Upcoming Orange County eating contests
Orange County eating challenges
(All Orange County eating challenges and contests in database)
Craiglist has a hot dog costume signed by Takeru Kobayashi for sale at $80.
Food Beast has a blog entry and video about the foie gras burger eating contest held at The Playground in Santa Ana, CA won by Naader Reda.
The Derby Deli in Mission Viejo, CA announced that it is calling off the qualifiers and finals for the West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship that were to be held in August and September. It hopes to hold the event at a subsequent date.
2012 Gringo Bandito Chronic Tacos contest
update August 17 Damon Wells and Karikasi have videos
OCWeekly and ESPN LA have galleries
update August 13 The page has been updated with officical results. The Gringo Bandito facebook has a gallery ZehHeiefer videos: Intro | Part 1 | Part 2
video of Wee Man kicking “Furious” Pete in the nuts
update Naader Reda has the top 6
update #2 more results
1) Takeru Kobayashi 106 $5000
2) Damon Wells 65 $1000
3) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 57 $500
4) Stephanie Torres 53 $250
5) Naader Reda 50 $100
6) Jimmy Lin 33
7) Matt Cohen 29
7) Aaron Ybarra 29
9) Shawn Kirby 25
10) Frank Paulin 24
Naader Reda has a preview of the contest
A press release announces that the Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge in Huntington Beach, CA will award $5000 to the winner on August 11. No competitors besides Takeru Kobayashi are mentioned. update August 8 An email lists Furious Pete Czerwinski, Damon Wells, Naader Reda, Matt “Sweet Tooth†Cohen, Jimmy Lin, Frank Paulin, Shawn “Vacuum†Kirby and Aaron Ybarra as other expected entrants. update August 9 Stephanie Torres and John Rivera have been added to the field.
FoodBeast reports that a foie gras burger eating contest will be held at The Playground in Santa Ana, CA on August 11 even though foie gras has been banned by the state of California.
Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to defend his title at the Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge at Chronic Taco in Huntington Beach, CA on August 11.
Farrell's facebook page has official results for the ice cream eating challenge held Sunday. For the amateur men & women, Catalina Hernandez had the fastest time for eating a "Pig's Trough" sundae (1:58).
Damon Wells wins Farrells pro division
update July 16 Naader Reda has a blog entry
Naader Reda has the top 3 of the professional division of today’s Farrell’s Splendiferously Superiffic Summer Spectacular Ice Cream Eating Championship in Brea, CA
1) Damon Wells (reported time 6:02)
2) Naader Reda 7:17
3) Ron Koch
Naader produced a promotional video for the contest
The Farrell’s facebook has some pictures of the earlier rounds
The 2012 West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship will take place at the Derby Deli in Mission Viejo, CA on September 3. Qualifiers will be held on August 11 and 25.
The final standings for qualifying for the Farrell’s Splendiferously Superiffic Summer Spectacular Ice Cream Eating Championship in Brea, CA on Sunday have been announced. Damon Wells leads the pros with a time of 1:44.
The OC Register has an article about the appearance radio host Tim Conway Jr. at the Mission Viejo Farrells while Naader Reda and others attempted challenges. (Naader Reda is not mentioned in the article, but appears in the gallery.)
Matt Cohen has uploaded a video of Takeru Kobayashi eating 30 tacos in one minute at Chronic Tacos in Huntington Beach, CA during the CD release party for The Offspring.
Damon Wells won the taco eating contest held yesterday during the release party for the new Offspring CD at Chronic Tacos in Huntington Beach, CA by eating 30 tacos in 4 minutes. Takeru Kobayashi ate 30 tacos in one minute. Naader Reda reports that Chronic Tacos will hold a taco eating contest on August 1. update OC Weekly has a slideshow.
The Orange County Register has an article about Mary Bowers, who will be the first female wild card competitor at the Nathan's finals next month.
Takeru Kobayashi will appear at a CD release party for the band The Offspring in Huntington Beach, CA on June 26. An amateur taco eating contest will be held at the event.
Naader Reda appears in an OC Register video about the start of qualifying for Farrell's Ice Cream Challenge. KTLA also had a video.
Farrell's has added a pro division to its ice cream challenge that will award up to $500 on July 15 in Brea, CA. Qualifying start tomorrow and will run until July 8. (press release)
Naader Reda has a video about attempting the Extra Large Pizza Challenge for teams at Ball Park Pizza in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA singlehandedly.
Freebirds will open in Foster City, CA (San Mateo County) on February 29. The restaurant offers an 8 pound burrito and the first 25 people in line at the grand opening will receive free burritos for a year. update Freebirds will open in Huntington Beach, CA on March 6.
Naader Reda reports he set a new record at the Chick Fil A in La Habra, CA with a total of 212 nuggets in two hours for his fourth victory at that location. update Naader has a contest report
Naader Reda has a preview of Saturday's nugget eating contest at the Chick Fil A in La Habra, CA. Johnnie Excel is expected to compete and John Rivera will make his contest debut.
Naader Reda has the top 3 in today's eating contest at Wingstop in Irvine, CA: 1) Jed Donahue 18 wings in 90 seconds 2) Kevin Ross 15 wings 3) Spicialist 14 wings update Feb 13 OCRegister.com has a short article in which Jed Donahue announces his possible retirement.
Naader Reda has a preview of tomorrow's wing eating contest at the Wingstop in Irvine, CA.
The Chick fil A in La Habra, CA will hold a nugget eating contest on February 18 with men's & women's divisions. Naader Reda will be looking to four-peat the men's contest.
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