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Dan Kennedy wins Taste of Hamburg-er Festival eating contest

Results from yesterday’s professional burger eating contest at Taste of Hamburg-er Festival in Hamburg, PA (10 minute contest)

1st 20 Dan “killer” Kennedy
2nd 19 Molly Schuyler
3rd 16 Andy “The Ice Man” Puhl
4th 13 Sean “The Mouth” Yeager
5th 5 Andrew “The Tomato Hater” Maoury

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Brandon "The Titanium Jaw" Macy ate 50 wings in 10 minutes to win yesterday's amateur wing eating contest at the Buffalo Wing Festvial. This year's amateur contest did not award a spot in the MLE competition.

2022 Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating contest

2022 Buffalo Buffet Bowl

George Chiger is running a live video

Official results Part 1 | Part 2 The second column is the number of pounds eaten. The contest was terminated after 6 minutes.

1st 5 3m29s $1,000.00 Geoffrey Esper Oxford, MA
2nd 5 4m44s $500.00 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut San Jose, CA
3rd 5 5m55s $250.00 Nick Wehry Torrington, CT
4th 5 5m56s Miki Sudo Las Vegas, NV
5th 5 6 min Gideon Oji Morrow, GA
6th 3.25 6 min Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas Orillia, ON, Canada
7th 2.72 6 min “Buffalo” Jim Reeves Buffalo, NY
8th 2.63 6 min Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman
9th 2.58 6 min George Chiger Pocono Pines, PA
10th 1.93 6 min William “Wild Bill” Myers Breinigsville, PA
11th 1.32 6 min Rene Rovtar

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Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Gideon Oji, George Chiger, Ronnie Hartman, Darrien Thomas, Bill Myers, Jim Reeves and Rene Rovtar are expected to compete in Saturday's Buffalo Buffet Bowl and Sunday's wing eating contest at the Buffalo Wing Fest. An amateur wing eating contest will be held on Saturday which has previously awarded its winner a spot in Sunday's wing eating contest.
The Weiner Nationals at Randolph County Raceway will hold a hot dog eating contest in Moberly, MO on September 4 awarding $1000 to the winner
Tacos Locos in San Angelo, TX will hold a taco eating contest on September 16 awarding $500 to the winner.
Wet n Wild Hawaii will hold a pizza eating contest in Kapolei, HI on September 5 awarding prize packages valued at $1865/$1025/$350.
Mushroom eating contests at the Kennett Square, PA Mushroom Festival on September 10 will award $1000/$750/$500 to professional eaters, $500/$300/$100 to amateurs.

Geoff Esper wins Colorado State Fair slopper eating contest

The Bailey Farms pepper eating contest at the NC Hot Sauce Festival & Contest will award $1,000 to the winner on September 10 in Oxford, NC.
A crab eating contest awarding $1000/$500/$300 will take place in Bend, Oregon on August 27.
Fox59.com reports Joey Chestnut ate over 29 servings of popcorn in under 8 minutes at tonigh't Indianapolis Indians game to set a new world record. The servings had a volume of 24 ounces.
NigerianDayinHouston.com will hold a rice eating contest on October 2 awarding $500 to the winner.
WRKR.com has a post about Nathan Klein's restauarant challenge tour of the Michigan Upper Peninsula.
WHTR.com reports Joey Chestnut will be doing a series of dollar menu challenges at tonight's Indianapolis Indians game. On August 23 he will attempt to set a record for eating popcorn at the ballpark.

Fatality at Peter’s Clam Bar eating contest

Newsday reports that Island Park Fire Department volunteer Michael Fischer passed away after suffering a cardiac arrest while attending yesterday’s clam eating contest at Peter’s Clam Bar in Island Park, NY. The article does not mention if he participated in the eating competition. This is not the first eating contest fatality associated with a New York first responder. In April 2017, Caitlin Nelson, daughter of a Port Authority policeman who perished in the 9/11 attacks, choked to death during a pancake eating contest at Sacred Heart University. update News12 reports that the incident happened while Fischer was helping set up for the contest.

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WeAreGreenBay.com reports that Blaize Koon won the burger eating contest at Burger Fest in Seymour, WI for the 11th year in a row.
ColumbusNavigaator has a list of central Ohio restaurant challenges.
Fox46.com has a segment about the Puckerbutt Pepper Company, producer of the Carolina Reaper, the record holder for the world's spiciest pepper. The business will be featured on an upcoming episode of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe.
Gus's Crab Shack will hold a corn eating contest in Port Penn, DE August 27 awarding $1000 to the winner.
CityBeat.com reports Joey Chestnut will do a hot fudge cake eating exhibition at Frisch's Big Boy in FairFax, OH as part of the restaurant's 75th anniversary.
Peter's Clam Bar will hold a clam eating contest in Island Park, NY on August 14 awarding thousands in prizes.
The Schuyler Corn & Car Fest will hold a corn eating contest in Utica, NY on August 13 awarding $1000 to the winner.
The top 3 from Saturday's sausage eating contest at Brat Days in Sheboygan, WI: 1) Frank Wach 16 brats 2) Blaize Koon 15 3) Blake Hay 13 (gallery)
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