Stephanie Wu reports that Stephanie Torres won a hot dog eating contest at the American Festival in San Diego by eating 14 hot dogs in 5 minutes. Johnnie Excel was the runner-up with 12.

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  1. Damon Wells said

    October 30, 2010 @ 7:40 pm

    14 hot dogs and buns with no dunking or seperating in 5 minutes is damn impressive. 12 is pretty good too.

  2. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    October 30, 2010 @ 8:32 pm

    1st: Stephanie Torres – 14 HDB
    2nd: Johnnie Excel – 12 HDB
    3rd: David – 10 HDB
    4th: Dennis – 8 HDB
    5th: Stephanie Wu – 6 HDB

    Stephanie is a world-class eater. This was her first head-to-head contest, and she brought it! It was an honor to be there! She has the potential to be a huge superstar in CE. Johnnie Excel was right behind Steph all the way and did great too.

    Newcomer Dennis, whom I believe was an employee of the restaurant that cooked the hot dogs, or some other restaurant at the festival, also was impressive in only his second contest, with 8 HDB.

    The contest was hard since we couldn’t dunk or separate the hot dog from the bun.

  3. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    October 30, 2010 @ 8:35 pm

    An interesting fact about this contest is that they make the eaters put together their own hot dogs before the contest. You are given a bag of 16 buns and have to reach into this tray of hot dogs with your bare hands to assemble them.

  4. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    October 30, 2010 @ 9:39 pm

    Unfortunately, I don’t have many good after pics, but here is a before pic showing the eaters:

    http://stephaniesamerica.com/pics-competitive%20eating-publish/american-festivals/san-diego/2010-10-30/2/DSCF0043-90.jpg

    http://stephaniesamerica.com/pics-competitive%20eating-publish/american-festivals/san-diego/2010-10-30/2/DSCF0043-90.jpg

    Left to right: the guy in the yellow was the judge, Dennis, Stephanie Torres, announcer, David, Johnnie Excel

  5. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    October 30, 2010 @ 9:40 pm

    Does anyone know the code to insert a pic directly into your post, like OJ did here:

    http://eatfeats.com/lisel-parillon-eats-99-tacos-in-under-36-minutes-in-3-sessions.html

  6. A-Bomb said (Registered May 7, 2009)

    October 30, 2010 @ 10:39 pm

    ?

  7. A-Bomb said (Registered May 7, 2009)

    October 30, 2010 @ 10:41 pm

    It’s not allowing html code in the post: ?

  8. A-Bomb said (Registered May 7, 2009)

    October 30, 2010 @ 10:44 pm

    Sorry. Try to be helpful… View source or Google it.

  9. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    October 30, 2010 @ 11:12 pm

    Thanks A-bomb. Can you insert raw html code into a post? I thought there was special WordPress or bulletin board code, like ? Google hasn’t helped. I’ll try raw html code below:

  10. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    October 30, 2010 @ 11:12 pm

    yeah there is special code that is needed for WordPress.

  11. ojrifkin said (Registered July 27, 2005)

    October 31, 2010 @ 12:43 am

    WordPress does not allow embedding images in comments.

  12. Anonymous said

    October 31, 2010 @ 4:30 am

    Stephanie Torres is the best woman eater going today. The ifoce girls must be worried sick.

  13. Stallion Italian said (Registered August 27, 2010)

    October 31, 2010 @ 9:11 am

    Hot air must be on the menu 4:30 am, not the first sentence because that is yet to be seen but the second one for sure. But it is good to get anticipation for competition among more women eaters front and center. There may be a time when a women’s league could become possible though I think Sonya would pass. In most sports, separating men and women is logical. Competitive eating isn’t one of them. Gender makes no difference whatsoever.

  14. Anonymous said

    October 31, 2010 @ 9:31 am

    stephanie torrez is HOT

  15. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    October 31, 2010 @ 10:24 am

    Thasnks OJ! I should have known since I have a WordPress blog loaded on my own webspace; but then again, I never post comments as a non-administrastor.

  16. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    October 31, 2010 @ 1:31 pm

    I just uploaded my write-up about this contest, with lots of pics:

    http://stephaniesamerica.com/l30-american-festivals-san-diego.html

  17. Anonymous said

    October 31, 2010 @ 2:40 pm

    david=kevin ross

  18. Luther said

    October 31, 2010 @ 3:30 pm

    No I think Sonya would go for a woman’s league. That way she would be in the to three.

  19. Larellmarie said (Registered May 9, 2010)

    November 1, 2010 @ 6:02 am

    Outrageous numbers!!! Way to go everyone!!

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