Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All Texas eating challenges and contests in database)
Houston gyros entrants listed before registration opens
IFOCE.com reports the 2009 Niko Niko’s World Gryo-Eating Championship will be held on May 16 in Houston and registration will begin today at 3pm eastern. The contest page already lists four expected entrants (Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Erik Denmark) even though registration has not officially opened.
The Prairie News: The Big Texan will hold a 72 ounce steak eating contest next year to celebrate its 50th birthday. The contest will have professional and non-professional divisions which will both award $10,000 to the winner.
On a recent Jimmy Kimmel Live, Billy Bob Thornton talked about two members of the road crew for his band attempting to complete the 72 ounce steak challenge at the Big Texan after doing damage control for a controversial Canadian interview (The Big Texan segement starts at about the 6 minute mark of the video)
Austin, TX pizza contest at Pie Guys Saturday April 25, $500 prize
The winner of the women's division at the San Antonio tamale contest ate 19 tamales in 2 minutes according to JD Flores' twitter.
College Station, Texas Wing Bowl May 6
The Arctic Wolf Ice Center in College Station, TX will hold a Wing Bowl on May 6. As in the Philadelphia Wing Bowl, entrants can qualify by winning a preliminary Wing Off contest or doing an on-radio eating stunt. The final Wing Off will take place tomorrow at Buffalo Wild Wings.
Delicious Tamales will sponsor a tamale eating contest in San Antonio on Saturday, April 18. $250 will be awarded to both the winner of the men's and women's division (registration)
The Dallas Observer has a blog entry and gallery about Saturday's World Championship of Quail Egg Eating. Lester Tucker won the contest for the 14th consecutive year.
A crawfish eating contest will be held this month at the Mardi Gras Grill in Houston: qualifiers April 7/14/21, finals April 29 with a $100 gift certificate prize - registration form (entry fee $10)
Hotel by Big Texan owner to have 89 ounce steak
Amarillo.com has an article about a planned hotel for downtown Amarillo. Big Texan Steak Ranch owner Bobby Lee is one of the investors in the project and a hotel restaurant will have an 89 ounce steak to pay homage to both the 1889 founding of Amarillo and the 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan. Diners who complete the 89 ounce steak will not only receive the meal free, they will also get their hotel room at no charge as well. The planned opening date is summer 2010.
"A-Bomb" from Colorado will appear at the Blue Baker World Cookie Eating Championship in College Station, Texas on Saturday according to AICE News.
Runner to attempt breakfast taco record after 200 mile run
The200MileRun.com announces a non-stop run by Christopher Huang which will begin in Houston on Thursday, March 19 and end in Austin on Saturday. After completing the run, an attempt will be made to break the breakfast taco record at Juan in a Million, which is currently 7 by the “Hong Kong Hero”. The goal of the run is to raise money for Space12, a community center in East Austin.
Woman has fastest time on online “Mega Mel” Wall of Fame
The website for Mel’s Country Cafe in Tomball, Texas (suburban Houston) has a web page with pictures of several finishers of the Mega Mel burger and their times. Lindsay has the fastest time of 19 minutes on that page.
The page about the restaurant on localism reports that the all time record is 9 minutes and apicture of the finishers list reveals that Eric Attayi is the record holder.
In a youtube comment, the son of the restaurant’s owner reports that Lindsay is the new female record holder and she came back a month later and finished another Mega Mel in 21 minutes.
FullFiguredFella is organizing a Mega Mel eating contest.
Caller.com has a gallery from yesterday's men's oyster eating contest held at the Fulton Oysterfest. Bryan Tiner won the contest by eating 178 raw oysters in 5 minutes.
Oyster eating contests in Fulton, Texas this weekend - $350 purses for both men's & women's division
The Brownsville (TX) Herald has a report on yesterday's jalapeno eating contest held at the Sombrero Festival yesterday.
LMTOnline reports that Luis "El Chef" Bruni won last night's contest at the Jalapeno Festival in Laredo by eating 82 peppers after a competitor who ate more than 100 was DQed.
The purse for tomorrow's jalapeno eating contest will be $1,750.
SykoBozo vs. Bacon Explosion
(from comment) The Houston Chronicle has a video of David “SykoBozo” Cagle attempting to eat a “Bacon Explosion” at Lucky’s Pub. There is also a blog entry about the challenge.
El Mañana: Jalapeño Festival wants local competitors
La Sanbe has a blog entry commenting on an article from elmanana.com.mx about the Jalapeño Festival that will take place in Laredo, Texas on February 20 & 21 which mentions the eating contest where Pat Bertoletti holds the record of 266 peppers in 15 minutes:
One issue of concern, though, is that participants for the jalapeño eating contest are not being solicited via the Food Network website as was done last year. Organizers want the contest represented more by locals. Great. So now we’re lowering the standards of our recreational activities too. Way to go Laredo.
The Spanish paragraph about the contest and its translation by Google follows:
Para la competencia de Jalapeño de esta edición, ya no se anunciará en internet, como se hizo el año pasado en la página de la Food Network, pues se quiere que los participantes sean locales, ya que es un festival de Laredo.
Jalapeño competition for this edition is no longer advertised on the internet, as it did last year at the site of the Food Network, as it is to the participants are local, as it is a festival of Laredo.
If the Laredo jalapeño contest is not affiliated with IFOCE in 2009, there could be a 4+ month gap between contests since the last IFOCE contest was the Battle at the Big Apple World Pizza Eating Championship in Fort Pierce, Florida on November 8.
The Stockton Asparagus Festival’s website announces that the contest on April 25 will have IFOCE eaters, so that will break the drought at 5.5 months if no other contests take place before it.
Link Buffet: January 17, 2009
- Kobayashi has a blog entry about Cookie Jarvis and his jacket
- AICE Blue Baker World Cookie Eating Championship in College Station, TX on April 4, $1500 purse
- Bacon Eating contest at second Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival (Des Moines) February 28
- Pizza Eating contest at Carolina (Raleigh) Rollergirls roller derby match on January 24
- Youtube page for Joel “The Cannon” Podelsky’s contests
BigTexan.com revamped
The website for the Big Texan Steak Ranch has been updated. A page about Joey Chestnut breaking the 72 ounce steak record has been added. The foreword of the Story of the Free 72 oz. steak, which is now available at Barnes & Noble, can be read online. The webcam for 72 ounce steak attempts remains, but the finishers database, which was removed in 2005, has not been restored.
Link Buffet: January 6, 2009
- MosesNews.com will return to covering competitive eating
- Crazy Legs Conti podcast on Strangeland Radio
- Video of eating contest with #9 ranked “MILF”
- Arkansas Krispy Kreme eating contest results – video
- Laredo jalapeno eating contest on February 20 or 21
December 17 Man vs. Food (Austin) links
Episode slideshow, location list and commercial
This week’s challenge restaurant, Juan in a Million, has an online Wall of Fame for its breakfast taco challenge, but it does not appear to have been updated since about 2002. The actual current record is held by the “Hong Kong Hero” who ate 7 breakfast tacos in 2004.
Other links: yelp thread about Adam Richman’s attempt in September (contains spoilers), Dining in Austin review
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