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Last night’s episode of “Mind of Mencia” on Comedy Central featured the “Stereotype Olympics”. An eating contest was one of the competitions. nochelatina.com has a summary of that episode.
speelmee.nl has an online Flash hot dog eating game. Before you can eat the hot dogs, first you have to cook them.
IFOCE.com announces that Eric “Badlands” Booker will appear on “Wifeswap” on Monday October 9 at 8 pm eastern.
According to the Yahoo TV description, the Booker family will swap spouses with the Alcorns, one of whom is a boxer:
“Alcorn/Booker”
A former undefeated champion boxer trades families with a mother who champions competitive eating.
Booker will apparently live with Jenifer Alcorn, who retired from boxing without a loss in 2004. The (The only undefeated male championship boxer I am aware of is Rocky Marciano)
ABC has a press release about the episode. Eric’s wife, Regina, will take over Jenifer’s fighter training while Jenifer will try to get the Booker family to adopt healthier habits.
(From krystal-lovers) Videos from the Chattanooga, Jacksonville and Nashville qualifiers are now available at krystalsquareoff.com The other qualifiers and Bob Shoudt’s 2 minute record attempt should be online in the near future. I am looking forward to seeing the end of the Atlanta qualifier.
Updated 12:30am – truefan has an Atlanta video and gallery – thanks steakbellie
Erik “the Red” Denmark has a blog entry about his breaking the IFOCE spot shrimp record which has a gallery & videos: introduction, last 10 seconds
Erik “the Red” Denmark appears on Brian Seiken’s latest video podcast after breaking the IFOCE spot shrimp record on Friday. I hope that Crazy Legs Conti’s planned appearance has been postponed and not cancelled.
Updated 2:35 pm – the video has been taken down due to technical problems. BB hopes they can be resolved by tonight.
Megamunch has a post about the Beavis & Butthead bratwurst contest The creator of Beavis & Butthead, Mike Judge, also created King of the Hill, which had an IFOCE themed episode.
Other competitive eating cartoons on youtube:
Homer Simpson tackles a restaurant’s steak challenge
Samurai Champloo episode 6 (subtitles) : Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Erik “the Red” Denmark’s attempt at the spot shrimp record should be coming up on http://www.kjram.com/ in a few minutes. Ray “the Bison” Meduna is serving as judge.
7:56 Erik dedicates his performance to the Washington Huskies and puts on a purple bandana.
7:59 The contest starts. Erik is using hot sauce.
8:00 The house band starts and the station cuts to commercial.
8:10 the station returns from commercial and Erik has broken the record with 1:30 left
8:12 the contest ends with the record broken. The station has yet to announce the amount.
8:26 back from another long commercial break – Erik is credited with 4 lb 15 oz. Erik says he feels great. Ray “the Bison” Meduna says the record is certified. Erik says he thinks he might have used too much cocktail sauce. Erik will do the Texas State Fair jalapeno contest next.
“Wing Tut” has started a blog at http://wingtut.blogspot.com/ His longest post is a ranking of IFOCE and AICE Pennsylvania eaters (Brian Subich should appear in the IFOCE ranking & Lori Weiss could headline a list of non IFOCE & AICE eaters)
amny.com has some pictures (#7 – #10) of last Friday’s cannoli eating contest at the San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy.
(from japanprobe) A clip from Japanese TV of a Jamaican and Nigerian attempting a restaurant’s 3kg curry challenge has been posted to youtube. It is claimed they both eat 6kg, but the clip jumps to an empty plate so this cannot be verified.
Micah “Wing Kong” Collins is travelling to Memphis for the Krystal qualifier with steakbellie. He has several entries about his preparation in his blog at http://conundrum54.blogspot.com/ Wing Kong is considering changing his nickname to Carnage and adopting a bad guy persona.
Happy Birthday to Jason “Erbivore” Erb, who turns 27 today. I hope to add a birthday section to the sidebar in the home page. You can enter your birthday in the database.
Also happy birthday to sonyatheblackwidow.com, who turned 3 yesterday.
Hall “Hoover” Hunt has some pictures from the Jacksonville Krystal qualifier in his flickr gallery.
krystal-lovers has a post responding to the criticism of the webcam The main issue appears to be that the wireless internet provider they are using does not have sufficient upload speed.
(Thanks Brian Seiken) Slashfood has a post with currently 100 comments about the death in the “Chubby Bunny” marshmallow stuffing contest in Canada last week.
(From anonymous comment) – A video of Joey Chestnut drinking a gallon of milk in 41 seconds in the WIP studios to qualifiy for Wing Bowl 14 is available on youtube.
(from http://krystal-lover.blogspot.com/) A clip of “Humble” Bob Shoudt attempting to break the two minute Krystal record last week has been uploaded to youtube. Hopefully the full qualifiers can be posted in the future.
Brian Seiken has grades for seven young eaters’ personalities on his website. The grades were determined by an email poll and Seiken’s own observations.
A clip of Moe’s Burritos for Life finals held at Georgia Tech Labor Day weekend has been posted to youtube. The clip supports speedeat’s report that Mike (Shelley) won the contest by eating 5.5 (or 6) burritos in 8 minutes (and disproves Dale Boone’s comment that Tony Rizzo was the victor)
The OK Gazette reports that Patrick Bertoletti, Tim Janus and Larry McNeil are expected at the goldenpalace.net Fried Okra Eating Championship at the Oklahoma State Fair.
The Reader reports that Joey Chestnut, Chip Simpson and defending champion Rich LeFevre are expected at the World Pulled Pork-Eating Contest at Harrah’s Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
zerobxu will also compete in the pulled pork contest. zerobxu competed in the kolache eating contest and has a blog entry and gallery about that contest.
KrystalSquareOff lists Pat Bertoletti, Juris Shibayama, Arturo Rios, Larry McNeil as expected competitors in the Knoxville qualifier.
Updated 9/15 4:28 pm (Thanks Brian Cooley) The U of Tenn student paper has an article about the Knoxville qualifier. Pat Bertoletti says he hopes to break 60.
The London (Ontario, Canada) Free Press reports that a woman who was in critical condition after choking on a marshmallow at the Western fair died. The woman was participating in a contest in which the objective was to stuff as many marshmallows as possible into one’s mouth and then say the words “Chubby bunny” The woman’s family did not release her name.
Updated 1:56 am The Globe and Mail has a long article about the death which includes the woman’s name. The “Chubby Bunny” game killed a 12 year old schoolgirl in Illinois in 1999.
(From unaccepted comment by “Mr. Wright”) AICE News reports that Christina Gumola, who won Pittsburgh Steeler tickets by winning a Roethlisburger eating contest in 2004, won tickets to the Steeler’s opener last week by winning a hot dog eating contest held at KISS FM 96.1. Christina tied with 97 pound Andrea by eating 8.5 hot dogs in 5 minutes, but was awared the victory by the DJs because they claimed she finished eating first. A men’s contest was also held, the winner, Joe, ate 6.5 hot dogs.
Youtube has videos of the contests: women’s, men’s
kissfm961.com has pictures from the contest: Gallery 1, Gallery 2
Kiss FM also hosted an unsuccessful attempt at eating 40 HDB in 40 minutes which is available on youtube
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has uploaded videos of the Kolache contest won by Pat Bertoletti, the precontest introductions and the $100K rookie grilled cheese challenge to youtube. Skinnyboy nas a trip report with pictures on his blog.
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| 2026 Nov 11 | multiple sites | King of Wings | ||||
| 2026 Nov 12 | Denver, CO | Slider Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 13 | Sapulpa, OK | Pancake Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | Cedar Park, TX | Dumpling Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | DeLand, FL | Hot Dog Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | St. Augustine, FL | Key Lime Pie Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | Cedar Park, TX | Pad Thai Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Nov 14 | Philadelphia, PA | World Pickle Eating Championship | ||||
| 2026 Nov 15 | West Chester, PA | Hot Ones Hot Sauce Hot Wing Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Lahaska, PA
Apple Pie Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Helendale, CA
Big Momma Challenge |
| 2026 Nov 8 Brevard, NC
Hot Wing Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Tarpon Springs, FL
Stone Crab Eating Contest |
| 2026 Nov 8 Corsicana, TX
Wing Eating Contest |
| $100.00 | "The Ginger Giraffe" |
| $500.00 | Paola |
| $200.00 | Rich "The Walkup" |
| $500.00 | Vito "The Spoon" |
| $50.00 | Colby Aiton |
| $100.00 | "plonksmash" |
| $300.00 | "The Village Inn" |
| $100.00 | Jayden "FitnessCheatMeals" |
| $500.00 | Jean Christophe |
| $3,000.00 | Wayne "wayneywonder" Algenio |