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Gabe Santos reports that Molly Schuyler ate 29 corn dogs at the Sacramento County Fair yesterday. update A contest video is available. update May 27 Another video is also available
The LA Beast ate a cactus, a dozen raw eggs with shell and three ghost peppers at the Coupe de Comedy Festival hosted by the University of California at Irvine's Improv Revolution. (video)
The Sacramento State Fair will hold a corn dog eating contest on May 23 awarding $800 ($500 to the winner).
The Huffington Post and Mirror.co.uk have articles about Matt Stonie's latest video where he finishes the "Burritozilla" from Iguana's Tacqueria in San Jose in under 2 minutes. At the start of his competitive eating career in 2010, he needed 15 minutes to finish the five pound burrito.
Chacho's Taco will hold its second MLE contest in San Jose on August 15.
Molly Schuyler finished the Food Coma Eating Challenge at Rivers Edge Cafe in Sacramento in 2 minutes on Fox 40 today. (gallery)
The Central Valley Pizza Fest in Lemoore, CA will hold a 28 inch pizza eating contest on Sunday for two person teams awarding $375 ($200 to the winners).
Molly Schuyler recently finished two of the challenge burgers at The Power Club in Auburn, CA in 16 minutes. As of April 8, the burger had not been finished once.
Qualifying for the 2015 Beef Bath Bonanza begins today. The fastest finishers of a 1 pound burger at Sylvester's Burgers locations on the central California coast will qualify for a five pound burger eating contest awarding $1000 to the winner.

2015 Knott’s Boysenberry pie contest

update April 17 The Coaster Guy has a contest report and gallery
OC Weekly has a slideshow
Michelle Lesco has a gallery
MouseSteps contest video
DapsMagic full contest video

The Orange County Register has an article and contest video

Parks and Cons has a contest video

The official top 5 | #6 – #12
1) Joey Chestnut 14 lbs. in 8 min
2) Miki Sudo 11.3
3) Michelle Lesco 10.5
4) Steve Hendry 9.5
5) Brian Dudzinski 9
6) Erik Lamkin 8.5
7) Jon Bello 7.5
8T) Mary Bowers 5
8T) David West
10) Antonio Perez 4.5
11) Jon Davis 3.5
12) Ian Rapport 2.5

Joey Chestnut has been announced as the winner with 14 pounds in 8 minutes.

The Orange County Register has an interview with Joey Chestnut.

Jon Bello will compete. (He recently moved to California)

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Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Michelle Lesco and Mary Bowers are listed as expected entrants in Saturday's World Boysenberry Pie-Eating Championship at Knott's Berry Farm. Erik Lamkin will also make his MLE debut.
Denio's Market in Roseville, CA will hold a corn dog eating contest on March 28 awarding $350 ($200 to the winner).
Registration will open today for Knott’s Boysenberry Festival World Pie Eating Championship at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA on March 28. Other new contests on the MLE schedule: The Denver Outlaws World Burrito Eating Championship on May 24 and the Meadowlands (NJ) Racing & Entertainment World Pork Roll-Eating Championship on June 20.
Erik "The ELectric" Lamkin ate 17 hot dogs in 5 minutes to win his first eating contest at the Spring Forward Festival in Escondido, CA yesterday.
The Festival of the Kite in Redondo Beach, CA will hold a hot dog on a stick eating contest March 8 awarding $200.
Island Soul Bistro in Lemon Grove, CA reports that Erik "The Electric" Lamkin finished a food challenge weighing 12.4 pounds in under 40 minutes.
The Appeal Democrat has an article about the move of Molly Schuyler to Yuba County, California.
Pizza Marketplace has an article about Big Mama's & Papa's Pizzeria. The southern California chain has added a container on top of 11 Smart Cars to transport its signature 54 inch pizza.
The San Joaquin Asparugus Festival will be held at the Stockton, CA Fairgrounds from April 17 to 19 after the downtown Asparagus Festival was terminated. An eating contest will be held at the event; no further details about the competition are currently available.
Fat City Bar and Café in Sacramento will hold a banana cream pie eating contest on March 2 awarding $500.
The USVA Tet Festival will hold a pho eating contest in Costa Mesa, CA this weekend awarding a large screen HDTV.
Kevin Ross has produced a video about last month's slider eating contest at the Dog Haus Biergarten in Pasadena, CA.
John Green finished the 8 pound "What the Pho?" challenge at Tasty Phở in Pinellas Park, FL. He is a member of the Seaford High School class of 1964, which would put his age around 70. IFBB Figure Competitor Sashli announced she was the first woman to finish the pho challenge at the Bamboo Cafe in Simi Valley, CA.
TMZ has a video interview with D. J. Fluker, an offensive lineman on the San Diego Chargers, about his competitive eating history. He once ate 65 nuggets at Chick-fil-A, but did not set the house record and thinks he could take on Takeru Kobayashi with training. He calls his former University of Alabama teammate Chance Warmack the biggest eater in the NFL, who once ate two Mugshots burger challenges according to a 2012 USA Today article.
Erik "The Electric" Lamkin has uploaded a video of him eating 25,000 calories over 12 or 13 hours. The Broken Yolk Ironman omelet challenge is part of the food eaten. Josie Mai has a video where she attempts 10,000 calories.
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