Competitive Eating category

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On the Odd has an interview with Molly Schuyler.

October 10, 2019 at 12:07 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Molly Schuyler, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (36)

Sometime today, Leah Shutkever (58.9K) passed Kate Ovens (58.8K) as the UK female competitive eater with the most youtube subscribers.

October 10, 2019 at 12:04 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kate Ovens, Leah Shutkever, Videos | Permalink * Comments (9)

Eater.com has a youtube video titled "How the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Became an ESPN Icon". The video contains a demonstration contest won by Badlands Booker in which George Shea catches Crazy Legs Conti cheating. (Eater.com blog entry)

October 9, 2019 at 11:21 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Crazy Legs Conti, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Nathan's History, New York City, Videos | Permalink * Comments (7)

SopranosCon will hold a cannoli eating contest in Seacaucus, NJ on November 23. In "The Ride" episode of the series, televised in 2006, Crazy Legs Conti competed in a cannoli eating contest.

October 9, 2019 at 4:37 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Newark, Television | Permalink * Comments (2)

Gage Talent has a casting call for a restaurant commerical with a rib eating contest to be filmed in Birmingham, AL later this month. The listed compensation is: 600 Session Fee, $3,100 Usage Fee x 3 years. $75 Fitting Fee. Plus $200 travel, pre-paid hotel, per diem.

October 4, 2019 at 11:34 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Birmingham, Television | Permalink * Comments (3)

Guinness World Records has an article about Saudi food challenger Hussain Sallam creating a 600kg serving of Sayadieh, a traditional Middle Eastern dish. He has over three million subscribers to his youtube channel.

October 4, 2019 at 10:50 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Asia, Records, Websites | Permalink * Comments

Eric "Badlands" Booker announced that his Badlands Chugs youtube channel surpassed a million subscribers.

October 4, 2019 at 10:34 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eric "Badlands" Booker, Videos, Websites | Permalink * Comments

Youtube has a video of the opening ceremonies of a pasta eating contest between professional wrestlers Hulk Hogan and Randy "Macho Man" Savage held in 1995 to promote the opening of Hulk Hogan's Pastamania! restaurant at the Mall of American in Bloomington, MN. (The video ends before the competition starts) (via Guy Hutchinson)

October 2, 2019 at 6:19 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes, Minneapolis, Videos | Permalink * Comments (11)

Michelle Lesco ate a hot dog without using her hands in 21.60 seconds to set a new Guinness World Record. "Furious" Pete Czerwinski held the previous record of 27.13 seconds.

September 29, 2019 at 12:01 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Cardboard Shell", "Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Records | Permalink * Comments

A video of Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco breaking the Guinness World Record for mayonnaise eating has surpassed 30 million views according to facebook.

September 24, 2019 at 10:13 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Cardboard Shell", Records, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Erik "The Electric" Lamkin announced yesterday that he had surpassed a million subscribers for his youtube channel.

September 23, 2019 at 9:02 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Erik Lamkin, Videos | Permalink * Comments

A facebook page for the British Eating League has been started.

September 19, 2019 at 4:14 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:United Kingdom, Websites | Permalink * Comments

Mashed.com has an article titled "Here's how much competitive eaters really make".

September 19, 2019 at 4:07 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business | Permalink * Comments (12)

Wayne Algenio ate 54 zeppoles (Italian donut holes) in 6 minutes to win the first zeppole eating contest at the Feast of San Gennaro in Manhattan. The victory was his second of the festival after setting the cannoli record on Friday.

September 18, 2019 at 5:19 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, New York City, Unafilliated Contests, Videos | Permalink * Comments (7)

Nicon.co.uk has an interview with photographer Nina Berman about her series of eating contest photographs.

September 13, 2019 at 12:58 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Galleries | Permalink * Comments

RIP Juliet Lee 1965-2019

September 10, 2019 at 9:30 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Juliet Lee

MajorLeagueEating.com has sad and shocking news: an obituary for Juliet Lee has been posted. No details about her passing are provided and I have not been able to track down any additional sources of information.

update Fox 5 has an article with these quotes from George Shea

“Juliet was in very good health and if you think of the number of times competitive eaters attend contests each year, it might be 3-10 contests a year so its not over the course of a year, an extraordinary addition of calories or both. …i have never heard of any impact like that. I can say that it certainly had nothing to do with competitive eating,” said Shea.

update Sept 23 A commenter gives the date of Juliet’s passing as August 16, more than three weeks before the date of September 9 in the MLE obituary. A comment on a Germantown Pulse facebook post also gives August as the month of passing.

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It's Nice That has a post on a series of photographs Adam Powell took at the Nathan's Finals.

September 6, 2019 at 5:49 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2019 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Galleries, New York City | Permalink * Comments

Brazilian competitive eater Corbucci Eats announced his intention to qualify for the 2020 Nathan's finals in a video he posted today.

September 5, 2019 at 5:03 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2020 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Brazil, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

The grocer.co.uk has an article about mukband videos with quotes from Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran. He is reportedly paid about £1,000 to eat a company's product in a video.

September 5, 2019 at 4:54 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran, Business | Permalink * Comments (3)

Daily Mail has an article about Australian competitive eater Jesse "Food Coma" Freeman breaking Guinness records for most cannolis eaten in 30 seconds and eating 6 jam donuts without licking his lips.

September 4, 2019 at 11:52 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Jesse Freeman, Records | Permalink * Comments

A movie about Indian competitive eater Theeta Rappai (not in English, no subtitles) can be viewed on youtube.

September 4, 2019 at 12:36 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:India, Movies, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

Geoff Esper takes lead over Joey Chestnut for 2019 victories

September 2, 2019 at 1:40 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Geoff Esper, Joey Chestnut, Statistics

With two victories at the Buffalo Wing Festival, Geoff Esper has moved ahead of Joey Chestnut for total MLE victories in 2019 (excluding qualifiers),

8 Geoff Esper
7 Joey Chestnut
3 Miki Sudo
2 Darron Breeden
1 Adrian Morgan
1 Gideon Oji
1 Matt Stonie

All first place results are after the jump
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"Uk Chilli Queen" Shanina Waseem attempted to eat 50 Carolina Reaper peppers yesterday. update League of Fire video

September 2, 2019 at 12:57 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Spicy Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Former WWE wrestler Ryback has started a food challenge youtube channel youtube channel. He has requested eating challenges for him to attempt on his twitter.

August 29, 2019 at 7:01 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes, Videos | Permalink * Comments (3)

Youtube has a Guinness World Records video about Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco documenting her attempt to set the mayonnaise eating record and break the fastest time to eat a single hot dog without use of hands. (via Big Eaters Club & PhillyD) update The Guinness website has an article about Michelle Lesco.

August 27, 2019 at 7:59 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Cardboard Shell", Records, Videos | Permalink * Comments (7)

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