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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.
King of Donair in Halifax, NS has an instagram video of Joel Hansen eating its 12 pound "World's Largest Donair" in 42 minutes.
Alexandra's Pizza in Sidney, NS will award a $1000 cash prize along with a $1000 charitable donation if its 12 pound donair is finished in under 90 minutes.
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.
The Hamilton Spectator has an article about Joel Hansen focusing on his runner-up performance in yesterday's pumpkin pie eating contest in Clarence, NY.
TheRunner.ca has an article about Canadian competitive eaters focusing on John "Step Daddy J" Jugovic. Joel Hansen is also quoted.
Barnes Harley Davidson will hold a hot dog eating contest in Langley, BC awarding $500 to the winner August 17 (via Step Daddy J)
Winnipeg Free Press has an article about John "Step Daddy J" Jugovich winning the perogy eating contest at Folklorama for the fourth year in a row.
Joel Hansen won the first prize of $500 in Friday's Hotpot eating contest at Xiangzi in Markham, ON.
Guelph Mercury has an interview with Canadian food challenger Joel Hansen, owner of the instagram page modelvsfood.
Chez Ma Tante in Montreal will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 18 awarding $500 to the winner.
Gold Eagle Casino in North Battleford, Saskatchewan will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 17 awarding $500/$300/$200.
Simcoe.com has an article about Darrien Thomas competing in the Nathan's finals.
CBC has an article about Montreal competitive eating focusing on Veronica Boggia. The report documents her completion the challenge at Pizza Spanos in 17:10, about half the time (31:56) previous record-holder Randy Santel required.
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.
An episode of TV Made Me Do IT about the 2009 AICE USA vs. Canada burger eating contest focusing on "Furious" Pete Czerwinski.
GlobalNews.ca has an article about Joel Hansen eating 19 donairs in an hour at King of Donairs in Halifax, NS, which he believes is a world record.
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.
Joel Hansen has uploaded a video of his runner-up finish at the Supreme Donair eating conest at King of Donair in Halifax, NS which includes his choking incident.
The Toronto Star has a report on yesterday's Supreme Donair eating contest held at King of Donair in Halifax, NS. Nathan Richard defended his title and Joel Hansen was runner up. Both competitiors had choking scares.
Barrie360.com has an article about Darrien Thomas attempting the Kitchen Sink Burger at Kenzington Burger Bar in Barrie, ON.
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