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Arab News reports that Joe Skaff, a 12 year old Lebanese schoolboy, passed away after choking while attempting to eat a croissant role in one bite.

January 19, 2025 at 12:38 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Asia, Fatalities | Permalink * Comments (1)

Raina Huang announced that she surpassed one million subscribers to her youtube channel today.

January 17, 2025 at 2:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Raina Huang, Videos | Permalink * Comments (4)

44News has a video about Randy Santel attempting The Oven's "Big O" pizza challenge in Owensboro, KY.

January 13, 2025 at 11:54 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kentucky, Pizza Eating Challenges, Randy Santel, Videos | Permalink * Comments (15)

The audience Q & A session after the premier of "No One Died: The Wing Bowl Story" has been uploaded to youtube. The panel consisted of five time champion Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, WIP Radio Host Angelo Cataldi, director Pat Taggart and producer Frank Petka.

January 13, 2025 at 1:06 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, Documentaries, Philadelphia, Wing Bowl | Permalink * Comments (1)

The latest episode of the It Takes All Types podcast is titled "Dumb Ways to Die: Competitive Eating"

January 10, 2025 at 1:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments

On a recent Dudes On Dudes podcast, former New England Patriots Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman are asked which former teammate would be most likely to complete the burger challenge at Eagles Deli. They both agree that Marcus Cannon has the best chance at finishing.

January 9, 2025 at 2:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Boston, Eagle's Deli, Male Athletes, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments

George Chiger is the guest on the latest Simple Questions Podcast, titled "What's Life Like As a Competitive Eater?"

January 8, 2025 at 12:03 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:George Chiger, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (5)

The ESPN Throwback youtube channel has uploaded a video of the 5 hot dog overtime eat-off session between Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi at the 2008 Nathan's Famous finals.

January 6, 2025 at 1:00 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2008 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

Tampa resident Miki Sudo, billed as an Upper East Side native, is included in a New York Post list of New Yorkers who broke a Guinness record in 2024. Her total of 51.5 hot dogs on July 4 was the all time best for a woman in Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.

January 5, 2025 at 12:54 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2024 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Miki Sudo, New York City, Records | Permalink * Comments (5)

An episode of "Hurl!" a competitive vomiting deferral program that aired on the G4 Network in 2008, has been uploaded to youtube. Participants tried to be the last person to throw up.

January 3, 2025 at 12:37 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle has produced a video about his first Major League Eating contest, the Wild Turkey 81 turkey eating contest in New York City on Thanksgiving Eve 2011. He says he will never sign another Major League Eating document again.

January 1, 2025 at 9:31 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kevin Strahle, New York City, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

The A & E Network has uploaded the series "Airline", an unscripted program about Southwest Airlines passengers, to its youtube channel. In the May 16, 2005 episode, "A Hard Days Flight", Don "Moses" Lerman travels cross-country to compete in the Golden Palace grilled cheese eating contest in Venice Beach.

January 1, 2025 at 1:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Don "Moses" Lerman, Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments (8)

Food Challenge News has an article about the mysterious disappearance of extreme food challenger Chuck Saragossi, whose "Chuck from the Bronx" youtube channel stopped updating without any retirement announcement in 2016.

December 31, 2024 at 2:49 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:New York City, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Ryan "Max Carnage" Rodacker, founder of the Big Eaters Club of Oregon, announced his retirement from competitive eating at the end of his latest video.

December 29, 2024 at 11:15 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Oregon, Organizations | Permalink * Comments (8)

James Webb is the guest on the latest Food Challenge News podcast.

December 29, 2024 at 2:44 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:James Webb, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (15)

Josh Brett produced a mini-documentary titled "Why Competitive Eaters Don't Get Fat" containing interviews with Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Adam Moran, Leah Shutkever, Katina DeJarnett, Nela Zisser and others. The brief segment about intentional vomiting appears at the end (around 10:20) and consists of clips of eaters denying that they reverse.

December 27, 2024 at 2:36 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Documentaries, Health | Permalink * Comments (7)

Mashed.com produced a video titled "Secrets Man V Food Producers Tried To Hide"

December 26, 2024 at 1:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food, Videos | Permalink * Comments

James Webb is the guest on the latest Out of Interest podcast.

December 24, 2024 at 10:58 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:James Webb, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (10)

Mashed.com has compiled a list titled "Man V Food Challenges That Got Gross".

December 23, 2024 at 12:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food | Permalink * Comments

Bandana Eats produced a video of his trip to Comic Con in Singapore for the Waffle Eating Championship. The top 3 (10 minutes) 1) Zermatt Neo 33 waffles 2) Bandana Eats 28 waffles 3) Mayoi Ebihara 23 waffles

December 19, 2024 at 1:07 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Singapore, Videos, Zermatt Neo | Permalink * Comments (3)

Nela Zisser appeared on The Morning Rumble podcast. She says she has put video production on hiatus due to working full time as a psychiatrist. She also called dunking hot dogs in water at Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest disgusting.

December 18, 2024 at 2:21 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Nela Zisser, New Zealand, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (13)

On the Rodiculous podcast, cooking influencer Rosanna Pansino discussed her experience with Matt Stonie while they recorded an episode of "Youtube Creators". The discussion about Matt starts around minute 39. At 42:00, Rosanna says that Matt told her that he wants to move away from competitive eating since it is taking a toll on his health.

December 16, 2024 at 1:03 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Matt Stonie, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (7)

NOVA PBS has a video asking "What Happens to Your Body During a Speed Eating Competition?" containing interviews with Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus.

December 13, 2024 at 7:27 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Science | Permalink * Comments (3)

The latest BWAAA! podcast is about the "Fat and the Furious" episode of "King of the Hill" that was televised on November 10, 2002 in which Bill attempted to qualify for Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest. Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson guest starred as competitive eating fans.

December 13, 2024 at 1:16 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Podcasts, Television | Permalink * Comments

Josh "The Goat" Krady is the guest on the latest Food Challenge News podcast.

December 12, 2024 at 1:13 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (4)

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