Eating Contests category

The Karl Ehmer Bratwurst Eating Competition at Oktoberfest in Bethlehem, PA on October 13 will award $250 to the winner.
The Donut Fun Run will hold a donut eating contest in Alameda, CA on October 19 awarding $1,000 to the winner.
Molly Schuyler ate 112 hard boiled eggs in 8 minutes to win the first prize of $2,000 in today's eating contest at Cackle Hatchery in Lebanon, MO.
The Flint River Fair will hold a hot dog eating contest on October 5 in Bainbridge, GA awarding $500 to the winner.
The Highmark International strEAT Festival will hold a meatball eating contest in Pittsburgh on October 6 awarding $1,000 to the winner.
Black Oak Casino Resort in Tuolumne, CA will hold a hot dog eating contest on October 5 awarding $250/$150/$100.
The Olive Burger Festival in Lansing, MI will hold an olive burger eating contest on October 5 awarding $250 to the winner.
Joel Hansen ate 37 burgers in 10 minutes to win the first prize of £500 in Sunday's British Eating League contest at Cattleman's Steakhouse in Paignton, England. Max Stanford was runner up and John "Food and the Beast" Dawes was third.
Big Al's Kickin Chicken in Saraland, AL will hold a hot wing eating contest ont October 5 awarding $100/$50/$25.

2024 Lewisville tamale eating contest

Official results (10 minutes). James Webb was apparently disqualified.

1st 88 Geoffrey Esper
2nd 68 Nick Wehry
3rd 65 Miki Sudo
4th 55 Derek Hendrickson
5th 35 Tanner Gray
6th 25.5 Albert Bravo
7th 24 “Nasty” Nathan Biller
8th 20 Tandra Childress
9th 19 Edgar Martinez
10th 15 Jocelyn Young
11th 12 Shawn “The Vacuum” Kirby

James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s Padrino Foods World Tamale Eating Championship in Lewisville, TX.

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Molly Schuyler ate 46 sausages in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $1,000 in Wednesday's bratwurst eating contest at Clinton Hall in Manhattan.
The British Eating League will hold a burger eating contest at Cattleman's Steakhouse in Paignton, England on September 29 awarding £500/£150/£75 along with a chicken nugget eating contest for amateurs and a 25 ounce steak contest for professionals on September 28 that will both award at least £350
Mo Mbengue won the first prize of $500 and Spurs courtside tickets at yesterday's pancake eating contest at Magnolia Pancake Haus in San Antonio.
Woody's BBQ in Lake Wales, FL will hold a pie eating contest tomorrow awarding $200 to the winner.
The Hoboken, NJ PepperFest will hold a pepper eating contest on October 5 awarding $500/$250/$100.
Jack Legath won the hot dog eating contest held during Saturday's MustardFest in Springfield, OH. Joey Chestnut presented him with a championship belt.
Ani Ramen will hold a ramen eating contest in Maplewood, NJ on October 8 awarding $1000/$500/$250 to the top 3. The winner will also receive a set of golden chopsticks.

The Ringer on “Unfinished Beef”

Jodi Walker wrote a long article (or short book?) for Ringer.com about the “Unfinished Beef” matchup between Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi that was streamed on Netflix on Labor Day. There will probably not that much new in it for people familiar with competitive eating other that some behind the scenes information about how the event was put togther. Nicole Haimes, director of the 2019 documentary about the Chestnut / Kobayashi rivalry “The Good, the Bad, the Hungry” was also the executive producer of “Unfinished Beef”.

But there was still one speed bump: “When negotiating for this whole thing, Chestnut and I with Netflix, we were talking about the possibility of doing this on Fourth of July,” Kobayashi tells me. That would have meant not competing in the Nathan’s competition in 2023, which Joey refused to do (62 hot dogs in 10 minutes). “So I thought, well, if he doesn’t have respect for me, then I don’t think I want to compete against him,” says Kobayashi. Haimes fortunately managed to rope him back into the deal with Netflix by suggesting that they couldn’t “let the perfect get in the way of the good.” Kobayashi relented and even said that Chestnut could compete in the Nathan’s contest in 2024 if he wanted. They would simply find a different (slightly less patriotic) date for their one-on-one. “But then he was banned from the Nathan’s competition, ironically,” Kobi smirks.

After MLE contracts worked against them for years, a contract dispute finally worked in their favor. Kobi and Joey were at Netflix. And people were excited.

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2024 Trenton Thunder pork roll contest

update Full results

1st 44.5 Geoffrey Esper
2nd 44.25 James Webb
3rd 42.5 Nick Wehry
4th 20.25 Tanner Gray
5th 19 George Chiger
6th 14 Peter Ritter
7th 10 Crazy Legs Conti
8th 10 William “Wild Bill” Myers
9th 7 Julie Goldberg
10th 6 Kevin Ackerman Trenton Thunder employee

Results from Aaron Cohen live video
1 Geoff Esper 44.5 pork rolls (10 minutes)
2 James Webb 44.25
3 Nick Wehry 42.5
4 Tanner Gray 20.25
5 George Chiger 19

James Webb is running a livestream of today’s Trenton Thunder World Famous Case’s Pork Roll Eating Championship.

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“No One Died: The Wing Bowl Story” documentary

The Philadelphia Inquirer and NBC Philadelphia have articles about an upcoming documentary about the Wing Bowl titled “No One Died: The Wing Bowl Story”. The assertion “No One Died” may not be 100% accurate. Fino “Chili Dawg” Cachola passed away soon after qualifying for the Wing Bowl in December 2004. An excerpt from “Horsemen of the Esophagus” by Jason Fagone chronicles the final weeks of Cachola’s life. A previous Wing Bowl documentary that followed six competitors in the 2005 Wing Bowl, “Swallow Your Pride”, has disappeared from the internet after being available on youtube. A few clips can be viewed on the film’s channel.

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Pierozek in Brooklyn will hold a pierogie eating contest on October 8 awarding $500 to the winner and $300 to the runner up.
Magnolia Pancake Haus in San Antonio will hold a pancake eating contest on September 26 awarding $500 and two courtside Spurs tickets to the winner.
Cackle Hatchery in Lebanon, MO will hold a hard boiled egg eating contest on October 5 awarding $2,000 to the winner.
Jack's Cosmic Dogs "Double Dog Dare Challenge" in Mount Pleasant, SC will award $1,000 on September 30 to the person who has eaten the most spicy hot dogs in a 30 minute session.
The Viet Cultural Fest in Houston will hold a bahn mi eating contest on September 14 awarding $200/$100/$50.
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