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DNAInfo reports that Brick Lane Curry House, site of the challenge in the New York City episode of Man vs. Food was closed after failing a health inspection. Issues included rats, mice and lack of a working sewage disposal system.

January 23, 2016 at 2:19 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food, New York City, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (17)

Chris "Beefeater" Coyne, billed as a Wing Bowl runner-up in a legacy.com obituary, passed away at 50 on Monday. I could not find what year he finished second; a 2003 AP article is the only mention I could find of his competitive eating career.

January 22, 2016 at 2:08 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Wing Bowl | Permalink * Comments (8)

VS Talent Group is looking for a male competitive eater between 20 and 35. The project and filming location is not disclosed, it appears to be in NYC or New Jersey.

January 22, 2016 at 1:48 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Movies, New Jersey, New York City, Television | Permalink * Comments (1)

Telegraph.co.uk reports that rugby player Sam Burgess of the South Sydney Rabbitohs successfully applied the Heimlich maneuver after an employee of Decosti Seafood started choking in a fish eye eating contest held at the Sydney Fish Markets. The facebook gallery of the competition has no mention of the incident.

January 22, 2016 at 11:40 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Health, Male Athletes | Permalink * Comments

TheOnion.com has an article about the Kansas City Chiefs head coach titled "Andy Reid Furious At Self For Poor Clock Management At End Of 72-Oz. Steak Challenge". (via Stephanie Wu & Randy Santel)

January 21, 2016 at 11:13 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Humor, Kansas City, Male Athletes, Steak Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (1)

StarNewsPhilly.com has a report on last week's Wing Off at SugarHouse Casino won by Dave Brunelli. The Wing Bowl website has a contest video.

January 21, 2016 at 3:31 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Dave Brunelli, Videos, Wing Bowl 24 | Permalink * Comments

Vice Sports has a video of Takeru Kobayashi receiving a boxing lesson from Eric Kelly, who calls out "Joey Chestnut" during the session for motivation.

January 20, 2016 at 5:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Male Athletes, Videos | Permalink * Comments (5)

Nathan Figueroa has posted a video from Saturday's eating contest at the Key Lime Pie Festival in Port Canaveral, FL where he finished 3rd. He was handicapped by having to use a plastic hand clapper as his utensil. (via Stephanie Wu)

January 19, 2016 at 11:53 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cocoa Beach, Contest Results, Darron Breeden, Nate Figueroa, Unafilliated Contests, Videos | Permalink * Comments (4)

Finkies Awards results

January 17, 2016 at 1:13 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings

Results for the first “Finkies” awards

  • Male – Matt Stonie
  • Female – Miki Sudo
  • Rookie – Goeff Esper
  • Upset – Michelle Lesco
  • Youtube Feat – Nela Zisser
  • Appreciation – Crazy Legs Conti

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Tracy "Mmm Mmm" Goode has compiled for Rake & Herald a list of his top 10 competitive eating moments of 2015. (I would have included Molly Schuyler eating 3 Big Texan 72 ounce steaks in 20 minutes).

January 13, 2016 at 11:52 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings | Permalink * Comments (28)

Black Sports Online has a blog entry about Nela Zisser's latest video where she attempts a breakfast challenge containing 10,782 calories. (Daily Mirror article)

January 11, 2016 at 9:49 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Breakfast Eating Challenges, Nela Zisser, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Voting will close today for the "Finkies" competitive eating awards. Fink Beats the Stomach will host an awards ceremony later this month. update Jan 13 A poster for the event has been produced. (via Stephanie Wu)

January 10, 2016 at 9:27 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Podcasts, Rankings | Permalink * Comments (4)

Verified competitive eating twitter pages

January 9, 2016 at 9:31 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Websites

Here are the only twitter pages for people in the competitive eating field I could find that have received a blue checkmark indicating that they have been officially verified:

I think LA Beast is the only person ever associated with IFOCE/MLE to be verified. @eatingcontest, Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Takeru Kobayashi, Miki Sudo, George Shea, Rich Shea and Gersh Kutzman have not been verified. Yuka Kinoshita has not been verified despite now having over 110,000 followers. 

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MrCapKevGamer has uploaded a walkthrough of the section of The Simpsons video game where Homer competes in an eating contest called "Around the World in 80 bites". The competitions's defending champion (appears at end of video) is based on Takeru Kobayashi.

January 8, 2016 at 11:09 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Television, Video Games | Permalink * Comments

After interviewing President Obama last year, youtube star Glozell Green will ask Hillary Clinton questions on a Lifetime TV program on January 13. GloZell's cinnamon challenge video has received over 47 million views, making it probably the most watched food challenge video.

January 8, 2016 at 9:44 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television, Women | Permalink * Comments

A video of the entire broadcast of the 2002 Glutton Bowl is currently available on youtube.

January 7, 2016 at 11:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Television | Permalink * Comments (30)

Vice.com has a comic about a pancake eating contest titled "Johnny Empty Plate".

January 6, 2016 at 11:58 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Comics | Permalink * Comments (1)

Baffin Brewing Co. in St. Clair Shores, MI has produced a chestnut cream ale named after Joey Chestnut.

January 5, 2016 at 10:52 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Detroit, Joey Chestnut, Merchandise | Permalink * Comments

Barcroft.TV has an article and video about Yasir Salem and his endurance sports feats.

January 4, 2016 at 8:12 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Yuka Kinoshita has surpassed Matt Stonie in total video views (192M to 175M) to become the most watched youtube channel solely focusing on competitive eating. Stonie maintains a subscriber lead (1.09M to .761M). ("Furious" Pete's channel has received 387M views).

January 3, 2016 at 8:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Matt Stonie, Videos, Websites, Yuka Kinoshita | Permalink * Comments (4)

2016 Battle of the Big Eaters

January 1, 2016 at 7:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Japan, Television

The 2016 Battle of the Big Eaters is now being televised on TV Tokyo. You can try to follow on twitter with this query https://twitter.com/search?vertical=default&q=%E5%A4%A7%E9%A3%9F%E3%81%84%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C

update Rhys Hocking has uploaded a video of the program. If you are interested, watch it soon, because it may not be available in the near future.

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End of 2015 Eatfeats MLE ranking system results

December 31, 2015 at 9:59 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

Here are the MLE rankings for 2015 using the system described previously

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Stephanie Torres' sudden passing in September make Las Crcuces Sun-News 2015 timeline of local news stories.

December 31, 2015 at 6:52 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Las Cruces, Stephanie Torres | Permalink * Comments

Part 2 of his video series "The Truth About Competitive Eating", Erik "The Electric" Lamkin addresses the topic of post contest/challenge purging. In part 1 of the series, the subject was the "metabolism myth".

December 28, 2015 at 6:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Erik Lamkin, Videos | Permalink * Comments (11)

2016 Battle of the Big Eaters Teams

December 26, 2015 at 7:59 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Japan, Taiwan, Television, United Kingdom

TV Tokyo has a page about the Battle of the Big Eaters program that will be televised on January 1. The teams:

  • USA: Molly Schuyler, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Tom Gilbert
  • UK: Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran, Emma Dalton, Leah Shutkever, Marc
  • Japan: Hatsuyo Sugawara, Hitomi “Russian” Sato, Moeno Azuki, male I don’t recognize
  • Taiwan: Chien Shu, You Lin (?), Ming Che, Ya Lin

It is interesting that Taiwan got a team when competitive eating appears to be a lot bigger in other Asian countries (Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, …)

update The other Briton is Marc “Bottomless” Pitt the Japanese is probably Takamasa “Max” Suzuki

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