The New York Post’s television column lists the ratings for last Sunday’s contest on Spike TV:

* Spike’s “Ham N’ Egg” gorgefest snared 863,000 viewers during halftime of Sunday’s Super Bowl – a Spike record for a competi tive eating event. Winners: Eric Denmark (61 hard- boiled eggs), Joey Chestnut (7.14 lbs. of ham) and their cardiologists.

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Beautiful Brian announces an upcoming rock & roll CD titled “Stick to Blogging”. The lyrics will contain criticisms of people in the competitive eating community. Joey Chestnut is mentioned as a target. Brian says he might retire from competitive eating after the album’s release.

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The Mental Floss blog has a list of 6 restaurants and their eating challenges. A picture of Don “Moses” Lerman and “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz is used to illustrate Pinata’s Monster Burrito challenge. Joey Chestnut is also mentioned as a finisher of the Belly Buster Pizza. There are two challenges I was not previously aware of: a Seattle 12 egg omelet (which is not free if finished under a certain time) and a spicy ice cream challenge in North Carolina. The entry has 63 comments. There are also a lot of comments on digg.

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The Palm Beach sweet corn eating contest now appears on the IFOCE schedule for April 27 and registration for that contest will open at noon today.

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(Via “Pleasure and Payne”) Derek “Wing Tut” Payne designed some anti New England Patriot T shirts. The New York Post mentioned that line of clothing:

Derek Payne, 28, of Pittsburgh, designed a line of “18-1” shirts that are being sold on zazzle.com.

On his shirts, the numeral 1 is replaced with a graphic of a hand flipping the bird.

“I’m a Steeler fan, so I’ll give the Pats the middle finger as much as anybody,” he said. “I was definitely cheering for the New York Giants as they knocked the Pats off their perch last night.”

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The English network ITN uploaded footage from the Spike TV pig skin eating contest to youtube, and today that clip is the most viewed British video tagged as comedy. (The clip is the #19 comedy video regardless of country of origin.) Beautiful Brian has also uploaded video of the entire pig skin contest.

A full list of the video’s honors is available after the jump:
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The top 10 finishers at Sunday’s oyster bowl are now listed on the Oyster Bowl blog. PacPub has a report about that contest

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If the paczki eating contest held at Eddy’s Bake Shop in Ansonia, Connecticut awarded a ring to the victor, “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti would now be able to adorn each finger on one hand. ConnPost reports that Menchetti won his fifth paczki title and a prize of $200 by eating a record 13 paczkis in five minutes. NBCI5.com has a gallery and news video.

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The Asahi Shimbun has an article (in english) about a writer attempting a restaurant’s 9kg eating challenge. The eating contests televised on New Year’s Day are mentioned.

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Angelo Cataldi’s blog has a wrap up of Wing Bowl 16 which closes with the possibility of excluding “pros” from Wing Bowl 17:

We all acknowledge that it would be awesome for a local contestant to win Wing Bowl, but we are carefully governed by the FCC when it comes to all on-air contests. Wing Bowl is open to all contestants, everywhere. With the quality of prizes offered, there’s not much chance that the guys who are best at competitive eating are going to stay away from it.

How can we stop the trend? Well, the best way is to develop another local eater like El Wingador or Heavy Kevvy. So far we haven’t been able to do that, though US Male and Gentleman Gerry have placed in the top five the past two years. Our other possibility is to rewrite the rules to exclude the pros. Do we want to do this for Wing Bowl 17? I’m not sure yet. My first impression is, it’s a step down for Wing Bowl as soon as we eliminate the best eaters available.

AICE would probably dispute the claim that “Wing Bowl is open to all contestants, everywhere”.

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BeautifulBrian.com has a bluesy song on his website about the travails he experiences. The first verse of the song goes:

I came in as an eater I do the best i can
I never made no money but i dont give a damn
I get the blues when im not eating Im an eater till i die
Dont care how i finish , It aint about a piece of pie

BeautifulBrian.com also has a review of Badlands Booker’s fourth CD.

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The Matzo ball contest at Kenny and Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen in Houston is now listed on the IFOCE schedule for March 2. The contest purse is $1500 and registration opens February 6. Unlike the contest listing on my-table.com, the IFOCE contest page does not mention a minimum $250 donation for entrance into the contest.

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(Via Chicagoist) Pat Bertoletti reviewed wings from nine Chicago restaurants for Time Out Chicago. Bertoletti’s top choice:

Twisted Spoke
(501 N Ogden Ave, 312-666-1500)
THE PLACE Don’t settle for Hooters’ softcore family-friendly porn. Get the real thing at the Spoke’s Saturday-night “Smut and Eggs” showing.
THE VERDICT “These are smoky like roasted chicken. This is the best sauce I’ve tasted, really rich, nice salt and sweet balance. Maybe there’s some chipotle in there. The skin is really crispy. I’d rather lick my fingers clean than use a Wet-Nap.”

In other Chicago wing news, tickets are now on sale for the WingFest that will take place on February 24 A wing eating contest will be held during that event. In previous years, the contest had separate divisions for men and women.

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The New York Daily News has an article about redevelopment plans for Coney Island:

Buried deep in the plans is a provision that says of the 50 blocks being rezoned in Coney Island, only the block that contains Nathan’s – at the corner of Surf and Stillwell Aves. – and one block immediately west would be rezoned for towers.

That means the two-story building, which has drawn millions of hot dog lovers since 1916, could expand to 14 stories – or more – when detailed plans are approved next year.

“Nathan’s would be given more opportunities for development on its property, which could lead to any one of a number of scenarios, including the expansion of Nathan’s or its redevelopment as a new building,” City Planning spokeswoman Rachaele Raynoff confirmed.

Curbed suggests that Nathan’s redevelopment plans include a competitive eating venue.

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update The full “Ham & Egg” program is available on Spike TV’s MLE page

Ham contest results

1 Joey Chestnut 7.14 lbs. in 8 minutes
2 Pat Bertoletti 6.34
3 Tim Janus 4.1
4 Tim Brown 3.34
5 Rich LeFevre 3.24
6 Hall Hunt 3.00
7 Juliet Lee 2.98
8 Juris Shibayama 1.7

The ham standings are announced as the new rankings, which would put Juris Shibayama at #8 and ahead of Bob Shoudt, Sonya Thomas, Chip Simpson and Kobayashi.

Hard boiled eggs contest
1 Erik Denmark 61 eggs in 8 minutes
2 Chris Abatsas 59.5
3 Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 49
4 Allen Goldstein 48
5 Arturo Rios 43
6 Steakbellie 40

Erik Denmark’s result is announced as a new world record despite being less than Sonya’s amount (65) and in a longer time (6:40 vs 8:00)

Screen captures of the rankings and the teleblog follows after the jump:
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As of 4:53 pm eastern, “Competitive Eating” was #8 in the list of top search terms on the front page of yahoo.com

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The Tennessean has a preview of the “Ham & Eggs” contest that will be televised on Spike TV during the halftime of the Super Bowl focusing on Juris “Dr. Bigtime” Shibayama

update The Daily Herald also has an article about Shibayama’s performance in the ham contest which mentions his new #8 ranking.

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The Wall Street Journal has an article about the bhut jolokia pepper, considered the world’s spiciest. The article does not mention Anandita Dutta Tamuly’s bhut jolokia eating record.

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The Oyster Bowl blog lists Barbara Devaney as one of the co-favorites in today’s contest. Devaney took the 2006 contest into overtime after eating a record-tying 83 oysters in 2 minutes. She received a Ph. D. in economics from the University of Michigan and is currently a senior vice president at Mathematica Policy Research, where her specialties are family formation, children’s nutrition and public health programs. A team from Mathematica will be competing in today’s contest.

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Chron.com on Houston matzo ball soup contest
Ansonia, CT paczki contest Tuesday – GJoe is expected
List of top 10 eating contests – The Wing Bowl is not listed
Des Moines bacon festival with bacon eating contest
Las Cruces, NM 6 pound burger challenge
Canadian 2.5 pound burger contest – via AICE news
Leeds rugby team has burger eating contest at Florida training camp

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(From Matt Sollars) “American Stomach” author Frederick Kaufman reports that Crazy Legs Conti performed an oyster taste test at the Grand Central Station Oyster Bar in which he tried to identify one of seven oysters that was genetically modified. A video of the taste test is available on youtube.

2 “American Stomach” reviews are out: LA Times, Time Out New York

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In a forum thread on bodybuilding.com, DedicatedForLif/FuriousPete123 announces he ate a 72 ounce steak in under 7 minutes, breaking Frank Pastore’s record of 9.5 minutes. He submitted a video of his meal to youtube.

I am unaware of any other claims on the 72 ounce record. Cookie Jarvis ate a 76 ounce steak in with a side of creamed spinach in 7.5 minutes

In another bodybuilding.com thread, a banana eating contest is taking place. DedicatedForLif/FuriousPete is the currently tied for the lead in that contest with 16 bananas. Eatfeats commenter Alex from Panama is the other co-leader. There is a female entry in the contest, Simpy, who ate 5 bananas The contest ends at midnight Sunday if anyone wants to submit his or her video.

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Pennlive.com has a blog entry with a picture of the 286 pound burger produced by the Clinton Station Diner that was consumed at the World’s Largest Menu Burger Eating Championship today. Contest results are not provided; they will be listed in an article on Sunday.

update nj.com has an article with results:

1) Tomoko Miyake, Takuya Yamamoto, Taku Izumi – 26.4 lb in 45 minutes
2) Ian Hickman, Elizabeth Canady, Pete Maurizio – 18.1 lb in 45 minutes
? McGowan brothers 6 lb

updated AICE news has full results and a galleries of the burger’s creation and the contest

update #2 Jill Stoler has pictures in her myspace page and a blog entry about the contest

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Tomoko Miyake reports that she has made her debut as a “gravure” model Gravure models wear clothes like bathing suits and leotards. In the article about her debut, Tomoko poses next to a lot of food from Wendy’s

On Friday, Tomoko and her teammates were filmed eating hot dogs at Wind Mill hot dogs.

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There were 4 eaters who made the second round of the Wing Bowl in both 2007 and 2008. Here is how they performed in the first round both years:

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