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Chinook Winds rib eating contest results from a Jason Erb email:
1st Joey Chestnut 8.05 lbs, 4th victory in a row
2nd Rich Lefevre 5.3 lbs, 4th 2nd place finish in a row
3rd Erik Denmark 4.55 lbs, 3rd 3rd place finish in a row
4th Jason Erb 3.7 lbs, 3rd 4th place finish in a row
5th Brickhouse Braunstein 3.35 lbs
update
Blog entry and gallery by KC Photo
Desert Diva blog entry
Picture of Joey, Erik and fan
The Rafu Shimbon reports that a gyoza eating contest will be held on August 23 at the Nisei Week Festival in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. In 2006, the festival held an IFOCE gyoza contest. This year’s contest will probably also be an IFOCE event because the article says that national food eaters will participate.
A segment about Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub containing footage from a 2002 event in which diners attempted 3 and 6 pound burgers has been uploaded to youtube. No one was able to finish a 6 pound burger, but Lori Weiss did manage to set the record for the three pound burger.
The book section of the Mainichi Shibun has an interview with Natsuko “Gal” Sone about her recently released autobiography.
The Freakonomics blog entry about competitive eating has a link to a transcript of a chat session by Sonya Thomas. The chat was conducted by the Washington Post on July 3.
WFAA.com reports that the next stop in the La Costeña Feel the Heat Jalapeño Eating Challenge Tour will be in Dallas Sunday at the Taste of Dallas food festival. The contest will be one minute and award $500 to the winner.
A press release reports that the Major League Eating Wiiware game will be relased on July 14 as previously mentioned in a Ken Hoffman column.
Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics, attended the Nathan’s finals and has a short blog entry about that event with a picture of post-contest hot dog debris.
Kobayashi says he dined with an unnamed author who is probably Dubner before the Nathan’s finals and has a blog entry about meeting him .
Dubner says that competitive eating might be a topic of SuperFreakonomics. Will the IFOCE have Ryan Nerz write another book to counter that project?
DelmarvaNow.com has a gallery of the hot dog eating contest held July 4 at Fish Tales restaurant in Ocean City, MD. A caption reports that Ken Federighi won the contest by eating 16 hot dogs in 12 minutes. J.D. Kisner took 3rd place (the runner-up was not listed)
An anonymous commenter noted that a profile page for Jason Skrzypek, ranked #5 on WLOCE.com, has been added to that website. Jason Skrzypek is listed in the eatfeats database, which reports he finished 9th in the 2006 Atlanta Krystal Square Off qualifier.
The Nathan’s finals will be rerun tonight on ESPN at 3am eastern. This is the only rerun that currently appears in the online TV schedules.
The Salisbury Post has an article about controversy over Dale Boone’s use of hot tea at the July 4 Apple Ugly eating contest:
After friends pointed that out, [contest runner-up Keatin] Shelton e-mailed the Apple Baking Co., which organized the competition, to say that he didn’t think Boone’s record should count.
“I believe the tea may have given him an advantage,” Shelton wrote. “Anyway your rules were broken.”
The rules say that contestants can have cups of water. The rules also say contestants can’t use condiments on Uglies — which are “delicious enough on their own.”
The contest organizers say that Boone’s victory will stand.
There has been previous controversy over hot beverages in pastry eating competitions. Some competitors objected to the use of hot coffee in the 2003 San Gennaro Cannoli Eating Championship
WZTV (Fox 17/ Nashville) has an article and video about Juris Shibayama with footage from his medical office. The reporter surprises “Dr. Big Time” with a Twinkie eating contest, which the spinal surgeon wins.
Registration for the 5th Chef One Dumpling Eating Contest is now open (registration form). The competition will take place at the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing Meadows, Queens on August 3. The event will have men’s and women’s divisions and both divisions will award $1800 in prize money. Joe Menchetti and Floria Lee are expected to return to defend their titles.
Valerie Bromann, who previously photographed the Krystal Square Off finals, attended last week’s Nathan’s finals and posted a blog entry and gallery with over 100 pictures.
The Daily News Online has a preview of Sunday’s rib eating contest at Chinook Winds Casino in Oregon. The columnist, Rick S. Alvord, turned down an offer from the casino:
The fine folks at the casino told me to call them if I had a craving to interview Chestnut. Yeah, well, my career hasn’t deteriorated to that point yet, but thanks anyway.
For some reason, I think I already know what he’d say …
A mock Joey Chestnut interview follows. (Perhaps the real Joey Chestnut could have informed the author that the Wing Bowl does not take place at night)
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s food blog has an entry about a contest scheduled for Saturday:
A three-person team from local Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwich outlets will be attempting to make sandwiches faster than a team of three world-class, competitive Major League Eaters can eat them. It’s called the Freaky Fast Sandwich Making and Eating Contest.
update (from Crawfish) Contest information is now available on IFOCE.com. The three MLE eaters competing are Tim Janus, Tim Brown and Mike Fitzgerald.
The URL http://www.yardbarker.com/eating will bring up all competitive eating related posts on the Yardbarker blog. This will list not only Joey Chestnut’s and Pat Bertoletti’s blog, but also MissBusyLady’s fan blog and other eating related entries, such as this report from the Nathan’s finals.
Kobayashi has written two blog entries containing English about the recent Nathan’s finals. One thanks fans for their support, the other contains Kobayashi’s thoughts on the overtime format (not automatically translated):
In this case, I think the correct approach is to look at the situation as this: we decided the winner through a different event (rather than that we decided the winner in an extension of the 10-minute battle).
So for me, deciding the champion in a five hot dog challenge is no different to deciding the champion by playing “rock, scissors, paperâ€.
Kobayashi also has a blog entry comparing winning qualifier totals with the amounts eaten in the finals.
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