Competitive Eating category

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The VooDooChef Podcast has an interview with Miki Sudo.

November 12, 2022 at 3:49 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Miki Sudo, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments

The Food Network Obsessed podcast has an interview with Casey Webb, the current host of Man v Food. MSN has an article about the podcast.

November 10, 2022 at 2:09 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments

Gregory Foster November 9, 2022 at 3:41 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Records, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

Joey Chestnut will attempt to set a record for the most pumpkin pie eaten in 3 minutes at Frisch's Big Boy in Fairfax, OH on November 23.

November 2, 2022 at 3:46 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cincinnati, Joey Chestnut, Records | Permalink * Comments (2)

Stephanie "nuttyfoodiefitness" Joshi posted a video of her 3.5 pound burrito eating contest versus her boyfriend.

October 31, 2022 at 2:16 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burrito Eating Challenges, Stephanie Joshi, Videos | Permalink * Comments (12)

Jon Senior's FunkQuest podcast has an interview with British competitive eater John Dawes.

October 26, 2022 at 3:04 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Podcasts, United Kingdom | Permalink * Comments (3)

KTIV reports that Liberty Elementary School in Sioux City, Iowa has banned students from attempting the Paqui One Chip Challenge which entails eating a single tortilla chip made with the Carolina Reaper pepper.

October 21, 2022 at 8:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Iowa, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (5)

A clip of Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle sticking his hand in a jar of sodium acetate solution and experiencing extreme pain has gone viral and received over 4 million views since it was posted by PyroJoe on October 18. The caption calls the video "the golden era of youtube".

October 20, 2022 at 2:32 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kevin Strahle, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Geoff Esper ate 11 corn dogs in 3 minutes to set a record at CLowndog in Albuquerque.

October 2, 2022 at 5:43 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Albuquerque, Geoff Esper, Records | Permalink * Comments

Katina Eats Kilos is the guest on the latest episode of "Breaking Bread", a podcast co-hosted by Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran.

September 29, 2022 at 2:34 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran, Katina DeJarnett, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments

Paudal.com reports that 48 year old Hugo Ismael passed away after choking after eating a slice of French bread during a pozole eating contest held in Tinum, Mexico. Not only were there no EMT present at the contest site, no doctors at all were available at all in Tinum or the neighboring town of Uayama, requiring transport to Valladolid Hospital, where Ismael was declared dead. Pozole is a dish originally invented by the Aztecs which included flesh from warriors sacrificed in sun worship rituals. Spaniards replaced the human meat with pork. (original Spanish article).

September 20, 2022 at 1:21 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Mexico | Permalink * Comments (3)

Metacritic reports that the subculture of competitive eating will be explored in an episode of the new season of "CSI:Vegas".

September 18, 2022 at 2:47 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Las Vegas, Television | Permalink * Comments

Vice.com produced a documentary about Erik "The Electric" Lamkin titled "100,000 Calorie Challenges: Inside the World Of Pro Eating"

September 12, 2022 at 2:11 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Documentaries, Erik Lamkin, Videos | Permalink * Comments (9)

"Battle of the Super Eaters", a 2019 Channel 4 documentary starring Leah Shutkever, Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran and Kyle Gibson is available on youtube with the title "Eating For A Living: My Life as a Competitive Eater"

September 10, 2022 at 1:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran, Documentaries, Kyle Gibson, Leah Shutkever | Permalink * Comments

The-Solute.com has a post about "The Glutton Bowl", a competitive eating tournament that aired on Fox in 2002, with commentary about the appearances of Don Lerman, Ed "Cookie" Jarvis, Oleg Zhornitskiy and Takeru Kobayashi.

August 26, 2022 at 3:15 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television | Permalink * Comments (3)

Fox59.com reports Joey Chestnut ate over 29 servings of popcorn in under 8 minutes at tonigh't Indianapolis Indians game to set a new world record. The servings had a volume of 24 ounces.

August 24, 2022 at 2:23 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Indianapolis, Joey Chestnut, Records | Permalink * Comments (3)

Fatality at Peter’s Clam Bar eating contest

August 15, 2022 at 3:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Long Island

Newsday reports that Island Park Fire Department volunteer Michael Fischer passed away after suffering a cardiac arrest while attending yesterday’s clam eating contest at Peter’s Clam Bar in Island Park, NY. The article does not mention if he participated in the eating competition. This is not the first eating contest fatality associated with a New York first responder. In April 2017, Caitlin Nelson, daughter of a Port Authority policeman who perished in the 9/11 attacks, choked to death during a pancake eating contest at Sacred Heart University. update News12 reports that the incident happened while Fischer was helping set up for the contest.

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TheRecord.com has an article about Canadian food challenger Mike Jack, who holds several Guinness records for eating spicy foods. He hopes to retake the record for Carolina Reaper peppers soon.

August 8, 2022 at 2:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Ontario, Records, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

TGI Fridays announced a partnership with Matt Stonie's restaurant Stonie Bowls to deliver teriyaki and poke bowls out of its virtual kitchens.

August 3, 2022 at 1:48 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Matt Stonie | Permalink * Comments

Bake Magazine has a report about Joey Chestnut eating 17.5 pounds of cherry pie to set a world record last week at Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Summit, an event held at the Washington Nationals ballpark. Ken Hoffman has an article about Three Brothers Bakery in Houston supplying the pies for the attempt.

July 27, 2022 at 12:42 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:District of Columbia, Joey Chestnut, Records | Permalink * Comments (4)

On July 4, Michael Jenkins ate 117 oysters in 3 minutes to win a contest in Okeechobee, FL and attain his 100th eating competition victory.

July 20, 2022 at 1:04 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Michael Jenkins, Orlando, Statistics | Permalink * Comments (4)

Joey Chestnut announces discontinuation of MLE contract

July 13, 2022 at 11:13 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contracts, Joey Chestnut, Kobayashi (小林尊)

In the latest episode of Barstool Sports Pardon my Take podcast, Joey Chestnut announces that his MLE contract will expire at the end of this year and he is open to the possibility of a matchup with Takeru Kobayashi in 2023. (video clip)

The end of this year is going to be a weird year for me because my contract with Major League Eating and Nathan’s is going to be over. So it’ll be my first year in a long, long time that I can actually eat against Kobayashi. So me and him could find a way to compete because he’ll never compete with Major League Eating again because they have just a childish contract dispute, but there’s a chance that I might be able to eat against him.

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It is interesting that even after declining a MLE contract extension, Joey Chestnut still calls Takeru Kobayshi’s schism with the organization a “childish contract dispute”.

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The website for Matt Stonie's new restaurant Stonie Bowls has been launched at https://www.stoniebowls.com/. There are about 30 locations in the Los Angeles area and northeast United States, which all appear to be delivery only.

July 4, 2022 at 1:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Matt Stonie, Merchandise | Permalink * Comments (1)

ESPN has a press release about its telecast of the 2022 Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest. The men's contest will be live on ESPNews while the women's contest will be streamed on ESPN3 while ESPNews shows Sportscenter. (The two main ESPN channels will be showing Wimbledon.) John Anderson will replace Mike Golic Jr. as Rich Shea's broadcast partner.

June 29, 2022 at 6:06 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:ESPN, Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests, Ventura County | Permalink * Comments

Webb, Bertoletti, Corbucci enter MLE top 50

June 28, 2022 at 12:54 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings

The MLE top 50 has been updated for the first time in about a year. The new top 12:

1. Joey Chestnut
2. Geoff Esper
3. Miki Sudo
4. Nick Wehry
5. Matt Stonie
6. Darron Breeden
7. Gideon Oji
8. Max Suzuki
9. Michelle Lesco
10. James Webb
11. Pat Bertoletti
12. Ricardo Corbucci

James Webb, Pat Bertoletti and Ricardo Corbucci are the only new entrants, replacing Juan Neave, Gordon Hazzard and Rich LeFevre. I think Australian James Webb is the first non-American or Japanese to make the top 10. Katina DeJarnett and Ryan “Max Carnage” Rodacker are surprising omissions.

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