Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All Ontario eating challenges and contests in database)
Registration will open tomorrow at 3 pm on ifoce.com for Smoke's Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship in Toronto on October 13.
Piola in Toronto is holding a gnocchi eating contest on August 19 awarding a vintage Vespa scooter. update August 3 The contest might be amateur-only, but that restriction is not in the official rules. "Furious" Pete will host.
TheGridTO has an article and video about "Furious" Pete Czerwinski's victory in a contest held at The Burger's Priest on Saturday where he ate a 12x12 burger in 2:36.
Simcoe.com has an article about Meredith Boxberger's fourth place finish in the women's Nathan's finals.
The Toronto Star has an article about "Furious" Pete Czerwinski and his recovery from an eating disorder.
The Globe and Mail has an interview with Meredith "Deep Fried Diva" Boxberger. She says she has never faced off against another female (she competed against Lara Martin in her PIE pizza debut.)
The Burger's Priest in Toronto will hold an eating contest on July 28 awarding a 4 night stay at the Hacienda Cerritos Resort in Mexico. Video submissions are suggested for competitors.
Joe Dog's Gasbar in Burlington, Ontario will hold a hot dog eating contest today awarding a VIP trip to a Blue Jays games with a limo trip.
Simcoe.com has as short profile of Meredith "Deep Fried Diva" Boxberger (spelled "Boxburger" in the article).
Eric "Silo" Dahl and Stephanie "Xanadu" Torres are expected to compete in the The Legends Bar & Grill National Chicken Tamale Eating Championship in Niagara Falls, NY on May 5.
The student newspaper for Ryerson University in Toronto asks if competitive eating should be considered a sport.
Meredith "Deep Fried Diva" announces she ate 100 Oreos on B101 this morning in honor of the centennial anniversary of the cookie's origin. update A video is available.
Brews & Cues in Windor, Ontario will hold a wing eating contest on Sunday for two person teams awarding 2 XBox 360 systems.
Meredith "Deep Fried Diva" Boxberger announces that she ate a 72 ounce steak dinner at Lonestar in 29 minutes. This might be a women's record for a 72 ounce steak meal. Carlene LeFevere set the women's record of 30 minutes at the Big Texan steak house in a Ripley's Believe it or Not program from 2000 and there appear to be no faster times next to female names in the finishers list since then. (Johanna Hickey appears to be the runner up with 32:40 in 2005).
Meredith Boxberger announces she was the first person to finish the Laffananza Challenge at Best Grill in Toronto today.
Meredith Boxberger has produced a video about being the first person to finish the Ultimate Dirty Burger at Big Chris BBQ in Barrie, Ontairo. update A picture of the burger update Nov 14 Darren Rovell of CNBC has linked to the video
Meredith "Deep Fried Diva" announces that she was the first person, male or female, to finish Da Ultimate Dirty Burger at Big Chris BBQ, beating the one hour time limit by just 15 seconds.
Denim101 in Vaughn, Ontario will hold a burrito eating contest on November 19 awarding a $1000 shopping spree. Entrants will need to answer 3 questions about Denim101.
TheGridTO has a picture of five of Toronto's largest burgers.
Smoke's Poutinerie has a flickr gallery of last month's poutine eating contest.
update Sept 25 #3 Meredith Boxberger has started a youtube page with videos of the poutine contest and her appearance on B101 to promote the contest.
update Sept 25 #2 BlogTO has a blog entry with pictures.
update Sept 25 The Toronto Star as a gallery.
Results from Smoke's Poutinerie contest in Toronto:
1) Pat Bertoletti 9.75 pounds in 10 minutes
2) Bob Shoudt 7 pounds
3) Ben Do 4.75 pounds
4) Meredith Boxberger 4.1
5T) "Buffalo" Jim Reeves 4
5T) Mat Dwyer
7) "Wild" Bill Myers
8) Andrew "The Bear" Kogutkiewicz
update 7:50 The MLE facebook has more results
update 7:30 Pat Bertoletti ate 9.75 pounds and Meredith Boxberger was 4th
update 7:05 "Furious" Pete Czerwinski has posted the top 3: 1) Pat Bertoletti 2) Bob Shoudt 3) Ben Do
The amateur contest has taken place. A 24 year old student from York University won the amateur contest with a total of 2.5 pounds in 6 minutes.
Meredith's Boxberger, the 3rd place finisher in last month's Pie Wood Fired Pizza contest with a total of 21 slices (Kobayashi 1st 43 slices, "Furious" Pete 2nd 25 slices) has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/deepfrieddiva announcing she will be competing in today's Smoke's Poutinerie contest in Toronto. (I have not seen a full entrants list for that competition.) Meredith did an interview on B101 yesterday to promote the contest.
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