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Youtube has a video of bodybuilders Ronnie Coleman, Derek Ciocca and Marc Lobliner competing in a "Kitchen Sink" challenge (18 scoops ice cream) eating contest at Sloan's Ice Cream Parlor in Delray Beach, FL.

April 26, 2016 at 5:41 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Ice Cream Challenges, Male Athletes, Palm Beach, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

The St. Louis Cardinals produced a video of the April 16 Nathan's qualifier including interviews with Matt Stonie and Mary Bowers. The video lists the contest announcer's name as "George Shey".

April 26, 2016 at 12:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2016 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Mary Bowers, Matt Stonie, St. Louis, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Today is the 10th anniversary of the publication date for the hardback edition of "Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream" by Jason Fagone.

April 25, 2016 at 9:07 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Books | Permalink * Comments (4)

Wayne Algenio received a Guinness World Record yesterday at the New York City Hot Sauce Expo in Brooklyn for eating 119g of Carolina Reaper peppers in 1 minute.

April 25, 2016 at 8:29 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:New York City, Records, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (7)

Nela Zisser responds to questions from fans in her latest video. At the 11 minute mark, she answers whether she thinks competitive eaters intentionally reverse after contests / challenges.

April 22, 2016 at 7:24 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Nela Zisser, Videos | Permalink * Comments (19)

Sophia DeVita produced videos of her attempt to eat 30,000 calories over 2 days (Day 1 | Day 2) Jen Mann also attempted 15,000 calories in 1 day.

April 18, 2016 at 10:29 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Calorie Challenges, Sophia DeVita, Videos, Women | Permalink * Comments

Pedram "In Jaws We Trust" Esmaeelzadeh and Matthew "Ice Cream Buy the Pint" Schuster finished the Carnivore Challenge at Big Pie in the Sky in Roswell, GA.

April 18, 2016 at 9:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Atlanta, Carnivore Challenge, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco and Steve Hendry are the guests on the latest Fink Beats the Stomach podcast. The interviews start around the 18 minute mark.

April 17, 2016 at 11:15 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Cardboard Shell", Podcasts, Steve Hendry | Permalink * Comments (3)

Marketwatch.com has a graph of Nathan's Famous stock price since 1999, which has increased 1936% in that time period. (At its overall peak in 2015, the price was up 26-fold.) The purse for the Nathan's finals has been $20,000 since 2007. $40,000 has been payed out annually since the addition of the women's division in 2011.

April 15, 2016 at 8:21 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Nathan's Hot Dog Contest | Permalink * Comments (1)

Au.tv.yahoo.com has a video of the Melbourne-based trio "The Chew Crew" appearance on Sunrise today.

April 14, 2016 at 11:45 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Television | Permalink * Comments

An amateur hot dog eating contest at Smithfield Foods headquarters in Smithfield, VA will be televised on the April 21 episode of NASCAR Race Hub on Fox Sports One.

April 12, 2016 at 7:05 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Norfolk, Television | Permalink * Comments

The rightful champion of the 2014 World Pie Eating Championship in Wigan, England was the dispute in today's episode of Judge Rinder, a UK court show (video) update Episode link (UK only)

April 12, 2016 at 12:52 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Manchester, Television | Permalink * Comments

People.com has a video interview with "Furious" Pete Czerwinksi about how he got started in competitive eating and his struggles with cancer and anorexia. He hopes to marry his fiancee before the end of the year.

April 10, 2016 at 7:30 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Videos | Permalink * Comments (11)

Iello Games has a picture of cards used in Tem-Purr-A, a game about competitive eating cats.

April 9, 2016 at 11:30 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Games | Permalink * Comments (1)

The instagram for Man vs Food London reports that an ambulance has been required for restaurant customers 17 times.

April 9, 2016 at 12:21 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, London | Permalink * Comments

Footage for a documentary about Joey Chestnut will be recorded at a hot dog eating contest at the Las Vegas Spirit Fest on Saturday.

April 7, 2016 at 12:15 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Documentaries, Las Vegas | Permalink * Comments (1)

Moeno Azuki won TV Tokyo's "Queen of Gluttony" program for the second year in a row.

April 4, 2016 at 8:11 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Japan, Television, Women | Permalink * Comments

According to amazon.com, today is the 10th anniversary of the release of "Eat This Book", the official IFOCE/MLE book by Ryan Nerz, who was working for Shea Communications.

April 4, 2016 at 7:49 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Books | Permalink * Comments (46)

Redmond (WA) Reporter has a story about 14 year old Moiz Chawdhary, who learned the Heimlich Maneuver and then performed the technique on one of his sister's friends after she started choking in a home grape eating contest.

April 3, 2016 at 12:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Seattle | Permalink * Comments

End of 1Q 2016 EatFeats MLE ranking

April 2, 2016 at 10:14 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

Here are the MLE rankings at the end of the 1st quarter of 2016. (Ranking system description). Despite being undefeated for over a year, Matt Stonie has won less money than Joey Chestnut over the past 12 months

win % Prize $ HDB $HDB %$HDB
1 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie 100 1 $33750 2 62 1 1.5 1.25 1
2 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 96.1 2 $48050 1 60 2 1.5 1.75 2
3 Miki Sudo 81.2 4 $30100 3 38 3 3 3.5 3
4 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan 77.7 5 $13300 4 33 6.5T 5.25 5.125 4
5 Tim “Eater X” Janus 88 3 $3150 11 36 4 7.5 5.25 5
6 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas 68.2 8 $7450 6 34 5 5.5 6.75 6
7 Geoffrey Esper 75.8 6 $3800 9 30.5 8 8.5 7.25 7
8 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco 74 7 $9850 5 27.25 13 9 8 8
9 Yasir Salem 63.5 9 $5150 7 30 9.5T 8.25 8.625 9
10 Juan “more bite” Rodriguez 58.9 10 $2800 14 28 11 12.5 11.25 10

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The new issue of People magazine has an article about "Furious" Pete Czerwinski's battle vs. cancer.

April 1, 2016 at 10:16 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Health | Permalink * Comments

MLE Head to Head results March 30, 2016

March 30, 2016 at 7:53 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

Here are the head to head results for people with 2 or more MLE contests over the past 365 days:

1 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) 100% 107-0
2 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) 96.1% 198-8
3 Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) 88% 22-3
4 Miki Sudo (M Su) 81.2% 157-36-1
5 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan (A Mo) 77.7% 86-24-2
6 Geoffrey Esper (G Es) 75.8% 48-15-1
7 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco (M Le) 74% 95-33-1
8 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) 68.2% 52-24-1
9 Yasir Salem (Y Sa) 63.5% 91-52-1
10 Juan “more bite” Rodriguez (J Ro) 58.9% 59-41-1

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Reddit.com has a thread about the 10000+ daily calorie consumption claimed for The Flash.

March 29, 2016 at 2:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Calorie Challenges, Comics | Permalink * Comments

An EatFeats.com instagram has been started at http://instagram.com/eat_feats The posts will be whatever graphical content I produce along with some screen captures. The initial post is an eating contest report from a 1785 issue of the London Times.

March 27, 2016 at 2:02 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Websites | Permalink * Comments (1)

Darren Rovell of ESPN has posted a complaint about Burger King's use of the "Polish Punisher" in the ad promoting its hot dogs instead of an actual competitive eater. The "Polish Punisher" is played by actor Dave Maulbeck, and the ad has ran nationally at least 1,233 times according to ispot.tv.

March 26, 2016 at 12:14 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Television | Permalink * Comments (3)

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