Competitive Eating category

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A man was hospitalized after swallowing a ghost pepper in an eating contest in Brighton, England. The unnamed competitor was facing off against Shahina Waseem, who is undefeated in spicy eating contests.

September 17, 2018 at 5:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Spicy Eating Challenges, Sussex | Permalink * Comments

Youtube has a clip from Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party of Martha Stewart, Snoop, Don Cheadle and Sherri Shepherd competing in a hot pepper eating contest.

September 10, 2018 at 7:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Female Celebrities, Male Celebrities, Music, Spicy Eating Challenges, Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Finnish competitive eater Jesse Pynnönen produced a subtitled video about Molly Schuyler.

September 8, 2018 at 8:43 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Jesse Pynnönen, Molly Schuyler, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Reflector.com has an interview with Mort Hurst about his decision to not defend his title at the Collard Festival in Ayden, NC. His 2017 victory was his first competition in about 25 years after suffering a stroke in 1991.

September 6, 2018 at 2:23 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eastern NC, Health | Permalink * Comments

The 2019 Guinnesss Book of World Records has a page primarily devoted to Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle. Records from Michelle Lesco, Pete Czerwinski and Kevin Medina of the Philippines also appear in the bottom row of the page.

August 29, 2018 at 8:02 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Books, Kevin Strahle, Records | Permalink * Comments (6)

An account devoted to "exposing Matt Stonie one food challenge at a time" has been started at https://twitter.com/StonieThePhony

August 28, 2018 at 10:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Matt Stonie, Websites | Permalink * Comments (5)

Darron Breeden has uploaded a video of him facing off against Dan "Killer" Kennedy in a 4 foot sub sandwich eating contest held at The Sub Hub in Reynoldsville, PA.

August 26, 2018 at 8:06 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dan Kennedy, Darron Breeden, Sandwich Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Kent Online reports that Libertines frontman Pete Doherty completed the breakfast challenge at the Dalby Cafe in Cliftonville, England in 19:30, beating the time limit by 30 seconds.

August 24, 2018 at 10:05 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Breakfast Eating Challenges, Kent, Music | Permalink * Comments

Joey Chestnut will be in Carmel, IN Saturday to promote his new line of Joey Chestnut Select condiments.

August 22, 2018 at 9:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Indianapolis, Joey Chestnut, Merchandise | Permalink * Comments (1)

Magic Mikey produced a video of Molly Schuyler, Geoff Esper and Darron Breeden each attempting a "Big Fat Fatty" sandwich challenge at Fat Sal's Deli in Los Angeles.

August 22, 2018 at 5:07 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Los Angeles, Sandwich Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

1st MLE Top 50 of 2018 released

August 20, 2018 at 4:50 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings

MLE has updated its top 50 for the first time in 2018. The new top 10:

1) Joey Chestnut
2) Carmen Cincotti
3) Geoffrey Esper
4) Matt Stonie
5) Darron Breeden
6) Gideon Oji
7) Miki Sudo
8) Adrian Morgan
9) Michelle Lesco
10) Max Suzuki

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2012 Republican presidential candidate has been announced as a judge in today's hot dog eating contest at the Utah County Fair in Spanish Fork, UT. update Aug 21 Herald Extra has a gallery of the contest won by Joe LaRue with a total of 15 hot dogs in 8 minutes

August 18, 2018 at 7:56 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joe LaRue, Judging, Salt Lake City | Permalink * Comments

RIP Aretha Franklin. While best known for her musical career, she was also an actress in one of the most famous big eating scenes in American cinema history: "4 fried chickens and a Coke" from The Blues Brothers. (Her husband in that scene, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, passed away earlier this year in June)

August 17, 2018 at 12:10 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Movies, Music | Permalink * Comments (2)

The Celebrity Cafe has an interview with Casey Webb, host of Man v Food. He is not sure if he will be brought back for a fourth season.

August 13, 2018 at 10:14 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food | Permalink * Comments (1)

Doug Sakmann posted a clip from an upcoming Troma film of Badlands Booker, Wayne Algenio, Crazy Legs Conti, Tim "Gravy" Brown and adult actress Nadia White competing in an eating contest.

August 7, 2018 at 8:53 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Crazy Legs Conti, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Nadia White, Tim Brown, Videos, Wayne Algenio | Permalink * Comments (1)

Most MLE wins in 2018

August 6, 2018 at 10:09 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Geoff Esper, Statistics

With his victory yesterday at the Indiana State Fair ice cream eating contest, Geoff Esper now has the most MLE wins in 2018 excluding Nathan’s qualifiers.

6 Geoffrey Esper
5 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
3 Carmen Cincotti
1 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie
1 Miki Sudo
1 Gideon Oji
1 Darron Breeden

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Esstik has surpassed a million youtube subscribers, probably making it the first Spanish language food challenge channel to hit that benchmark.

August 3, 2018 at 12:53 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Spain, Videos | Permalink * Comments

The Krystal Square Off and Johnsonville Bratwurst telecasts from 2006 will be rerun on ESPN 2 on August 8 as part of its "The Ocho" themed day focusing on rarely televised sports.

August 2, 2018 at 3:18 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:ESPN, Krystal Square Off | Permalink * Comments (13)

Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Gideon Oji, Adrian Morgan, Darron Breeden, Michelle Lesco, Juan Rodriguez, Rich LeFevre, Erik Denmark, Steve Hendry, Pablo Martinez, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Derek Jacobs, Juan Neave, Jon Bello and Sarah Reinecke are expected to compete in the Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship in Los Angeles on August 18. The contest Instagram produced a series of Marvel memes about the roster.

August 1, 2018 at 6:54 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Previews, Galleries, Los Angeles | Permalink * Comments (5)

In Leah Shutkever's new video, she offers tips for competitive eating and then eats 12 Krispy Kreme donuts in under a minute.

July 29, 2018 at 9:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Leah Shutkever, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Minnesota competitive eater Kai "Kai Eats World" Chan will appear on Wednesay's episode of TKO: Total Knock Out on CBS (trailer).

July 28, 2018 at 3:40 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Minnesota, Television | Permalink * Comments

On last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Adam Carolla criticized Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest and proposed that every 10th hot dog in the contest should be a chili cheese frankfurter which had to be eaten conventionally.

July 27, 2018 at 11:11 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2018 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Derek Jacobs will attempt the Roc-A-Fella's Bomber pizza challenge with host Casey Webb on Monday's episode of Man v Food recorded in Cincinnatti.

July 26, 2018 at 10:53 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cincinnati, Derek Jacobs, Man vs. Food, Pizza Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (1)

Steel City Scoop has an interview with Bob Shoudt, who says eating 23.4 pounds of chowder in 6 minutes is his favorite competitive eating record. He will appear at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Cleveland on August 2.

July 23, 2018 at 3:52 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Notorious" Bob Shoudt, Cleveland, Merchandise | Permalink * Comments

Matt Stonie announced yesterday that his YouTube channel had passed one billion total views. (I think Yuka Kinoshita has the most viewed competitive eating channel wil 1.548 billion vies.)

July 23, 2018 at 3:45 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Matt Stonie, Videos, Websites | Permalink * Comments

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