Upcoming Toronto eating contests
Toronto eating challenges
(All Toronto eating challenges and contests in database)
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.
Torontoist has an interview with Ben Do, who will attempt to defend his status as the top Canadian in Smoke's Poutine eating contest tomorrow.
A list of the amateur competitors in Saturday's poutine eating contest in Toronto has been announced.
The twitter for Smoke's Poutinerie claims that its poutine contest in Toronto on Saturday will award $10,000 in prizes. The IFOCE.com contest page lists a total of $4,000 in cash to be awarded.
PIE in has produced a video of its pizza eating contest held earlier this month in Barrie, Ontario.
Kobayashi repeats as Pie Pizza champion
update Aug 24 “Furious” Pete has uploaded a contest video.
update Aug 22 Simcoe.com and The Barrie Examiner have galleries
1) Takeru Kobayashi 43 slices in 10 minutes
2) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 25 slices
3) Meredith Boxberger 21 slices (ate pizza in 2 minutes to qualify)
?) Lara Martin 12 slices
update 7:45 The Toronto Star has a gallery. Meredith Boxberger was third with 21 slices
Frank Ferraigne reports that Takeru Kobayashi repeated as the winner of the contest held at Pie Wood Fired Pizza in Barrie, Ontario with a total of 43 slices in 12 minutes. Aylan Couchie has some twitpics of the contest, which was held while it was raining. update “Furious” Pete Czerwinski ate 25 slices, 4 less than he ate in 2010.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has posted a video of him eating a pizza in 35 seconds to prepare for Sunday's pizza eating contest at Pie in Barrie, Ontario. (via email) PostCity.com has a preview of the contest.
2009 Canadian Oyster Eating Champion Linda Li regained her title on Wednesday after defeating the 2010 oyster champion Michael Ramage by a total of 129 to 124 oysters in three minutes. She will represent Canada in the World Oyster Eating Championships in Ireland in September.
Smoke's Poutinerie has produced a video promoting its eating contest in Toronto on September 24.
MetroNews.ca has a short article about Takeru Kobayashi defending his title in the pizza eating contest at PIE in Barrie, Ontario on August 21.
The Ceili Cottage in Toronto will host the Canadian Oyster Eating Championship tomorrow (Canadian citizens only). The winner will receive a trip to Ireland to compete in the World Oyster Eating Championship in early September.
Aaron Osthoff wins Toronto Beer Festival wing contest
The Toronto Sun has an article about today’s wing eating contest held at the Toronto Beer Festival. Results from the MLE facebook Part 1 | Part 2 :
1) Aaron Osthoff 55.45 oz in 12 minutes, first non-qualifier victory
2) “Buffalo” Jim Reeves 51.75
3) Ben Do 47.65
4) Eric “Badlands” Booker 40.5
5) “Wild” Bill Myers 37.75
6) Yasir Salem 33.85
7) Mike Somansith 24.15
Aaron Osthoff and Ben Do have been announced as expected entrants in the wing eating contest at the Toronto Festival of Beer on Sunday.
"Buffalo" Jim Reeves and "Wild" Bill Myers have been announced as expected entrants in Sunday's wing eating contest at the Toronto Festival of Beer.
IFOCE August / September registration on Monday & Wednesday
IFOCE contest registrations opening this week:
- Monday July 25: Toronto’s Festival of Beer Wing Eating Championship (August 7) | John Ascuaga’s Nugget World Rib Eating Championship (August 31, Sparks, NV) | Buffalo Buffet Bowl (September 4) & Wing Eating Championship (September 5)
- Wednesday July 27: Smoke’s Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship (Toronto, September 24) | Old Town Lewisville, TX World Tamale Eating Championship (September 24)
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