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71 year old Peter Dowdeswell, probably Britain's most famous competitive eater, announced his retirement after suffering injuries while trying to drink a pint of beer upside down. (A video of a successful upside down drinking attempt by Dowdeswell, who claims he holds 339 world records)

October 28, 2011 at 7:12 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:England, Health | Permalink * Comments (4)

The Travel Channel's Truck Stop Missouri is holding a barbecue eating contest in Columbia, MO on Saturday. update Oct 28 The truck stop's facebook has more info about the contest.

October 27, 2011 at 9:23 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Jefferson City, Television | Permalink * Comments

SpoilerTV.Co.UK has pictures from the November 10 episode of Bones where the cast will investigate a death at an eating contest. (None of the pictures show an eating contest.) Gather.com analyzes the pictures.

October 27, 2011 at 12:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television | Permalink * Comments

IFOCE top 50 October 2011 released

October 26, 2011 at 5:23 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings

The IFOCE top 50 for October 2011 has been released. The top 3 remain unchanged, the new top 10:

1 Joey Chestnut
2) Pat Bertoletti
3) Tim Janus
4) Sonya Thomas
5) Bob Shoudt
6) Matt Stonie
7) Adrian Morgan
8) Tim “Gravy” Brown
9) Erik Denmark
10) Sean Gordon

Dropping Out: Pat Philbin #19, Ryan McKillop #33
Entering: Maria “Edible” #30, Matt Raible #50

Ben Monson remains ranked at #17 despite not having done a contest since August 2010.

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Omaha.com has an article about Matt Price attempting the "Pig Wing" Challenge at Starsky's on tonight's episode of Man vs. Food: Nation. Randy Santel is the only person to have completed the challenge.

October 26, 2011 at 2:41 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Barbecue Eating Challenges, Man vs. Food: Nation, Omaha | Permalink * Comments

Ryan McKillop announces his plans to start a new competitive eating league that will focus on competitors instead of contest sponsors.

October 26, 2011 at 10:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Organizations | Permalink * Comments (19)

The next poll will ask what song do you think should be permanently retired from being played during eating contests. The current choices are: "Eat It" Weird Al Yankovic, "Lose Yourself" Eminem, "Baba O'Reilly" (Teenage Wastleland) The Who. Suggest other choices in the comments. update Oct 25 The poll is now open.

October 24, 2011 at 1:46 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Music | Permalink * Comments (44)

Two customers ate ten pound prime rib steaks in under an hour at Ward's House of Prime in Milwaukee for an upcoming episode of "Food Paradise: Big Beef Bonanza".

October 23, 2011 at 9:02 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Milwaukee, Steak Eating Challenges, Television | Permalink * Comments

Several new competitive eater twitters have started in the past month: Scott Bickel @realscottbickel, Meredith Boxberger @deepfrieddiva, Eric Dahl @EricSiloDahl, Aaron Osthoff ATrain_44,Randy Santel @RandySantel (replacing @AtlasZeusPromos)

October 23, 2011 at 8:57 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Websites | Permalink * Comments (3)

Smoke's Poutinerie has a flickr gallery of last month's poutine eating contest.

October 21, 2011 at 3:48 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Galleries, Toronto | Permalink * Comments (1)

Six high school coaches competed in a 6 pound steak eating contest at Kelsey's Steakhouse in Valparaiso, Indiana that will be televised on an upcoming episode of "Steak Paradise" on the Travel Channel.

October 21, 2011 at 7:57 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Gary, Steak Eating Challenges, Television | Permalink * Comments (1)

Youtube has a video of a duet titled "I Need You" sung Aaron Ybarra and Mary Bowers (in puppet form).

October 20, 2011 at 2:36 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Music, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

Live Science asks the question "Can Eating Too Much Spicy Food Kill You?" (via NY Daily News)

October 20, 2011 at 7:36 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Science, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (4)

The Travel Channel's "Food Paradise" will be recording an attempt to create a 350 pound burger today (Oct 20) at Mallie's Sports Bar in Southgate, MI.

October 20, 2011 at 12:52 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Detroit, Television | Permalink * Comments

The new poll asks your opinion about end of contest "chipmunking". According to a Patch.com report, Michael Solano "chipmunked" a crabcake sandwich at the end of a contest held at Michael's Cafe before he choked and lacked a pulse for four minutes.

October 19, 2011 at 1:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Judging | Permalink * Comments (3)

"The Fast and the Fullest" a competitive eating comedy by Drew Fogg, won the award for best screenplay at the Jax Film Fest.

October 19, 2011 at 7:40 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Jacksonville, Movies | Permalink * Comments

IFOCE head to head comparison table October 18, 2011

October 18, 2011 at 10:08 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

The updated IFOCE head to head comparison table can be viewed after the jump.
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ThePress.net has a video of Saturday's burger eating contest held at Lumpy's Diner in Antioch, California won by Stephanie Torres.

October 18, 2011 at 3:46 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Oakland, Stephanie Torres, Unafilliated Contests, Videos | Permalink * Comments

BelAir.Patch.com has an update on Michael Solano, who had a near death experience and lacked a pulse for four minutes after choking during a crab cake eating contest held September 24 at Michael's Cafe in Timonium, MD. Solano thinks that he might have experienced a mild stroke and received the $500 that was designated for the contest winner.

October 18, 2011 at 3:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Baltimore, Health | Permalink * Comments (4)

“Bones” competitive eating episode November 10

October 17, 2011 at 11:30 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Johnnie Excel, Television

A press release announces that the competitive eating episode of Bones, titled “The Hot Dog in the Competition” will be televised on the Fox Network on November 10. Johnnie Excel and other competitive eaters are expected to appear on the program. A synopsis of the episode from the press release:

The Jeffersonian team identifies the remains of a competitive eating champion just days before the start of the Gluttony Games, a premiere eating competition with a $10,000 prize at stake. The remarkable work of the exceptionally brilliant new squint and former juvenile delinquent Finn (guest star Luke Kleintank) links obscure evidence found in the belly of a snake with laws of physics in order to solve the crime. Despite his undeniable virtuosity in the lab, Finn is met with hostility and skepticism, leading Cam (Tamara Taylor) to question her decision to give him a chance to start anew. Meanwhile, Booth is caught off-guard by an announcement Brennan makes about their baby. To diffuse the tension between them, the couple agrees to experiment with putting themselves in each other’s shoes.

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Will Millender has taken the lead in qualifying for Manchester Pub's wing eating contest by eating 15 wings in 1:34.

October 17, 2011 at 9:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:New York City, Videos, Will Millender | Permalink * Comments (1)

"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has posted videos of his trip to Brazil and Argentina.

October 17, 2011 at 9:03 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Videos | Permalink * Comments (9)

A Huffington Post blog entry asks the question, "Are Competitive Speed Eaters Like Pythons?"

October 13, 2011 at 7:36 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Science | Permalink * Comments (4)

Tonight's episode of Man vs. Food:Nation will feature Cincinnati restaurants. Adam Turer (interview) will attempt the 5.5 pound 110 Reuben sandwich at Izzy's.

October 12, 2011 at 6:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cincinnati, Man vs. Food: Nation, Sandwich Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

The Travel Channel has posted some pictures of eating challenges submitted to the Man vs. Food: Nation facebook wall, including photographs of Matt "Sweet Tooth" Cohen and Jeremiah "Fit vs. Food" Foster.

October 11, 2011 at 12:47 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Galleries, Man vs. Food: Nation | Permalink * Comments

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