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Beard Meats Food recorded a new song, "I Got Cheesecake" to benefit the Stroke Association charity, which has reached #3 on the UK Singles chart . Mads.de has an article in German about the song.
On December 16, Piada Italian Street Food in Easton, OH will hold a spaghetti eating contest inspired by the movie "Elf". The pasta toppings will be maple syrup, chocolate syrup, marshmallows, M&Ms, rainbow sprinkles and a Chocolate Fudge Pop-Tart.
A press release announces that ESPN has extended its contract with MLE to show Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on July 4 until 2029. During that time period, the live contest will probably be web streamed only since ESPN will be broadcasting Wimbledon in early July until 2035.
Sally Field competes in a hot wing contest MCed by Guy Fieri in a preview of "80 For Brady". The movie, which will be released on February 3, also stars Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Rita Morena and is based on a real world story about a quartet of friends attempting to obtain tickets for Super Bowl LI to see the New England Patriots play the Atlanta Falcons.
The Food Network Obsessed podcast has an interview with Casey Webb, the current host of Man v Food. MSN has an article about the podcast.
Metacritic reports that the subculture of competitive eating will be explored in an episode of the new season of "CSI:Vegas".
Vice.com produced a documentary about Erik "The Electric" Lamkin titled "100,000 Calorie Challenges: Inside the World Of Pro Eating"
"Battle of the Super Eaters", a 2019 Channel 4 documentary starring Leah Shutkever, Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran and Kyle Gibson is available on youtube with the title "Eating For A Living: My Life as a Competitive Eater"
The-Solute.com has a post about "The Glutton Bowl", a competitive eating tournament that aired on Fox in 2002, with commentary about the appearances of Don Lerman, Ed "Cookie" Jarvis, Oleg Zhornitskiy and Takeru Kobayashi.
ESPN has a press release about its telecast of the 2022 Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest. The men's contest will be live on ESPNews while the women's contest will be streamed on ESPN3 while ESPNews shows Sportscenter. (The two main ESPN channels will be showing Wimbledon.) John Anderson will replace Mike Golic Jr. as Rich Shea's broadcast partner.
The women's Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest has yet to be listed on the ESPN July 4 schedule. The MLE page about the contest says it will be on ESPNews, but that channel is showing Sportscenter all morning.
Joel Hansen auditioned for "America's Got Talent". He thinks his appearance will be televised next week.
The July 4 schedule for the ESPN family of networks is now out. ESPN News at noon has a showing of "Great American Events", which is what the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest has been listed as previously. ESPN and ESPN2 will be televising Wimbledon tennis at that time. ESPN will show a rerun at 4pm.
Free Kittens review of “Scarf Face”
FreeKittensMovieGuide.com has a positive review of the new competitive eating documentary “Scarf Face”:
The unexpected deaths of a few eaters notwithstanding, Scarf Face is a highly amusing documentary that cleverly subverts the self-importance displayed by its subjects. But even if one shares the opinion that gorging on dangerous amounts of food somehow qualifies as a sport, the film is a fascinating look at what makes these people tick.
The review includes a list of extras for the DVD that will go on sale June 7:
INTERVIEW THE WALT HICKEY – Hickey is a writer who often covers competitive eating events, and humorously questions the claim that Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest has really been going on for 100 years.
INTERVIEW WITH ED “COOKIE” JARVIS – A former MLE competitive eater who’s lost a ton of weight and has no love for the MLE.
OUTTAKES WITH ACTOR DAVE SWEENEY – Outside of his appearance in this film, I don’t know who he is either.
COMPETITIVE EATER DEATH SEGMENT – One which was featured in the film, one which wasn’t…a radio station water drinking contest which resulted in a woman’s death.
EXTENDED GYOZA-EATING SCENE
AUDIO COMMENTARY – By directors Joseph Ruzer & Sean Salter
TRAILER
The only competitive eating article from Walt Hickey I could find was a preview of the 2016 Nathan’s finals for 538.
Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie appear in the latest video (at 3:45 mark) by Mr. Beast which recreates Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. The video is currently the #1 trending video on youtube.
Film Threat has a positive review of the new competitive eating documentary "Scarf Face". Eye For Film is more negative about the movie (2.5 / 5 stars). The official release date for the DVD is June 7, but the film is already available for viewing on a Spectrum on Demand account.
The "Scarf Face" documentary will be available for purchase on DVD starting June 7. The trailer says the film will focus on the health risks and other negative aspects of competitive eating.
The whole two hour telecast of the Glutton Bowl from 2002, including commercials, has been uploaded to youtube.
The Cartoon Network has posted a clip from a 2020 episode of "Scooby Doo and Guess Who?" in which Scooby and Shaggy are surprise entrants in Haggerty's Hot Dog Eating Contest featuring Joey Chestnut and an unnamed Asian competitor.
Leah Shutkever appeared on ITV This Morning Thursday and attempted to break her Guinness record of 19 chicken nuggets in an hour minute. The segment received criticism for being insensitive to global issues of food inflation and shortages. update Daily Star has an article.
Max Stanford appeared on the British television program "The Gadget Show". He attempted to eat 100 custard cream biscuits on his appearance but it was cut from the episode.
The WB Kids youtubechannel has a Looney Tunes cartoon in which Daffy Duck competes in a hot dog eating contest.
Indie Pix Films uploaded a trailer for "Scarf Face", a documentary examining the darker side of competitive eating with a Summer 2022 release date. Topics include the rivalry between Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi and the shock 2019 death of Juliet Lee which remains a complete mystery. Molly Schuyler and Miki Sudo also appear. Around the 70 second mark of the trailer, an anonymous interview subject with a distorted voice makes the claim "Everything about Major League Eating is a lie".
Vorstus posted a screen capture from the "The Incredibles" of the superheroes database providing information about "Mr. Incredible", the star of the Pixar film. It says he ate 47 boysenberry pies, 8 banana splits, 3 apple crumbs and a liter of mayonnaise to win an eating contest at a picnic.
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