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The twitter for Russia Today posted an excerpt from a Raina Huang video where she attempted an eight pound sushi roll at Octopus Restaurant in Glendale, CA. The tweet currently has 364 comments.

December 4, 2019 at 11:07 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Raina Huang, Russia, Sushi Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments (8)

EOnline.com has a video of three humans facing a bear in an eating contest from the debut episode of Man vs. Bear Tha will be televised December 4 on the Discovery channel. In 2003, Takeru Kobayashi had a hot dog eating competition against a bear in Fox's Man vs. Beast

December 3, 2019 at 12:41 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Leah Shutkever faced off against strongman competitor Eddie Hall in a five pound chicken and chips challenge at the Digbeth Dining Club. (Eddie Hall's video).

November 28, 2019 at 10:06 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges, Leah Shutkever, Male Athletes, Videos, West Midlands | Permalink * Comments (2)

George Rossoatos has made a chapter from his book Interdiscursive Readings in Cultural Consumer Research titled "Furious Pete and the Re-Evaluation of All Values available for download for free.

November 26, 2019 at 11:57 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Books | Permalink * Comments (2)

"UK Chilli Queen" Shahina Waseem attempted to eat over 100 Carolina Reaper peppers today (aftermath video).

November 25, 2019 at 12:02 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:London, Spicy Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments (4)

Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle ate 14 cannolis to win today's eating contest at SopranosCon in Seacaucus, NJ.

November 23, 2019 at 2:12 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Kevin Strahle, Newark, Television, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (3)

Bob Shoudt announced he has started selling T-shirts at gummymall.com

November 22, 2019 at 2:43 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Notorious" Bob Shoudt, Merchandise | Permalink * Comments (7)

Takeru Kobyashi attempted the challenge at Pho 87 in Las Vegas on Tuesday's episode of the Japanese television program SixTONES. (Kobayashi segments start at 1:25 and 1:34). This might be his first eating challenge or contest on Japanese TV since the 2002 Food Battle Club.

November 21, 2019 at 9:48 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Las Vegas, Noodle Eating Challenges, Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

Registration is open for the cannoli eating contests that will be held at SopranosCon in Seacacus, NJ on November 23 and 24. Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle will compete in Saturday's contest.

November 19, 2019 at 1:19 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kevin Strahle, Newark, Television, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (6)

Matt Stonie's youtube channel has passed 10 million subscribers.

November 19, 2019 at 8:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Matt Stonie, Videos, Websites | Permalink * Comments (9)

The MLE video game made the geek.com list of "The Most Shameless Food Product Placement in Video Games"

November 12, 2019 at 7:58 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Video Games | Permalink * Comments

Hentgee Lim has an article in medium.com about pretending to be a college friend of Keigo Kirino, who passed away due to choking in a rice ball eating contest, and interviewing his family.

November 9, 2019 at 9:34 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Japan | Permalink * Comments (1)

Wayne Algenio will face off against World's Strongest Man Eddie Hall in an eating contest on an episode of "Eddie Eats America" that will be televised on the UK channel Dave on Sunday. The competition was recorded at Mac Shack NY, whose owner Kevin "BlaccLyte" James recently passed away.

November 6, 2019 at 3:48 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes, New York City, Television, United Kingdom, Wayne Algenio | Permalink * Comments (18)

A Creators.com column by Scott LaFee mentions the recent passing of Juliet Lee, which still has a completely unknown cause.

November 6, 2019 at 7:03 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Juliet Lee | Permalink * Comments (2)

The New York Post has an article about Englishwoman Charna Rowley quitting her job to focus on a youtube channel (currently at 3,040 subscribers) in which she eats meals containing up to 5,500 calories. Boy George,former lead singer of the Culture Club, was unimpressed by the the career decision.

November 5, 2019 at 7:26 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, England, Videos | Permalink * Comments (21)

Daily Mail reports that Subhash Yadav passed away after being challenged by his friend to eat 50 eggs in Uttar Pradesh, India. Doctors ruled that his death was due to complications from overeating.

November 4, 2019 at 8:37 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, India | Permalink * Comments

Youtube has an Alka Seltzer commercial set at a pie eating contest recorded at Yankee Stadium in the 1960s. (I am not aware of any actual eating contests being held at Yankee Stadium.)

November 4, 2019 at 12:00 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:New York City, Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments

LeagueOfFire.com has started a blog about spicy eating competitions.

October 31, 2019 at 9:49 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Spicy Eating Challenges, Websites | Permalink * Comments (3)

Wired has a video about Ed Currie, creator of the Carolina Reaper pepper.

October 27, 2019 at 11:50 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Spicy Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments

The George Pub and Grill in Stockton on Tees, England announces the British Eating League.

October 23, 2019 at 9:44 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Newcastle, Organizations | Permalink * Comments

Three members of Barstool Sports faced off against Yasir Salem in a pizza eating contest.

October 17, 2019 at 8:33 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Videos, Yasir Salem | Permalink * Comments (2)

LadBible.com has an article about Leah Shuktever's Guinness record for eating a Terry's Chocolate Orange.

October 17, 2019 at 1:42 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Leah Shutkever, Records | Permalink * Comments (1)

WatchMojo has a video titled "Top 5 Unappetizing Things You Didn't Know About Eating Contests"

October 15, 2019 at 9:38 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Videos | Permalink * Comments

Taiwan News reports (in English) that Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen appeared in the lastest video by food challenger Chien Tsu to discuss the new Southbound Policy and Vietnamese meals. "Chien Chien" became famous after competing for the Taiwanese team for the Japanese program "Battle of the Big Eaters" in 2016 and currently has 1.23 million subscribers to her youtube channel.

October 13, 2019 at 9:01 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Taiwan, Videos | Permalink * Comments (6)

Geoff Esper completed the Big Texan 72 ounce steak challenge in 5:08, surpassing Joey Chestnut (8:52) for the fastest non Molly Schuyler time for the meal.

October 12, 2019 at 2:23 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Amarillo, Big Texan, Geoff Esper, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

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