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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.
ITunes has an app for a game called Foodie King where you play a Mafia member with a big appetite who tries to eat all the food at a restaurant with an outstanding debt.
Col "The Conqueror" MacLaurin appeared on yesterday's episode of Australia's Got Talent. His stunt was called "disgusting" by NineMSN.com.au. Col has started a competitive eating website at http://coltheconqueror.com/ (via Stephanie Wu).
Leah Shutkever finished the "Pancake Problem" challenge at Huckleberry's American Diner in Flaxton, Yorkshire on Saturday, the 3rd person out of 2000 attempts to complete the challenge. The attempt occured while "Beard Meats Food" and Marc Pitt were recording a television program at the restaurant.
The Onion's AV Club has a list of the most famous vomiting scenes in literature, television and movies. The pie eating contest in Stand by Me and Mr. Creosote's explosion in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life are included.
A casting call has been posted on twitter for a UK eating challenge show.
DNAInfo reports that Brick Lane Curry House, site of the challenge in the New York City episode of Man vs. Food was closed after failing a health inspection. Issues included rats, mice and lack of a working sewage disposal system.
VS Talent Group is looking for a male competitive eater between 20 and 35. The project and filming location is not disclosed, it appears to be in NYC or New Jersey.
MrCapKevGamer has uploaded a walkthrough of the section of The Simpsons video game where Homer competes in an eating contest called "Around the World in 80 bites". The competitions's defending champion (appears at end of video) is based on Takeru Kobayashi.
After interviewing President Obama last year, youtube star Glozell Green will ask Hillary Clinton questions on a Lifetime TV program on January 13. GloZell's cinnamon challenge video has received over 47 million views, making it probably the most watched food challenge video.
A video of the entire broadcast of the 2002 Glutton Bowl is currently available on youtube.
Vice.com has a comic about a pancake eating contest titled "Johnny Empty Plate".
2016 Battle of the Big Eaters
The 2016 Battle of the Big Eaters is now being televised on TV Tokyo. You can try to follow on twitter with this query https://twitter.com/search?vertical=default&q=%E5%A4%A7%E9%A3%9F%E3%81%84%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C
update Rhys Hocking has uploaded a video of the program. If you are interested, watch it soon, because it may not be available in the near future.
2016 Battle of the Big Eaters Teams
TV Tokyo has a page about the Battle of the Big Eaters program that will be televised on January 1. The teams:
- USA: Molly Schuyler, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Tom Gilbert
- UK: Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran, Emma Dalton, Leah Shutkever, Marc
- Japan: Hatsuyo Sugawara, Hitomi “Russian” Sato, Moeno Azuki, male I don’t recognize
- Taiwan: Chien Shu, You Lin (?), Ming Che, Ya Lin
It is interesting that Taiwan got a team when competitive eating appears to be a lot bigger in other Asian countries (Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, …)
update The other Briton is Marc “Bottomless” Pitt the Japanese is probably Takamasa “Max” Suzuki
TV.Yahoo.co.jp has a page about the 2016 edition of "Battle of the Big" Eaters that will be televised on TV Tokyo on New Year's Day. Molly Schuyler, Pat Bertoletti and more will compete. (preview video) (Via Tom L)
The Travel Channel will run a Man vs. Food marathon tomorrow from 9 am to 4 pm.
Everyday Actors has posted a casting call for males in their 20s for a short film about competitive eating to be produced in New York City.
Victoria's Secret models Adriana Lima, Behati Prinsloo and Taylor Hill competed in a wing eating contest on Monday night's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert< ?I>.
James "Beard Meats Food" Moran will appear on the National Geographic Channel in Australia on Wednesday in a segment about the science of competitive eating.
The Huffington Post has an interview with "Furious" Pete Czerwinski about his new book Stay Hungry.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinksi is currently doing an Ask Me Anything session on reddit.com to promote the release of his book, Stay Hungry. Some of the chapter titles include Dale Boone, Wing Bowl an Kobayashi. In the session Pete said he will do a video with Matt Stonie in the near future.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinksi will do an Ask Me Anything interview session on reddit.com on Monday at noon eastern to promote the launch of his book Stay Hungry.
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