Glutton Bowl

Glutton Bowl was a two-hour FOX eating special sanctioned by the International Federation of Competitive Eating.

Broadcast
FOX 2002

Hosts/Commentators
Mark Thompson & George Shea

Contest Set Up
The competition was set up to have three rounds - the qualifiers, the Wild Card round and the finals. In each round, the competitors were to eat the most of one specified food in a set amount of time. The winner of each qualifying competition was automatically in the finals. The runner up in each qualifier in the wild card round and the winner of that was the last person in the final.

Round-by-Round
The list of Foods eaten in each round and the winning amount eaten are as follows (each competition was 12 minutes long):

Qualifying Rounds

 * Hard-boiled eggs: The winner, Eric "Badlands" Booker ate 38 eggs.
 * Quarter-pound sticks of butter: the winner, Don "Paula Deen' Moses" Lerman, ate 10 sticks.
 * Whole beef tongue (3 lb/1.4 kg) to each tongue: the winner, Dominic "The Doginator" Cardo, ate 1 togune plus few bites of another.
 * Hot Dogs: the winner, Takeru Kobayashi, ate 31 hot dogs - buns and all.
 * Mayonnaise (32 oz. per bowl): the winner, Oleg Zhornitskiy, ate four bowls which is equivalent to 8 pounds (3.6kg) of Mayo.
 * Hamburgers (3.oz meat patties plus bun/fast food type burgers): the winner, Jed "The Jalapeno King" Donahue, ate 11
 * 15-foot/4.6m, 12-pound/5.4kg, sushi roll, including two 1-foot-long (0.30 m) pieces of Wasabi: the winners, Jeff Robb and Donny Hansen, ate a collective round of 78 pounds (35 kg) of wiener in 23 minutes. While Bill "Ed Wingador" Simmons, consumed 3.8 feet (1.2m).

Wild Card Round

 * Cooked (but not fried) Rocky Mountain Oysters 3.lb (1.4 kg)

Finals

 * Cow Brain (1/3 pounds each) one plate and on to seconds (10 lb per platter and 5 lb (2.3 kg) for additional platter: won by Takeru Kobayashi.