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James Webb, Nick Wehry and Dave "US Male" Goldstein are expected to compete in Benny’s Invitational Pizza Eating Championship in Manayunk, PA on November 16. This will be Goldstein's first MLE competition since 2010. update Geoff Esper, George Chiger, Larell Marie Mele, William Myers, Rene Rovtar and Cherish Brown are also expected to compete.

November 10, 2024 at 4:59 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Previews, Dave Goldstein, Philadelphia | Permalink * Comments (20)

Norms Hotcake Eating Championship

November 9, 2024 at 2:25 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Las Vegas, Pat Bertoletti

Full results (10 minutes)

1st 46 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti
2nd 44 Geoffrey Esper
3rd 41 James Webb
4th 36.5 Miki Sudo
5th 35.25 Nick Wehry
6th 23.5 Derek Hendrickson
7th 18.5 Mirza “Snowman” Selmic
8th 12.25 Naader “Freak8r” Reda
9th 11.5 Sergio Reyes-Raya
10th 11 Tandra Childress
11th 6 Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown

James Webb is running a livestream of today’s Norms Hotcake Eating Championship in Las Vegas.

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La Nova Wings will hold a Wing Bowl awarding $1000 to the winner before the Buffalo Bills game on November 17.

November 8, 2024 at 2:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Buffalo, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (2)

The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports that Outlaw Egg Rolls will close on December 14. The food truck sponsored a MLE egg roll eating contest in 2022 and planned a 2023 competition, but it was canceled due to lack of funding.

November 7, 2024 at 6:29 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Texas | Permalink * Comments

Bloomberg has a column about the hot dog eating contest held at the MustardFest in Springfield, Ohio on September 21. The majority of the piece discusses Haitian immigrants in Springfield. Joey Chestnut made a personal appearance at the event, but did not participate in the competition that was won by Jack Legath.

November 6, 2024 at 4:14 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dayton, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments (1)

Yahoo! of Japan has an article about Takeru Kobayashi's plans to start a hot dog eating contest in Japan and start his own brand of frankfurters. Kobayashi retired from competitive eating after his "Unfinished Beef" showdown with Joey Chestnut in September. (via Super News Chan)

November 5, 2024 at 3:05 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Japan, Kobayashi (小林尊) | Permalink * Comments

Emmy DeLuca won the first prize of two Baltimore Ravens tickets in Saturday's street corn eating contest at Banditos Tacos & Tequila in Nottingham, MD.

November 5, 2024 at 2:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Baltimore, Contest Results, Unafilliated Contests, Women | Permalink * Comments (2)

The Northwestern University student newspaper has a review of the play "Dogs" that premiered Friday at the Red Theater in Chicago. Most of the characters are competitors in a women's hot dog eating contest.

November 4, 2024 at 5:22 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Chicago, Women | Permalink * Comments

Geoff Esper, Pat Bertoletti, James Webb, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry and Derek Hendrickson are expected to compete in the NORMS Las Vegas: Hotcake Eating Championship on November 9.

November 3, 2024 at 4:58 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Previews, Las Vegas | Permalink * Comments (1)

The play "Dogs", set at a women's hot dog eating contest, premiered last night at the Red Theater in Chicago. It is scheduled to run until November 24.

November 2, 2024 at 10:31 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Chicago, Women | Permalink * Comments (1)

Mosaic Pizza in Brisbane, QLD will hold a pizza eating contest on Sunday awarding $500 to the winner, $250 to the runner up.

November 1, 2024 at 11:59 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Philly Voice has a review of the new documentary "No One Died: The Wing Bowl Story", which debuted last week at the Philadelphia Film Festival.

October 31, 2024 at 11:12 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Documentaries, Philadelphia, Wing Bowl | Permalink * Comments

Scott Eats ate 25 donuts in 5 minutes to win the first prize of $1,000 at the Donut Fun Run in Alameda, CA on October 19.

October 29, 2024 at 6:22 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Oakland, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

CapeCon will hold a pizza eating contest in Cape Girardeau, MO on November 3 awarding $200 to the winner.

October 28, 2024 at 11:45 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cape Girardeau, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Carlos Rodon is the New York Yankees starting pitcher for tonight's World Series game versus the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2014 after being drafted by the Chicago White Sox, he discussed his competitive eating fandom in an episode of the Cespedes Family Barbecast podcast.

October 26, 2024 at 8:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes, New York City | Permalink * Comments

Adam Richman reported that his production van was broken into and many items were stolen at a M1 truck stop in Barnet, England while traveling between London and Birmingham. The former host of "Man v Food" was recording the second season of "Adam Richman Eats Britain".

October 26, 2024 at 6:42 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:London, Man vs. Food | Permalink * Comments

Daily Mail has an article about the Fat Shack 5K challenge that will award $3000/$1500/$500 in Colorado on January 25. Entrants will need to qualify at a Fat Schack on November 9 by eating a Fat Shack Sandwich, a classic double cheeseburger, a side of French fries, 12 Mac N Cheese Bites and 5 Deep Fried Oreos in under 15 minutes. (List of qualfier sites).

October 25, 2024 at 5:17 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Colorado, Eating Challenges, Prizes | Permalink * Comments

PR News Online has an interview with Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest co-founder Mortimer Matz, who turned 100 in July.

October 24, 2024 at 5:20 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Nathan's History, New York City | Permalink * Comments

The trailer for "No One Died: The Wing Bowl Story" can be viewed online and includes clips of Jason Kelce, Joey Chestnut and Molly Schuyler. On Pattison has an article about last night's premier of the documentary at the Philadelphia Film Festival.

October 23, 2024 at 3:21 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Documentaries, Philadelphia, Videos, Wing Bowl | Permalink * Comments

Bloody Elbow has a post about Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran's recent video of his attempt to set a chicken wing record at a restaurant in Liverpool while the previous holder, MMA Fighter Paddy Pimblett, watched.

October 23, 2024 at 12:16 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran, Liverpool, Male Athletes | Permalink * Comments (1)

Dan Kennedy ate 26 4 ounce meatballs in 3 minutes to win first prize of $1000 at the Emporio meatball eating contest at the StrEAT Festival in Pittsburgh Sunday,

October 21, 2024 at 7:23 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Dan Kennedy, Pittsburgh, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

NJArts on “No One Died”

October 20, 2024 at 6:45 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Camden, Documentaries, Health, Philadelphia, Wing Bowl

NJ Arts has an article about the new documentary, “No One Died: The Wing Bowl Story” which includes an interview with contest co-founder Angelo Cataldi. He discusses the medical personnel (or lack thereof) at the event:

Which was a good thing because, until 2007, the only medical personnel at Wing Bowl was Dr. St. George Hunt, a local veterinarian. “He couldn’t Heimlich anyone,” says Cataldi. “Basically, he neutered cats. I ended up with two of them.”

He laughs. “It was a joke.”

Yes, a big ha-ha, until Ice Cream Man showed up. “A guy came in for an eating stunt. He wanted to eat two gallons of ice cream, and we thought that was cool,” says Cataldi. “So, the guy ate the first gallon of ice cream fine. He was feeling good.”

But a few spoonfuls into the second gallon, his lips started turning blue. “By now, the guy is shivering and he’s moving slower. We ended up calling 911. He was in some physical jeopardy at one point. And that was the day we were told all eating stunts had to be approved by the legal department and that there had to be doctors on duty at the event — things we should have been doing all along.”

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Joey Chestnut faced off against two Indiana University students in a corn eating contest televised on Big Noon Kickoff before today's game against the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers.

October 19, 2024 at 11:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:College Station, Indianapolis, Joey Chestnut, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Banditos in Whitemarsh, MD will hold a street corn eating contest on November 2 awarding 2 Baltimore Ravens end zone tickets and a championship belt.

October 18, 2024 at 12:05 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Baltimore, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

A corn eating contest awarding $1000 to the winner will be held before the October 26 University of Iowa football game in Iowa City, IA. The competition will raise money for the UI Stead Family Children's Hospital.

October 17, 2024 at 5:02 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cedar Rapids, Charity Events, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (3)

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