Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All Ohio eating challenges and contests in database)
A corned beef and cabbage eating contest at Fountain Square in Cincinnati on Sunday will award $100 to the winner.
The facebook page for By Golly's Bar & Grill announces that Joe LaRue set a record for the 2 pound burger challenge with a time of 7:26. The previous record was 18:36.
Joey Chestnut wins Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati bratwurst contest
update Sept 19 CoolSwoo5h has videos of the contest
update Fox19 has the top 4
1) Joey Chestnut 42 bratwurst in 10 minutes
2) Tim “Gravy” Brown 31.75
3) Juliet Lee 23.5
4) Aaron Osthoff 20
? Sean Mulcahey 12
Cincinnati.com also has an article WLWT has an article and slideshow
CincyChamber has a video
The bratwurst eating contest at Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati is expected to start at 3pm eastern. Joey Chestnut did interviews with WCPO, 700WLW and WLWT to promote the contest.
There will be two attempts at challenges which have never been completed today. Randy Santel will attempt the Ultimate Destroyer BBQ sandwich seen in the Kansas City episode of Man vs. Food and Scott Bickel will try to finish the 7 pound Dumpster burger at Cleats in Westlake, Ohio.
There is now another notable Mallory from Ohio in addition to Justine Bateman's character on Family Ties. In a column for the Bowling Green student newspaper about competitive eating, Amanda McGuire Rzicznek mentions that Mallory Roe, won $666 by eating 6 gyros in under an hour (gallery) at South Side 6.
The MLE facebook reports that Joey Chestnut, Tim Brown, Juliet Lee and David Solomon are expected to compete in the bratwurst contest at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati on Saturday.
Bizjournals.com reports that Joey Chestnut and 6 other top ten ranked IFOCE members will compete in the Pepto World Bratwurst Eating Championship in Cincinnati on Saturday.
Peta has a press release criticizing the Buffalo Wing Festival mentioning Sonya Thomas' victory in the wing eating contest (via Rhonda Evans) and This Dish is Veg has a blog entry finding fault with Cincinnati for holding a festival celebrating International Bacon Day with a picture of "Tiny" Tim Rauscheder competing in the bacon eating contest won by Mark Lyle.
IFOCE.com announces that registration for a bratwurst contest at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati on September 18 in Cincinnati will open tomorrow and registration for a moon pie contest at Lady Luck Caruthersville in southeast Missouri on October 16 will open Thursday. (Registration will probably also open soon for the cannoli eating contest at the San Gennaro Festival on September 16.)
Joe La Rue won the eating contest held at the Guinness Oyster Festival in Cincinnati.
Cleveland.com has an article about Scott Bickel and his competitive eating training regimen. Scott has started a facebook group to document his eating challenges and quest to qualify for the 2011 Nathan's finals.
Nicole Vlajkovich is the second woman (and 21st person overall) to complete the 5+ pound grilled cheese sandwich challenge at Melt Bar & Grilled in the Cleveland area.
The Plain Dealer has a blog entry about "Mushmouth" Mariano Pacetti, who competed in a weekly pizza eating contest on local Cleveland television in the 1970s. Pacetti now lives in Newnan, Georgia, home of Loren "Bubba" Yarbrough.
Boulevard Blast in West Chester TWP, Ohio (North Cincinnati area) will hold a hot wing eating contest this weekend. Heats will be held on August 13 & 14, the finals awarding $500 will take place on Sunday. The contest will be judged not by speed or amount, but by who sweats the latest after eating wings that increase in spiciness.
Flickr has a gallery of the "Competitive Eating Olympics" at last night's Lake County (Ohio) Captains game which required entrants to eat one food item (list) each innning. update The News-Herald has an article about the contest.
West Life News has a report on Bob Kuhn's victory in the Wing King of Cleveland. Chris "The Mad Greek" Abatsas was second with the margin of defeat less than an ounce.
The twitter for ESPN Cleveland reports that Bob "Killer" Kuhns repeated as Wing King of Cleveland in today's finals. Other finalists were the Mad Greek, Wing Assassin, Wags, Wing Blade and Bone Gobbler.
The Lake County (Cleveland-area) Captains will hold the "Captains Competitive Eating Olympics" on Wednesday, August 4 that will award 4 tickets to the Cleveland Indians Fan Cave to the winner. Competitors will receive one food item per inning that must be finished by the end of the inning to advance.
The Happy Dog in Cleveland will hold a hot dog eating contest tomorrow. Registration is $20.
Qualifiers for the Wing King of Cleveland will take place on Wednesdays in July at Cleveland-area Buffalo Wild Wings. "Tiny" Tim Rauscheder won the first qualifier.
The facebook for Melt Bar and Grill in Lakewood, OH reports that Christina Palangio was the 8th person (and first woman) to complete the five pound grilled cheese challenge. Her time was 21 minutes (Adam Richman needed 45 minutes on the Cleveland Man vs. Food. )
Cleveland.com has an article about "Tiny" Tim Rauscheder and Kevin "The Lion" Kordalski competing in a contest at the National Hamburger Festival in Akron on July 17.
Man vs. Food June 23, 2010 (Cleveland) episode links
Travel Channel episode guide
Restaurants
- Melt Bar & Grilled challenge – Melt Challenge 5 pound grilled cheese sandwich
Home Page | Facebook | Yelp
Page about the challenge | Online wall of fame displaying 9 finishers
Episode clip about the sandwich
Broken Headphones blog entry about the recording
Cleveland Scene blog entry about the challenge - Steve’s Gyros meal – Jumbo Gyro
Home Page | facebook | Yelp - Hot Sauce Williams meal – Polish Boy
Yelp | Citysearch
List of Cleveland / northeast Ohio eating challenges in the eatfeats database
Joe La Rue won the eating contest at Fountain Square in Cincinnati today by eating 12 coneys in 3 minutes. (contest video)
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