Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All Texas eating challenges and contests in database)
Tamu.247sports.com has an article about Jermaine Eluemenor's victory in the 2015 hot chicken eating contest at the 2015 Music City Bowl that was motivated by a championship belt prize. The London-born Texas A & M offensive lineman hopes to be selected in this weekend's NFL draft. update Apr 29 Eluemenor was selected by the Baltimore Ravens
Clayboy's BBQ Pitstop in Groves, TX will hold a crawfish eating contest on April 15 awarding $500 to the winner.
2017 Nathan’s San Antonio qualifier
update KSAT and FoxSports Ohio have videos. KingCarb has a video breakdown.
1) Juan Neave 22.5 (“Juanito wants Food” instagram)
2) Nate Biller 21
3) Steve Schuster 19
1W Kassie Zapata 11
Steve Schuster, Nate Biller and Kassie Zapata are expected to compete.
The MLE twitter announces that the chili eating contest that was to have been held this afternoon at the Spirit of Texas Festival in College Station, TX will not take place today.
Carmen Cincotti, Gideon Oji, Adrian Morgan, Nate Biller, Alex Perez and Robert McKinney are expected to compete in tomorrow's chili eating contest at the Spirit of Texas Festival in College Station, TX.
The Fulton (TX) Oysterfest will hold an eating contest for men on March 4 awarding $200/$100/$50. A women's contest on March 5 will award the same amounts.
Houston Astro Jeff Bagwell was just announced as a new member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 2007, the IFOCE website CompetitiveEatingNews posted an article falsely claiming that Bagwell would appear in a list of performance enhancing drug users in a report commissioned by MLB.
The Hops n Hot Sauce Festival will hold a pepper eating contest this weekend in Houston awarding $500 to the winner.
The Spirit of Texas Festival World’s Largest Chili Eating Championship in College Station, TX has been added to the MLE schedule on March 4 and will award $2000/$1000/$600/$300/$100. Registration opens January 12.
Steven Schuster attempted the Don Juan Taco at Juan in a Million in Austin on NBC's First Look last night.
MLE's contest page has been updated with the World Chili Eating Challenge in Orlando on February 18, 2017. Registration will open December 9. update There will also be a chili eating contest at the Spirit of Texas Fest in College Station, TX on March 4.
City Journal has an account of the Amarillo Opera's meal at the Big Texan where a Croatian tenor attempted the 72 ounce steak challenge.
Statesman.com has a preview of Yasir Salem competing in the Austin Tour de Donut bike race/eating contest on November 13.
Amarillo high school tortilla eating contest results in school board meeting
Amarillo.com reports that a tortilla eating contest held at a Amarillo High School pep rally has resulted in a meeting of the Amarillo Independent School District Board of Trustees:
Last week, there was a “fiesta-themed†pep rally at Amarillo High School prior to its football game against Caprock High School, a school with a predominantly Hispanic student body. The rally caused a stir on social media.
At the pep rally there was a tortilla-eating contest, and later that night things escalated on social media, where initial claims were made that students were throwing tortillas at the pep rally as well as at the football game.
It was later determined that no tortillas were actually thrown.
Documentarian Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) MCed a rat eating contest at the Fantastic Fest film festival in Austin yesterday to promote his new movie, Rats.
Amarillo.com has a report on the Big Texan's plans to move to a new location in east Amarillo and then build a Branson, MO style "entertainment village" around the new site.
2016 Lewisville tamale contest
update Results Part 1 | Part 2
1) Adrian Morgan 63
2) Juan Rodriguez 56
3) Josh Miller 50
4) David Schuster 36.5
5) Nate Biller 33
6T) Cameron Foote 21
6T) Clint Grose 21
8) Wade Peck 20
9) Alex Perez 17
10) Mark Poland 8.5
Miki Sudo was expected to compete
Nate Biller and Alex Perez appeared on Good Morning Texas yesterday
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GuideLive has an interview with Alex "Moose" Perez, who replaced Brian Seiken at the bottom spot in the MLE top 50, about competing in the tamale contest in Lewisville, TX Saturday.
A movie titled Puke and Explode, described as "a gala event of competitive eating dedicated to both gastro excess and grotesque edibles as contestants devour the most mortifying morsels imaginable" will debut at the Fantastic Fest in Austin later this month.
Boyert Shooting Center in Katy, TX will hold a hot dog eating contest on September 17 awarding a firearm to the winner.
Multichannel.com reports that the Food Network will produce 6 episodes of Ginormous Food, a program about restaurants' oversized meals starring comedian Josh Denny. The pilot episode featuring San Antonio eateries was televised on July 22.
Las Palapas will hold a burrito eating contest in San Antonio on August 27 awarding $1000/$250/$150. Qualifiers will be held on August 13 and 20.
The field for the tamale eating contest in Lewisville, TX on September 24 has been posted: Miki Sudo, Adrian Morgan, Michelle Lesco, Erik Denmark, Juan Rodriguez, Josh Miller, Steve Schuster, Nate Biller, Alex Perez and Costa Pollos.
Pluckers will hold a wing eating contest at the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Wing Festival on August 21 awarding $1000. Entrants can qualify at Pluckers locations on Wednesday nights.
Ramsey Hilton coaches the cast of CMT's The Dude Perfect Show on how to finish the 7 pound El Hefe burger challenge at Kenny's Burger Joint in Dallas. (via Randy Santel).
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