Upcoming London eating contests
London eating challenges
(All London eating challenges and contests in database)
The Independent has an article about UK eating challenges focusing on the Triple Chilli Challenge at MEATliquor in London.
TNT Magazine has a list of London eating challenges.
Frank's Red Hot will sponsor a wing eating circuit in England this year. The first qualifiers will take place at Grillstock in Bristol on May 11 and 12 and the finals will be held in London in November.
Digesting England by the pound / eatfeats region
Citizens of Hope & Glory,
Time goes by – it’s “the time of your life”.
Easy now, sit you down.
Chewing through your Wimpey[*] dreams,
They eat without a sound;
Digesting england by the pound.
Young man says “you are what you eat” – eat well.
Old man says “you are what you wear” – wear well.
You know what you are, you don’t give a damn;
Bursting your belt that is your homemade sham.
Genesis, “Dancing with the Moonlit Knight” (1973) (That is Phil Collins on drums)
The English eating challenges (currently totaling 309) and contests in the database have been parceled out into 34 regions which are listed after the jump (all-England list of eating challenges and contests)
Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo's Dirty Tackle blog has an entry about Adam Richman crying after visiting White Hart Lane stadium in London, England, home of his favorite Premier League team, Tottenham Hotspur.
The Daily Mail reports that Arif Ali was hospitalized after attempting a Bhut Jolokia pepper hot wing challenge at Jimmy's restaurant in London's O2 arena.
The Daily Mail has an article on the Devastator Burger Challenge available at the Red Dog Saloon in Hoxton, England. The burger is eight inches high and contains 3,000 calories.
An upcoming documentary about competitive eating for the ITV network will be recorded at Burgers at Blacks in Purley, England on August 16. The restaurant offers an eating challenge billed as Europe's largest burger.
WhosJack.com has a list of London eating challenges.
GuinnessWorldRecords has a video of "Furious" Pete Czerwinski setting the record for most Jaffa cakes eaten in one minute at the Guinness headquarters in London.
The Sun, The Daily Mail and the Wimbledon Guardian all have articles about the 15 pound burger challenge (patty weigh 7 pounds) available at Burgers at Blacks, in Purley, South London which is billed as the largest burger challenge in Britain.
The Grub Run will take place in London, England on September 11. Competitors will run three kilometers, eat five tubs of frozen yogurt and then return to the start.
The Blues Kitchen in London England will hold a hot dog eating contest tomorrow and Gastrodyne reports that a hot dog eating contest will be held in Erandio, Spain on August 5 (a video of the 2010 contest).
British newspaper on competitive eating
The Independent of London has an article about competitive eating with a lot of quotes from Ryan Nerz which reports that 1.5 million viewers watched the Nathan’s finals. The article also claims that Badlands Booker has released 2 albums (he has produced four “Hungry & Focused” CDs) and that the Sacramento death in the bladder endurance contest happened in January (it took place in 2007). British competitor Lup Fan Yau believes that Sonya Thomas has made millions from competitive eating.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force eating contest in London, UK
Kung Fu Events reports that an eating contest will be held in London England on September 2 to promote the DVD release of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. There will be three rounds: fries, meatballs and milkshakes which correspond to the three main characters in the cartoon.
Article by UK breakfast competitor
The Times of London has a report by Andrew Heath, who competed in the Premier Travel Inn breakfast eating contest in order to win money to repay student loans.
UK breakfast eating contest results
(from Carey Poehlmann) The Times of London reports on yesterday’s breakfast eating contest sponsored by Premier Travel Inn that was held in London, England:
The meal — one sausage, one slice of bacon, one egg, four mushrooms and one croissant — pitted big figures in British eating such as the national champion Rob “Baby Face†Burns against newcomers such as Sir Scoffsalot and Laura Strachan.
The winner was Lup Fan Yau, whose 5¾ meals equated to two days’ worth of calories before lunch.
Lup Fan Yau works for The Sun newspaper.
More on the London breakfast championship
The Sun reports that spaces are still available in the breakfast eating championship which will be held in London, England on Tuesday. The contest will last 12 minutes and 35 seconds, which is claimed to be the average breakfast time. Sun employee, Lup Fun Yau, recognized by Guinness as the record holder for jam doughnuts, will participate.
The winner is the person who devours the most breakfast trays in the time allowed, each of which contains a mammoth 1,300 calories.
It contains 1 sausage; 1 fried egg; 1 rasher bacon; 1 tomato; 1 tbsp baked beans; 1 slice white toast with butter; 1 bowl Cornflakes with 200ml milk; 1 pot organic strawberry yoghurt; 1 croissant; 1 blueberry muffin.
And if you’re out in front, you’ll walk away (or maybe waddle away) with a £500 prize and the title of Britain’s Best Biggest Breakfast Eater.
To take part, call 08701 977346 and leave your details.
London All You Can Eat Breakfast Championship
LateNightPictures.com has some pictures of a competitor in the (London UK) All You Can Eat Breakfast Championship with two “breakfast-ettes” (Katie Downes and Malene Espensen) No results or other details are provided.
update The event was to announce the contest which will take place on May 29. Premier Travel Inns has a page about the contest. First place is 500 pounds.
A big menorah & big eating
Happy Chanukah to the Jewish readership of this site. TotallyJewish.com has an article about a party in which the largest menorah in London, England was assembled from legos. (It is not clear if it is the largest menorah in London overall or just the largest menorah made of legos 😉 ) During the party, a doughnut eating contest was held. The winner ate 10 doughnuts, a better showing than Hank “the Tank” had in his Wing Bowl stunt today.
Times (London) on UK competitive eating
The Times of London has a column about the lack of success by eaters from the United Kingdom.
Obviously, cultural objections to competitive eating might include the fact that it is vulgar, mindless, upsetting to watch and, in a world in which people are starving, morally obscene. You could say the same about Formula One, though, and that still has its UK-based participants.
Loading ...