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Aaron's Food Adventures has uploaded a video of Stephanie Torres attempting to eat what is billed as the world's spiciest candy.

October 11, 2013 at 11:40 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Oregon, Spicy Eating Challenges, Stephanie Torres, Videos | Permalink * Comments (3)

Matt Stonie has uploaded a video recorded at last month's Oyster Festival in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland.

October 11, 2013 at 9:18 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Belfast, Matt Stonie, Videos | Permalink * Comments (5)

A new trailer for the "Hungry" competitive eating documentary focusing on Takeru Kobayashi and Brad Sciullo is available on youtube. The caption lists a release date this fall.

October 10, 2013 at 12:10 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Brad Sciullo, Hungry, Kobayashi (小林尊), Videos | Permalink * Comments (6)

The All Pro Eating rankings have been updated to place Molly Schuyler in the top position.

October 9, 2013 at 7:22 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Molly Schuyler, Rankings | Permalink * Comments (12)

Halftime promotion Little Arlene, billed as the "hot dog queen" made a brief appearance in "Free Spirits", a documentary about the St. Louis Spirits of the ABA that debuted tonight on ESPN. According to a 1986 LA Times article, she ate 23 hot dogs, 22 large slices of pizza and 16 large Cokes during a Philadelphia 76ers game.

October 8, 2013 at 9:47 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:ESPN, St. Louis | Permalink * Comments

The Tailgate Fan blog has instructions on how to hold an eating contest.

October 8, 2013 at 6:07 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Competitive Eating | Permalink * Comments

Alpha History has an article from 1906 about a limburger cheese eating contest in Johnsburg, IL resulting in the death of Frank Miller. Two other competitors were critically ill for several weeks but survived.

October 4, 2013 at 10:21 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Chicago, Fatalities | Permalink * Comments

For Entreprenuer Magazine, Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner offers 3 lessons in problem solving that can be drawn from Takeru Kobayashi's record breaking perfromance at the 2001 Nathan's finals.

October 3, 2013 at 6:53 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Kobayashi (小林尊) | Permalink * Comments

The mini-documentary about Miki Sudo and Juan Rodriguez competing in the Nugget Rib Eating Championship in Sparks, NV is now available on the VICE.com youtube channel.

October 2, 2013 at 11:59 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Documentaries, Juan Rodriguez, Las Vegas, Miki Sudo, Reno, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

“Wild” Bill Myers top 5 MLE finishes

October 1, 2013 at 11:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

According to the eatfeats database, Sunday’s yogurt contest was the first time that “Wild” Bill Myers finished in the top 3 of a non-qualifier in his MLE career. It is also the first time he finished ahead of Micah “Wing Kong” Collins in 32 matchups. Listings are provided after the jump:
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Dave "US Male" Goldstein's facebook fan page has the poster for the competitive eating documentary Hungry. Likenesses of Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertolett appear in the image and the slogan is "The battle for competitive eating will not be televised."

September 30, 2013 at 1:51 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Hungry | Permalink * Comments (3)

The new poll asks what do you think is the primary reason for the recent increases in MLE contest totals. (In last year's GQ article emcee Dave Keating admitted to Jon Ronson that lighter cupcakes were used in the 2012 Waterloo, Iowa cupcake contest than in the previous year's competition.)

September 30, 2013 at 10:23 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Judging | Permalink * Comments (2)

Eric Dahl career earnings

September 26, 2013 at 3:51 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Eric Dahl

The Associated Press carried an article about Eric “Silo” Dahl which was picked up by Time, The Daily Mail and the Huffington Post. A total of over $18,000 (in cash and prizes) is given as Eric Dahl’s career competitive eating earnings. According to the eatfeats database Dahl’s career cash earnings are $13,900 (listed after jump) He also won $1,000 in an unlisted pizza challenge with Molly Schuyler. Read the rest of this entry »

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A video of the Dog Bite finals held in Schaumburg, IL won by Molly Schuyler is available on youtube.

September 24, 2013 at 11:53 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Chicago, Dog Bite Challenge, Molly Schuyler, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Vice.com produced a mini-documentary for Schweppes Australia about Miki Sudo and Juan Rodriguez competing in the Nugget Rib Eating World Championship in Sparks, NV.

September 23, 2013 at 4:40 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Juan Rodriguez, Las Vegas, Miki Sudo, Reno, Videos | Permalink * Comments (5)

Notable competitive eating streaks

September 21, 2013 at 3:39 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

Several Molly Schuyler will seek to extend her career undefeated streak at Ian’s Pizza contest this evening in Madison, WI. Several other competitive eating undefeated streaks are listed below. Please add any additional streaks you think should be added.

  • “Furious” Pete Czerwinski – undefeated in first 19 contests of career
  • Takeru Kobayashi – undefeated in the IFOCE 2001-2006 (undefeated overall 2003-2006) – undefeated since leaving MLE in 2010
  • Molly Schuyler – career undefeated streak
  • Miki Sudo – undefeated against women and in non-MLE contests
  • Sonya Thomas – undefeated against women from June 2003 – April 2013
  • Lester Tucker – 16 straight wins in the pickled quail egg eating contest

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Former IFOCE/MLE member Kevin Carr has an article for Film School Rejects about eating more than 50 eggs in less than one hour.

September 19, 2013 at 1:06 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Movies, Sonya Thomas | Permalink * Comments

MLE Rankings based on head to head competition – September 2013

September 19, 2013 at 12:49 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

The list of head to head comparisons over contests from the past 12 months for people who have results for two or more MLE contests in the database during that time period follows after the jump. The top 10:

1 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) 95% 151-8
2 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) 92.8% 64-5
3 Miki Sudo (M Su) 90% 90-10
4 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (P Be) 89.3% 25-3
5 Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) 82.4% 72-15-1
6 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) 82% 102-22-1
7 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan (A Mo) 77.1% 65-19-1
8 Tim “Gravy” Brown (T Br) 76.9% 10-3
9 “Notorious” Bob Shoudt (B Sh) 72.9% 60-22-1
10 Jeff “The Beast Man” Butler (J Bu) 70.5% 27-11-1

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Joe DePace has a video recorded at yesterday's pizza eating contest at the San Genarro festival held in Little Italy, NYC. Lisa won the contest to defend her 2012 victory. update (Peoples Daily online picture)

September 19, 2013 at 8:41 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:New York City, Videos, Women | Permalink * Comments (3)

The Huffington Post has a blog entry and video about the Fried Mushroom Festival eating contest in Kennett Square, PA won by Molly Schuyler.

September 19, 2013 at 8:35 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Molly Schuyler, Philadelphia, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

A woman won a burrito eating contest held during a release party for Grand Theft Auto V in Sydney. (picture)

September 17, 2013 at 9:20 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Video Games | Permalink * Comments (2)

Mark DeCarlo has a Huffington Post blog entry and video about the 2013 Buffalo Wing Festival.

September 16, 2013 at 7:08 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Buffalo, Videos | Permalink * Comments (3)

All Pro Eating declares Molly Shuyler the top independent female competitive eater and lists her second behind Jamie McDonald in its new overall rankings even though she has never lost to him (or anyone else). At the National Fried Mushroom Eating Championship in Kennett Square, PA on September 7, she broke Jamie McDonald's 2012 record by 3.5 pounds. (He was listed as an entrant in this year's competition but did not compete) update September 17 Omaha.com has an article about the new ranking. update September 18 A list of Molly Schuyler's eating challenges and records has been appended to the article. OMAVore has a post about the list.

September 16, 2013 at 9:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Molly Schuyler, Omaha, Rankings | Permalink * Comments (2)

WXYZ.com has an article about DeSean Whipple, who defended his coney eating title at American Coney in Detroit on Thursday and will appear on the game show Let's Ask America tomorrow.

September 15, 2013 at 7:30 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Detroit, Television | Permalink * Comments

Joey Chestnut's appearance on WKYC this morning to promote this evening's apple pie eating contest at Mapleside Farms in Brunswick, OH can be viewed online. update Joey Chestnut also appeared on Fox 8.

September 13, 2013 at 9:42 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cleveland, Joey Chestnut, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

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