New baseball burger challenges
BottomLineSox announces that the 1 pound 9 ounce McGreevy’s Beckett Burger will debut at McGreevy’s this afternoon. Josh Beckett will be present at the restaurant until 3 pm today and award Red Sox tickets. The burger weight was selected to honor of Josh Beckett’s #19 uniform number. The burger price is $30 and a portion of the cost will go to the Josh Beckett Foundation. All purchasers will receive one of two T shirts which will announce whether they succeeded or failed in the challenge.
The Trenton Thunder have also started the Thunder Burger Challenge which consists of three grilled cheese sandwiches separated by half pound burger patties. The burger is free if it is finished in under 30 minutes and all finishers will be invited to a contest on August 28. (Will this bring central New Jersey’s most famous burger eater out of retirement?)
WLOCE cupcake preview
The Boulder Daily Camera has a preview of Saturday’s WLOCE cupcake eating contest at Tee & Cakes.
Local competitor Micah Baldwin has posted a video of his training session.
Andrew “A Bomb / Skinnyboy” Lane was bounced from the contest field.
The caption of the third picture in the report on "Gluttony Night" on the Reading Phillies website reports Joe Menchetti won the eating contest by consuming six all you can eat menu items in 4 minutes flat. A news video about the event
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.
Dale Boone to do NYC contests May 30 & 31
With the qualifying session now over, the Go! Go! Curry! twitter reports that Dale Boone qualified for the final contest on May 30. His time placed him 5th overall. Don Lerman apparently retained the #4 position. The original #5 qualifier, Andris Zvargulis, attempted to beat Dale’s time but could not.
PMQ reports that Dale Boone will compete in the Brooklyn Pizza contest on May 31. The first prize for that contest will be $300.
It is rather hypocritical that the WLOCE contract prevents signees from doing non-WLOCE events while Dale Boone is free to do whatever non-WLOCE he wants.
Go! Go! Curry! has started a twitter page at http://twitter.com/GOGOCURRYUSA announcing that Dale Boone has confirmed for tonight's final qualifier.
Jill Stoler has uploaded a video of Will Millender eating a large thin crust pizza from Rocco's in 2 minutes and 17 seconds. Jill Stoler did the challenge in 5 and a half minutes.
MyBangalore has an article with several pictures about the WLOCE donut eating contest.
Go! Go! Curry's qualifier leader board now lists Masato Tomita in the #3 position with a time of 58 seconds, putting Don "Moses" Lerman in the #4 slot.
George Shea's twitter reports that Juliet Lee will compete in Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Atlantic City
MC Rahman has some videos of the Bangalore donut eating contest won by Dale Boone.
Furious Pete to do the “Time Warp” tomorrow
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski announces that his appearance on Time Warp will be televised tomorrow on the Discovery Channel. A slow motion video clip of Pete competing in a hands-free hot dog eating contest against a dog is available on the program’s website.
Furious Pete will also appear in the Canada vs. USA Philthy McNasty burger contest on the Canadian channel TV Tropolis on Friday. His next television program will be a tour of German restaurants.
Midtown Lunch previews final Go! Go! Curry! qualifier
Midtown Lunch has a blog entry about tomorrow’s final qualifier for the Go! Go! Curry! eating contest containing a long quote from Crazy Legs Conti. Two currently unlisted qualifiers have broken 1:08, so the current threshold for new qualifiers is faster than that time. The Go! Go! Curry! facebook page says that Dale Boone will compete.
The Go! Go! Curry! home page is running a lottery for the four seats available for the audience.
HamptonRoads.com reports that 5 of the IFOCE's top 7 ranked members will compete in the funnel cake eating contest to be held at Kings Dominion on Saturday: Joey, Pat B, Humble Bob, Sonya and Hall "Allujah"
Dan Gross' column in philly.com has a paragraph about the Atlantic City Nathan's qualifier listing Dave "U.S. Male" Goldstein, Micah "Wing Kong" Collins, Eric "Steakbellie" Livingston and Jeff "The Natural" Olson as expected entrants.
CarpeDurham reports that Adam Richman will record at Wimpy's and Backyard BBQ Pit today. Adam Richman will appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Wednesday.
Sonya Thomas appears in Mental Floss' list of 6 more women who beat the boys.
A press release for the Reading (PA) Phillies announces that the Eastern League team will have "Gluttony Night" tomorrow. All you can eat tickets will be available for $12 and an eating contest involving the 6 items on the AYCE menu will also be held.
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