Keys Fisheries in Marathon, Florida will hold a stone crab eating contest on Saturday awarding a weekend vacation at the Flamingo Bay Hotel in the Bahamas to the winner.
Archive for October, 2013
Takeru Kobayashi will do a live Q & A session at 8 pm on the JustEat.ca facebook. update A transcript of the session
The facebook page for Quaker Steak & Lube in Council Bluffs, Iowa announces that Molly Schuyler ate 240 wings in about 2 hours to set a house record. The previous top mark was 150 wings. Omaha.com has a video of Molly's feat.
A facebook page titled Brisbane Food Challenges has been started.
Corriere Della Sera claims "Furious" Pete Czerwinski is a United States resident in an article about his protein eating contest versus Marc Lobliner.
Miki Sudo has created the Fat Banh Miki sandwich at Fat Sal's Deli in Los Angeles as her reward for finishing the Big Fat Fatty challenge.
I Luv Pho in Duluth, GA will award $500 to a customer that can finish its Super Bowl challenge.
In honor of Mike Ditka's 74th birthday, Timothy O'Tooles in Chicago will offer "Da Super Fan Challenge" on October 18. Diners who can eat a half slab of baby back ribs, ten extra spicy chicken wings, a Polish sausage sandwich, an Italian beef sandwich, two pounds of French fries and a 23-ounce Jumbo Miller Lite will receive a Chicago Bears souvenier glass.
Tomorrow's episode of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central will feature a video of a reversal experienced by a diner attempting a spicy sushi challenge. update The whole entire competitive eating segment can be viewed online. Joey Chestnut appears in the segment.
MLE Rankings based on head to head competition – Oct 14, 2013
The list of head to head comparisons over contests from the past 12 months for people who have results for two or more MLE contests in the database during that time period follows after the jump. The top 10:
| 1 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) | 96.1% | 147-6 |
| 2 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) | 92.1% | 70-6 |
| 3 | Miki Sudo (M Su) | 86.9% | 113-17 |
| 4 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) | 81.7% | 109-24-1 |
| 5 | Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) | 81.5% | 66-15 |
| 6 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan (A Mo) | 77.8% | 68-19-1 |
| 7 | “Notorious” Bob Shoudt (B Sh) | 74.3% | 55-19 |
| 8 | Jeff “The Beast Man” Butler (J Bu) | 68.5% | 31-14-1 |
| 9 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco (M Le) | 68.1% | 69-32-1 |
| 10 | Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff (A Os) | 65.8% | 12-6-1 |
According to FlorinBin, an uncaptioned youtube video (uploaded October 6) documents the death of a competitor at a sausage eating contest in Romania. update Oct 15 The Huffington Post has picked up the story update Oct 16 Romanian article from October 7 (translated by Google)
The Harvest Festival in Benson, NC will hold a hands-free sweet potato pie eating contest on October 26 awarding $500 to the winner.
The DMV Eaters team consisting of Ian Hickman, Jay Gorman, Mike Longo and Scotty Phillips won the BGR 15 pound burger eating contest at Taste of DC today. The prize was a trip to Mexico. update Oct 14 K Street Magazine has a blog entry.
73 year old Peter Dowdeswell, perhaps Britain's greatest competitive eater came out of retirement to eat 20 frankfurters in 30 seconds at a charity event in Ilkeston, England.
Joey Chestnut edges Matt Stonie in brain tacos
update Oct 15 Huffington Post has a blog entry
Shout Out Minnesota has an interview with Joey Chestnut
update Oct 14 CityPages has a gallery
update Oct 13 CBS Local has an article and video
Bryan Beard has the top 5 in today’s brain taco eating contest at the Zombie Pub Crawl in Minneapolis:
More results Part 2 | Part 3
1) Joey Chestnut 54 tacos
2) Matt Stonie 53.5
3) Mark Williams 17.5
4) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 12.5
5) Bryan Beard 12
6) Sam Brunner 11
7) Mitch Gillen 10
8) Rikki Olsen 9.5
9) Mary Bowers 5
10T) Joe Smith-Cunnien 2.5
10T) Dave Senst 2.5
2013 Taste of DC Ben’s Chili Bowl
update Oct 19 The Rake & Herald has an interview with Bob Shoudt about his victory.
update Oct 15 Crazy Legs Conti has a Huffington Post blog entry
DC Mayor Vince Gray has a facebook gallery
Ronnie Hartman has the top 3 (rest of results)
1) Bob Shoudt 2 gallons (won eat-off)
2) Tim Janus 2 gallons (lost eat-off)
3) Miki Sudo 1,687
4) Sonya Thomas 1.437
5) Juliet Lee 1.187
6) Badlands Booker 1
7) Micah Collins .812
8T) Yasir Salem .75
8T) Brian Subich .75
10) Bill Myers .625
11) Aaron (amateur winner?) .437
12) Crazy Legs Conti .375
update According to Badlands Booker, Ronnie Hartman won the military contest (picture of prize winnners)
5 of the current MLE top 10 are expected to compete.
This contest will break the tie between Tim Janus and Miki Sudo.
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Naader Reda's video where he ate five McDonald's Happy Meals in 5 minutes received coverage from Repubblica of Italy.
Joel Podelsky has produced a video where he answers questions about his weight loss.
Aaron's Food Adventures has uploaded a video of Stephanie Torres attempting to eat what is billed as the world's spiciest candy.
Zombie Pub Crawl Brain Taco expected entrants: Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Bryan Beard, Mary Bowers
Taste of DC Ben's Chili Bowl field: Tim Janus, Sonya Thomas, Bob Shoudt, Miki Sudo, Juliet Lee, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Micah Collins, Yasir Salem, Crazy Legs Conti, Bill Myers (Ronnie Hartman to do military contest)
Jake's Wayback Burgers in Waxahachie, TX will hold a triple triple burger eating contest tomorrow awarding $175 ($100 to the winner).
Matt Stonie has uploaded a video recorded at last month's Oyster Festival in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland.
Gunners Run in Philadelphia will hold a wing eating contest Sunday awarding $500 to the winner.
A new trailer for the "Hungry" competitive eating documentary focusing on Takeru Kobayashi and Brad Sciullo is available on youtube. The caption lists a release date this fall.
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