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2021 Guinness Eating Records Page

October 20, 2020 at 5:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Books, Leah Shutkever, Records

Here is a picture of the eating records page from the 2021 Guinness Book of Records. Here are the competitive eaters in that roster: (Full Size)
5 records Leah Shutkever
2 Pete Czerwinski, Michelle Lesco, Pat Bertoletti, Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle
1 Kelvin Medina

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A press release announces an alliance between Nathan's Famous and Damhus, "a German manufacturer of quality meat-products since 1936", to manufacture and distribute hot dogs throughout Europe. It is interesting that a Jewish-founded company would partner with a firm started in Nazi Germany. The document makes no mention of a possible European qualifier for Nathan's hot dog eating contest.

October 19, 2020 at 10:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Germany, Nathan's Hot Dog Contest | Permalink * Comments (4)

New MLE top 50 out, Steve Hammond in, Sonya Thomas out

October 16, 2020 at 6:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings, Sonya Thomas

The MLE top 50 was updated today for the first time since June 2019. The new top 10:
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Randy Santel achieved his 900th restaurant challenge victory today at Wacked Out Weiners in Gulf Shores, AL.

October 16, 2020 at 1:03 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Hot Dog Eating Challenges, Mobile, Randy Santel, Statistics | Permalink * Comments (1)

Beth's Cafe in Seattle, home of a famed 12 egg omelet challenge, will suspend operations due to coronavirus mandates. The restaurant hopes to reopen when the restrictions are lifted.

October 14, 2020 at 8:48 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Omelet Eating Challenges, Seattle | Permalink * Comments (1)

The British Eating League announced that it will start a Las Vegas Eating League in 2021.

October 13, 2020 at 7:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Las Vegas, Organizations | Permalink * Comments

Japan Today has a post about Kasumi ASMR getting caught spitting out cheese tonkatsu while recording. One of the video's commenters said "I feel duped — I thought she ate everything like a competitive eater.”

October 12, 2020 at 1:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Japan, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

The British Eating League has announced it plans to start awards for competitive eating. The categories are: top UK male / female, top world male / female, best eating couple and best Youtube eater.

October 9, 2020 at 2:00 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Organizations, Rankings, United Kingdom | Permalink * Comments (5)

1069 Restaurant Group, the largest franchise operator for the Golden Corral buffet restaurant chain, has filed for bankruptcy. Only 6 of its 33 locations are currently open.

October 7, 2020 at 8:07 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Buffets, Business | Permalink * Comments (7)

Serbian-Australian Milly Ivanaov has started a youtube channel with her attempt at the 2kg pancake challenge at Milky Beograd in Belgrade.

October 7, 2020 at 7:56 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Pancake Eating Challenges, Videos, Women | Permalink * Comments

For National Taco Day (which was on Sunday) Joey Chestnut created and attempted to eat a 12 pound walking taco. (TMZ article)

October 6, 2020 at 6:53 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Taco Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments

The segment from NBC's First Look about Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest that was televised on Sunday morning's episode can be viewed on youtube (segment starts around 16:10). Miki Sudo, Badlands Booker, Nick Wehry and Rich Shea make appearances.

October 5, 2020 at 7:37 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, New York City, Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

Greg Foster attempted to eat 123 Carolina Reaper peppers Saturday to set a world record. The feat would have placed him at the top spot in the League of Fire rankings.

October 5, 2020 at 7:15 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Records, San Diego, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest will be featured on the next episode of NBC's First Look, which will be televised at 1 am Sunday morning after Saturday Night Live. Nick Wehry, Miki Sudo and Badlands Booker will appear.

September 30, 2020 at 11:15 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, New York City, Television | Permalink * Comments (1)

Mary Bowers will compete on tonight's episode of Dodgeball Thunderdome on the Discovery Channel at 9pm Eastern / Pacific.

September 30, 2020 at 8:51 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Mary Bowers, Television | Permalink * Comments

The League of Fire has started a worldwide ranking of spicy eating challengers placing Justin ‘The Thunder from Down Under’ Rummel at the top.

September 30, 2020 at 8:46 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Organizations, Rankings, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

With 5.51 million subscribers, Hussain Salaam of Saudi Arabia has overtaken Yuka Kinoshita (5.49M) to have the second most popular food challenge youtube channel after Matt Stonie.

September 30, 2020 at 1:55 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Mel Megazine has an article about restaurant eating challenges focusing on post-meal reversals and other health issues.

September 28, 2020 at 9:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges, Health | Permalink * Comments (4)

The Turkish Eating League will hold its first test run tonight. The organization will be affiliated with the British Eating League.

September 28, 2020 at 8:16 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Organizations | Permalink * Comments

The Sun reports that John Fury, father of British boxer Tyson Fury, broke the Guinness World Record for most Ferrero Rocher chocolates eaten in a minute.

September 27, 2020 at 11:49 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes, Records, United Kingdom | Permalink * Comments

The British Eating League will hold today the first of four qualifiers for a parmo eating contest awarding 500 pounds. Pro eaters can receive a bye to the finals. The league has started a youtube channel. The first video is a review of the organization by Bob Shoudt.

September 24, 2020 at 7:07 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Notorious" Bob Shoudt, Newcastle, Organizations | Permalink * Comments (2)

Leah Shutkever announced that she will have an entire page in the 2021 Guinness Book of World Records.

September 22, 2020 at 7:12 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Books, Leah Shutkever, Records | Permalink * Comments (14)

Metro.co.uk has an article about Max Stanford's win over Kyle Gibson in Saturday's British Eating League eating contest. Max's total of 141 cookies in 5 minutes was billed as a world record.

September 21, 2020 at 10:37 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kyle Gibson, Newcastle, Records | Permalink * Comments

Katina Eats Kilos partnered with Kyle V Food on a Domino's Pizza challenge video. Both meals consisted of 2 large pizzas, 1 garlic bread, 1 chicken dish, and a 1.25 liter cola.

September 17, 2020 at 7:28 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Katina DeJarnett, Kyle Gibson, Pizza Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments (8)

CBS Denver has an interview with Bryan "Big Sexy" Beard about his 11 year competitive eating career.

September 11, 2020 at 4:13 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Bryan Beard, Denver, Videos | Permalink * Comments

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