George Chiger ate 36 wings in five minutes to win a contest held at the Buffalo Convention Center on December 20. The competition had 499 participants which broke the Guinness World Record for the wing eating competition with the largest field size.
Over 500 people participated in a wing eating contest in Buffalo to set the record for the largest field size for a wing competition. The previous record was 397 entrants in a wing eating contest held at an Amazon Web Services convention in Las Vegas in 2018.
A wing eating contest will be held in Buffalo on December 20 that will attempt to receive Guinness World Record recognition as the largest wing eating competition.
Guinness World Records has a short video about the new taco record of nine tacos in a minute set by James Webb and Miki Sudo at September's taco eating contest at Taco Cabana in San Antonio.
GuinnessWorldRecords.com has a post about James Webb and Miki Sudo setting a new world record of 9 tacos in a minute before last month's taco eating contest at Taco Cabana in San Antonio.
updateJoey Chestnut ate 42 24 ounce containers of popcorn to set a record: TMZ | WIBQ The Rural King facebook has started a live video of today's popcorn record attempt in Terre Haute, IN
Joey Chestnut will attempt to set the popcorn record at a Rural King in Terre Haute, IN on Memorial Day, May 26.
Joey Chestnut to attempt wing poundage record
update Joey ate 14.4 pounds of wing meat
Joey Chestnut will attempt to set a record tomorrow at Buffalo Wild wings for the most pounds of traditional wings eaten in a session. He does not have the MLE traditional wing poundage record:
| 2011 Apr 13 | 1st | 10.6875 | 12 min | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship | Dallas, TX |
| 2011 Apr 13 | 2nd | 10.25 | 12 min | Bob “The Notorious B.O.B.” Shoudt | Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship | Dallas, TX |
| 2011 Apr 13 | 3rd | 7.9375 | 12 min | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship | Dallas, TX |
| 2011 Apr 13 | 4th | 7.875 | 12 min | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship | Dallas, TX |
| 2012 Sep 2 | 1st | 7.61 | 12 min | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | U.S. National Buffalo Wing Eating Championship | Buffalo, NY |
Guinness World Records has a post about Leah Shutkever's two new world records: the most jelly snakes eaten in 30 seconds (130 g; 4.58 oz) and the most strawberries eaten in one minute (313 g; 11.04oz)
Miki Sudo's and Nick Wehry's eating benchmarks appear in Guinness' list of record-breaking couples.
Tampa resident Miki Sudo, billed as an Upper East Side native, is included in a New York Post list of New Yorkers who broke a Guinness record in 2024. Her total of 51.5 hot dogs on July 4 was the all time best for a woman in Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.
Guinness World Records Records Weekly video wishes Leah Shutkever a Happy Birthday (May 11). Her segment starts at 3:50.
In his latest video, Erik "the Electric" Lamkin attempts to break eating records set by Matt Stonie, Geoff Esper, "Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Raina Huang and Joey Chestnut.
Molly Schuyler ate 54 hot dogs at Cricket Car Hop in Stratford, CT to break her women's record for a hot dog eating contest and claim the $2,000 first prize.
Current has an interview with James Webb eating six Big Ugly Burgers at Bub's in Carmel, IN on May 25 to break a record previously held by Eli Lessig.
GuinnessWorldRecords.com has post celebrating Leah Shutkever's 33rd birthday on May 11, which is also Eat What You Want Day. She says she was inspired to start competitive eating by
Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle.
Metro UK has a video about Max Stanford eating 57 mince pies in under 10 minutes to set a record.
The Peterborough Examiner has an article about Ontario food challenger Mike Jack. He recently received his ninth Guinness World Record for eating 50 Carolina Reaper peppers in 6:49.
Barstool Sports has a post about Leah Shutkever's burrito eating video billing it as a Guinness World Record. GWR just announced it has certified Miki Sudo as the burrito record holder.
Minor League Baseball awarded The Golden Bobblehead for Best Digital Campaign or Activation to the Indianapolis Indians for hosting Joey Chestnut's attempt at a boxed popcorn eating record.
GuinnessWorldRecords.com reports Miki Sudo (6 in 1 minute) and Nick Wehry (12 in 3 minutes) set Guinness records for hot dog eating. Miki also broke Leah Shutkever's record for eating a burrito by less than a second.
A video of Leah Shutkever eating a burrito in 35.26 seconds, which received a Guinness World Record, has gone viral. A reddit post about it currently has 8247 comments. The video has also been posted several times on twitter.
Gregory Foster November 9, 2022 at 3:41 am by
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Joey Chestnut will attempt to set a record for the most pumpkin pie eaten in 3 minutes at Frisch's Big Boy in Fairfax, OH on November 23.
Geoff Esper ate 11 corn dogs in 3 minutes to set a record at CLowndog in Albuquerque.
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