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Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle produced a video about his competitive eating career titled "Why I Never Made It To The Nathan's 4th of July Hot Dog Contest".

August 28, 2023 at 11:41 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kevin Strahle, Videos | Permalink * Comments (12)

MLE top 50 updated, Stonie out

August 15, 2023 at 1:05 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Matt Stonie, Rankings

The MLE top 50 has been updated. Matt Stonie has been removed after almost 2 and a half years of inactivity. The top 15.
1. Joey Chestnut
2. Geoffrey Esper
3. Miki Sudo
4. Nick Wehry
5. James Webb
6. Gideon Oji
7. Bartley Weaver, IV
8. Derek Hendrickson
9. Pat Bertoletti
10. Michelle Lesco
11. Max Suzuki
12. Darrien Thomas
13. Zosan Pacpac
14. Mayoi Ebihara
15. Adrian Morgan
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George Shea announced on twitter that "Hungry" Charles Hardy, also known as the Godfather of Competitive Eating, passed away. He was runner in the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest in 1998 and 1999 and also had top 5 finishes in 2000 and 2001. Hardy's loss to winner Steve Keiner by a quarter of a hot dog in the 1999 Nathan's contest was controversial since Keiner began eating before the official start signal had been given.

August 3, 2023 at 3:15 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Nathan's History | Permalink * Comments (3)

Derek Hendrickson discussed food challenges at Las Vegas restaurants in a recent City Cast Las Vegas podcast.

July 25, 2023 at 1:27 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Derek Hendrickson, Eating Challenges, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (9)

Margot Robbie, star of the new Barbie movie, discusses eating four pounds of pasta to win a spaghetti bolognaise eating contest in a youtube short video.

July 22, 2023 at 2:43 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Female Celebrities, Videos | Permalink * Comments

IndiaToday.com reports that Bipin Kumar Paswan, a 25 year old from Gopalganj in Bihar, passed away on Thursday after being challenged by his friends to eat 150 momos. Paswan's father believes that the dumplings were poisoned and the eating challenge was set up to murder his son.

July 16, 2023 at 1:39 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, India | Permalink * Comments (1)

The broadcast of Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on ESPN2 was the most viewed program on July 4 despite being delayed for 2 hours by rain and lightning.

July 12, 2023 at 7:39 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2023 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN | Permalink * Comments (1)

Theo Malini produced a video (longer video) French food challenger Alan FoodChallenge a fake for spitting out food while recording his videos. (He apparently forgot to edit out his regurgitation). The criticism of Alan FoodChallenge has gone viral in French-language media with LeParisien, rtl.be and Independant producing articles about the alleged deception. Alan has responded by saying he will do a live uncut taco eating challenge on Sunday. updateSunday, Alan attempted to eat what he claimed were 5 GigaTacos, but could finish only about 1.5. The restaurant supplying the tacos said they were smaller XL tacos and not Gigatacos

July 8, 2023 at 8:49 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges, France, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

The Spun has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi about his competitive eating career and his new partnership with Heinz on the "Hot Dogs are not a Contest" campaign. He closes the interview declaring himself the greatest competitive eater of all time.

July 6, 2023 at 8:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Merchandise | Permalink * Comments (12)

The Washington Post has an article about the training techniques used by competitive eaters.

July 3, 2023 at 12:34 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Training | Permalink * Comments (4)

USA Today has an article about the finances of Joey Chestnut, who says he earned $500,000 from competitive eating last year. He quit his construction job in 2010 to become a full time competitive eater after receiving an offer to do four appearances for Pepto Bismol.

July 3, 2023 at 12:29 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments

NPR on history of competitive eating

July 1, 2023 at 11:24 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Books, Podcasts

NPR’s “All Things Considered” did an episode about the history of competitive eating that includes coverage of last week’s Nathan’s qualifier in Washington, DC and an interview with Jason Fagone, author of “Horsemen of the Esophagus”. With Kobayashi’s retirement, all the protagonists of his 2006 book are now out of competitive eating:

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In an advertisement for Heinz ketchup and mustard, Takeru Kobayashi announces that he has retired from hot dog eating contests.

July 1, 2023 at 5:16 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Merchandise | Permalink * Comments

Brobible and The Spun have interviews with Joey Chestnut about "Colachup", a soda flavored condiment produced by Pepsi, that he is promoting.

June 28, 2023 at 12:16 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Merchandise | Permalink * Comments (1)

Joey Chestnut vs. Geoff Esper since Jan 1, 2022

June 27, 2023 at 6:03 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Geoff Esper, Joey Chestnut, Statistics

Here are the head to head results for Joey Chestnut vs. Geoff Esper in MLE contests since January 1, 2022. They have faced off 8 times in that period; Geoff had a better finish in 5 of those competitions.
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MLE victories since the start of 2022

June 27, 2023 at 5:50 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

Here are all the people who have a victory in a Major League Eating contest since January 1, 2022, excluding Nathan’s qualifiers. I am counting October’s Albuquerque corn dog eating contest won by Miki Sudo as a MLE event even though it was never listed on their website.

Geoff Esper 19 wins in 23 contests
Miki Sudo 4 in 23
Joey Chestnut 2 in 9
Nick Wehry 2 in 25
Derek Hendrickson 1 in 6
Gideon Oji 1 in 8
James Webb 1 in 5

All the contest victories follow after the jump:
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ESPN has a press release about the 2023 edition of Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest. The women's contest will be streamed on ESPN3 starting at 10:45 am Eastern. The men's competition will be broadcast live on ESPN2 starting at noon. John Anderson and Rich Shea will be the commentators.

June 22, 2023 at 4:37 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2023 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN | Permalink * Comments (9)

2023 ESPN Nathan’s schedule

June 16, 2023 at 7:36 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2023 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN

The ESPN July 4 schedule is now out. The men’s Nathan’s finals will be televised live on ESPN2 at noon Eastern and then rerun five times. The women’s contest is not listed, but it appears it will be relegated to streaming again. At 10am, ESPN will show Wimbledon and ESPN2 will air First Take. The documentary “The Good, The Bad, The Hungry” will also be shown twice on ESPN2.

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Current has an interview with James Webb eating six Big Ugly Burgers at Bub's in Carmel, IN on May 25 to break a record previously held by Eli Lessig.

June 13, 2023 at 11:11 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Burger Eating Challenges, Indianapolis, James Webb, Records | Permalink * Comments (2)

Erik "the electric" Lamkin and his girlfriend Kristie are guests on a recent Shane Dawson podcast. Around 26:00 he says he would like to separate himself from the competitive eating community because he thinks that eating contests are gross.

June 4, 2023 at 2:38 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Erik Lamkin, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (5)

The Toledo Blade has a gallery of Joey Chestnut's appearance at Saturday's Mudhens minor league baseball game. He did a cotton candy eating exhibition and oversaw a ice cream eating contest between local celebrities.

May 31, 2023 at 4:11 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Galleries, Joey Chestnut, Toledo | Permalink * Comments

Hot Chick Studios produced a video game titled "Meat Sweats" in which the goals is to supply menu items for "Beard Meats Food" while he attempts a restaurant's eating challenge.

May 21, 2023 at 2:04 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran, Video Games | Permalink * Comments

Daily Dot has an article about a recent video by tiktok food challenger mohmotion in which employees at an Orlando Golden Corral discussed if he would be allowed to continue dining at the buffet. He was in town to compete in Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Kissimmee, FL, but missed the competition due to forgetting what time it was.

May 17, 2023 at 12:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2023 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, All You Can Eat, Mo Mbengue, Orlando, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

An episode of DangerTV in which host Andrew Younghusband competes in the 2015 Smoke's Poutinerie eating contest in Toronto with minimal training has been uploaded to youtube. Eric "Badlands" Booker, Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie offer him advice. (The first half is about demolition derbies; the competitive eating segment begins around 11:00).

May 16, 2023 at 1:44 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television, Toronto, Videos | Permalink * Comments

GuinnessWorldRecords.com has post celebrating Leah Shutkever's 33rd birthday on May 11, which is also Eat What You Want Day. She says she was inspired to start competitive eating by Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle.

May 12, 2023 at 12:17 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Leah Shutkever, Records, Uncategorized | Permalink * Comments

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