Entries tagged with 'Competitive Eating'
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New York's First Pizza-Eating Contest
New York. Pizza. An eternally happy couple. It's about time, then, that New York got a serious pizza-eating competition on par with Nathan's Hot Dogs or the Wing Bowl. This Sunday, October 12, the first-ever World Pizza Eating Championship will be held in Times Square. It's the newest official event of the International Federation of Competitive Eating, sponsored by Famous Famiglia. Reigning hot dog champion Joey Chestnut and burger master Patrick Bertoletti (not to mention the current burrito and sweet corn champs) will be at the competitors' table. My bet is on Chestnut. If you fold a slice in...Interview with Sal Carbone, Pizza-Eating Contest Winner
Link: Sal Carbone, Rocco's Pizza-Eating Winner [YouTube]...Bay Ridge Man Scarfs 15 Slices, One Bite, Setting New Rocco's Pizza-Eating Record
From the New York Daily News: "It started out as a friendly bet with my friends Danny and Rocco, but they knew the way I could eat. So I won it last year with 15 slices. This year I beat my record, 15 slices and one bite," said [Sal] Carbone, of Bay Ridge. Rocco's 7818 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11209 (Bay Ridge; map) 718-238-7658...Three Brothers Pizza-Eating Championship
Some guy named "Deep Dish" won the Three Brothers International Pizza Eating Championship in Greenbelt, Maryland, yesterday. Twenty slices in ten minutes. Some video, after the jump....Belly Buster Challenge in Santa Clara, California
Could you eat an entire 20-inch pizza by yourself? With two toppings? What if it guaranteed you free pizza for a year? Blogger Bear Silber reaches for the eye of the tiger: The Pizza and Pipes Belly Buster challenge was a success. A few men set out to make history, two became boys while one became a legend. What exactly is the Belly Buster challenge you ask. Simple, it’s a 20” pizza that must be consumed in one hour or less by one individual. To date many have tried but none have been victorious. The Hall of Shame is filled...Gothamist Judges Long Island Pizza
IMG_6203.jpg, blogged to Slice from the Flickr photostream of gothamistllc Gothamist editor-at-large and friend of Slice Tien Mao served as judge last Saturday at the Best of Long Island Pizza contest. Five Long Island–based pizzerias competed in each of five categories: regular, marinara, Sicilian, grandma, and specialty. In Mr. Mao's words: Our favorites from the day were Paradiso for regular pizza, Prince Umberto's in Sicilian, Paradiso's in marinara, Antino's in grandma, and Paradiso's in the specialty pizza. The winners for best pizza were Prince Umberto's for best regular and Sicilian, Paradiso for best marinara, Antino's for best grandma, and...Bay City Steamroller
Thassasalotta pizza! Fifteen-year-old Chris Pappas walked into B& C Pizza weighing in at 125 pounds. He left at least 7 pounds - plus $200 - heavier. Pappas, a sophomore at Bangor John Glenn High School, ate an entire B & C Party Pizza in under an hour, winning the B & C Pizza Lovers Challenge and taking home the prize money. The 18-inch, 7-pound pizza is smothered in pepperoni, ham, bacon, sausage, green olives, green pepper, mushrooms, onions, cheese and sauce. Teen puts away huge pizza to win $200 prize [The Bay City Times]...Top Dog Takeru Hints At Retirement
NOOOOOO!!!!!!! The Post's Page Six says international hot-dog-eating champion Kobayashi "The Tsunami" Takeru may soon retire from competitive eating. We say honto ni!? From the Post: "Lately, I have been thinking of retiring," said Kobayashi, who has won the annual Coney Island frank fest four years in a row. "I want to retire before I disappoint my fans. It is not the competition that I fear. It is a decline in my own abilities. I must go out on top." This is bittersweet news for us at Slice. We have great admiration for Mr. Kobayashi and were looking forward to...Surf And ... Surf
Slice is, of course, a pizza-information resource. We take our mission seriously and rarely deviate from it. Except when a juicy competitive-eating story presents itself. And if that story involves Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, our favorite gustatory gladiator, then it warrants mention in these pages. Ms. Thomas has done it again. The No. 1–ranked U.S. competitive eater just clinched a team lobster-eating event in Maine by eating 38 of the crunchy crustaceans in 12 minutes. That breaks down to 9.76 lbs. of lobster meat, or a little more than 9 percent of her 105 lb. body weight. She won...Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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