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The January 27 episode of Fox's "The Cleveland Show", titled "The Wide World of Cleveland Show" will have a competitive eating segment taking place in Japan.
NJ.com has an article about Bill "El Wingador" Simmons and his lack of involvement in Wing Bowl 21. Simmons says he has yet to be indicted on his drug trafficking charge and still plans to continue with his "America's Biggest Eater" television project.
Big Food will debut Wednesday at 10 pm ET/PT on CMT. In the inaugural episode, brothers John and Don McLemore will attempt to create a cake the size of a tank at Fort Benning, GA.
The Heart of a Champion, a movie project about Roland Beef's choice between competitive eating and his girlfriend, is seeking to raise $10,000 on IndieGoGo.com.
Johnnie Excel qualified for Wing Bowl 21 by eating 20 grilled cheese sandwiches in under 12 minutes. In other Wing Bowl 21 news, Rick "The Manager" Russo has a new video for his anthem and the mini-profiles of the competitors have been updated. (The DC representative "Large" Todd King, won the 2012 Washington Wing Bowl.) update Philly.com has an article
ITV competitive eating documentary / 200+ English eating challenges
update Jan 24, 2014 Additional challenges have been added since this list was posted. See http://eatfeats.com/calendar/UnitedKingdom.html (600+ challenges) and http://eatfeats.com/calendar/England.html for updated lists.
ITV in Great Britain are running a documentary about competitive eating in the UK and USA titled All You Can Eat at 9 pm and 10 pm British time tonight. (Liverpool Echo article)
A listing of over 200 English eating challenges in the eatfeats database follows after the jump. Other websites about UK food challenges are The Food Project and MenVsFoodUk Read the rest of this entry »
Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit by Ryan Nerz is #3 in Buzzfeed's list of the 20 most awkward memoirs ever written.
Acta Diurna has an article (in French) about Man vs. Food calling it "Pornographie alimentaire".
The Chicago Tribune has an article about the novel "POW!" by Chinese author Mo Yan. The protagonist of the book is a meat eating champion who ate five pounds of steak in an hour to win an eating contest at the age of 12.
Eric Andre's LIVE New Year's Eve Spooktacular, to be televised on Adult Swim (The Cartoon Network) at 11:30 pm eastern tomorrow, will have some type of competitive eating (no other details were disclosed).
In Grantland.com's list of 2013 predictions, "Cousin" Sal Iacono claims that Joey Chestnut will become a vegetarian after being held hostage by PETA.
The fifteen song package Entrees & Leftovers - Greatest Hits is available for digital downloading for $5 at href="http://badlandsbooker.bandcamp.com/">badlandsbooker.bandcamp.com/.
The official youtube page for the Ricki Lake Show has posted a video of Sonya Thomas' appearance where she attempted to break a hard-boiled egg eating record.
Miller Lite is currently running a commercial titled "Corner Men" where a diner attempting a spicy chicken wing challenge drinks Miller Lite to soothe his throat (spicy challenges generally do not allow liquids during attempts). (commercial without age restriction) update Jan 7 Emilio Rivera of Sons of Anarchy plays the chef. Thebackground music is Sleepy Silver Door by Dead Meadow.
BBC America has a blog entry about an upcoming program, British Man vs. Food. The host will be Arthur Richerman and the inaugural challenge will be Harridge's "Born to Be Mild" challenge, where diners will take afternoon tea at an improper hour.
Yahoo! Movies has a blog entry about the release of a promo video made to congratulate Barbra Streisand for receving a Golden Globs nomination for Guilt Trip (She was not nominated) where she talks about filming the 50 ounce steak challenge scene: "It was disgusting because I don't love steak".
AppShopper announces the release of the iPhone app "Mr. Couch Potato World Sushi Eating Championship" video game. update Dec 18 The app is now available for free.
Mike "Awesome Fat" Litman, finisher of a 10.5 pound prime rib at Ward's House of Prime on the Travel Channel's "Big Beef Paradise, will attempt become the first person to finish Mulligan's 7.5 pound monster burger challenge on tomorrow's episode of Fox6's Real Milwaukee".
A hot dog (ch)eating contest overseen by Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas is one of ten candidates for the funniest momemt of 2012 on NBC's Today.
Shigeo Okamoto has posted videos from Food Battle Club and other Japanese competitive eating programs. In the Food Battle Club posted, Nobuyuki Shirota defeated Takeru Kobayashi.
Large Animal Games released the Nomsters video game for mobile devices today. Takeru Kobayashi will do a fruit eating challenge when one billion in-game fruits have been collected worldwide.
Youtube has a promo video for Sonya Thomas' appearance on The Ricki Lake Show tomorrow where she will try to break her record of 12 hard boiled eggs in under a minute. update Brian Seiken has uploaded a video of the appearance.
The "Enormous Eats" episode of Chicago's Best TV that was televised Sunday on WGN can be viewed on youtube. Five Chicago-area restaurants with an eating challenge including Bartolini's and Roadhouse 66.
Yahoo's Dirty Tackle blog has an entry about Adam Richman crying after visiting White Hart Lane stadium in London, England, home of his favorite Premier League team, Tottenham Hotspur.
Top 100 metro areas not visited by Man v. Food
Man v. Food debuted on December 3, 2008. Over the next four seasons, the now-cancelled program would visit most major American cities over 87 episodes, but several notable metropolitan areas were bypassed. (Three cities with a pro sports team would not appear on the show: Houston, Orlando and Jacksonville.) A list of metropolitan areas in the top 100 for population that were not the focus of an episode follows after the jump. Series episode lists (Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Nation (Season 4))
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