eating challenges
(All Maryland eating challenges and contests in database)
Man vs. Food October 29 (Baltimore) episode links
Travel Channel: episode guide | slideshow | side of the city video (Inner Harbor)
Restaurants
- Steak & Main challenge – 5 steaks (totalling 74 ounces)
Home Page | yelp
Page about challenge on restaurant’s web site
DelawareOnline blog entry about challenge
entry in Digital City’s list of the biggest steak challenges - Chap’s Charcoal Restaurant meal – pit beef
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp - Obrycki’s meal – crabs
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
List of Baltimore area eating challenges in the eatfeats database.
Man vs. Food October 21 (Washington, DC) episode links
Travel Channel – episode guide | slideshow
Restaurants
- Chick & Ruth’s Delly (Annapolis, MD) challenge – 6 pound shake and 1.5 lb. sandwich
Home Page | Yelp
Page about challenge on restaurant’s website
Blog entry by Will Millender about being the first person to complete the challenge
Hometown Annapolis report on the filming
Grubgrade review - Ben’s Chili Bowl
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
Washington Post obituary from October 9, 2009 about the death of Ben’s founder Ben Ali - Horace & Dickie’s Seafood Carryout meal – jumbo fish sandwich
Yelp | Metromix
List of Washington, DC area eating challenges in eatfeats database
List of Northern Virginia area eating challenges in eatfeats database
6 crabcakes in 2:42 called best crabcake performance
The Baltimore Sun has an article about the Phillips crabcake eating contest at the Maryland Seafood Festival. Walter Hughes won the contest by eating 6 crabcakes in 2:42.
Michelle Torres, director of marketing for Phillips Seafood Restaurants, said Hughes was the fastest crab-cake eater she had ever seen. The restaurant had sponsored four crab-eating contests in recent years, Torres said, and Hughes had outpaced all the other winners.
Sonya Thomas ate 46 crabcakes in 10 minutes to win the 2006 Phillips crabcake contest.
Man vs. Food in Washington, DC this weekend?
An entry under “Just Fans” on the Man vs. Food facebook wall by someone claiming to work for the show reports that the program will record in Washington, DC this weekend. The challenge will probably be the burger & shake challenge at Chick & Ruth Delly in Annapolis.
update The Saval Foods twitter reports that Man vs. Food will record at Chick’s & Ruth’s Delly on Sunday at 7:30.
DelawareOnline on The Great Steak Challenge
DelawareOnline has an article about “The Great Steak Challenge” offered by My Steak and Main in North East, Maryland which will be Adam Richman’s Baltimore-area challenge in an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food. An unnamed 110 pound Japanese woman is listed as one of the diners who completed the challenge.
Beer & Bourbon baked beans contest
The writer of the web page about the baked bean contest to be held at the Beer and Bourbon Festival at National Harbor, Maryland (suburban Washington, DC) appears ignorant that two of the world’s top competitive eaters are DC-area women:
NEW CONTESTS. Ladies – Do you have what it takes to be Ms. Bar-B-Cutie? Guys – can you handle the WORLD BBQ BEAN –EATING CHAMPIONSHIP? Practice, practice, practice and win big bucks and bragging rights!
10 steak challenges on Digital City
(From Man vs Food facebook) Digital City has a list of ten steak eating challenges located throughout the United States which concludes with the new challenge at Steak & Main in Maryland, which requires diners to eat five different types of steaks which total 74 ounces.
Possible 2008 Pete’s Grille pancake contest dates
Previous pancake eating contests held at Pete’s Grille in Baltimore has taken place on a Friday morning in the middle of November (2007 – November 16, 2005 – November 18) If the contest is held at the same time this year, the probable dates are either November 14 or 21. Previous contests have awarded $500 to both the top male and female competitors.