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Ryan McKillop made a quilt from his eating contest and challenge T-shirts.

April 14, 2014 at 12:42 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Merchandise | Permalink * Comments

The Courier Mail reports that a man collapsed after a pepper eating contest in Southport,QLD, Australia. He reportedly ate a Trinidad scorpion pepper.  

April 12, 2014 at 9:12 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Health, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

Tim Janus (without makeup) and Crazy Legs Conti competed in a pizza eating contest on Mike & Mike on ESPN2/ESPN Radio this morning against Mike Greenberg. They (and Pete Davekos) also competed in a wing eating contest on the program against Mike Golic in 2008.  

April 9, 2014 at 6:02 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Crazy Legs Conti, ESPN, Tim "Eater X" Janus, Videos | Permalink * Comments (35)

The Korean Times has an article about new drama series based on the phenomenon of meokbang, online streaming of the consumption of large meals.  

April 9, 2014 at 12:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Korea, Television | Permalink * Comments

Adam Jones of the Baltimore Orioles will compete against Melanie Iglesias in a donut eating contest in Off the Bat on MTV2 at 11pm eastern tonight. update April 9 A video of the contest is available

April 8, 2014 at 10:42 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Baltimore, Male Athletes, Television | Permalink * Comments

WGN Radio has a podcast of Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle's interview yesterday.He says he has yet to receive a response from Burger King about his video where he ate all the burgers available on the chain's menu.

April 8, 2014 at 10:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Chicago, Kevin Strahle, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (25)

Nathan's finals reruns will be televised on the Extreme Sports Channel in the UK from April 21 to April 28. The French Extreme Sports Channel will televise the finals starting on May 12.  

April 8, 2014 at 10:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:France, Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Television, United Kingdom | Permalink * Comments

Wales Online reports that Sizzle & Grill, a Cardiff restaurant with numerous eating challenges, was cited with 18 food hygiene offences and received a food hygiene rating of 0 (it has been upgraded to 2). The owner, Paul Stevens, also admitted that he received £37,830 worth of illegal housing benefit and income support.  

April 7, 2014 at 4:35 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cardiff, Health | Permalink * Comments (3)

Competitve Eating in “The Simpsons”

April 6, 2014 at 12:46 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Comics, Eating Challenges, Humor

Tonight’s episode of The Simpsons, “Luca$”, in which Lisa dates an aspiring competitve eater named Lucas Bortner is not the first appearance of competitive eating in the animated series. Eating challenges from previous episodes:

There is also an eating challenge level in the Simpsons video game and the Simpsons comic book had a story titled “Man vs. Beast vs. Food”.

 

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Takeru Kobayashi is featured in the third chapter of Think Like a Freak, the new book by the authors of Freakonomics due out May 13. The cover of the UK edition alludes to this chapter. (via Takeru Kobayashi)    

April 6, 2014 at 8:21 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Books, Kobayashi (小林尊) | Permalink * Comments (20)

Kevin Ross has produced a video of him competing against three other "cloned" Kevin Rosses in a Taco Bell breakfast eating contest.    

April 5, 2014 at 8:48 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kevin Ross, Videos | Permalink * Comments (7)

KSTE has a podcast of an interview with author Mary Roach focusing on the competitive eating section of her book, Gulp.

April 4, 2014 at 9:43 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Podcasts, Science | Permalink * Comments (10)

TVLine has two pictures from Sunday's episode of The Simpsons of Lucas Bortner, a competitive eater voiced by Zach Galifianakis. Update April 4 Youtube has a clip from the episode

April 3, 2014 at 8:35 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Comics, Television | Permalink * Comments (1)

Former MLE employee Ryan Nerz, author of Eat This Book and MarijuanAmerica,  has been named chief cannabis correspondent for Fusion and will host "The Cannabusiness Report" on the new cable channel owned by ABC and Univision. (Ryan Nerz and Jason Fagone continue to share a topic despite moving on from competitive eating; the author of Horsemen of the Esophagus has written articles about marijuana for Grantland.com and The New Republic.)

April 3, 2014 at 5:09 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Books, Business, Television | Permalink * Comments

On a recent episode of the Conan O'Brien show, a 72 ounce steak from the Big Texan was shot by a catapult at a basketball goal outside the Dallas Cowboy stadium (site of this weekend's Final Four).

April 2, 2014 at 11:51 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Big Texan, Dallas, Humor, Videos | Permalink * Comments

The New York Cosmos have a video of Takeru Kobayashi competing (as "Busboy Kevin") against midfielder Peri Marošević in a chicken wing eating contest. More April 1 links: Buffalo, NY awarded competitive eating expansion team | Florida food truck to take over Nathan's Coney Island location and eating contest.  update April 2 Yahoo! has a blog entry with more about the prank

April 1, 2014 at 3:57 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Buffalo, Humor, New York City | Permalink * Comments (18)

The press release announcing the partnership between Nathan's Famous and the John Morrell Food Group stated that new Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages for the Nathan's brand would debut sometime in March 2014, a launch date which has apparently been missed.

April 1, 2014 at 11:13 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Websites | Permalink * Comments

In Sunday's episode of The Simpsons (Luca$) Zach Galifianakis will guest star as an aspiring competitive eater that Lisa will date. Her family will encourage her to look for other potential boyfriends.

April 1, 2014 at 10:06 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Comics, Humor, Male Celebrities, Television | Permalink * Comments (4)

Reddit has a question asking winners of hamburger & sausage eating contests if their victory was worth it. (via Le Fuu).  

March 31, 2014 at 1:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health | Permalink * Comments

The Village Voice has a gallery of the NYC Hot Sauce Expo which held several spicy eating contests this past weekend.  Update April 1 Bon Appetit has a competitor report

March 31, 2014 at 12:39 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Galleries, New York City, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (2)

Jimmy Dykes, who has served as a reporter in broadcasts of the Nathan's hot dog eating finals on ESPN, has been named head women's basketball coach at the University of Arkansas.

March 30, 2014 at 7:07 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:ESPN, Female Athletes, Fort Smith | Permalink * Comments (1)

Yahoo! has a video titled "Eating World Superstars!" (MLE top 5 from 2012 & Kobayashi). In the section about Sonya Thomas, a quote from Juliet Lee appears.

March 30, 2014 at 9:07 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Juliet Lee, Sonya Thomas, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

(Semi off-topic) Pricenomics.com has an article about the ascent and decline of earnings for professional bowlers on the PBA tour: "Harry Smith, the top bowler in 1963, made more money than MLB MVP Sandy Koufax and NFL MVP Y.A. Tittle combined". (via Deadspin Stacks)

March 28, 2014 at 2:24 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business | Permalink * Comments

Jamie McDonald has produced a video of him eating 18 Waffle Tacos on Taco Bell's new breakfast menu in 6 minutes.  

March 28, 2014 at 7:51 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Breakfast Eating Challenges, Jamie McDonald, Taco Eating Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments

In the latest episode of Welcome to Sweetie Pie's, a program on the Oprah Winfrey Network, "The Beast", a 6 pound burger challenge at The Backyard Grill in Houston, TX, was attempted. Nicole Doty was the only person who has previously completed the challenge.

March 27, 2014 at 12:27 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Houston, Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments

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