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Joey Chestnut has started a youtube channel with a video of his trip to southeast Asia last month.

October 13, 2016 at 12:31 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Singapore, Videos | Permalink * Comments (7)

The Great American Eat-Off will debut tonight on Facebook Live tonight at http://www.facebook.com/GreatAmericanEatOff at 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific. Host Gail Kasper will face off against a competitor in an attempt to eat one food item as fast as possible. (preview video)

October 12, 2016 at 5:50 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Videos | Permalink * Comments (5)

Kim Guilfoyle, co-host of Fox New's, The Five, says a July 4, 2012 wing eating contest was one of her favorite memories of working on the program. She will do a hot dog eating contest against fellow co-host Greg Gutfeld in the future.

October 8, 2016 at 8:23 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Female Celebrities, Television | Permalink * Comments (1)

September's contests including Trenton pork rolls, Lewisville tamales and NYC dumplings are the subject of the latest Fink Beats the Stomach podcast.

October 7, 2016 at 5:38 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (13)

Nate Figueroa ate 41 tacos in 20 minutes on Taco Day Tuesday at Agave in Fort Lauderdale to win the first prize of a 32 inch TV.

October 6, 2016 at 7:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Darron Breeden, Fort Lauderdale, Nate Figueroa, Unafilliated Contests, Videos | Permalink * Comments (10)

Youtube has a video of the 2004 pickle eating contest held at the Carnegie Deli won by Ed "Cookie" Jarvis. Joe Menchetti, "Badlands" Booker, Arnie Chapman and defending champion Brian Seiken also competed. This might be the only contest in competitive eating history where competitors wore both IFOCE (Booker) and AICE (Chapman) T-shirts.

October 5, 2016 at 11:09 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:New York City, Videos | Permalink * Comments (13)

Vice.com's Munchies has a list of weird food subcultures that can be found on Youtube that includes food challengers and mukbang

September 30, 2016 at 12:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

New competitive eating mobile game “Glutton Hero Saga”

September 26, 2016 at 11:18 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Video Games

The competive eating game Glutton Hero Saga was released yesterday for mobile devices: iPhone | Android (via Applezona)

The game has the following description:

One day, Mr. Wang, a silk trader, became possessed by an evil spirit of gluttony.
Can he be the king of food fight(competitive eating), and be free from the evil spirit?!

Eat and eat, to gain enough weight! Enjoy the great puzzle & action games of real food fighter!

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Documentarian Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) MCed a rat eating contest at the Fantastic Fest film festival in Austin yesterday to promote his new movie, Rats.

September 25, 2016 at 9:43 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Austin, Documentaries | Permalink * Comments (4)

The UK punk duo Slaves compete in a hot dog eating contest in their new video for "Consume or be Consumed". Mike "Mike D" Diamond of the Beastie Boys produced and contributed a verse. (via NME)

September 23, 2016 at 1:48 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Music, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Eric "Badlands" Booker offering his 4 secrets of competitive eating on Friday's episode of Men in Blazers, NBC Sports soccer talk show can be viewed on twitter.

September 22, 2016 at 9:57 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eric "Badlands" Booker, Television | Permalink * Comments

"Kate's Food Challenge" (Kate Ovens?) is listed as a segment on the upcoming season of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central.

September 21, 2016 at 7:28 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kate Ovens, Television | Permalink * Comments (3)

Bromsgrove Advertiser has an article about Emma Dalton's recent video where she ate 8 Subway foot longs in 36 minutes. Her goal was to eat her height of 5 1/2 feet. She competed against Singaporean Zermatt Neo via youtube.

September 20, 2016 at 8:12 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Emma Dalton, Sandwich Eating Challenges, Singapore, Videos, Zermatt Neo | Permalink * Comments

Eric "Badlands" Booker will appear on this afternoon's episode of NBC Sports' soccer talk show at 5:30 pm after the Chelsea Liverpool game.

September 16, 2016 at 3:35 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eric "Badlands" Booker, Television | Permalink * Comments

Takeru Kobayashi will face off against a Taiwanese competitive eater tomorrow on Japanese television. The stage is labeled "Battle of the Big Eaters" so he might compete on Team Japan in Battle of the Big Eaters 4 later this year.

September 12, 2016 at 11:13 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Taiwan, Television | Permalink * Comments

Tim Janus' appearance on Friday night's episode of the Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim can be viewed online.

September 12, 2016 at 5:18 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television, Tim "Eater X" Janus | Permalink * Comments (5)

A Japanese manga titled "The Competitive Eater Who Leapt Through Time" can be read online.

September 10, 2016 at 11:54 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Comics, Japan | Permalink * Comments

Tim "Eater X" Janus is expected to appear on the Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim at midnight tonight.

September 9, 2016 at 4:02 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television, Tim "Eater X" Janus | Permalink * Comments (5)

A movie titled Puke and Explode, described as "a gala event of competitive eating dedicated to both gastro excess and grotesque edibles as contestants devour the most mortifying morsels imaginable" will debut at the Fantastic Fest in Austin later this month.

September 8, 2016 at 8:15 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Austin, Movies | Permalink * Comments (1)

John "Step Daddy J" Jugovic announces he won the qualifier to determine the Canadian team for Battle of the Big Eaters 4 in Richmond, BC.

September 6, 2016 at 11:21 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television, Vancouver | Permalink * Comments

Dave Barry on cockroach contest fatality

September 4, 2016 at 8:18 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Humor, Palm Beach

Humorist Dave Barry has a column for the Wall Street Journal about his home state of Florida which includes the following account of a 2012 bug eating competition:
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Ben Sumadiwiria, owner of the Awesome Eats youtube channel, claims he lost his hearing for two minutes after eating the Indomie Abang Adek, billed as the spiciest noodle dish in the world.

September 1, 2016 at 4:06 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, London, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (1)

The Onion's AV Club has an interview with Adam Richman about his new show Secret Eats With Adam Richman. He says that Man V Food is the highest rated show in the history of the Travel Channel.

August 31, 2016 at 10:05 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food | Permalink * Comments

Yuka Kinoshita announces that she has passed 2 million youtube subscribers. This surpasses Matt Stonie's 1.94M total and I think that makes her channel the most popular channel with a primary focus on competitive eating. ("Furious" Pete Czerwinski has 3.3M subscribers, but Yuka Kinoshita has more total video views 554M to 550M).

August 31, 2016 at 9:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Videos, Yuka Kinoshita | Permalink * Comments (1)

KickerDaily reports that Rix Francisco ate 5 quarter pound burgers in Manila in a minute, a feat that was acknowledged by Guinness as a world record that broke a mark previously held by "Furious" Pete Czerwinski.

August 29, 2016 at 10:15 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Philippines, Records | Permalink * Comments (2)

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