Upcoming eating contests
(All New York eating challenges and contests in database)
Registration is now open for the first new MLE contest of 2014: the World Chicken Spiedie Eating Championship at Tioga Downs in Nichols, NY on July 26.
The Village Voice has a preview of tomorrow's burger eating contest at Professor Thom's in Manhattan where teams of three will face off against Crazy Legs Conti.
Rocco's Pizza contest will take place in Brooklyn on June 1. (date on website is incorrect) According to Joel Podelsky, the prizes will be $700 / $300 / $150.
Rudi's in Patchogue, NY will hold a hot dog eating contest on June 21 awarding $750 ($500 to the winner).
Professor Thom's in NYC will hold a burger eating relay contest on May 28. Members of the top 3 teams will then face off against Crazy Legs Conti in a burger eating contest where Crazy Legs will receive a 20 patty burger and the other three will have a four patty burger.
A racehorse named after Joey Chestnut won a race at the Buffalo Raceway on Wednesday.
A program titled The Battle of the Big Eaters - World Championships was recorded in New York City today near Times Square. A woman representing Japan and a man representing Thailand faced off in a spaghetti eating contest. update May 10 Today's filming will take place on Randall's Island update May 11 It appears Molly Schuyler is representing the USA according to this Instagram video., Tomoko Miyake, Ayari Sato and Takuya Yamamoto are Japanese competitors. update May 12 The finals - USA v Japan are recording in Times Square today. It appears Stephanie Torres is on team USA.
Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown will hold the deep fried calf brain eating contest at Brain Bash at the Beach at the July 2 Brooklyn Cyclones game. The winner will receive the Femur of Doom and be crowned the zombie king for the day and lead the NYC Zombie Walk around the ballpark.
The New York Times has an article about "Famous Nathan", a documentary about Nathan Handwerker, founder of Nathan's Famous that will show this weekend at the TriBeCa Film Festival mentioning the founding of the hot dog eating contest in the early 1970s. (DNA Info article)
The Brooklyn Cyclones will hold a cereal eating contest as part of its Seinfeld night on July 5 (the 25th anniversary of the debut of the pilot in 1989). In other Seinfeld competitive eating news, Keith Hernandez commented on a woman eating the $25 D-Bat dog at last night's Mets-Diamondbacks game in Phoenix.
In an episode of Hulu's new supernatural stoner comedy web series Deadbeat, the ghost of deceased competitive eater Hiro Tamagachi (based on Takeru Kobayashi) wants to have the rabbi who received his stomach organ face off against his arch rival Johnny Praline in Oinky's hot dog eating contest near Times Square. (previous instances of a Mr. Praline in a comedy series)
The Brooklyn Cyclones will hold a brain eating contest on July 2 as part of the Zombie Takeover of Coney Island. "Top competitive eaters" are billed as participants, so some Nathan's finalists might compete.
The New York Cosmos have a video of Takeru Kobayashi competing (as "Busboy Kevin") against midfielder Peri Marošević in a chicken wing eating contest. More April 1 links: Buffalo, NY awarded competitive eating expansion team | Florida food truck to take over Nathan's Coney Island location and eating contest. update April 2 Yahoo! has a blog entry with more about the prank
The Village Voice has a gallery of the NYC Hot Sauce Expo which held several spicy eating contests this past weekend. Update April 1 Bon Appetit has a competitor report
NJ.com has a preview of this weekend's New York City Hot Sauce Expo, which will have several spicy eating contests, one of which will be a Carolina Reaper pepper eating contest officiated by Guinness World Records.
GaleryVideo has a video about last year's balut eating contest in New York City won by Wayne Algenio.
The "Bird Bowl" wing eating contest at the Locksmith Bar in Manhattan will award $200 to the winner Saturday.
GoErie.com has a report about competing in the eating contest for amateurs at the 2013 Buffalo Wing Festival by Patrick Broadwater, who was disappointed the contest was changed from a timed competition to the first to finish 25 wings.
The Alliance for Coney Island Winter Gala will hold a charity auction offering a Nathan's finals judgeship on February 13. George Shea will function as MC for the event.
Visa has posted a video of a wing eating contest where a winner of its "My Football Fantasy" competed against members of the Buffalo Bills. Jim Kelly served as MC.
Jerry Seinfeld visits Nathan’s, calls hot dog contest “disgusting”
In the most recent episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s web video series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, he travels to Coney Island with Todd Barry. While dining at Nathan’s (10:38 mark) they have the following conversation: (via Bensonhurst Bean)
JS: Have you ever seen that disgusting Nathan’s hot dog eating contest?
TB: I don’t understand why you would want to be good at that
JS: Well they dip the hot dog in the water
TB: Yeah
JS: The dryness is what slows down the consumption
TB: It prevents them from having 73 hot dogs in two minutes. Gotta wet em. All I can think about is what happens after.
JS: It must be just unbelievable. Joey Chestnut, right, I believe he is the champion.
TB: Oh, is that who it was? I knew it was a guy from Japan for a while.
JS: Kobayashi. Are you surprised that I know these names?
TB: Yeah, I have only watched it a few times.
JS: I don’t think I have ever seen it, and yet I know the names of the winners.
Joe Menchetti won yesterday's wing eating contest at the Hudson Valley Wing Bowl in Fishkill, NY. The first prize was $1047.
Kraig Urbik of the Buffalo Bills says he won a wing eating contest against a winner of Visa's My Football Fantasy contest with a total of about 25 wings in 5 minutes. The contest might appear in a Super Bowl commercial. Punter Brian Moorman has some pictures. update Jan 13 Rochester.twcnews.com has an article and video.
The Rochester Home Page reports that Mikal Krueger will compete in a wing eating contest against members of the Buffalo Bills on Saturday after he won Visa's "My Football Fantasy" contest.
The qualifier circuit for the Hudson Valley Wing Bowl has been posted. The finals in Fishkill, NY on January 25 will award $1047 to the winner.
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