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Mission Burrito has an interview with Lee vs. Food about his inability to complete its new El Criminal Burrito Challenge, his first defeat in 9 Bristol, England area food challenge attempts. He has a facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LeeVsFood/ to document his competitive eating experiences.

March 10, 2018 at 11:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burrito Eating Challenges, Somerset, Websites | Permalink * Comments (3)

The Spanish food challenge youtube channel Esstik has surpassed 500,000 subscribers.

March 5, 2018 at 11:59 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Spain, Videos, Websites | Permalink * Comments (2)

Finnish competitive eater Jesse Pynnönen, a competitor in last year's Gringo Bandio Chronic Tacos eating contest, produced a video about Carmen Cincotti calling him the "Future of Competitive Eating".

February 25, 2018 at 10:13 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Carmen Cincotti, Finland , Jesse Pynnönen | Permalink * Comments (1)

Russian competitive eater/bodybuilder arrested in Thailand

February 13, 2018 at 3:35 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Russia, Thailand

The Daily Mail reports that Russian competitive eater/bodybuilder Sergey Medvedev was arrested in Thailand on February 2. He is the alleged co-founder of the cybercrime organization “Infraud”, which has defrauded $530 million from Americans since 2010 according to federal prosecutors. The arrest followed a two year probe by the US Justice Department and Medvedev is expected to be extradited to the USA in about a month. “The Bear” labeled himself “the first Russian competitive eater” on his Instagram and had a youtube channel devoted to food challenges and strength training. update The FBI claims that Medvedev possessed over $800 million worth of bitcoins at the time of his arrest. (Bangkok Post article about arrest)

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The Independent and the London Economic have articles about Kate Ovens attempting a three foot long sausage roll at the Red Lion in London.

February 1, 2018 at 10:02 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kate Ovens, London | Permalink * Comments (2)

Team Chomp, consisting of Joey Chestnut and Tim "Eater X" Janus, was eliminated from season 30 of The Amazing Race after they had difficulty solving a puzzle based on a Van Gogh painting at the end of last night's episode recorded in south France. They were beat out for the final spot by Team Wellstrung, a pair of bodybuilding violinists. Other challenges Team Chomp did yesterday included boating with a single person sailboat, catapult construction, sandal making and a bocce style game called petanque. Team Chomp was the only duo to attempt the painting challenge; other teams did a challenge in a Roman arena now used for bullfighting.

January 25, 2018 at 8:58 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:France, Joey Chestnut, Television, Tim "Eater X" Janus | Permalink * Comments (2)

Cambridge University will hold a presentation about competitive eating on March 7. Dr. Barak Kushner of the University of Cambridge and Dr. Eric Rath of the University of Michigan will be the speakers. The talks are part of the Imaginative Things: Curious Objects 1400–2000 series.

January 22, 2018 at 2:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cambridge | Permalink * Comments (3)

Greg Roberts has posted a drawing of a Hasty Pudding eating contest from 1794 that awarded a gold laced hat to the winner.

January 21, 2018 at 1:27 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:London | Permalink * Comments (2)

Rub Smokehouse in the UK will award £500 in Rub Vouchers to the fastest finisher of its Nugzilla giant chicken nugget challenge if he or she can break 6 minutes. Andy Salisbury currently has the fastest time of 6:20. (via Chronicle Live)

January 16, 2018 at 11:55 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges, Newcastle, Nottingham, Prizes, West Midlands | Permalink * Comments (2)

Martin Appleton Clare ate a pie in a record 32 seconds to win the World Pie Eating Championship in Wigan, England for the third year in a row.   

December 20, 2017 at 10:12 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Manchester, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (4)

Brandon Parry won the first prize of £750 in last night's burger challenge at Smoke Stop BBQ in Ford, England. The competition was closed to people considered "professional" eaters.

December 2, 2017 at 11:20 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Contest Results, Prizes, Shropshire | Permalink * Comments (1)

Kate Ovens and Beard Meats Food produced videos of the Thanksgiving dining event held yesterday at Pickle & Rye in London to promote NFL UK.

November 23, 2017 at 11:52 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran, Kate Ovens, London, Videos | Permalink * Comments (4)

News UK Archives has an article about a 1846 eating contest held in Ballybrannon, Ireland. The crowd size was reportedly 3000.

November 21, 2017 at 11:42 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dublin | Permalink * Comments (2)

Elena Semikhova has a picture of a burger at a Krasnodar restaurant that is billed as the tallest burger in Russia.

November 20, 2017 at 4:22 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Russia | Permalink * Comments (1)

Daily Sabah has a report on a tomato eating contest between Russian and Turkish female farmers to celebrate the resumption of Turkish tomato imports by Russia. Ela Karakaya of Turkey won ate 1.6 kg of tomatoes in 3 minutes to win the contest. The imports were stopped in 2016 to punish Turkey for shooting down a Russian aircraft near the Syria border.

November 18, 2017 at 11:59 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Russia, Women | Permalink * Comments (2)

NorwegianFolkTales.blogspot.com has a story about a boy named Askeladden who faces off against a forest troll in a porridge eating contest. (via Simon)

November 12, 2017 at 8:46 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Norway | Permalink * Comments (1)

Radim Dvořáček finished the 7 pound Big ol’ Belly Buster Burger Challenge at Man vs Food in London in 27:45 to win £250.

November 10, 2017 at 9:12 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, London | Permalink * Comments (1)

The Scottish Sun reports that Elizabeth Branning was hospitalized after she ate a Carolina Reaper pepper, billed as the world's spiciest, in a charity challenge.

November 5, 2017 at 8:16 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Scotland, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (3)

Stephanie Joshi of https://instagram.com/nuttyfoodiefitness has started a food challenge youtube channel with a Q & A session. She says that her favorite channels include Beard Meats Food, Erik the Electric and Matt Stonie.

November 4, 2017 at 10:27 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:London, Stephanie Joshi, Videos, Websites | Permalink * Comments

Czech Radim Dvořáček was the first person to finish the 96 ounce steak challenge which includes five side dishes at The Ashville in Bristol, England yesterday.

November 3, 2017 at 12:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Czech Republic, Somerset, Steak Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (4)

Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran appeared on Monday's episode of The Digital Human produced by the BBC. The topic of the episode is super normal stimuli. (Download link)

November 1, 2017 at 11:25 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran, Podcasts, Science, United Kingdom | Permalink * Comments

Smoke Stop in Ford, England will hold a Belly Buster burger eating contest on November 24 or December 1 awarding £750 to the winner. The contest is closed to those considered "professional" eaters.

October 29, 2017 at 1:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Prizes, Shropshire | Permalink * Comments

Irish bodybuilder Rob Lipsett produced a video of him attempting to eat 10,000 calories in one hour.

October 26, 2017 at 11:09 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Calorie Challenges, Ireland, Videos | Permalink * Comments

The second part of BBC's World Service Food Chain podcast about competitive eating is available online. This program focuses on the health aspects of competitive eating with Erik Lamkin discussing his history with eating disorders. Andrei Sidorov also attempts the Iron Pig Challenge at Porky's BBQ.

October 19, 2017 at 10:20 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Erik Lamkin, Health, Podcasts, United Kingdom | Permalink * Comments (15)

Kate Ovens, Yasir Salem and Takeru Kobayashi will appear on BBC's Food Chain program tonight. The program will also visit an eating contest in Singapore. update The podcast is now available online (mp3 file)

October 11, 2017 at 7:40 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kate Ovens, Kobayashi (小林尊), Podcasts, Singapore, United Kingdom, Yasir Salem | Permalink * Comments (1)

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