A while ago, we wrote about the King of the (5lb) Burger Challenge at the Fieldhouse Sports Bar & Grill, Joliet, IL. The original challenge was If you can eat this 5lb burger and fries within 30 minutes, you get not only the burger for free, but you get a free meal, every day for 1 year! Yep, 365 free meals. Well, for a highly coveted IFOCE member such as Pat, it doesn't take him long to destroy this one. 2.5 minutes for the burger, and another 1 minute to finish off the rest of the plate! And to top it off, he had a Gyro Platter, because the 5lb burger wasn't enough! This was his "training" before the Krystal Square Off, where he placed 3rd behind Joey "The Jaws" Chestnut, and Takeru Kobayashi. There's also a few pics of the Krystal Square off, and some pre-match training at a local Krystal by Richard Le Fevre.

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Following on from The Wendy's Super Nugget Super Challenge, another star is born, and crowned "The Nugget King". While our previous champion ate 26 Wendy's nuggets, the newly crowned Nugget King downed 40! Not a bad effort.... And not only does he eat 40 nuggets, he does "The Nugget Dance". I wonder how far this competition will go?

From: http://www.orangeride.com/archives/2005/nugget_king/index.html

Earlier this winter, I put my life at risk by setting the record for most Wendy's chicken Nuggets consumed in a single sitting. It should be noted, there was no documentation of a previous record, so I set the bar at 26. I hoped that posting my feat online would encourage others to foolishly challenge and fall short of my historic accomplishment.

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The "Fantastic Four" (I just made that up), consisting of Joey "Jaws" Chestnut, Tim "Eater X" Janus, Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti, and Hall "Hoover" Hunt took on the Chili Dog Challenge. The Challenge? To eat more than 43 Chili Dogs in 4 hours. Tim ate 43.5, breaking a 23 year old record held by a 5' 3" 110 pound woman!

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Well, the word "supersized" did come up at least once....

From: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FLn45-7Pn2Y

Thanks to Ali and Mianos for sending this one in! news.com.au is running a story on this years Axia 3 Turkey Eating Competition. Congrats to Pat Bertoletti for winning the event, devouring 4.8 pounds of turkey in 12 minutes!

From: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20807515-13762,00.html
Pics: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20807515-13762,00.html

From James Hossack in New York
November 23, 2006 12:00am
THEY consider themselves athletes and their event is food - and for the competitive eaters battling for the 2006 Turkey Eating Title in New York today, Thanksgiving is no holiday.

While millions of Americans will sit down tomorrow to enjoy a traditional turkey roast, eight self-confessed gluttons instead set out to reduce the festivities to a bite-sized 12 minutes, and without skimping on the portions.

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The challenge is to consume at least 27.5 Wendy's Chicken Nuggets in one sitting. Why 27.5? I've got no idea.... something to do with the optimum amount of nuggets to have in an eating competition (apparently he's got a B.A. in Quantum Nuggetry! Can't argue with that!)

From: http://www.orangeride.com/archives/2005/suberbowl_saturday/index.html

The Wendy's Super Nugget Super Challenge!™ We devised numerous equations to determine the largest amount of chicken nuggets a non-obese human could consume. After numerous calculations, we finally agreed on an over/under of 27.5 nuggets. Listen... I have a B.A. in Quantum Nuggetry, while my brother graduated from Harvard's school of Nuggonomics. Trust us on this one.

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"Lunchzilla" was faced with three challenges. First challenge, to eat an 8lb Burrito. Second challenge, to eat 7 Saltines in 60 seconds. The third, and most difficult challenge, drink 1 gallon of Chocolate milk, and hold it down for 7 minutes. Can he meet all three challenges? Funny stuff!

From: http://youtube.com/watch?v=uWCedR3efB8

The bet: Drink a gallon of milk in less than an hour and hold it down for 7 minutes. The wager: Lunch at Taco Bell. The results: See for yourself...

[from Slashfood] Now this is what I'd call a happy meal! This Carl's Jr./Hardee's commercial has the two owners of Palms Casino Resort, Joe, Gavin, George Jr. and Phil Maloof chowing down on a $6 burger, and a $5,994 bottle of Petrus '82 Pomerol wine. Would you like a sundae with that?

The commercial first aired last week and the unusually luxe combo meal is actually on the room service menu at The Palms.

From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM-x6pjEOq0

Happy birthday to us... happy birthday to us! And what better way to celebrate than with a 20lb (9kg) meatcake! It took a few hours to prepare (I need a bigger oven), but overall everyone was happy with the outcome. Mmm... meatcake! I've also included the recipe that I used for each meatcake patty, so you can make either a 4 stack like this one, or any size you like. Enjoy!

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This video is awesome. Kevin Cronen gets an Octo, and eats it to the sounds of a hillbilly banjo backing track (the video has been sped up). Funny stuff!

From: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=879589578&n=2#

8 patties, 4 pounds of beef, heard of only in legend.... and in kevin's bowls.....(as told by ian welch....not eric chambers...)