Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All District of Columbia eating challenges and contests in database)
2012 Taste of DC Chili Eating Championship
update Oct 16 Larell Marie and In the Capital have galleries.
IFOCE.com has a post-contest interview with Tim Janus
update 5:04 The official top 5
1) Tim “Eater X” Janus 2 gallons in 6 minutes, ties record
2) Bob Shoudt 1.92, first finish ahead of Joey Chestnut since April 2011 Wingstop contest
3) Joey Chestnut 1.87, first finish outside top 2 since Wingstop contest
4) Sonya Thomas 1.67
5) Juliet Lee 1.25
Mike Longo reports he won $250 at a hot wing eating contest held at the Capitol Lounge in Washington, DC tonight.
Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas, Tim Janus, Bob Shoudt and Juliet Lee are listed as expected entrants in Sunday's chili eating contest at Taste of DC.
Taste of DC will hold a chili eating contest for active military members only on Sunday with a purse of $1,500.
Registration is now open for the Ben's Chili Bowl eating contest to be held at Taste of DC on October 7.
Mike Longo announces he tied with Jay Gorman at the hoagie eating contest at the H Street Festival in Washington, DC today. They both ate 6.5 sandwiches in 15 minutes.
Ben’s Chili Bowl’s World Chili Eating Championship at Taste of DC on October 7. A qualifier for amateurs will take place on October 6.
The Taste of DC expects Joey Chestnut to defend his title at its chili eating contest. (date of contest not given)
The H Street Festival in Washington, DC will hold a hoagie eating contest on September 15 awarding $200 to the winner. Professionals are apparently welcome.
2012 Z Burger contest coverage
- The Prices do DC blog entry
- AU Ambasassdors blog entry
- WUSA9 gallery
- WJLA gallery
- NBCWashington video
- AFP news video
- News coverage videos on Z Burgers youtube page
The Washingtonian has an interview with Dr. Robynne Chutkan, an gastroenterologist at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital about the negative health consequences of competitive eating. (The article says the women's Nathan's finals lasted 45 minutes when the actual duration was 10 minutes. )
Northern Virginia Magazine on Sonya Thomas
Northern Virginia Magazine has the most in-depth article about Sonya Thomas seen in quite some time (via Washington Post State of NoVa blog) Some observations from the article:
- Sonya declines discussion about a possible marriage to a Mr. Thomas.
- She says that she has to pay her own travel expenses including a trip to New York City for the Nathan’s finals in 2011 which consumed most of her $10,000 prize. (Travel expenses for finalists are supposedly paid by Nathan’s)
- The Jacksonville, AR Wing Ding is listed as a possible future contest site, but the entire festival was cancelled.
- The article includes a behind the scenes look at Ben’s Chili Bowl contest held in October
“Furious” Pete defends Z-Burger crown
update #2 Yahoo! has an article from AFP
update Mike Longo has the top 5:
1) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 15
2) Dale Boone 13
3) Joe Menchetti 10
4) Mike Longo 9.75
5) Jerry Reese 8
Mike Martinez reports that “Furious” Pete Czerwinski has defended his Z-Burger title with a total of 15 burgers eaten.
ZBurgerContest.com announces that Z Burger in Washington, DC will hold a burger eating contest on July 3 awarding $2250 in cash ($1000 to the winner) and $2250 in Z-Burger Food Cards.
“Strasburger” debuts at Nationals home opener
The “Strasburger” made its debut at yesterday’s Washington Nationals home opener (it will not be available at all home games). The 8 pound burger named in honor of pitcher Stephen Strasburg weighs 8 pounds, costs $59 and has 8,000 to 10,000 calories. The second Strasburger ever purchased was reportedly finished by a two person team. (There are no listed prizes or official recognition for a sole finisher.)
Other ballpark eating challenges:
- Texas Rangers Two foot long hot dog weiging 2.5 pounds total
- Lake County (OH) Captains – “Moby Dick” three pound seafood sandwich
- West Michigan Whitecaps – The Fifth Third burger, which appeared on Man vs. Food returns for another year.
The DC Sports Bog reports that an eight pound "StrasBurger", named in honor of pitcher Stephen Strasburg, will be available at Washington National games. (via HardBallTalk)
"Large Todd" from Columbia, MD defeated defending champion Jamie Jill in the 106.7 The Fan Wing Bowl DC finals held at the Hard Times Cafe in Springfield, VA last night.
Two letters to the editor of the Washington Post criticize the recent article about area eating challenges.
The Washington Post has a list of eating challenges in Washington, DC and northern Virginia. Sonya Thomas is listed as the sole finisher of the BGR challenge burger even though Brad Sciullo finished it a Washington Wizards game last year. (gallery)
McFadden's in Washington, DC will hold a fried pickle eating contest as part of Jersey Shore theme party on February 16. "The Unit" from MTV's Jersey Shore will attend the party.
The finals of the 2012 Washington, DC area Wing Bowl will take place on March 1 and award $2,500. Qualifiers will be held at Hard Times Cafes throughout February starting in Springfield, VA on Thursday.
A Washington Post blog has a gallery of the staff attempting to eat the 15+ pound challenge burger from BGR. The Washington Post will have an article about local food challenges on February 17.
Taste of DC Ben’s Chili Bowl contest
update Oct 13 Travel Seminar has a gallery from the chili eating contest held at A Taste of DC last Sunday.
update Oct 11 Ben’s Chili Bowl has 8 videos, including interviews with Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas.
update Oct 10 #2 NBC Washington and MyFoxDC have videos and DC.Eater.com has a gallery. The Washington Post calls fourth place finisher Sonya Thomas the runner-up.
update Oct 10 The rest of the results have been posted. Brian Seiken has a contest video and interviews with Sonya Thomas and Juliet Lee. Mix 107.3 also has a contest video.
update 11:24 WTOP has an article and gallery.
update 2:05 WJLA has a gallery
update 1:35 Melissa Savoy has the top 4
1) Joey Chestnut 2 gallons
2T) Tim Janus 1.5 gallons
2T) Bob Shoudt 1.5 gallons
4) Sonya Thomas 1.25 gallons
update 1:30 Joshua R Hicks reports that Joey Chestnut won the contest with a total of 2 gallons of chili (16 pounds).
The contest is expected to start at 12:35 eastern. Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas, Bob Shoudt, Juliet Lee, Micah Collins, Crazy Legs Conti, Brian Subich, Maria “Edible”, Brian Dudzinski, Bill Myers, Brian Seiken, Andrew Kossuth, Tim Connelley (amateur) and Andrew Petrick (amateur) are expected to compete.
I think this will be the first IFOCE non-qualifier contest on the east coast between Palm Beach and Atlantic City since the funnel cake eating contest at Kings Dominion in Virginia in May 2009.
In a Washingtonian interview, Sonya Thomas said that she thinks it will take 15 pounds or more to win Sunday's chili eating contest at A Taste of DC. She also said that she has no plans to retire. update WMAL has a radio interview of Sonya Thomas about the chili contest.
The Washingtonian interviewed Joey Chestnut about competing in Sunday's chili eating contest at the Taste of DC Festival. (An interview with Sonya Thomas will be posted tomorrow.)
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