Three random Toronto eating challenges
| 2 lb. burger | Maximum Burger Challenge | TheSmoke - Vaughan | Vaughan, ON, Canada | includes 1 lb. fries, also a Collingwood, ON location |
| 2 lb. burger | The Beast | Hey Dayz | London, ON, Canada | includes 1/2 lb. bacon |
| 21 in pizza | 21 Inch Pizza Challenge | FBI Pizza | Toronto, ON, Canada |
The 2022 Smoke's Poutinerie eating contest was held Saturday as a charity event for local CEOs, so the return of its MLE competition appears in doubt.
BlogTO.com has a post about Raina Huang's trip to Toronto.
Like last year, Smoke's Poutinerie Eating Championship on September 18 will be a charity event for CEOs.
AnnaEngineTV has posted a casting call for a paid opportunity for a competitive eater that will apparently take place in Toronto.
Matt Elliott has posted a list of Toronto events that have been cancelled due to coronavirus which includes Smoke's Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship. The competition remains on the MLE calendar with an unspecified date.
The date for Smoke's Poutinerie eating contest, originally scheduled for August 29 in Toronto, has been removed and the competition is now listed at the bottom of the upcoming contests column on MLE's calendar page.
Competitive eating musical documentary screening June 3
Crow’s Theatre in Leslieville, ON will show “CHEW: A Gastronomical Musical Odyssey into the Strange World of Competitive Eating” on June 3. The documentary will be screened online and tickets will include a home-delivered meal. The film has the following description:
As one competitor puts it: “It’s like a standing-still parade. We just happen to be eating food.†Over the course of several years, Montreal playwright Sarah Segal-Lazar interviewed dozens of competitive eaters in Canada and the States to figure out what drives them to stretch their stomachs beyond comprehension. Inspired by London Road and A Chorus Line, co-creators Segal-Lazar, Anika Johnson and Andrew Kushnir have discovered the ideal container for the excesses of the sport: a musical. Chew takes documentary theatre to new places, and competitive eating to new limits. Whether it’s tucking away tamales in Texas or pulverising pretzels in Providence, the reasons we do unreasonable things can be most surprising of all.
2019 Smoke’s Poutinerie Championship
Official results Part 1 | Part 2
| 1st | 28 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | new record |
| 2nd | 27.25 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 24.625 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 22.5 | Darron Breeden | |
| 5th | 17.25 | Max Suzuki | |
| 6th | 16.75 | Nick Wehry | |
| 7th | 16.5 | Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran | |
| 8th | 15.375 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | first finish outside top 5 in MLE career |
| 9th | 14.75 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 10th | 13.5 | George Chiger | |
| 10th | 13.5 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 12th | 11.125 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco |
Livestreaming on youtube has started. The MLE contest is expected to start at 3pm Eastern.
This could be the final matchup between Joey Chestnut and Geoff Esper in 2019. On November 2, Joey Chestnut is expected to compete in a brisket eating contest in Austin while Geoff Esper defends his Indian taco title at Fortune Bay in Tower, MN.
A press release gives the expected entrants for the moke’s Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship (WPEC) in Toronto October 19: Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Matt Stonie, Darron Breeden, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Michelle Lesco, George Chiger, Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran, Ronnie Hartman, Eric "Badlands" Booker and Darrien Thomas. The final paragraph says that in 2020, the WPEC will be replaced with the "SMOKE-A-PALOOZA! The Rock N’ Roll Psycho Circus", so this might be the final MLE Smoke's Poutinerie competition.
Joel Hansen won the first prize of $500 in Friday's Hotpot eating contest at Xiangzi in Markham, ON.
Simcoe.com has an article about Darrien Thomas competing in the Nathan's finals.
Joel Hansen ate 9 sandwiches to win the first prize of $300 in yesterday's sandwich eating contest at Via Panini in Maple, ON.
Via Panini in Maple, ON, Canada will hold a sandwich eating contest on April 13 awarding $300/$150/$75.
Canadian competitive eater Joel Hansen ate 12 pounds of barbecue at Adamson Barbecue in Toronto Thursday night to raise $4,030 for Covenant House Toronto.
Narcity.com has an article about a new 26 pound pizza available at Frank's Pizza House in Toronto, billed as the largest in Canada. Joel Hansen inspired the creation of the menu item.
Pewdiepie, owner of the youtube channel with the most subscriptions, produced a video criticizing mukbang eating videos focusing on the controversy that ensued when Veronica Wang flagged other Youtube channels for copyright violations. In the video, Pewdiepie claims "Americans ruin everything" (Veronica Wang is from Toronto). A reddit thread started December 24 has background on the feud between Veronica Wang and the now-deleted Shookbang channel, which produced parodies of mukbang videos.
Barrie360.com has an article about Darrien Thomas attempting the Kitchen Sink Burger at Kenzington Burger Bar in Barrie, ON.
2018 Smoke’s Poutinerie contest
Official results. Miki Sudo was announced on stage as the runner up
| 1st | 17.5 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | regains lead for 2018 MLE non-qualfier wins with 11 |
| 2nd | 16 | Darron Breeden | |
| 3rd | 15 | Miki Sudo | announced as runner-up on stage |
| 4th | 12.5 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | announced as 3rd place on stage |
| 5th | 11.5 | George Chiger | |
| 6th | 10 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 7th | 9.5 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 8th | 8 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 9th | 7.5 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 10th | 5.5 | Jesse Kankula | |
| 10th | 5.5 | William “Wild Bill” Myers |
Joel Hansen ate 8.5 pounds in 5 minutes to win the amateur contest, which is more than 4 of the 11 professionals ate in 10 minutes
Matt Stonie has posted a livestream video of the contest
The field for Saturday's Smoke's Poutinerie contest in Toronto has been announced and includes Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Darron Breeden, Michelle Lesco, George Chiger, Derek Jacobs, Badlands Booker, Bill Myers, Jim Reeves and Darrien Thomas. Matt Stonie has also said he will compete.
2018 Vaughan, Ontario Pizza Eating Championship
| 1st | 19.25 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 17 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 3rd | 11 | Gideon Oji | |
| 4th | 9 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 5th | 8.25 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 6th | 6 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 7th | 5.75 | Jesse Kankula | |
| 8th | 5.5 | John “Step Daddy J” Jugovic | |
| 9th | 4 | Steven “The Clutch” Dorgo | |
| 10th | 2 | Humza Raza | |
| 11th | 1.75 | Rene Rovtar |
150 pizza have been prepared for the contest. Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper and Gideon Oji are expected to compete.
Simcoe.com has an interview with Darrien Thomas, winner of the amateur division of the 2017 Smoke's Poutinerie contest.
Joel Hansen was the first person to finish the 7+ pound "Ultimate Food Challenge" at TheSmoke in Vaughan, ON. He has a youtube channel at "Any Body Nutrition"
Joey Chestnut is expected to compete at the Vaughan Pizza Festival in Vaughan, ON on July 15. The contest will be sponsored by Pie Wood Fired Pizza, which has sponsored an contest in Barrie, ON that Takeru Kobayashi has competed in since 2010.
Palm Beach Happening has interviews with Matt "Hungry" Hazzard and Darrien Thomas, winner of the amateur division of the 2017 Smoke's Poutinerie contest in Toronto. Matt is also the guest on the latest Fink Beats the Stomach podcast.
Mike "Strictly Dumpling" Chen produced a video of him attempting a 50 pound lobster challenge costing $662 in Toronto.
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