Upcoming eating contests
(All New York eating challenges and contests in database)
Badlands Booker wins San Gennaro cannoli contest in eat-off
update Sept 17 Lagalagny has a video of the entire contest
update Sept 15 Larell Marie has a gallery
update Sept 14 Gothamist has a blog entry
The results
1) Eric “Badlands” Booker 22 after 2 cannoli eat-off
2) Yasir Salem 21
3) Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle 18
4) Crazy Legs Conti 17
5) Larell Marie Mele 15
6) Timothy “Tomahawk” Connelly 11
7) Crescenzo Rillo 8
The LJessie has a video of the end of the contest
The Rake and Herald has a contest report
Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will serve as a judge.
The MLE facebook page still lists the contest date as Friday, September 14.
1998 World Trade Center qualifier clips in Footlong documentary
Footlong is a documentary (full movie) about “the social impact of the hot dog on American Culture” that opens with coverage of the 1998 Nathan’s finals (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3) including interviews with George Shea, Gersh Kuntzman, Ed Krachie, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and defending champion Hirofumi Nakajima along with brief snippets of the 1998 Nathan’s qualifier held in Windows on the World on top of the World Trade Center.
Bay Burger in Sag Harbor, NY will hold a lobster roll eating contest on Sunday awarding $250 ($50 registration fee).
Registration for the cannoli eating contest at the San Gennaro Festival in Manhattan on September 14 (or September 13 according to the festival website) will open on Monday. update Sept 10 Registration will apparently open at 4pm eastern today. The date is still listed as both September 13 and September 14. update Sept 11 Registration is now open.
Registration for the Chef One Dumpling Eating Contest at Smorgasburg in Brooklyn on September 15 closes today. As in previous years, the contest will pay out $1000/$500/$300 to the top 3 men and women. A contest will award $100 to a person who guesses the total for the male or female winner correctly.
Hold the Soup, a documentary about the 2005 Ruthie & Gussie's matzo ball eating contest, can be viewed on youtube. Don Lerman, Ron Koch, Brian Seiken, Badlands Booker and Crazy Legs Conti are interviewed.
Joe Menchetti reports that Jamie McDonald won the 5.5 burrito eating contest at American Burrito in New City, NY and then finished a bonus burrito after the contest to win a total prize of $800. update Jamie says his time for both burritos was 11:15 update #2 NewsDay has a gallery (which does not list the result)
Joey Chestnut ends Sonya Thomas’ WingFest streak at 5
update Sep 3
The festival facebook, Peter Dunn and Legend Larry’s have galleries.
Brian Seiken has videos: Contest | Interview with Badlands Booker | post-contest trays
jkoszcela also has a video.
Dan Gronkowski of the Cleveland Browns attended the contest
Gersh Kuntzman has an article for the New York Daily News about the contest.
The Daily Mail asks if Sonya Thomas has lost her bite
update 7:53 The Buffalo News reports that Sonya Thomas was the runner up with 6.36 lb. Joey Chestnut’s poundage was 7.61. With Mike Landrich’s comment below and Brian Subich’s claim he was 5th & Badland Booker was 6th, the top 5 is:
1) Joey Chestnut 7.61 lb new record
2) Sonya Thomas 6.36 lb 5 contest winning streak ended
3) Juliet Lee
4) Jim Reeves
5) Brian Subich
6) Eric “Badlands” Booker
update 6:04 Sonya Thomas and Juliet Lee apparently both finished in the top 3 according to the Wingfest twitter, but does not list their order. I have not seen any other placings besides the winner.
update The festival twitter announces Joey Chestnut won with a record total of 191 wings. This breaks Sonya Thomas’ five year winning streak at the contest.
The contest page on the festival website has not been updated with the 2012 field; it still lists last year’s competitors.
The Buffalo News has a list of seven tips for competitive eaters from Sonya Thomas.
Patch has more on the five pound burrito eating contest to be held at American Burrito in New City, NY on Monday that will award $300 to the winner, who will have the option of eating a second five pound burrito after the contest that will result in a $500 bonus if it is completed or a $100 penalty if it is not finished. Jamie McDonald is expected to compete.
Entrants from area colleges are being accepted for the College Wing Eating Contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival this weekend.
The balut (duck embryo) eating contest held in Brooklyn on Saturday might be the most publicized prizeless contest since the 2006 Nathan's finals. (NY Times City Room preview | Yahoo! Postgame | competitor blog entry | Brooklyn Paper | Yahoo! Philippines gallery | ITN (gets winner and date wrong). Wayne Algenio, top amateur at the recent Dani's House of Pizza contest, won the contest with a total of 18 balut in 5 minutes.
Today is the 100th anniversary of a New York Times article about an eating contest where the winner, Alderman Frank J. Dotzler, ate 9.25 pounds of steak, 19 rolls and 11 cups of coffee. (via @1912_NYT)
American Burrito in New City, NY will hold a burrito eating contest on Labor Day awarding $500 to the first person to finish a 5 pound burrito.
Takeru Kobayashi eats 110 bunless hot dogs at New York State Fair
update Aug 27 CBSNews.com has a video
DMagazine reports that Kobayashi will compete in a hot dog eating contest at the Texas State Fair in Dallas on October 16.
Joey Chestnut called Kobayashi’s sponsor “nasty Hoffman crap dogs” and then engaged in a twitter feud with the sausage maker: thread 1 | thread 2 The Sports Hernia has a blog entry wondering if Shea Communications authorized Joey’s tweets.
update 6:58 Syracuse.com article and gallery about the exhibition
update 6:04 Kobayashi unofficial total is 110 hot dogs.
update 5:55 A picture of the stage
Basketball player Dwayne “Pearl” Washington will serve as celebrity counter
Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to eat 100 hot dogs without buns at the New York State Fair in Syracuse this evening to set a new record. (The only bunless hot dog record I am aware of it Lynda Kuerth’s mark of eating 23 frankfurters in 3:10 in 1977 recognized by Guinness, which stopped maintaining speed eating records in the early 1990s.) Video of Kobayashi at the NY State Fair.
Stephanie "Serpentina" Torres will MC a "brain" eating contest held during Monster Ball on Coney Island Saturday night.
Jamie McDonald reports he won the pizza eating contest at Dani's House of Pizza in Queens today. Dave Brunelli was the runner-up and Pat Philbin was third. update Aug 23 StephieMarie101 has videos: Part 1 | Part 2
ZoominUK has a mini-documentary about world competitive eating with footage from a mango eating contest in Inida, the Buffalo Wing Festival, the Nathan's finals and a nettle eating competition in England.
A press release announces that Sonya Thomas, Eric "Badlands" Booker and George Shea will be inducted into the Buffalo Wing "Hall of Flame" on August 31.
Registration for the 2012 Chef One Dumpling eating contest to be held at Smorgasburg in Brooklyn on September 15 is not now open. As in previous years, the contest will pay out $1000 / $500 / $300 to the top three male and female entrants.
Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to set a record for most bunless Hofmann hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes at the New York State Fair in Syracuse on August 26.
The 2012 Chef One Dumpling contest will take place on September 15 at Smorgasburg in Brooklyn. Previous years' contests have awarded $1800 to both men and women.
Registration for the contests to be held at the Buffalo Wing Festival on September 1 and 2 will open tomorrow.
Dani's House of Pizza in Queens, NY will hold a pizza eating contest on August 18 awarding $1250 ($750 to the winner). Qualifiers will be held on August 4 and 18.
Broadway World reports that the Fest of San Gennaro will hold its cannoli eating contest on September 13 in Little Italy in lower Manhattan.
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