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Japanese competitive eaters on “Matsuko Deluxe” show
Takeru Kobayashi appeared on today’s episode of Matsuko Deluxe a show starring a plus-size transvestite. Additional guests include:
- Takako Akasaka, 3rd place in 2000 Nathan’s and first woman to exceed 20 hot dogs in a Nathan’s July 4 contest
- Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota 3rd place in 2004 Nathan’s and winner of 3 out of 4 Food Battle Club contests
- Kaz Arai 2000 Nathan’s winner and 2001 Nathan’s runner up
The Onion's AV Club produced a video of the English band Basement attempting a chili pepper challenge.
Core Media Group filed for bankruptcy due to the decline of its most visible property, American Idol. The company also owns Sharp Entertainment, the producer of Man v. Food
Vice.com's new documentary "How American Men Are Redefining Masculinity" opens with Wayne Algenio attempting the MotherLoad Sloppy Joe challenge at Lunch Box in Staten Island with host Gavin Haynes.
Guinness World Records has a clip from an Italian television program where "Furious" Pete Czerwinski and two challengers attempted to break the record for eating a 12 inch pizza (a fork and knife is required). The record has since been broken by Filipino Kelvin Medina with a time of 23.62 seconds.
Today is the 10th anniversary of the publication date for the hardback edition of "Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream" by Jason Fagone.
Au.tv.yahoo.com has a video of the Melbourne-based trio "The Chew Crew" appearance on Sunrise today.
An amateur hot dog eating contest at Smithfield Foods headquarters in Smithfield, VA will be televised on the April 21 episode of NASCAR Race Hub on Fox Sports One.
The rightful champion of the 2014 World Pie Eating Championship in Wigan, England was the dispute in today's episode of Judge Rinder, a UK court show (video) update Episode link (UK only)
Iello Games has a picture of cards used in Tem-Purr-A, a game about competitive eating cats. 
Footage for a documentary about Joey Chestnut will be recorded at a hot dog eating contest at the Las Vegas Spirit Fest on Saturday.
Moeno Azuki won TV Tokyo's "Queen of Gluttony" program for the second year in a row.
According to amazon.com, today is the 10th anniversary of the release of "Eat This Book", the official IFOCE/MLE book by Ryan Nerz, who was working for Shea Communications.
Reddit.com has a thread about the 10000+ daily calorie consumption claimed for The Flash.
Darren Rovell of ESPN has posted a complaint about Burger King's use of the "Polish Punisher" in the ad promoting its hot dogs instead of an actual competitive eater. The "Polish Punisher" is played by actor Dave Maulbeck, and the ad has ran nationally at least 1,233 times according to ispot.tv.
Cartoon Network's Adult Swim produced an animation where Batman and Superman face off in a hot wing eating contest and other competitions. (via comicbook.com)
Jenn Cheng, the 3rd place female in the eating contest at the 2015 New York City Dumpling Festival won tonight's episode of Chopped College Edition on the Food Network. update March 17 MCall.com article about the runner-up
Nela Zisser's interview on The Morning Show can be viewed on Yahoo. Daily Mail has an article about the appearance.
The Burger & Shakes - Fast Food Maker iPhone / iPad game has a hot dog eating contest mini game.
Tem-Purr-A, a card game about competitive eating cats, is available for pre-order and will be released on March 17. The game's motto is "It's more than a meowthful!". (Overview video | game rulebook)
Priyanka Chopra of Quantico will do a hot wing eating contest on tonight's episode of the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. update March 4 A youtube video of the appearance
RIP George Kennedy, who served as the bookie/promoter for Paul Newman's 50 egg challenge in Cool Hand Luke, one of the more famous competitive eating scenes in cinema history.
In a medium.com post, Darren Rovell says that a report on Kobayashi's victory in the Nathan's 2001 finals where he doubled the pre-existing record was the most sent ESPN.com article of 2001.
Tim "Eater X" Janus appeared on tonight's episode of Billions on Showtime. update Feb 16 Decider.com has a recap with an animated .GIF of the hot dot eating contest scene.
A clip from the most recent episode of Duck Dynasty where Godwin attempts to eat 10 chili dogs in 2 minutes for a T-shirt can be viewed on youtube.
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