Upcoming Portland eating contests
Portland eating challenges
(All Portland eating challenges and contests in database)
The Big Eaters Club has a video of Stephanie Torres attempting the Progressive Challenge at the Mad Greek Deli in Portland.
Stephanie Torres will attempt to become the first woman to finish the Mad Greek Challenge at the Mad Greek Deli in Portland tomorrow. The meal consists of a 10 pound sandwich, a pound of fries and a 32 ounce drink.
The Big Eaters Club held a group "Quadzilla" Burger Challenge event at Skyline Burgers in Portland. Ryan "Max Carnage" Rodacker finished his burger in 7:59. "Honey Badger" finished hers in 14 minutes.
"Honey Badger" of the Portland Big Eaters Club has started a facebook page about her eating contests and challenges.
Stephanie "Honey Badger" Collingsworth of the Big Eaters Club ate 34 tacos in yesterday's contest at The One Horse Tavern in Gaston, OR, but reversed before five minutes elapsed, resulting in a victory for Markus Lunow (29 tacos). update Sept 27 A video of the contest is available
BigEatersClub.com is a new website based in Portland about northwestern eating challenges founded by Ryan "Max Carnage" Rodacker and Stephanie Collingsworth. (youtube channel)
OregonLive has Naader Reda's diary of his recent eating challenge road trip to Portland-area restaurants.
Aaron Wakamatsu has http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb4d7GCFzeM">produced a video about the spicy challenges and a video about eating challenges Naader Reda did in Oregon Memorial Day weekend.
Statesman Journal has an article about Naader Reda attempting a 11.8 pound pizza challenge at Church Street Pizza in Salem, OR. The pizzeria's facebook has pictures of the attempt. update May 29 Statesman Journal has a follow up article, which is currently the most popular on the website.
Voodoo Doughnut will hold an eating contest for Portland, Oregon mayoral candidates on Friday night. 17 candidates are expected to compete.
Injured Portland Trail Blazer Greg Oden will headline a Mardi Gras party in Corvallis, OR tonight that will hold a taco eating contest. (The rest of the Trail Blazers will be playing the Heat in Miami tonight.) (via Blazers Edge)
JCollins82 and jisalynn have videos of Joey Chestnut competing in a pizza eating contest at a Bite of Oregon in Portland.
The Forest Grove News Times has an article about Jonathan Kaiser who won the Tualatin (Portland area) crawfish eating contest on Saturday.
The eatingcontest twitter reports that Joey Chestnut defeated a team of 5 amateurs at Bite of Oregon, 32 slices (in 7 minutes) to 30. update Oregon Live has an article. update #2 The Tishendorfs have a gallery
1059TheBrew has details about a video contest to win a spot to compete against Joey Chestnut at the Bite of Oregon on Saturday.
Joey Chestnut at Bite of Oregon August 7
The facebook for the Bite of Oregon reports that Joey Chestnut will compete in a mini eating contest in Portland on Saturday, August 7. Contest signup will take place at the Bite of Oregon on August 6.
The Bite of Oregon is listed in the calendar on the Pepto Bismol facebook fan page along with the Austin Ice Cream Festival, The San Francisco Street Food Festival and the Buffalo Wing Festival. (No mention of an eating contest appears on the Street Food Festival’s website.)
Jess has set up a youtube page documenting her attempts at northern California and Portland, Oregon eating challenges at http://www.youtube.com/user/JiGsAwMoFo
In a bodybuilding.com forum thread, Ben Monson reports he completed the Big Foot Challenge at I Love Big Al's in Vancouver, Washington and received a prize package containing a 46 inch TV, a home theater system and a Playstation 3
The blog for Big Al's in Vancouver, Washington reports that no one has finished its seven pound "Big Foot Burger" challenge, which will award a prize package including a 46 inch television to the first person to complete it in less than an hour.
The prize package consisting of a 46 inch TV, a Sony home theater surround sound system and a Sony Playstation 3 that will be awarded to a finisher of a 10 pound burger at Big Al's in Vancouver, Washington is still available as of a Monday comment to a KATU article.
Natural007 (from Portland, OR) has posted the following twitter announcement:
Hotdog eating contest,$500 to the winner.Time is short. If your man or woman enough,get at me. Powermove007@yahoo.com / Northwesthotdogs.com
A bacon eating contest consisting of five rounds will be held in Portland on October 3. The final round will be bacon ice cream sundaes.
A calzone eating contest will be held today for four Portland, Oregon female local television news personalities.
Lucrative Washington state eating challenges past & present
Big Al’s in Vancouver, WA (north Portland, OR area) has a 10 pound burger challenge that will award a 46 inch TV, a Sony home theater surround sound system and a Sony Play Station 3 to a diner who completes it. It is not clear if the prize package will be awarded to the first finisher, the fastest finisher or if all finishers will be entered into a lottery.
One of the largest previous eating challenge payouts also occurred in Washington State. The Google News archive has a column about Mandy Brown, a school bus driver weighing 125 pounds, being the first to complete a meal billed as the world’s largest chicken fried steak at Thudpucker’s restaurant in Spokane in 1992. There were 850 previous unsuccessful attempts at the challenge before Ms. Brown finished it in 84 minutes and she received a prize of $1,200.
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