The managing director of Donut Baker has an interview in fnbnews in which he mentions the WLOCE donut eating contest.
SeriousEats reports that Franco "Frenky Bello" Camerini, who won the 2008 Mangiatlhon by eating 7.3 kg of food in an hour (video), will compete in the 2009 Nathan's finals.
Filipino 7-11s to hold hot dog eating contest
7-11 stores in the Philippines will hold a hot dog eating contest this summer. Competitors can attempt to qualify at their local 7-11 on the qualifying dates. The grand prize is 500,000 Philippine pesos ($10,360)
update The contest website is at http://eatingmachinesphilippines.com/. The contest rules do not appear to explicitly require Filipino citizenship. A promotional video of a match beteween Dicky Fellow (a woman) and Katarina Haligi is available.
The Telegraph has a report on yesterday's World Stinging Nettle Eating Championship held in Dorset England.
NPR has an article about today's World Stinging Nettle Eating Championship in Marshwood, England.
NewZealandHerald reports that Kiwi Prime Minister John Key competed in an oyster eating contest, placing third in his qualifier.
MyBangalore has an article with several pictures about the WLOCE donut eating contest.
MC Rahman has some videos of the Bangalore donut eating contest won by Dale Boone.
The Hindu has a report on Saturday's donut eating contest held in Bangalore, India won by Dale Boone. The top female competitor was reportedly named Moses.
Youtube has a video of today's donut eating contest in Bangalore India, won by Dale Boone with 44 donuts. PCresswell, who served as the contest referee, has a blog entry about the contest.
The Fiji Times has an article about a Fijian hot dog contest. The winner will receive a slot in the Nathan's finals if he or she can eat more than 50 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
WLOCE will have a doughnut eating contest in Bangalore, India on May 16 that will award 35,000 Indian rupees to the winner. The WLOCE idli contest, originally set for May 16, does not currently have a set date.
The Independent has results from several Competitive Eating UK contests. Kevin Willis ate 17 hot dogs in 3 minutes to win one event.
Crocodile Egg Eating contest in Pattaya, Thailand
WLOCE announces Bangalore idli contest May 16
The WLOCE website has been updated to announce that an idli contest will take place in Bangalore, India on May 16. WLOCE will also sanction the July 4 Apple Ugly Eating contest in North Carolina and the purse for its contest at Corndogorama will be $875.
A picture of Boone and Indian giant P. Theyagarajan appears on the WLOCE myspace page.
A video clip of a 40 piece sushi sprint from an episode of Food Battle Club has been uploaded to youtube. Takeru Kobayashi (with blond hair) and Nobuyuki "the Giant" Shirota are two of the participants.
Indian woman eats 51 bhut jolokia for British TV
(from Paul Barlow) The The Daily Mail reports that Anandita Dutta Tamuly ate 51 bhut jolokia peppers, considered the spiciest peppers in the world, in 2 minutes in Jorhut, India. Chef Gordon Ramsay of Hell’s Kitchen observed the feat, which will appear on a program he is producing for the British network Channel 4. She also rubbed the seeds from some peppers in her eyes.
AFP reports that Gordon Ramsey served as the official monitor for the Guinness Book of World Records, which requested that Ms. Tamuly’s pepper prowess be observed by “someone responsible”. She had hoped to receive a Guinness record for eating 60 bhut jolokias in 2 minutes in 2007, but no such recognition was apparently bestowed. The current official Guinness pepper eating record is 8 jalapenos in a minute.
BBC video
Kobayashi has posted some entries about his trip to China on his blog. A news video about the contest is also available.
Sugawara repeats as Gluttonous Queen
R Suzuki has a writeups of today’s Gluttonous Queen program on her blog. Hatsuyo “The Witch Sugawara” repeated as champion. Natsuko “Gal” Sone was fifth. The final rounds were held in Australia after taking place in Hawaii in previous years.
Kobayashi wins Chinese contest
ChinaNews reports Takeru Kobayashi won the contest held in Suzhou, China by eating 164 pieces of salmon sushi in 20 minutes. Kobayashi says in his blog this is the first time he has done contests on consecutive days since the US Open of Competitive Eating. (Pictures from yesterday’s semifinal)
update SouFun.com has some pictures of the finals
2500sz reports that Kobayashi and Johnny Wu won their semifinal cake eating contests today and will face off in the finals tomorrow. Kobayashi finished his cake in 15 minutes and 34 seconds.
Kobayashi to compete in Chinese contest March 28/29
Kobayashi’s latest blog entry reports that qualifiers for a Chinese contest he will compete in have been held. Translated Chinese news articles from those competitions are available. The semifinals & finals Kobayashi will compete in will take place on March 28 and 29. Johnny Wu from Hong Kong, who previously competed against Sonya Thomas, is another recipient of a bye into the semifinals.
Russian dies after victory in pancake contest
(from Ken Wong) RussiaToday has sad news from a pancake eating contest:
At a celebration of Maslenitsa or Pancake week ‘the fastest pancake eater contest’ ended in tragedy in the Kaliningrad Region, when the winner of the competition died as he prepared to accept his award.
Boris Isaev, 46, a resident of the city of Chernyakhovsk, climbed onstage to take the prize, but suddenly fell to his knees choking. Foam came out of his mouth and a few moments after he fell breathless.
RIAN.ru also has an article
This is the fifth death in an Eastern hemisphere eating contest since the start of 2008.
Algerian claims to have eaten 1,500 eggs & whole lamb
(from bodybuilding.com forum) Reuters has an article about Salim Haini of Algeria who claims to have eaten 1,500 eggs in under three hours. Other reported feasts include a 35 kg (77 lbs) lamb roast and 50 kg (110 lbs) of lettuce.
Haini’s abilities are not limited to eating organic items. A video of his consumption of nails, glass and a fluorescent light bulb are available.
Haini hopes to be listed by the Guinness Book of World Records even though it has stopped listing eating records. Should he be included, it might not be in a positive manner. The 1988 Guinness edition called Michael Lotito’s consumption of a bicycle as “the ultimate in stupidity”
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