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“Furious” Pete Czerwinski has uploaded two videos about training for competitive eating to youtube: Video 1 – breakfast for competive eaters, Video 2 – jaw strength / grinding
A gallery of the wing eating contest held during Mike & Mike in the Morning in which Tim Janus, Crazy Legs Conti and Pete Davekos competed against co-host Mike Golic is available on ESPN.com
A listing of tonight’s television highlights reports that a Thanksgiving eating contest will be held for the models on tonight’s episode of “Deal or No Deal” (NBC, 8pm eastern)
A trailer of the Travel Channel’s Man vs. Food has been embedded on the program’s home page. An interview with show host Adam Richman is also available.
A trailer for the web series Quest for the Golden Hot Dog can be viewed on youtube. The 60Frames production will be a parody of the world of competitive eating. A clip from the series of an interview with two hot dog girls (Bunettes) is also available.
TubeFilter.tv has more on the series including a cast of some of the characters:
In the trailer, the competitors are introduced as they all ram hot dogs. There’s the novice rookie played by Jeff Sloniker. There’s the Asian natural (likely a nod to Kobayashi himself), but played by a woman, Micki Ann Maddox. Armen Weitzman plays the role of the sitting legacy. Jeff Davis is the Hungry, Hungry Hipster And Demorge Brown is the Black Bomber, and he’s well, black.
More sad news from Asia. The Times of India reports that Saurav Sabbarwal, a solutions engineer with Nokia Siemens Networking, died after choking in a pastry eating contest held at an office cafeteria in Guragon, India. It is not clear if the contest was pre-planned or an informal competition.
Nokia produced a commercial featuring a competitive eating fan who uses her phone to get contest updates.
update The contest was apparently a company activity and there was no medical supervision present. Mr. Sabbarwal’s family is considering suing Nokia Siemens.
Links: NewKerala, ThaIndian, PTINews
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski has uploaded a video titled “A Legend in the Making” containing segments from his previous videos. The video has received almost 2,000 views in the day it has been released. The closing caption for the video says that 2009 will be a year to remember for Furious Pete.
Two forum threads about the video are available on bodybuilding.com: #1, #2
According to a comment made this morning, Micah “Wing Kong” Collins was told that “professionals” would not be allowed to compete in Wing Bowl 17 when he called 610 WIP to inquire about qualifying for that contest. In February, Angelo Cataldi said that he would like to limit entry to the 2009 Wing Bowl to amateurs. WIP appears to have followed through with that restriction.
Cataldi apparently defines “professional eater” as someone who has been associated with a professional eating organization regardless of the level of success obtained in eating contests. If that definition is used to limit entry into Wing Bowl 17, “Gentleman” Jerry Coughlan will probably be the favorite if there is any legitimacy to his top five finishes the previous two Wing Bowls.
In other Wing Bowl news, a press release announces that mail-order chicken wings endorsed by Bill “El Wingador” Simmons will be available at RastelliAtHome.com
TwinCities.com reports that the 5-8 Grill in Maplewood, Minnesota created a 145 pound “Juicy Lucy” burger on Saturday containing a 100 pound beef patty filled with 50 pounds of cheese. (100 pounds must be the pre-cooked weight since the sum of the beef and cheese weighs less than the listed sandwich weight.)
The burger was submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records under the assumption that the current record holder is a 78.5 pound sandwich created by Bob’s BBQ and Mexican Grill in Thailand. Denny’s Beer Barrel and Mallie’s Sports Grill & Bar in Michigan have requested Guinness recognition for larger burgers. Mallie’s website reports that it created a 164.5 pound burger in August, beating the giant Juicy Lucy by almost 20 lbs., which will appear in the next edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.
The Telegraph reports that Denzil Gunner, a 30 year old solicitor from London, won a prize of £1,000 at today’s mince pie eating contest at Wookey Hole Caves in England. Gunner’s mark of 41 pies in 10 minutes missed the record Sonya Thomas set in 2006 by five pies.
It is not mentioned in the article if the pies used this year were the same size as the pies used two years ago. The pictures above from the Telegraph’s gallery show that the pies used in 2006 might have been larger.
The BBC also has an article.
Jill Stoler has a blog entry about Saturday’s get together at the J & R Steakhouse. The results from the 76 ounce steak challlenge:
Joel “The Cannon” Podelsky, 57 minutes
Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria, DQ
A video and galleries by angrysong and someguynamedcarlfrom Saturday’s Carninval O Pizza eating contest at the Home Slice Pizza. The picture captions indicate that Chris (no last name provided) won the contest for the third straight year. A Tic-Tac-Toe T-shirt was made to outfit Chris’ entourages, which is one of the larger fan groups competitive eating
A video of the noodle eating contest held on TV Tokyo’s TV Champion to determine who would win a berth in the 2001 Nathan’s finals is available on youtube. Takeru Kobayashi would win the contest and subsequently make history at Coney Island. Kaz Arai, winner of the 2000 Nathan’s finals, is present at the contest. Kobayashi’s latest blog entry is about Arai.
Seven sports (baseball, softball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby and squash) made their case to be included in the 2016 Olympics. Competitive eating was not among them. Chicago and Tokyo are considered the leading candidates to land the games.
A comment on Megamunch reports that the towel Megamunch misplaced and subsequently acquired by a consortium called “The Light Elves” is now up for auction on craigslist. The bidding will start at $1 and will close on December 1.
The value Megamunch places on his towel brings to mind the following quote from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc, etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
The purpose of the new poll is to see if there is any demand for a competitive eating / eating challenge get-together outside of New York and Pennsylvania. The choices in the list were based on known locations of readers/commenters. Other locations can be added to the poll if requested.
A live blog is currently being conducted for tonight’s screening of the 2005 Wing Bowl documentary “Swallow Your Pride”. At least two (and possibly three) of the six protagonists of the film are in attendance.
MyHomeTownNews.com has a report on last Saturday’s pizza eating contest at the Battle at the Big Apple in Fort Pierce, Florida. The Bahamas cruise that was part of Pat Bertoletti’s prize package includes a 24 hour pizza buffet.
Country music superstar Toby Keith has a restaurant at Harrah’s casino in Las Vegas which offers a 100 ounce eating challenge. In addition to two pounds of hamburger, the challenge also requires diners to finish 32 ounces of beer and 16 ounces of “freedom fries” along with other items. Customers who complete the challenge will receive a T – shirt. A picture of the burger is available on flickr. With the demise of the Plaza Casino’s Big Daddy challenge, this might be the only burger challenge in Las Vegas.
(From Kevin Ross email) A web page has been set up for the Travel Channel series Man vs. Food. The program will feature Adam Richman traveling around the country to attempt restaurants’ eating challenges. The first two episodes will be televised on December 3 and the locations will be Amarillo, Texas (Big Texan Steak Ranch) and Memphis (The Big Foot Lodge). A list of all locations is available on the website.
Earlier this year, a producer placed a casting call on eatfeats for a host for the show.
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