Hruska's Store & Bakery in Ellinger, TX will hold a kolache eating contest on January 17 awarding $400 to the winner. The runner up will receive a $200 gift card.
Abema has an interview (select English subtitles) with Takeru Kobayashi about his development of a hot dog made with Japanese Wagyu beef. He hopes to release the frankfurter by his birthday, March 15, and aspires to export it to the United States. (article corresponding to the video) update The Wagyu beef hot dogs will not be Kobayashi's first attempt at a frankfurter line. In 2013 he launched "Kobi Dogs", which was the food item for his July 4, 2013 eating competition
The Mega Night Market will hold amateur dim sum eating contests in Pinellas Park, FL on January 3 and 4 awarding $250 to the winner.
End of 2025 Major League Eating top 50
For the first time in almost 18 months, the Major League Eating top 50 has been updated. The new top 50 (the first six are unchanged)
- Joey Chestnut
- Pat Bertoletti
- Geoffrey Esper
- James Webb
- Miki Sudo
- Nick Wehry
- Ricardo Corbucci
- Max Stanford
- Gideon Oji
- Derek Hendrickson
Ranked for the first time
- Cameron Meade #18
- Tanner Gray #19
- Jerome Burns #21
- Domenica Dee #22
- Tandra Childress #23
- Kylan Lee #25
- William Lyon #32
Leaving the rankings
- Sean Yeager #13
- Bartley Weaver #14
- Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran #22
- Derek Jacobs #27
- Sophia DeVita-Gutierrez #31
- Michael Whities #35
- Mary Bowers #39
Carlos Cerasomma passed away after choking while competing in a hands-free watermelon eating contest held at a resort in Sao Pedro, Brazil. None of the resort's staff offered assistance and a guest attempted CPR without success. (Portuguese article)
Registration is now open for the Siegel’s Bagelmania World Bagel Eating Championship in Las Vegas on January 31, 2026.
Zermatt Neo has uploaded a video about the fried rice eating contest held at the Singapore Comic Con on December 6. The top 3: 1) Zermatt Neo 28 bowls 7.84 kg in 30 minutes 2) Eater X King 3) Sarah Ow. James Webb choked on a piece of metal and left the stage with about 10 minutes remaining.
George Chiger ate 36 wings in five minutes to win a contest held at the Buffalo Convention Center on December 20. The competition had 499 participants which broke the Guinness World Record for the wing eating competition with the largest field size.
Great Wings will hold a wing eating contest on February 26 awarding $500 to the winner. Qualifiers will be held at its 15 British Columbia locations on January 29.
Registration is now open for the first event by Ultimate Eating Championship, the new organization founded by former Man v Food host Casey Webb. The competition will take place at the Shed in Ocean Springs, MS from January 14 to 17. Entrants will need to pay $50 with no guarantee of getting a spot. No prizes are listed.
"Sweet Little Chippy Tea" is Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran's song for Christmas 2025. All proceeds from the download of the single will benefit the Stroke Association.
The Mega Night Market will hold apple pie eating contests in St. Petersburg, FL on December 26, 27 and 28. All three competitions will award $250 to the winner.
South Korean mukbang star Togimochi, who has 854K followers for her youtube channel, uploaded a video of her spitting out food onto the floor while dining. Videos showing the cheating have gone viral, with two videos already having more than 10 million views.
Topanga Social in Los Angeles will hold a Cilantro Lime Taquito eating contest on January 31 awarding $1,000 to the winner. Raina Huang is expected to compete.
Over 500 people participated in a wing eating contest in Buffalo to set the record for the largest field size for a wing competition. The previous record was 397 entrants in a wing eating contest held at an Amazon Web Services convention in Las Vegas in 2018.
AsiaOne has an article about a customer cheating Gold Curry Bangkok's 8kg (17.6 pound) challenge by stuffing rice in his pants pocket with his right hand. His prize was 20,000 baht ($821 US). (video about the cheating) chdate Pictures of the challenger without blurring update Dec 22The cheater's name is Sebastian Schwesinger according to a Metro article
Tom O'Neil ate a 12cm pie in 1:02 to win the World Pie Eating Championship at Harry's Bar in Wigan, England. His time was over four times longer than the contest record of 15 seconds. Wigan Today has a gallery of previous year's contests.
Zermatt Neo did an Ask Me Anything interview session on the SingaporeEats reddit. update Mothership has a writeup of the session focusing on a burger challenge which crushed Zermatt's pancreas and hospitalized him for three days.
The next Extreme Eating Championship event will be a muffin eating contest at the grand opening of Champs Elysium Gym in St. Petersburg, FL on January 17. The prize pool is $1,000.
Zermatt Neo won the Food League SG fried rice eating contest held at the Singapore Comic Con on December 6, defeating James Webb, Eater X Kung and Kelvin "Zarkman" Medina. updateIt appears James Webb left the contest early due to poor health
RIP director and actor Rob Reiner. The pie eating contest in "Stand By Me" is probably the most famous competitive eating scene in American cinematic history. updateThe filming location for the movie, Brownsville, Oregon, holds an annual pie eating contest to commemorate the film. In 2007, the competition was a MLE event won by Pat Bertoletti with 9.2 pounds in 8 minutes.
Streamer Katchii attempted a 7 pound pho challenge and reversed into the bowl with two minutes remaining in the hour time limit.
Pixel Palace Arcade in Round Rock, TX will hold a cereal eating contest on December 21 awarding $100/$50/$25 to the top three.
World's Strongest Man Eddie Hall and the Dutch Giant (height 7'2") faced off in a pancake eating contest.
To celebrate 100,000 youtube subscribers, Scott Eats attempted 100 White Castle sliders.
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