Upcoming United Kingdom eating contests
United Kingdom eating challenges
WhosJack.com has a list of London eating challenges.
The Scottish Sun has an article about a 6 pound steak challenge available at The Grill Room in Glasgow which costs £360 ($565). If the steak is finished in under an hour, it is free along with a membership to club 29.
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.
Cattlemens in Harrogate, England announces that Tracy Dalkin finished its 72 ounce steak challenge in 21:47, the second fastest time in the history of the restaurant. This might be the best time for a woman to complete a 72 ounce steak challenge meal. The fastest for a female to complete a 72 ounce steak I was previously aware of was Meredith Boxberger's recent mark of 29 minutes.
Ciaran Jones has a report for WalesOnline about his attempt at a meal offered by Ramon's Cafe in Cardiff billed as the "UK's biggest breakfast".
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 BBC reports The Robert Pinto was the first person to finish the Kidz Breakfast at Jesters Diner in Great Yarmouth, England. He finished the 9 pound meal which includes 12 rashers of bacon, 12 sausages and six eggs in 26 minutes. In the article, Mike Antolini of MLE discusses the possibility of a future British Nathan's qualifier (the last was held in 2005). Flashback 2005 BBC article about a steak eating contest in England won by Sara Manifold with a total of 100 ounces.
DailyMail.co.uk has an article about British bodybuilder Rene Campbell, who intends to eat 4200 calories a day until she weighs 20 stone (280 pounds). Her current weight is 13.5 stone (189 pounds).
The curry contest held at Kismot Restaurant in Edinburgh requiring hospitalization for two of the competitors is #3 in the London Independent's list of the 10 weirdest stories of 2011. (Susanne Eman's quest to become the world's fattest woman by reportedly eating 20,000 calories a day is #1 in the list)
The BBC reports that Lee Palmer and Michael Doggrell ate 19 mince pies in 10 minutes to tie for the lead in today's mince pie eating contest at Wookey Hole caves in England, less than half of the 46 pies Sonya Thomas ate to win the 2006 contest. (Daily Mail article)
Mirror.co.uk reports that Freddie Starr was hospitalized for food poisoning after eating a fermented egg in a gross food eating contest on the British version of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. In addition to the egg, the 68 year old comic also consumed a pig’s anus, cockroach milkshake, camel toe, turkey testicle and mice tails to win the contest.
71 year old Peter Dowdeswell, probably Britain's most famous competitive eater, announced his retirement after suffering injuries while trying to drink a pint of beer upside down. (A video of a successful upside down drinking attempt by Dowdeswell, who claims he holds 339 world records)
The Daily Mail reports that a spicy curry contest held in Edinburgh, Scotland hospitalized two competitors.
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).
The (London, UK) Times Archive has a scan of a 1785 article eating contest about a bet between the Duke of Queensberry and Sir John Lade about who could find the biggest eater. The name of the winner is not listed, only that he won by a "pig and an apple pye".
The Daily Mail and Shropshire Star have articles about a 2.5 pound burger challenge at Oscar's Diner in Telford, Shropshire, England.
The pie eating contest in Wigan (Manchester area) is probably the European contest that receives the most press coverage due to its publicity gimmicks. This year's gimmick is the claim that pies intended for the contest were stolen and laced with Viagra. Neil Collier won the contest by finishing his pie in under 24 seconds.
The first person to finish a 3kg (6.6 pound) burger in under two hours at Over De Flames pub in Norwich, England will receive a prize of £200.
Irish oyster champ claims to have defeated Sonya Thomas in 20098
update Sept 3 Sonya Thomas did compete in the 2008 contest, which took place on September 6, 2008 and was the runner up to Colin Shirlow. V1NNY69 has a video of the results announcement.
update Sept 3 #2 Scotsman.com has an article about the 2008 contest.
Food Belfast has an article about Colin Shirlow, who received a Guinness record for oyster eating (233 in 3 minutes) in 2005 and claims to have defeated Sonya Thomas at the Hillsborough Oyster Festival in Ireland last year:
Last year saw the ominously named ‘Black Widow’ (pictured, left) being flown over especially for the competition from the US.
Sonya Thomas got the nickname because of her ability to regularly defeat men four to five times her size in competitive eating events. The 43-year-old holds records in some 25 competitive eating contests and set her sights on Shirlow’s crown.
“Her record sits at 350 oysters in 10 minutes [actually 46 dozen, 532] but with this record it says it has to be three minutes. The Guinness Book of Records specifically say you have three minutes. We paid for her to come across and on the Thursday night we were like two boxers.
Sonya Thomas could not have competed in the Hillsborough Oyster Festival, which takes place during Labor Day weekend, because she was at the Buffalo Wing Festival in 2009. Shirlow is most likely confusing Sonya Thomas with Linda Li, who competed in last year’s contest after winning a qualifier at the Ceili Cottage in Toronto.
Barry Rigby wins Wigan (UK) pie contest
SkyNews reports that Barry Rigby ate a meat pie in 43 seconds to win the annual pie eating contest at Harry’s Bar in Wigan, England today.
The Wigan pie contest is probably the best publicized English contest. This year’s gimmick of checking for performance enhancing substances was noted by the BBC. (Gravy is listed as a performance enhancing substance). Pitch Weekly also had a blog entry about the contest (from Liz K)
update The Guardian, Daily Express and Manchester Evening Post have articles.
The Guardian on UK competitive eating
A writer for the British newspaper The Guardian wrote an article about competitive eating in the UK after competing in a burrito eating contest. The article mentions Tim Janus’ medical examination and Don Lerman’s quote about suffering internal bleeding.
In other UK CE news, the BoingBoing blog has an entry about a breakfast challenge in Westhoughton.
ThePress.co.uk reports that the UK Sweetcorn Eating championships will award £1,000 if the IFOCE record of 34.75 ears of corn in 12 minutes is broken tomorrow.
The Telegraph has a report on yesterday's World Stinging Nettle Eating Championship held in Dorset England.
NPR has an article about today's World Stinging Nettle Eating Championship in Marshwood, England.
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