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Viggo Mortensen, best known for portraying Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, competes in a hot dog eating contest in an opening scene of the new movie "Green Book".

November 15, 2018 at 6:42 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Movies | Permalink * Comments

Business Insider has an article about a recent video by Yuka Kinoshita where she eats 9kg of food from Singaporean restaurants totaling 14,000 calories.

November 14, 2018 at 8:11 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Singapore, Videos, Yuka Kinoshita | Permalink * Comments

Ebay.com is selling a document for $3,995 labeled as a "NY Baseball Writers Scorecard" signed by Babe Ruth. (via HomeRunDirect)

November 13, 2018 at 7:34 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes, Merchandise, New York City | Permalink * Comments (1)

Jenn Cheng has started her youtube channel with a video of her attempt at the Supersize Mi Pho Challenge at Mi Noodle Bar in Manhattan. The meal is billed as the first NYC pho challenge.

November 10, 2018 at 7:05 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Jenn Cheng, New York City, Noodle Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Some sad news from Stephanie Wu: she has discovered that her throat issues were symptoms of thyroid cancer and has terminated her restaurant challenge tour to focus on her health. Ed "Cookie" Jarvis was diagnosed with thryoid cancer in 2010 which was removed by surgery.

November 9, 2018 at 4:19 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Stephanie Wu | Permalink * Comments (31)

Former boxer Mario Melo passed away after competing in a croissant eating contest in Pinamar, Argentina. In 1990 he faced off against Michael Moorer for the WBA light heavyweight world title. The 56 year old was believed to have diabetes. updateTMZ has an article with a video of the incident (warning: disturbig)

November 5, 2018 at 1:12 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Argentinia, Fatalities, Male Athletes | Permalink * Comments (1)

KyleVFood has posted a video of his attempt at a 160 ounce steak challenge from Bennett's Butchers.

November 5, 2018 at 6:28 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:England, Kyle Gibson, Steak Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

"Furious" Pete Czerwinski posted a video of his attempt at the Burritozilla at Iguana's in San Jose. His goal was to surpass Matt Stonie's time of under 2 minutes. He did not mention Molly Schuyler's overall record of 1:25.

November 4, 2018 at 11:40 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Burritozilla, San Jose, Videos | Permalink * Comments (21)

The Hartford Courant reports that the family of Caitlin Nelson is suing Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT for allowing a pancake eating contest on March 30, 2017 that resulted in her death following choking. The objective of the lawsuit is not just to exact monetary damages, but to "expose the danger of amateur eating contests and to prevent other families from experiencing such a tragedy".

October 29, 2018 at 9:59 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Bridgeport, College Contests, Fatalities | Permalink * Comments (2)

Foster Our Future has a video interview with Nela Zisser, who is currently a second year medical student at the University of Auckland. She is about to open the second location of her restaurant, Tucks and Bao.

October 28, 2018 at 7:24 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Nela Zisser, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Raina Huang's attempt at the burrito challenge at Tirsa's in Los Angeles made ABC's "Bite Size" series.

October 27, 2018 at 10:46 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burrito Eating Challenges, Los Angeles, Raina Huang, Videos | Permalink * Comments (7)

An emergency at an eating contest will be an incident in tonight's episode of 9-1-1 on FOX.

October 22, 2018 at 8:30 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Television | Permalink * Comments (4)

Homer faced off against the sea monster Cthulhu in the opening segment of last night's Simpsons, which was the 29th installment of the Halloween-themed "Treehouse of Horror" series. A brief clip can be viewed on twitter.

October 22, 2018 at 10:34 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Comics, Television | Permalink * Comments (1)

I Am Full, an independent horror movie about a burger challenge has completed filming and will be submitted to film festivals in 2019.

October 19, 2018 at 6:01 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Movies | Permalink * Comments (7)

Brandon "Da Garbage Disposal" Clark will appear in an upcoming Travel Channel program recorded at Greek Village Grill in Lakewood, OH. LakewoodObserver has pictures of the recording on Tuesday.

October 18, 2018 at 6:24 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Brandon Clark, Cleveland, Television | Permalink * Comments

BBC Archive has posted a video from 1972 of a man eating 50 eggs in about a minute.

October 13, 2018 at 12:02 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:United Kingdom, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

The sniper video game Clear Vision 4 has a mission where the player is tasked with an assassination at a hot dog eating contest.

October 11, 2018 at 10:55 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Video Games | Permalink * Comments (2)

San Pedro Fish produced a mini-documentary about May's shrimp eating contest.

October 6, 2018 at 7:04 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Los Angeles, Videos | Permalink * Comments

The first four episodes of Eat Fighter, an online comic book described as a "horror/comedy/satire set in a world of illegal underground competitive eating" can be viewed online.

October 6, 2018 at 1:02 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Comics | Permalink * Comments (1)

Raina Huang has surpassed 100,000 youtube subscribers, making her the first American female competitive eater to attain that benchmark.

October 1, 2018 at 1:17 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Raina Huang, Videos | Permalink * Comments (32)

Thrillist produced a video about the Guinness World Records held by Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle.

September 29, 2018 at 9:37 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kevin Strahle, Records | Permalink * Comments

Mens Health has an interview with Erik "The Electric" Lamkin about recovery from his eating disorder.

September 26, 2018 at 7:10 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Erik Lamkin, Health | Permalink * Comments (5)

Journalist Gersh Kuntzman announced he was interviewed for an upcoming ESPN documentary about competitive eating, which will include Takeru Kobayashi.

September 24, 2018 at 11:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:ESPN, Kobayashi (小林尊), The Good, The Bad, The Hungry | Permalink * Comments

Aaron Cohen recorded a video of Molly Schuyler, Dan Kennedy and Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle attempting the burger challenge at Michael's Roscommon House in Belleville, NJ last night. update LA Beast has posted his video. Molly Schuyler ate 2 burgers in less time than it took for him to finish one challenge burger.

September 23, 2018 at 10:18 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Dan Kennedy, Kevin Strahle, Molly Schuyler, Newark, Videos | Permalink * Comments (20)

In a new ad for Crystal Pepsi, Kevn "LA Beast" Strahle used the beverage to soothe his mouth after a hot wing challenge.

September 21, 2018 at 3:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kevin Strahle, Merchandise, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (1)

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