F Valenciano uploaded a video of a song about Gal Sone performed by a singer backed by an acoustic guitar. The musicians were from the group The Milk Babys and a MP3 clip of the Gal Sone song performed with a full band is available.

F Valenciano has a blog entry in Spanish about the performance. The start of the lyrics of the song (automatically translated from Spanish) follows:

My body smells like sewer,
Gal Sone must smack of hibiscus,
Never use Sawayaka Sawadee
Gal (Gal) Gal (Gal) Gal (Gal) Gal (Gal)
Gal Gal Gal Gal Gal Gal Gal Gal
Gal Sone, Gal Sone, Gal Sone, Gal Sone, Gal Sone, Gal Sone

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The Pizza Machine in Springfield, Illinois offers a 40 inch pizza. The pizza is delivered to a diner’s table by a crane. $500 will be awarded to a team of two that can finish the pizza in under an hour.

Just Two Guys has a blog entry about attempting the 40 inch challenge and Brad J Ward has a gallery of the restaurant.

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A listing of the 10 eaters with the most results in the eatfeats database is listed below. A list of all eaters with 10 or more results is available after the jump

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Voting for the first round of the Philadelphia City Paper’s “Philly Madness” has concluded, and the Wing Bowl has lost to The Philadelphia International Cycling Championship by a margin of 43% to 57%.

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A group from roadfood.com toured New York City hot dog restaurants and took a picture of the Nathan’s Wall of Fame which reveals that the champions from 1984 to 1987 have been dropped to make for space for future winners. Removing these listings eliminates whatever inaccuracies they might have contained, but discrepancies are still present between the remaining entries and newspaper archives.

Maureen Dowd, now a famous columnist, wrote the article about the 1984 contest. She does not mention the winner’s name.

We will see if the truncation of the champions listing will foreshadow modifications to the picture section of the Wall of Fame.

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Tomoko Miyake reports that the team burger eating contest held at the Clinton Station Diner on Super Bowl weekend will be televised on March 20. The contest will be televised by NNN news, which usually posts its competitive eating videos online.

In other Japanese contest news, R Suzuki reports that Hatsuyo Sugawara won a televised sushi eating contest. The top 5 in that contest:

1. Hatsuyo Sugawara, 107 plates
2. Takuya Yamamoto, 104 plates
3. Nobuyuki Shirota, 102 plates
4. Tomoko Miyake, 81 plates
5. Taku “Artist” Izumi, 74 plates

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AICE News reports that the even-year Carnegie Deli pickle eating contest will take place on May 21.

PressConnects.com reports that Joe LaRue will attempt to defend his pancake eating title in Marathon, NY on April 5.

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• Domenico Alesi on possible eating contest foods
• The Sonya Thomas song on “Stick to Blogging” is in jeopardy
• Skinnyboy has posted a Travel Channel segment about the Acme Oyster House to youtube
• The winner of Sunday’s mussel eating contest in Philadelphia – he ate 10 pounds of mussels in 4 hours
• Kobayashi used in a Hungry Sisters’ economic textbook example
• IFOCE.com page about Kevin Ross

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Paul Barlow emails that he has set up a NCAA tournament bracket challenge league:

Please publish this invitation for all Eaters and Fans to join in my NCAA Basketball picking league on Fox Sports.com’s bracket challenge. The league is called Eat More Basketballs, the password is ifoce (lower case)….even though the password is my eating league, all eaters in any organization is more than welcome – I just wanna have fun!! I didn’t have everyone’s email, so this will hopefully suffice as an invitation to all.

Whoever wants to enter better move fast….the NCAA tournament starts Thursday!!

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Amazon.com has some copies of “Eat This Book” by Ryan Nerz available for $3.99. Quantities are limited.

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An update on Beautiful Brian’s CD has been posted which states that 9 of 13 planned tracks have been completed. Two of the remaining 4 tracks, “Bye Bye Bye ” and “Moses is Great”, will be instrumentals. DJ Flywheel will host an internet television show on March 23 or 24 to premier the new CD.

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Kobayashi has a blog entry about his thirtieth birthday which took place on Saturday.

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• “Badlands” Booker is Sonya Thomas’ featured eater for the second quarter of 2008
• Page on the eating contest at CollegiateNationals.com – only the winner of the qualifier will appear in the finals
• A press release for Phoenix Battle of the Bone says it is restricted to amateurs. The rules appear to make no such restriction
• Lufkin, TX tamale festival runs out of tamales, but still manages to put on a tamale contest.
• Joey Chestnut’s matzoh ball contest victory mentioned in the Vallejo Times Herald
• Nashua, NH hot dog contest report
  
• “Stretch” eating contest at Missouri University
• Group burger challenge attempt at Mount Airy, NC

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“Beautiful” has uploaded a promotional video for his upcoming CD to youtube. The video announces that the release date will be March 30. Most of the song clips in the video are present on the reverb nation site, but one previously unreleased song featuring El Toro can be heard.

BeautifulBrian.com also has a page about the death of his cat Frieda and a page about eatfeats.

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Qualifying for the Big “A” burger eating contest sponsored by Andy’s Cheesesteaks is taking place throughout the month of March. The eaters recording the best 10 times in March for that 48 oz. burger will receive entry into the finals that will take place on April 12 in Greenville, NC. The winner of that contest will receive $1,000. Andy’s Cheesesteaks are located throughout eastern North Carolina.

Contest rules – PDF

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Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell has a picture and brief account of her eating a 48 ounce steak on her blog. She was rewarded with a free meal, a T shirt and a picture on the unnamed restaurant’s wall for finishing the steak in under 20 minutes.

update Isabelle has additional comments on her finishing the steak in a bodybuilding forum thread. She has been banned by the restaurant (which is probably Sam’s Steakhouse in Terre Haute, Indiana) from attempting the challenge again.

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The dates on which the previous 5 IFOCE top 50 rankings were released and the durations between them are listed below.

The current gap of 251 days (8 months and a week) since the most recent ranking on July 8, 2007 now exceeds the previous longest gap between the five rankings, which was 242 days between November 8, 2006 and July 8, 2007.

July 8, 2007 – 242 day gap
November 8, 2006 – 106 day gap
July 25, 2006 – 116 day gap
March 31, 2006 – 198 day gap
September 14, 2005

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Happy 30th birthday to the world’s all time greatest competitive eater.

Kobayashi now has English versions for all the pages on his main website.

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Registration is now listed as closed for all four April contests on the IFOCE calendar. The purse for the Acme Oyster contest is announced at $1750.

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St. Patricks Day weekend eating contests

• March 15 – Merrimack, NH – hot dog eating contest for charity
• March 15 – Everett, WA – Hands free corned beef & cabbage eating contest, first prize is $50 gift card
• March 16 – Cleveland, MS – Spaghetti eating contest at MS Italian Festival – $1000 first prize
• March 16 – Tavares, FL – egg roll eating contest at dragon boat festival
• March 16 – Duluth, MN Blackforest torte eating contest & team beer drinking contest
• March 16 – Hellertown, PA corned beef & cabbage eating contest – winner receives $50
• March 16 – Philadelphia, PA Mussel eating contest at Zot restaurant
• March 17 – Cincinnati, OH Lucky Charms cereal eating contest at Fountain Square

Other links

• Beautiful Brian has a possible cover for his CD which he announces will be on sale in March
• Dagwood sandwich eating contest in Columbus, OH (from RussK)
• Nova Scotia chocolate eating contest canceled
• New Krystalist blog – mentions Wii eating game
• AICE mentioned as possible Kansas City conventioneers – from Liz K
• Megamuch reports on his giant chocolate kiss challenge

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Pat Bertoletti has written a blog entry about his trip to Houston for the matzoh ball eating contest at Kenny & Ziggy’s Deli. He believes he was leading Joey Chestnut until about the five or six minute mark. The report closes with Pat’s thoughts on his current status in the IFOCE:

3 years on the circuit have driven me to reflection. Throught this reflection I have realized that eating is tier based. You start on a natural talent tier and as time, contest experience, and training sets in you have a break through. You then plateau and level off as your body gets used to its new capacity. I have gone through these and am on a plateau. I am trying to get over the hump as we speak. It’s one giant hurtle to overcome. To beat joey and kobey in nathans or krystal is no walk in the park. I don’t know if it’s possible for my body to hold 70 nathans but I am going to damn well try to hit that number on the 4th. One can only play 2nd fiddle for so long before he gets the itch and wants to be the lead. But, there is something to be said when you’re number 2. Motivation comes easier when you know that ever contest you need to up your game and compete on the top level.

The Jewish Daily Forward also has an article about the contest.

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The blog for Mother Jones magazine has an article titled “What Americans Will Do for Money” that begins with a section about Rich LeFevre based on information from the eatfeats database. Another section is about the water drinking contest sponsored by a Sacramento radio station which resulted in the death of one of the competitors.

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A spaghetti eating contest will be held at the Italian Festival of Mississippi on Saturday in Cleveland, MS. The first prize is $1000 and the entrance fee is $50. Applications are accepted on a first come, first serve basis.

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The Philadelphia City Paper is running a tournament of Philadelphia related items called “Philly Madness”. The Wing Bowl is currently losing (game 30) to The Philadelphia International Cycling Championship 53% – 47%

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Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg of ESPN radio and ESPN2 are finalizing the details of their 2008 NCAA tournament wager. A poll on ESPN.com is currently available to determine Golic’s fate if he loses the wager. The five choices in that poll are:

• Dress in drag for an entire show
• Get a full body waxing on the show
• Receive a botox shot in the forehead during the show
• Participate in a competitive eating contest vs. the pros on the show
• Follow a vegan diet for an entire week

The winning choice will be revealed during tomorrow’s show.

updated corrected Mr. Golic’s first name (thanks Wing Tut)

Update March 13 Mike-Greenberg.com reports that the eating contest was the winning choice.

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