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TailStix has an interview with "Super" Paul Barlow mainly about his movie roles. He also mentions the origin of his competitive eating career and the book he wrote "You Know You’re A College Student When…”?

July 31, 2017 at 1:03 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Books, Movies, Paul Barlow | Permalink * Comments (9)

Ivan "The Avocado" Mendoza has started a blog at https://ivantheavocado.wordpress.com/

July 28, 2017 at 7:29 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Ivan Mendoza, Websites | Permalink * Comments

DisneyABCPress.com has posted some pictures from tonight's episode of The Gong Show (10pm on ABC). Molly Schuyler will appear in a segment titled "Gettin Cheesy". update A clip of the appearance is on youtube.

July 27, 2017 at 3:14 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Molly Schuyler, Television | Permalink * Comments (20)

Smithsonian.com has a post about the construction of a 1,774 pound burger by Mallie's in Southgate, MI, which has received Guinness recognition as the largest commerically available burger in the world.

July 26, 2017 at 7:18 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Detroit, Records | Permalink * Comments

CBS has an article about the economics of competitive eating with quotes from Ed "Cookie" Jarvis and Gideon Oji.

July 21, 2017 at 6:49 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business | Permalink * Comments (1)

Elise Jesse of WLWT faced off against University of Cincinnati lineman Korey Cunningham in a 6 pound burrito eating contest yesterday.

July 20, 2017 at 4:01 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burrito Eating Challenges, Cincinnati, Male Athletes, Television, Women | Permalink * Comments (2)

The Onion has an article about Nike's new line of competitive eating apparel described as “specially designed to boost performance by absorbing barbecue sauce, blue cheese, ranch, and all manner of drippings to completely eliminate condiment-related discomfort during competitive eating events”

July 20, 2017 at 11:12 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Humor, Merchandise | Permalink * Comments (3)

The appearance of Rich and Carlene LeFevre on tonight's episode of Little Big Shots: Forever Young can be viewed on youtube.

July 19, 2017 at 11:35 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Carlene LeFevre, Rich LeFevre, Television | Permalink * Comments (7)

In the Harley Quinn issue to be released tomorrow, she will attend "NateMan's" hot dog eating contest. (Margot Robbie, who played Harley Quinn in the movie, ate 4 pounds of spaghetti to win an on-set eating contest.)

July 18, 2017 at 8:27 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Comics, Nathan's Hot Dog Contest | Permalink * Comments (3)

Sports Illustrated has a profile of Rich and Carlene LeFevre. The article describes Rich's personal music rankings which contains 3,500 songs. The couple will appear on Little Big Shots: Forever Young on NBC on July 19 at 8 PM. update a promo video for the episode is available.

July 14, 2017 at 2:21 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Carlene LeFevre, Rich LeFevre, Television | Permalink * Comments

Tokyo Drew has a video of Darron Breeden setting the record for a 6kg (13.2 lb) okonomiyaki challenge in a record 24 minutes. The previous record holder was Max Suzuki with a time of 30 minutes.

July 13, 2017 at 11:37 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Darron Breeden, Japan, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Furious Pete has produced a new video about Dale Boone in response to his controversial victory over Nate Figueroa in a hot dog eating contest in at the Titled Kilt in Boca Raton, FL.

July 13, 2017 at 6:56 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Dale Boone, Nate Figueroa, Videos | Permalink * Comments (5)

Time of India reports that a spicy chilli burger eating contest in Delhi, India resulted in a stomach rupture for the winner, Garv Gupta, that hospitalized him.

July 10, 2017 at 11:49 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, India, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (3)

An entrant in a spicy chilli pepper eating contest was hospitalized Saturday in a competition in Canberra, ACT, Australia. Despite the incident, a second contest was held today.

July 9, 2017 at 8:40 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Health, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (1)

The reboot for Man v Food hosted by Casey Webb will debut on August 7. The initial episode will feature New York City restaurants and the challenge site will be the Lunchbox in Staten Island. Other cities visited in the series include Milwaukee, Chicago, Houston, Billings, MT, Charleston, SC, Sleepy Hollow, NY, New Orleans, Portland, OR & Des Moines.

July 7, 2017 at 2:13 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food, Milkshake challenges, New York City | Permalink * Comments

According to the ESPN3 schedule, the broadcast of the Nathan's women's contest will start at 10:45 eastern. ESPN3 will also have cameras focused on Miki Sudo and Joey Chestnut when they compete. The men's contest will be live on ESPN2 starting at noon eastern.

July 4, 2017 at 6:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:ESPN | Permalink * Comments (15)

TV Overmind has a list of five entertaining competitive eating scenes from movies.

July 3, 2017 at 11:38 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Movies | Permalink * Comments

The Sporkful has an interview with Tim "Eater X" Janus on how health concerns led to his retirement from competitive eating in 2015. (The first half of the program is a rerun of a 2012 podcast).

June 30, 2017 at 8:49 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Podcasts, Tim "Eater X" Janus | Permalink * Comments (16)

Comicbook.com reports that Toni Topaz is being cast for season 2 of Riverdale. In the Archie Comics universe, he makes her debut facing off against Jughead in a cupcake eating contest.

June 28, 2017 at 8:43 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Comics, Television | Permalink * Comments (1)

Tasting Table has an article on Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez' training regimen which claims that he has already qualified for the Nathan's finals.

June 27, 2017 at 9:16 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Training | Permalink * Comments (2)

Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle has uploaded a video of him breaking Don "Moses" Lerman's butter record of 7 1/4 pound sticks in 5 minutes.

June 22, 2017 at 11:50 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Don "Moses" Lerman, Kevin Strahle, Records, Videos | Permalink * Comments (62)

Now 7 members in 50+ Nathan’s club

June 19, 2017 at 11:23 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Statistics

Yesterday, Carmen Cincotti (53) and Geoffrey Esper were added to the 50+ Nathan’s hot dog club, bringing the total membership in that group to 7. A list of everyone with a personal best of 30 or more according to the eatfeats database follows:

2016 Jun 25 1st 73.5 10 min Joey “Jaws” Chestnut Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Exhibition Washington, DC
2009 Jul 4 2nd 64.5 10 min Takeru Kobayashi Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Brooklyn, NY
2015 Jul 4 1st 62 10 min Matt “Megatoad” Stonie Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest – men Brooklyn, NY
2009 Jul 4 3rd 55 10 min Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Brooklyn, NY
2009 Jul 4 4th 53 10 min Tim “Eater X” Janus Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Brooklyn, NY
2017 Jun 18 1st 53 10 min Carmen Cincotti Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – men Queens, NY
2017 Jun 18 1st 51 10 min Geoffrey Esper Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – men Boston, MA
2012 Jul 4 1st 45 10 min Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest – women Brooklyn, NY
2012 Jul 4 5th 45 10 min Bob “The Notorious B.O.B.” Shoudt Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest – men Brooklyn, NY
2009 Jun 20 1st 40 10 min Eric “Badlands” Booker Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier Queens, NY
2013 Apr 20 1st 40 10 min Miki Sudo Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – women Las Vegas, NV

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Nicky Rottens in Coronado (San Diego area) is looking for burger challengers for an upcoming episode of the Travel Channel's Food Paradise to be recorded on June 24.

June 16, 2017 at 1:58 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, San Diego, Television | Permalink * Comments

Bob Shoudt produced a video of his appearance at "Gluttony Night" at a Reading Phillies game last week. He reports he ate 37 pounds of food over 4 hours.

June 16, 2017 at 11:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Notorious" Bob Shoudt, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

Former IFOCE MC Ryan Nerz will discuss politics on Fusion TV tonight at 9:30pm.

June 15, 2017 at 9:26 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television | Permalink * Comments (6)

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