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MyFoxDC reports that Natural Balance sponsored a dog food eating contest for dog owners at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The competitors ate food from the Eatables for Dogs brand, which is marketed as being made in a USDA plant with 100 percent USDA ingredients. Jimmy and Dick Van Patten (“Eight is Enough”) served as emcees.
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Please place results from yesterday’s Wakefield National Sandwich Eating Championship held at the Foodservice at Retail Expo in Schaumburg, Illinois in the comments of this post.
update results from a GJoe comment:
1) Bob “Killer†Kuhn’s Made it to the “dinner tableâ€.
2) Ian “The Invader†Hickman One sub shy of the dinner table.
3) “Gentleman†Joe Menchetti 1.25 subs shy of dinner table.
4 )Miss Elizabeth Canady 1.3 subs shy of the dinner table.
PioneerLocal.com has an article about the contest
(From Cole Wimpee) BroadwayWorld.com reports that Eric “Badlands” Booker will appear at the Binge Olympiad which will be held at the Wings Theater in the West Village. Booker’s myspace calendar says he will appear at the August 15 and August 23 shows. Eating contests will be held during the festival, but dates and foods are not listed.
(From comment) IFOCE.com has been updated with information about the return of the Harrah’s Louisiana Downs World Grits Eating Championship to Bossier City, Louisiana on September 13. Like last year, the purse will be $10,000. Registration will open on Wednesday, August 13 at 1pm eastern.
After having no contest with a purse larger than $5,000 in the first half of 2008, five IFOCE contests in the the third quarter will award total prizes of at least $10,000 (Nathan’s, Krystal, OK BBQ, kolaches and grits)
(From Mark Hinske) PostCrescent.com has a report on the Burgerfest held in Seymour, Wisconsin on Saturday. A caption reports that Mike Fitzgerald won the Hardee’s Thickburger eating contest by eating 7 and a third burgers in 12 minutes. Another caption claims that “The Hammer” also broke the contest record. Sonya Thomas ate 7 Thickburgers to win the 2003 contest, but the contest length was only 10 minutes. (The previous record is listed as 5.25 thickburgers)
A 120 pound burger patty was cooked during the festival and served to attendees.
Registration is now closed for the Atlanta Krystal qualifier on September 6. Registration is listed as open for the other 6 qualifiers.
Some captures from the Clinton Station Diner giant burger contest footage at the start of the History Channel’s Evolve: Guts have been attached.
Nikkan Sports reports that the magazine “Modern Weekly” is alleging that Tomoko Miyake did not actually consume all the food she appeared to eat in a Nippon Television program.
Tomoko will appear (briefly) along with the other competitors in the giant burger contest held earlier this year at the Clinton Station Diner on the History Channel’s “Evolve:Guts” at 11 pm and 3 am eastern tonight
update The Mainichi Shimbun reports that Nippon Television has apologized for the deception and attributes the inaccuracies to miscounting.
Tomoko Miyake addresses the magazine article’s claims in a blog entry which begins (according to Google Translation)
The weekly magazine article about the concern that everybody did deeply apologize for any inconvenience.
A look at the article, friends and fans worried about people from a lot of mail and messages encouraging words.
The Newton (Georgia) Citizen has a profile of Ben Griffith, who finished in fourth place in June’s Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier and in the 2006 Waffle House contest at Stone Mountain.
The blog for the Onion Hamburg Restaurant reports that Hatsuyo “The Witch” Sugawara set a record for its bunless 5 kilogram (11 pounds) burger challenge by finishing it in 47 minutes on July 20. In March, Mio “Sakura” Takahashi became the first person to complete the challenge. Her time was an hour and a half. Ms. Takahashi has an entry about the challenge in her personal blog.
Registration for the 2008 Krystal qualifiers is now available on the IFOCE.com contest pages.
The Independent of London has an article about competitive eating with a lot of quotes from Ryan Nerz which reports that 1.5 million viewers watched the Nathan’s finals. The article also claims that Badlands Booker has released 2 albums (he has produced four “Hungry & Focused” CDs) and that the Sacramento death in the bladder endurance contest happened in January (it took place in 2007). British competitor Lup Fan Yau believes that Sonya Thomas has made millions from competitive eating.
Additional information has been added to KrystalSquareOff about the qualfier circuit. A list of the venues has been posted. Five of the sites are the same as last year’s. The Chattanooga qualifier will be held at the Southern Brewers Festival and the Alabama qualifier will take place at a University of Alabama at Birmingham football game.
The wildcard page says that the top three non-winning performances will receive wild cards. Ties will be broken by second best amounts.
The KSO V finals page lists Joey Chestnut as the only current finalist, so Kobayashi might have to qualify.
Amarillo.com has a column about Joey Chestnut breaking the 21 year old record for eating the Big Texan’s 72 ounce steak meal in March. The steakhouse has no plans to start a televised contest despite the fame of its eating challenge.
A page on krystalsquareoff announces the qualifiers for this year’s edition of the Krystal Square Off and a press release on Krystalist has the schedule:
Aug. 23 – Chattanooga, Tenn.
Sept. 1 – Jacksonville, Fla.
Sept. 6 – Atlanta, Ga.
Sept. 13 – Nashville, Tenn.
Sept. 14 – Knoxville, Tenn.
Sept. 20 – Birmingham, Ala.
Sept. 21 – Memphis, Tenn.
There will be three wild cards.
update Times Free Press has an article with podcast interviews of Bob Shoudt and Joey Chestnut. The purse for Krystal Square Off V will exceed the $35,000 last year’s contest awarded. Bob Shoudt says he hopes to eat 120 burgers, a pace of one burger per 4 seconds.
update #2WDEF also has an article
(from Hall Hunt) The website for the Trnkobranà festival in the Czech republic reports that Pat Bertoletti and Hall Hunt will be competing in an eating contest at that event on August 17. Kamil Hamersky, who participated in the 2006 Nathan’s finals is also expected to compete.
The Krystalist blog has an entry about Jill Stoler’s 3rd place finish in the women’s division of the Chef One dumpling eating contest in Queens which mentions that the qualifier circuit for Krystal Square Off V will start in a “couple of weeks.” If qualifiers take place on weekends, this would put the initial qualifier on August 16/17 or August 23/24 depending on how the two weeks is rounded. This would result in 5 or 6 qualifiers if one qualifier a week is held.
Full results from Saturday’s pierogi eating contest held at Old Home Week in Forest City, PA have been posted. The top 3:
1 Russ Keeler 51 pierogis in 10 minutes
2 Larell Marie Mele 48 (one of the more impressive female debuts of 2008)
3 John Skubic 43
2007 winner Mike Novak ate 38 before being disqualified
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| 2026 Jul 15 | Watersound, FL | Hot Dog Eating Contest |
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Hot Dog Eating Contest |
| 2026 Jul 14 Brooklyn, NY
Meatball Eating Contest |
| 2026 Jul 13 Dorchester, MA
Pho Eating Contest |
| 2026 Jul 12 Eaton, CO
Hot Dog Eating Contest |
| 2026 Jul 12 Vestal, NY
Hot Dog Eating Contest |
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| $100.00 | "plonksmash" |
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