Competitive Eating category

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Mashed.com has an interview with Adam Richman about his favorite and least favorite restaurant challenges he attempted while host of Man v Food.

March 11, 2021 at 12:31 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges, Man vs. Food | Permalink * Comments

Randy Santel and Katina DeJarnett did an interview for WKMG's Florida Foodie podcast.

March 9, 2021 at 11:18 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Katina DeJarnett, Orlando, Podcasts, Randy Santel | Permalink * Comments (4)

Fox13News has a video about Randy Santel and Katina DeJarnett attempting a 4 foot sandwich at Richie Cheesesteak in Spring Hill, FL. sThe challenge will award $200 to a pair that completes it. (youtube video)

March 3, 2021 at 12:41 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Katina DeJarnett, Randy Santel, Sandwich Eating Challenges, Tampa, Team Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

Hussain Sallam from Saudi Arabia is about to pass a billion total video views for his youtube channel, S7SChallenges. This will be the fourth food challenge channel to hit that milestone after Matt Stonie (2.635B), Yuka Kinoshita (2.091M) and "Furious" Pete Czerwinksi (1.033M).

February 26, 2021 at 1:04 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics | Permalink * Comments

"Greedy Cats" is a new game for Android and iOS featuring competitive eating cats. The game score is not solely based on eating contest results, it also depends on dressing the cats appropriately. "Greedy Cats" is not the first game about cats in eating competitions, the card game "Tem-Purr-A" was released in 2016 (game trailer) update Touch Tap Play has a strategy guide about the game.

February 24, 2021 at 10:59 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Video Games | Permalink * Comments

SoraNews24.com reports that Japanese competitive eater Max Suzuki has partnered with the Daisho Group to start a restaurant chain called Max Suzuki's Seabura Hanten. The locations will mainly deliver via Uber Eats but some sites will also offer carry-out orders. Large meals will be focus for the brand, with one menu item, the Triple Mega Serving, coming in at a weight of 1.8kg (3.97 pounds).

February 23, 2021 at 11:51 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Japan, Max Suzuki, Merchandise | Permalink * Comments

Chris Gdula posted a picture of a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle which uses a picture of a competitor (who I don't recognize) in the Chicago Ribfest eating contest. A MLE MC is in the background. The title of the puzzle is "Lewd Little Pig".

February 12, 2021 at 2:57 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Chicago, Merchandise | Permalink * Comments

Geoffrey Esper will be a guest on the British Eating League's "Eat Night Live" that will be streamed on facebook on Saturday at 7pm UK / 2pm US Eastern time.

February 10, 2021 at 11:18 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Geoff Esper, Organizations | Permalink * Comments (3)

The Big Texan in Amarillo, TX has started a youtube channel for videos of attempts at its 72 ounce steak challenge.

February 10, 2021 at 1:30 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Amarillo, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

VT has a video about Katina DeJarnett ("Katina Eats Kilos") titled "This woman has made a career out of competitive eating!"

February 8, 2021 at 8:43 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Katina DeJarnett, Videos | Permalink * Comments (4)

An upcoming episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is casting for competitors for a hot dog eating contest for a shoot in the Los Angeles area on February 22.

February 5, 2021 at 7:31 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television | Permalink * Comments (10)

Mashed.com has an article about Dominick "The Doginator" Cardo and the health issues that resulted in his retirement in 2006.

February 5, 2021 at 1:43 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health | Permalink * Comments

In 2009, the Seattle Business Journal wrote a report on the "Tatonka Bowl", a wing eating contest held for employees of Amazon.com. Andy Jassy, who was recently named as the replacement for CEO Jeff Bezos, served as MC for the event. Jonathan Squibb, Wing Bowl winner from 2009 to 2011, won the contest. (via Eater Seattle)

February 4, 2021 at 2:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Jon Squibb, Seattle | Permalink * Comments

A lawsuit seeking damages of 83 million yen (about $791,000) has been filed by the parents of a man who died after choking in a 2016 Japanese eating contest. He was requested to swallow an onigiri (rice ball) that he had stuffed in his mouth at the close of the contest, which resulted in the incident. (original article)

February 2, 2021 at 1:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Japan | Permalink * Comments

CNN reports that Mike Jack of London, Ontario received a Guinness record for eating 3 Carolina Reaper peppers in 9.72 seconds. He has received three previous Guinness records for eating peppers.

February 1, 2021 at 2:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Ontario, Records, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (2)

Maria Makkonen produced a comic strip starring Finnish competitive eater Jesse Pynnönen.

January 28, 2021 at 12:14 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Comics | Permalink * Comments

Mothership.sg reports Chinese mukbang star Sun Yi Xuan passed away from cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 19. He was known for livestreaming his high calorie meals on the Kuaishou app, on which he had over 500,000 followers.

January 28, 2021 at 12:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:China, Fatalities | Permalink * Comments

A 4chan thread asks commenters to post their favorite competitive eater. Responses include Randy Santel, Beard Meats Food and Raina Huang.

January 26, 2021 at 12:14 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings | Permalink * Comments (14)

Eddie Du posted a video of a 1962 Chinese food eating contest held in England which required the participants to use chopsticks.

January 24, 2021 at 2:18 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:England, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

Reemul Balla writes in MyLondon that he was partially deaf for two days after eating a package of spicy ramen. The challenge was inspired by a Matt Stonie video in which he ate 15 packs of Samyang Korean Spicy Noodles.

January 16, 2021 at 1:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, London, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

Food Insider has produced a video listing the most iconic restaurant in each state. Several of the selections have been involved with restaurant challenges and eating contests including St. Elmo's Steak House (Indiana), Stella's (Nebraska), Voodoo Doughnuts (Oregon) and Ben's Chili Bowl (Washington, DC).

January 15, 2021 at 12:59 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges, Rankings, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

A 4channel.org post claims that Marlon Brando challenged Paul Newman to an egg eating contest at a Hollywood party in 1968. The competition was inspired by a scene in "Cool Hand Luke" in which Newman's character attempted to eat 50 eggs. After the challenge was declined, Brando ate eggs solo, eventually finishing with 51 eggs. The story was from the book "True Hollywood Tales", published in 1997.

January 13, 2021 at 12:37 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Movies | Permalink * Comments (2)

The brother of Mike E Sizzle of the Fink Beats the Stomach podcast produced a custom Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest themed Funko POP. update Steve Castro has posted how he made the POP, which was created from three store-bought POPs: Ted Mosby ("How I Met Your Mother"), the 1989 Joker (Jack Nicholson) and Ein from Cowboy Bebob.

January 10, 2021 at 1:15 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Merchandise, Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (2)

Gal Akbari (https://www.tiktok.com/@q.gal) video in which she eats a meal consisting of 8 McDonald's burgers, fried and chicken nuggets has been viewed over five million times on tiktok. She billed herself as the female Matt Stonie.

January 9, 2021 at 12:58 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Gal Akbari, Videos, Women | Permalink * Comments

Darron Breeden lists the five hardest restaurant food challenges he has attempted.

January 7, 2021 at 11:47 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Darron Breeden, Eating Challenges, Rankings, Videos | Permalink * Comments

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