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Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off rib eating contest results from Jason Erb and anonymous comment
1st: Joey Chestnut 9.8 pounds, new record
2nd: Pat Bertoletti 7.4
3rd: Erik Denmark 4.7
4th: Rich LeFevre 4.6
5th: Ron Koch 3.4
6th: Jason Erb 2.8
7th: Sean Kirby 2.5
8th: El Toro 2.2
update RGJ.com has a contest report
EmilyPie has some pictures
update #2 Full results are now available on IFOCE.com
A press release announces the Japanese launch of the Major League Eating Wiiware video game which will be available on October 14. Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara have been added to the game, apparently replacing Rich LeFevre and Juliet Lee.
update TokyoMango has an English blog entry about the release
The German magazine Der Spiegel has an English article and gallery about La Tomatina, a annual tomato fight that will be held in Buñol, Spain tomorrow. During the event, 150,000 kg (330,000 lb.) of tomatoes are ruined. Despite wasting orders of magnitude more food than any American eating contest, the event does not seem to have drawn the same amount of criticism that competitive eating does.
A press release lists four expected entrants at tomorrow’s Best in the West Nugget World Rib Eating Championship in Sparks, Nevada: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Rich LeFevre and Erik Denmark.
In a forum thread on bodybuilding.com, “Furious” Pete Czerwinski reports that he is going to Los Angeles today to record a competitive eating themed episode of “Sport Science” which appears on the Fox Sports Network. This is the second competitive eating program announced for Fox Sports; the Krystal Square Off finals will be televised on Fox Sports South.
Michael Phelps devotes several pages of his 2004 autobiography, Michael Phelps: Beneath the Surface, to his eating exploits, which can be read online on Google Books. After mentioning his typical breakfast at Pete’s Grille: three sandwiches of fried eggs, cheese, lettuce, tomato, fried onions and mayonnaise, an omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast with powdered sugar and three chocolate chip pancakes, Phelps describes his competitive eating history, which includes living food items:
My friends and I used to make bets about eating food. At an all-you-can-eat buffet one day, we decided to eat all we could. Our table tried to eat the place out of everything, and we nearly did. Of all my friends, Matt is the one who is usually up for a good eating challenge. And when teenage guys get together, some of the challenges can be kind of . . . teenage. Matt made $30 from me once by mixing wasabi paste with soy sauce and inhaling it through his nose. He won a DVD from me one night after we ate dinner and then went for burgers. There was no way we were ready for more food, but at the drop of a challenge, Matt added a quarter pound burger for dessert. Three years ago, we were at my old girlfriend’s house, watching a guy on TV trying to swallow some small fish whole. He couldn’t so Matt and I figured we could. Swimming really came in handy, because I was able to hold my breath during the full swallow. Goldfish aren’t that big, but they start flopping around in there and they can gross you out. The money is never an issue during these challenges. If you win a penny, you feel you’ve accomplished something, though I’m not really sure what it is. I only won a dollar for downing my 50th chicken wing at Bill Bateman’s in Towson, but just think, with that dollar, I could buy another chicken wing. Believe it or not, there is really something I don’t like to eat: angel hair pasta. I don’t like the texture of it.
The Krystal Square Off blog confirms that Sonya Thomas will compete in the Jacksonville qualifier on Labor Day and the twitter page is seeking input on questions to be asked in Sonya Thomas’ and Hall Hunt’s podcast interviews.
A gallery of the Chattanooga qualifier is also available.
In his yardbarker blog, Pat Bertoletti announces the opening of his personal website at DeepDishEats.com Bertoletti intends to have recipes and other cooking information on his website in addition to news about his competitive eating career. The contest calendar says that he will compete in the Nugget rib eating contest on Wednesday.
According to the eatfeats database, Sonya Thomas is 12-0 in all qualifier contests in her career: (list of results is available after the jump)
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Crazy Legs Conti was a surprise guest on College Humor Live recently and attempted to consume Michael Phelps’ typical breakfast in under 5 minutes. Video, Gallery
Please place results from the gyoza eating contest held during the Nisei Week Festival in Los Angeles in the comments of this thread. The contest was supposed to start at 12:30 Pacific (3:30 eastern)
update results from “LA Assassin”
Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 231 New world record
Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti 201
Rich “Locust” LeFevre 175
Tim “Gravy” Brown 135 I think
Kevin “007” Ross 107
LA Assassin 75
Shawn Kirby 56
Franklin Teng 47
update sklathill has a gallery of the contest with 6 video clips
update #2 mrmurayama competed in the contest and has a blog entry about it.
update #3 A contest video and official results are now available
The KSO twitter page has announced that “Humble” Bob Shoudt has won the Chattanooga qualifier with 58 burgers. Sonya Thomas retains the Chattanooga qualifier record of 62.
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TimesFreePress has the top 3:
1. “Humble” Bob Shoudt, 58
2. Larry “The Legend” McNeil, 28
3. Rick Petralia, 20
? “Super” Paul Barlow, 18
update #2 Mike Nafziger emails that Bob Shoudt passed out before the contest due to lack of calories.
update #3 Full results are now available on krystalsquareoff.com/blog
update #4 WDEF weatherman ties for fifth with 18 burgers
update #5Video of the contest and a Humble Bob interview are available on KrystalSquareOff.com
WDEF.com has videos of yesterday’s celebrity eating contest
The KSO twitter page is currently taking predictions.
“We were vague about how we counted the plates and dishes, for instance, counting one plate with four pieces of the same dish as four dishes.”
Takeru Kobayashi’s latest blog entry is about attending the invitation only grand opening of the New York City Nike Sportswear Store Thursday night. Nebol.com and Nicekicks.com have pictures. Joey Chestnut, Roger Federer, Spike Lee and Serena Williams were other celebrities in attendance. Nathan’s provided food for the event.
You can follow the events of the opening festivities for Krystal Square Off V on the KSO twitter page at http://twitter.com/ksquareoff The “Running of the Grill” is almost concluded and the press conference is about to begin.
The Times Free Press has an article and WDEF has a blog entry about today and tomorrow’s events. Registration for amateurs tomorrow starts at 2pm.
Viewing tomorrow’s qualifier requires admission to the Southern Brewers Festival which costs $15.
update TimesFreePress.com has a preview of the qualifier focusing on the favorite, Bob “Stoudt” [sic]
Following up on last week’s post about Michael Phelps’ 12,000 calorie a day diet, here are some other male athletes who reportedly ate over 10,000 calories a day (I will try to have a post up about female athletes sometime this weekend.)
3 pounds of brown rice.
25-30 chicken breasts.
75-120 egg whites.
10-12 cans of corn.
5-6 cans of pineapple
Like most people who drink because they enjoy it rather than because they have to, Andre isn’t bothered overmuch by the occasional dry period. Last year, for example, after an extended trip to Japan and Australia , he found that his weight had reached the unacceptably high figure of 540 pounds, whereupon he put himself on a strict diet—no alcohol, and only one meal a day. In four weeks he dropped 80 pounds, which becomes less surprising with the realization that he consumes approximately 7,000 calories in alcohol a day.
As for his efforts at table, Andre seems to eat less than might be expected, though, of course, far more than the average person. Four eggs, bacon, hash browns, four pieces of whole wheat toast, a pint of orange juice and two iced coffees suffice to break his nightly fast, and his evening meal, generally taken several hours before his match, will depend on where he is in the world, although the quantity will be about twice that consumed by your garden variety gourmand. Occasionally, however, he will hold back on the alcohol and give full play to his appetite. He recently recounted an evening spent in a small, second-rate restaurant. “I was tired, boss, and I only wanted to have a quick bite and go to bed, but this waitress, she kept pointing at me and talking about me to the other customers. Then she asked me in a loud voice if a cup of soup and a cracker would be enough. And she laughed. I told her no, that I was hungry, and wished the entire menu to be brought, one dish at a time. It took me four hours to eat it all.”
The Krystal Square Off blog announces that the opening ceremony for the Krystal Square Off will take place on Friday starting at 1pm eastern. Events will include a “Running of the Grill”, a press conference and a 2 minute burger eating contest between Chattanooga news personalities.
Surrey Now has an article about the hot dog eating contest held in Vancouver on Monday and its winner, Ken “The Demolisher” Wong.
The BBC’s website has an article about the 72 ounce steak challenge served at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas:
Americans, of course, are not completely insensitive to those global challenges, and they are not entirely immune to the effects of them either. But it certainly doesn’t look as though the appeal of the steak challenge is flagging. This year has been one of endless bad news for the American economy but the challenge is more popular now than it was last year.
The American appetite for escapism, here at least, outweighs any moral squeamishness people might feel at this grotesque, but compelling, display of excess.
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