Time Out NY says chefs are the new rock stars.
The world’s ten most disgusting beers.
Competitive eating: Nature or Nurture?
Burger King profits are rising.
A rant about limited edition candy.
Make your own microwave popcorn.
Quizno’s founder is bringing Smashburger to LA.
Indablog looks at the phenomenon of the fast food drive-thru rap.
Pioneer Woman makes spicy macaroni and cheese.
Pancetta-Wrapped [...]

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Needed: 150 women to eat chocolate every day for a year.
Mars Inc. is buying Wrigley.
What makes NYC pizza so hard to top?
Slate says PETA’s $1 million prize to develop artificial chicken is a sham.
Sonya Thomas is the new sweet corn eating champion.
Null Hypothesis wonders why people are either oliver lovers, or haters.
Could this blog be [...]

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Pizza ingredient costs are rising, and sales are falling.
Anheuser-Busch’s CEO says the company will not be sold “on my watch.”
A nice analysis of advertising campaigns for McDonald’s & Burger King.
Pat Bertoletti has won the Acme World Oyster Eating championship with 35 dozen oysters in 8 minutes.
Best Bites interviews Wolfgang Puck.
Sugar Laws makes Smoked pheasant salad.
Sweet [...]

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Via Serious Eats. Here’s the new trailer for the upcoming competitive eating game. They also have set up a pretty nifty looking website for the game HERE.

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I previously wrote that Mastiff was planning to make a competitive eating game. Now, we have some details from Wii Fanboy, via Serious Eats, plus a screen shot!

The game will be available for download on Wii Ware starting May 11th, will feature online play and a leaderboard, and make “extensive” use of the Wii [...]

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No not me. God no, I would never do that. But one young man (duh, I mean would a woman be stupid enough to do this?) has created a Facebook group (now up to more than 16,000 members) that makes this very promise.

The only stipulation the group’s creator makes, is that while he promises to [...]

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Video game maker Mastiff has purchased the gaming rights to make Major League Eating: The Game. The game will feature all your favorite competitive eating stars, such as Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti.

(Note: Not the real game box. Thanks to Soupy Trumpet for the photoshop job)
Regular readers of So Good know that this is [...]

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Can I interest you in a ten-pound chocolate bar?
Heinz wants Angelina Jolie to be the new face of their Heinz Salad Cream.
The NY Times has a new food blog called Bitten, which will “use food as a window into the world.”
Joey Chestnut won the Philadelphia wing bowl with 241 wings.
Diet soda may be a factor [...]

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If you’re serving sangria in Virginia, you’re breaking the law.
Wendy’s is ending their red wig “That’s Right” campaign.
Spike TV will feature hard-boiled egg and ham eating contests during halftime of the Super Bowl.
There’s a semi-new hamburger blog you should check out.
Whoops. A Steak ‘n Shake manager is under fire for refusing to take a deaf [...]

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Last week, on the day before Thanksgiving, competitive eater Tim “Eater X” Janus devoured a ten person Thanksgiving feast in just 15 minutes. The reason Janus did this was….wait for it…wait for it…….to raise awareness of those who go hungry.
Hey thanks Tim, we were totally unaware that some people go hungry. However, after hearing [...]

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On Thursday, Pat Bertoletti won the 2007 Turkey Bowl. In 8 minutes he put back 6.91 pounds of turkey, besting runner-up (and #1 ranked eater) Joey Chestnut. In October, I suggested that Beroletti was on the verge of becoming America’s #1 ranked eater. Granted I have no idea how the ranking system [...]

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Once again raising the bar for high-quality holiday themed programming, Spike TV will be airing a special on Thanksgiving called “MLE Chowdown: The Turkey Bowl.” The show will feature the world’s top competitive eaters attempting to eat as much of a whole, 20-pound Turkey in 8 minutes as they can.

“Sometimes I think our soup kitchen [...]

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Two competitive eating competitions took place over the weekend, the Krystal Burger Square Off, and the very first Ramen noodle eating contest, which was part of a launch party for the new video game Naruto.
After losing the the chicken wing and waffle eating contests to rising star Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti, hot dog eating champion [...]

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Meet Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti. This 22-year old from Chicago is on the verge of becoming the world’s #1 competitive eater. Famous for his mohawk, headbands and wearing headphones while he eats, in the past three weeks Bertoletti has won the grit eating competition in Louisiana, the waffle eating competition in Texas, and just [...]

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