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Joey Chestnut ate 40 chicken tenders in 5 minutes to defeat two teams of four celebrities at Fanatics Fest in New York City today.
Sixpoint Brewery in Brooklyn will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 4 awarding tickets to the July 6 Yankees vs. Mets game.
TWU Local 100 has a post about Eric "Badlands" Booker recent appearance on America's Got Talent. He recently retired from his day job as a New York City subway conductor.
San Antonio's in Manhattan will hold a hot dog eating contest on June 22 awarding $333 to the winner.
Molly Schuyler ate 19 meatballs in 4 minutes to defend her title at Millie's of Staten Island. Wayne Algenio was third. updateDan Kennedy was runner up with 18.
Millie's meatball eating contest will take place in Staten Island, NY on March 8. Last year's contest awarded $1750. Molly Schuyler is expected to defend her title.
San Antonios in New York City will hold a hot dog eating contest on March 16 awarding $333 to the winner.
Raina Huang will compete in a popcorn eating contest at Clinton Hall in New York City on February 21. Casey Webb of "Man v Food" will host.
Tampa resident Miki Sudo, billed as an Upper East Side native, is included in a New York Post list of New Yorkers who broke a Guinness record in 2024. Her total of 51.5 hot dogs on July 4 was the all time best for a woman in Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.
Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle has produced a video about his first Major League Eating contest, the Wild Turkey 81 turkey eating contest in New York City on Thanksgiving Eve 2011. He says he will never sign another Major League Eating document again.
Food Challenge News has an article about the mysterious disappearance of extreme food challenger Chuck Saragossi, whose "Chuck from the Bronx" youtube channel stopped updating without any retirement announcement in 2016.
A sleeping woman was set on fire while on a subway car at the Coney Island subway station at Surf & Stillwell. The location is adjacent to the site of Nathan's Famous July 4 hot dog eating contest.
The Japanese television program Dekamori Hunter has uploaded a video of Ryuchiro Nabeshima taking on Bob "Notorious BOB" Shoudt in a rib eating contest held at Times Square in New York City.
Carlos Rodon is the New York Yankees starting pitcher for tonight's World Series game versus the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2014 after being drafted by the Chicago White Sox, he discussed his competitive eating fandom in an episode of the Cespedes Family Barbecast podcast.
PR News Online has an interview with Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest co-founder Mortimer Matz, who turned 100 in July.
Robert McGee ate 84 pierogies in 5 minutes to win the first prize of $500 in the eating contest at Pierozek in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
Molly Schuyler ate 46 sausages in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $1,000 in Wednesday's bratwurst eating contest at Clinton Hall in Manhattan.
Pierozek in Brooklyn will hold a pierogie eating contest on October 8 awarding $500 to the winner and $300 to the runner up.
The Last Stop in The Bronx will hold a wing eating contest on August 29 awarding $500 to the winner.
2024 Nathan’s Famous mens finals
| 1st | 58 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | personal best |
| 2nd | 53 | Geoffrey Esper | personal best |
| 3rd | 52 | James Webb | personal best, UK Commonwealth record |
| 4th | 51.75 | Nick Wehry | personal best |
| 5th | 46 | Takuya Yamamoto | best Japanese result since Kobayashi |
| 6th | 43 | Ricardo Corbucci | Latino record |
| 7th | 38.5 | Sean “The Mouth” Yeager | |
| 8th | 33 | Gideon Oji | |
| 9th | 32 | Max Stanford | |
| 10th | 30 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 11th | 28.75 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 12th | 28 | George Chiger | |
| 13th | 27.5 | William Lyon | |
| 14th | 23 | Radim Dvoracek |
Badlands Booker has defended his chugging championship. One of the other competitors had a “reversal” which appears to rival Sloth in the Wing Bowl as one of the greatest reversals in competitive eating history.
Dutch Mazz is also doing a live video that will hopefully have clearer audio than Gigi’s.
Miki Sudo sets Nathan’s Famous women’s record
| 1st | 51 | Miki Sudo | new Nathan’s womens record |
| 2nd | 37 | Mayoi Ebihara | Japanese women’s record |
| 3rd | 23.5 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 4th | 14.5 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 5th | 13 | Tandra Childress | |
| 6th | 12 | Katie Prettyman | |
| 7th | 8.75 | Jocelyn Young | |
| 8th | 8 | Rubianne Garcia | |
| 9th | 7.4 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | |
| 10th | 7.25 | Mary “I Love ’em HOT!” Bowers | |
| 11th | 7 | Crystal Ocampo | |
| 12th | 6 | Ellen Straub | |
| 13th | 5.5 | Elizabeth Salgado | |
| 14th | 5.25 | Julie Goldberg |
Gigi’s Time is running a livestream
The New York Mets ballpark has not held a Nathan's hot dog qualifier since 2019, but it will hold a Premio sausage eating contest tomorrow. The winner will throw the first pitch for the game and the top 3 will receive Amex gift cards.
Grub Street has a behind the scenes look at the decision by Shea Communications decision to lock Joey Chestnut of the Nathan's Famous for endorsing Impossible Foods plant-based frankfurters.
The July 4 weather prediction for Coney Island is currently predicted to be 76F high / 58F low with a 44% chance of PM showers.
Crazy Legs Conti wrote a column for Gothamist about his 23 year competitive eating career and the possibility of retirement. He says there will be four Nathan's Famous wild card spots awarded this year.
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