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The West Palm Beach, FL Sweet Corn Fiesta (April 26) and Fairmont, WV Three Rivers Festival Pepperoni Roll (May 23) eating contests have been removed from the MLE schedule. The Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship in Los Angeles on August 22 is currently the first upcoming contest listed.

April 1, 2020 at 11:46 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Palm Beach, West Virginia | Permalink * Comments (1)

Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport, CT announced they will sue its food service provider that produced the pancakes used in a fatal pancake eating contest held March 2017. (The current athletics director of SHU is former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine, who ate 120 pancakes to win a contest when he was a college student.) update Tim Janus has offered to testify in favor ot Chartwells, the food service provider.

March 30, 2020 at 2:06 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Bridgeport, Fatalities | Permalink * Comments (1)

The New York City Hot Sauce Expo that was to have taken place April 18 and 19 in Brooklyn has been postponed to September. Previous events had several spicy eating contests on both days.

March 29, 2020 at 9:25 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:New York City, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

The New Orleans Oyster Festival announced it has cancelled the event scheduled for May 30 and 31. A MLE oyster eating contest has been held during the festival.

March 27, 2020 at 6:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:New Orleans | Permalink * Comments (32)

An article by Jim Seimas about last June's Nathan's qualifier at Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz won the Associated Press Sports Editors award for papers with a circulation of 14,000 or less.

March 26, 2020 at 8:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2019 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, San Jose | Permalink * Comments (1)

WWE wrestler Braun Strowman faced off against Danni Ellexo to see who could finish the burger challenge at Jimmy Hula's in Winter Park, FL first.

March 26, 2020 at 7:44 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Male Athletes, Orlando | Permalink * Comments (3)

New York City hotels are hoping for a July 1 reopening date, which would make a Nathan's hot dog contest on July 4 a possibility.

March 24, 2020 at 5:10 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2020 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, New York City | Permalink * Comments (11)

The trainer for Long Weekend blames the Blue Runner Foods World Red Beans And Rice Eating Championship for the horse's poor result at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans.
"In a very strange set of circumstances, Fair Grounds had a red-beans-and-rice eating contest on the apron of the track," Amoss said. "They had all the big eaters. Joey Chestnut and, I mean, these were national guys. It was sponsored by a red-beans company, and there was a lot of activity and hoopla, and it spooked Long Weekend, and he got loose in the post parade."

March 22, 2020 at 2:34 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:New Orleans | Permalink * Comments (2)

The Elk Horn (Iowa) Tivoli Fest that was to have been held May 22-24 has been cancelled. The festival had would have dropped MLE affiliation for its aebleskiver eating contest and been amateur only.

March 20, 2020 at 5:50 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Iowa, Omaha | Permalink * Comments

The International Bar-B-Q Festival scheduled for May 8 and 9 in Owensboro, KY has been cancelled and a mutton sandwich eating contest that was to have been held at that event has been removed from the MLE calendar. There are no plans to reschedule the festival on a later date this year.

March 20, 2020 at 1:10 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kentucky | Permalink * Comments

Love in the Time of Coronavirus has an interview with Pat Bertoletti on how the coronavirus crisis has impacted Taco in a Bag, the Chicago restaurant he owns with Tim "Gravy" Brown.

March 20, 2020 at 11:36 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Chicago, Pat Bertoletti | Permalink * Comments (2)

Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, notorious for its "octuple bypass" burger challenge and its practice of spanking customers, announces it will not comply with a voluntary shutdown request and will continue serving customers in-house.

March 19, 2020 at 6:06 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Heart Attack Grill, Las Vegas | Permalink * Comments

ESPN2 announced it will rerun the 2006 Krystal Square Off finals at noon Eastern Sunday followed at 1pm by the 2006 Johnsonville Brat Eating World Championship held at Sheboygan, WI's Brat Days festival. The programs are part of ESPN8: The Ocho, an entire day devoted to non-traditional fields of competition.

March 19, 2020 at 11:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:ESPN, Green Bay, Krystal Square Off | Permalink * Comments (1)

In 2016, Ramsey Hilton interviewed Dr. Robert Ziff about his epidemiology models as part of a video in which he also attempted the Dare to be Great sundae challenge at the Parlour in Jackson, MI.

March 18, 2020 at 11:14 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Ice Cream Challenges, Lansing, Ramsey Hilton, Science, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Steak and Main in North East, MD, famed for its Great Steak challenge, received tips of $500 and $200 today.

March 18, 2020 at 11:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Baltimore, Steak Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

If you are looking for competitive eating content, "Swallow Your Pride", a documentary about Wing Bowl 13 (2005), can be viewed on youtube for free. The focus is Bill "El Wingador" Simmon's quest to retake the title from Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas. Bob Shoudt (then known as Humble Bob), Arnie "Chowhound" Chapman, Dave "Coondog" O'Karma, Hank "The Tank" Goldey and Augie "Yao Wing" Chung are also featured. Conflict between IFOCE (MLE) and AICE is a secondary theme of the film. At 30:45, AICE co-founders Chapman and O'Karma discuss their grievances.

March 16, 2020 at 8:03 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, Philadelphia, Swallow Your Pride, Wing Bowl 13 | Permalink * Comments (2)

MGM Resorts announced that it will suspend operations for its Las Vegas properties starting Tuesday. The sites include the New York New York Hotel Casino, which has a Nathan's qualifier scheduled for April 4. update The venue's twitter confirmed the shutdown.

March 15, 2020 at 9:46 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2020 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Las Vegas | Permalink * Comments (7)

ESPN has an article about Baltimore Ravens lineman Bradley Bozeman's cross-country trip in an RV to promote anti-bullying initiatives which mentions him completing the 72 Big Texan steak challenge in 48:08.

March 15, 2020 at 7:02 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Baltimore, Big Texan, Male Athletes | Permalink * Comments

Atlantic City government officials are seeking a court order to force the demolition of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, site of Nathan's qualifiers from 2009 to 2012.

March 15, 2020 at 8:24 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Atlantic City, Nathan's Hot Dog Contest | Permalink * Comments (1)

Mimi "The Mini Monster" Zhang, Australia's top ranked female competitive eater, has started a youtube channel. update Mimi has posted her first food challenge video, the St. Patrick Day's Schnitzelmeister Challenge. Nela Zisser did the challenge at another location.

March 14, 2020 at 9:52 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Takeru Kobayashi announced (in Japanese) that there will be no Gringo Bandito Hot Sauce Chronic Taco eating contest in 2020.

March 14, 2020 at 7:21 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Orange County | Permalink * Comments

Bill "El Wingador" Simmons posted a tribute to the winner of Wing Bowl 2 and 3, Kevin "Heavy Keavy" O'Donnell, who recently passed away following a struggle with cancer. He is one of five multiple Wing Bowl Winners: Simmons (5), Joey Chestnut (3), Molly Schuyler (3), Jonathan Squibb (3), O'Donnell (2). update Crossing Broad and the Gloucester City News have obituaries.

March 13, 2020 at 11:16 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Camden, Fatalities, Wing Bowl | Permalink * Comments

Teesside Live has an article about Craig Harker, owner of the George Pub and founder of the British Eating League, receiving a complaint for posting "To all you fat birds, chin up! It's Pancake Day soon!" on his advertising sign. He says that a video of the League's Jaffa Cake eating contest video received 53K comments on LadBible's facebook page.

March 13, 2020 at 11:12 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Newcastle, Organizations | Permalink * Comments

Max Stanford is the first person to complete the breakfeast challenge consisting of 50 items at Cabin Dairy Cafe in Burnham, England.

March 12, 2020 at 8:34 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Breakfast Eating Challenges, Essex | Permalink * Comments

Round Table Pizza announced that Kevin Ross, Jon Rivera, Jon Davis, Raina Huang and edwardc3523 (probably Edward Chin) are the Reign of Fire finalists and will compete for a $5000 prize on March 28. It appears that Raina Huang received the wild card spot.

March 11, 2020 at 8:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:California, Contest Previews, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (5)

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