United States eating challenges and contests category

The St. John's Dining facebook has a gallery of the Nathan's hot dog eating contest held on Tuesday.
The finals of the Wing King of Cleveland on May 4 will award an ATV. Qualifiers will take place on April 12 & 19. A video of "Tiny" Tim Rauscheder winning a qualifier on April 5 has been posted to youtube. (video via crawfish twitter)
Pirate's Well in Lake Park, FL (Palm Beach area) will hold a wing eating contest on April 27 awarding $500 to the winner. (via email)
A wing eating contest awarding $1000 ($500 to the winner) will be held at the ThunderFest in Centreville, VA on May 28. Qualifiers will take place at northern Virginia Hooters restaurants starting April 21 in Chantilly, VA.
Bradford Schmidt has posted a report on last month's TooJay’s World Class Corned Beef Eating Championship held in Palm Beach Gardens, FL that originally appeared in Florida Weekly.
The Tamalefest in San Antonio on April 17 will hold tamale eating contests awarding $500 to the top male and female tamale eaters.
The University of New Mexico student newspaper has a list of Albuquerque eating challenge and a report on an attempt at the seven pound sopapilla challenge at Sadie's.
ProJo.com reports that Rick's Roadhouse in Providence, RI will hold a wing eating contest on April 30 awarding $500 to the winner. Qualify by eating 6 Wings from Hell before April 16.
Columbia, Missouri eating challenges are the subject of the cover story of the current issue of Vox Magazine. The issue also has an interview with Adam Richman and a list of competitive eating tips.
Tuscon Citizen reports that Lindy's on 4th, famous for its 3 pound OMG burgers, will appear on tonight's episode of Meat and Potatoes on the Food Network (10 pm eastern)
Matt Stonie announces that he was the first person to finish the pho challenge at Pho King Way in Fort Worth, TX, which awards a prize of $1,000.
Jacob Larry won $1,000 at yesterday's hot dog eating contest held at Bluefusion Fun Center in Marion, Ohio.
In a WBNG article, Joe La Rue says he has retired from the pancake eating contest at the Central New York Maple Festival in Marathon, NY. Joe attended this year's festival despite his retirement.
Patch.com reports that Matthew Holowicki ate 17 hot dogs in 8 minutes at a hot dog eating contest at Fishbone's in St. Clair Shores and won $500 and a pair of tickets to the Detroit Tigers home opener.
La Tolteca in Phoenix will hold a torta eating contest on April 14 awarding $300 to the winner.
Dig Baton Rouge has an interview with Adrian Morgan.
The MLE facebook announces that Crazy Legs Conti, Adrian Morgan and Nate Biller are expected to compete in the crawfish eating contest at the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans a week from tomorrow. According to the eatfeats database, this will be the first meeting for Conti & Morgan since the controversial Nathan's qualifier in Escondido, CA.
AsparagusFest.com has a list of expected entrants in the April 16 deep fried asparagus eating contest. Joe Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti are expected to compete.
Dave Brunelli became the second person (and first man) to complete the Drinker's taco challenge earlier this month by eating 33 tacos in under 13 minutes at all three Philadelphia-area Drinker's locations in less than a week.
Patrick Michles has an article about Lester Tucker's quest to win pickled quail egg eating contest for the 16th year in a row.
Johnnie Excel has a blog entry and video about Sunday's Maki Madness sushi eating tournament at RA Sushi in Huntington Beach, CA.
A page on AmericanAirlinesCenter.com lists Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas, Pat Bertoletti & Bob Shoudt as expected entrants in the Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship rescheduled for April 13.
Josh H has started a blog about Michigan eating challenges at http://yoopervsfood.blogspot.com/
A hot wing eating contest at the Southern Hotwing Festival in Memphis April 16 will award $500 to the winner.

Kobayashi on Nathan’s 2010/11 in The Block Magazine

The Block Magazine has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi where he discusses the events at the 2010 Nathan’s finals in more depth than he previously has. Kobayashi’s participation in the 2011 contest appears unlikely:

Even if I were to win the competition [2011 Nathan’s], I don’t think I would feel good about participating in an event held by an organization that has such little respect for me. It wouldn’t be any fun.

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