Upcoming Orange County eating contests
Orange County eating challenges
(All Orange County eating challenges and contests in database)
Naader Reda announces he ate 201 chicken nuggets in two hours at the Chick Fil A in La Habra, California to win a contest. update The Chick Fil A facebook has a picture.
Sharkeez (6 southern California locations) will hold wing eating contests during the Super Bowl awarding $100 to the winners.
Johnnie Excel has a blog entry and video about his victory in the 3.5 pound sandwich eating contest held at the Huntington Beach Tommy Pastrami.
Johnnie Excel reports he won today's pastrami sandwich eating contest at Tommy Patrami. Aaron Ybarra was the runner-up.
Johnnie Excel has a blog entry about making a video of him eating 32 ounces of mayonnaise and finishing the burrito challenge at 195 Grill in Anaheim.
The competitors in the Tommy Pastrami finals in Huntington Beach, CA on January 30 have been posted. (via Johnnie Excel facebook) The Huntington Beach Independent has an article about one of the qualifiers.
The OC Register's fast food blog has an entry about qualifying for the eating contest at Tommy Pastrami. Store semi-finals have been moved to January 14 from January 13.
There are two recent blog entries about eating contests from the 1880s: OCWeekly has an entry about an 1885 garlic eating contest in Orange County (the winner ate 3 pounds) and OldNewsTom reports on a bet that a diner could not gain more than five pound from a single meal (via Nashville Scene)
The Sushilicious facebook has finally been updated to announce that Stephanie Torres (on October 27) set the overall house record of 61 plates. The record was broken in October.
New recent California challenge records
Matt Stonie broke the Broken Yolk Ironman Omelet record (now 7:15) and Stephanie Torres set a new women’s record of 12:11. | video | gallery | Naader Reda blog entry
Johnnie Excel and Stephanie Torres set a record for the 2 person XL Pizza Challge at Ballpark Pizza in Rancho Santa Margarita. | Video | Gallery | Johnnie Excel blog entry
Matt Stonie set the King Ranch 5 pound burrito record at La Casa Garcia in Anaheim (4:17). | Gallery | Naader Reda blog entry
Stephanie Torres is the first person to finish 5 of the 6 courses in the $1000 Pho King Way challenge, but she has not received her T-shirt consolation prize.
Jessica “Queen of Cuisine” will set the female record for the 2 pound burger at the Net Grill in Fresno after she is the first woman to attempt the challenge on Sunday.
A pastrami eating contest at Tommy Pastrami in Huntington Beach, CA on January 30 will award $500 to the winner. Qualifiers will be held at six southern California locations on January 13.
Ballpark Pizza in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA awards $100 to a team of two men or three women that can finish an extra large pizza in under an hour. This is the only challenge that I am aware of that has different team sizes for men and women.
OCWeekly has a list of five Orange County eating challenges (actually four challenges and one Thanksgiving Day ramen contest).
Johnnie's Excel's facebook page announces that he set the record for the 5 pound 5 Alarm Burger at the Buffalo Fire Department (16:37) and Stephanie Torres broke the house record at El Nopal by eating 5 "pregnant" burritos weighing 2 pounds each in 90 minutes (gallery). Johnnie has started a blog and youtube channel to document his eating challenges and contests.
OCWeekly has a slideshow of yesterday's Nutella eating contest won by Thao Le.
Johnnie Excel's facebook announces that Stephanie Torres broke his overall house record of 60 sushi plates by one at Sushilicious in Irvine, CA yesterday. Stephanie tripled the previous women's record of 20 plates. update Pictures have been posted.
Johnnie Excel sets two eating challenge records
The facebook for Johnnie Excel announces that he set two challenge records this weekend. He finished the Iron Man challenge omelet at the Broken Yolk in 13 minutes and ate 60 plates of sushi at Sushilicious.
Stephanie Torres was not allowed to attempt to break the women’s record since only one record attempt per day is allowed at Sushilicious. She will attempt the record on Wednesday and finished a 5 pound burrito in 14 minutes at La Casa Garcia in Anaheim as a replacement challenge.
Stephanie Torres attempted the OMG burger at The Catch in Anaheim for an upcoming episode of "Outrageous Food" on the Food Network.
The facebook page for Sushilicious in Irvine, CA announces that Jackie Batand recently set the women's house record by eating 20 plates. Stanley Luong holds the men's record of 28 plates. update Oct 18 The time limit is one hour for the challenge update Oct 19 Kirk Barnard now holds the men's record of 38 plates.
The facebook for The Catch restaurant in Anaheim announces that the Food Network will record an OMG Burger challenge attempt on Sunday for an upcoming episode of Outrageous Food.
Tom Gilbert defeats Furious Pete in OT at Derby Deli contest
update OC Register reports that Tom Gilbert won the contest with a total of 34.5 hot dogs. Gilbert and “Furious” Pete Czerwinski were tied at 29.5 at the end of regulation and the contest went into overtime. Joseph Barleta from Laguna Beach was third with 20 hot dogs.
Furious Pete Czerwinski claims that he and Gilbert had an agreement to split the sum of the first and second prize money before the overtime started.
The Derby Deli facebook has posted some pictures from today’s West Coast hot dog eating contest, but has not announced a winner. update A constest judge reports the winner ate 34.
Jed Donahue won Friday's qualifier for Derby Deli's hot dog eating contest. update OCRegister has a gallery of Saturday's qualifier. Tomas Cortina won with 19 hot dogs.
The OC Register has an article about this weekend's hot dog eating contest at the Derby Deli in Mission Viejo, CA. "Furious" Pete Czerwinski and Dale Boone are expected to challenge defending champion Tom Gilbert. Derby owner Dan Lauriano says he wants to make the contest "the pure version of what Nathan's used to be like... not hokey with the drama".
The EatDirtyWaterDog facebook announces that "Furious" Pete Czerwinski will compete in the West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship at the Derby Deli in Mission Viejo, California on Labor Day weekend.
A facebook page for the West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship at the Derby Deli in Mission Viejo, CA has been set up at http://www.facebook.com/EatDirtyWaterDog. The first prize will be $3,000 and Tom Gilbert is expected to defend his title. The contest T-shirt has already been designed.
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