Competitive eating and the 2010 world cup finalists
Here are the best connections to competitive eating for the 2010 World Cup finalists I could find: Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain holds a festival called La Tomatina in which 4500 tons of tomatoes are destroyed in a food fight. (This amount is probably an order of magnitude higher than all the food consumed in all IFOCE contests combined.) Lynda Kuerth and Sharon Scholten from Dutch west Michigan are two of the notable female competitive eaters of the 20th century.
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beautifulbrian said
July 11, 2010 @ 10:09 pm
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me me me said
July 12, 2010 @ 7:05 am
Seiken will you please stop commenting here?
You are screwyB
beautifulbrian said
July 12, 2010 @ 9:27 am
Cant help it Me me me, for you inspire me to comment and BTW thanks for the compliment
Anonymous said
July 12, 2010 @ 10:35 am
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me me me said
July 12, 2010 @ 10:37 am
UR welcome.
Anonymous said
July 12, 2010 @ 11:06 am
I agree, Seiken is like a stray cat. If you ignore it and don’t feed it, it will go away.
beautifulbrian said
July 12, 2010 @ 2:28 pm
Better to be a stray cat with a name attached to it than an unknown tag attacthed around my collar
gastroboy said
July 12, 2010 @ 3:51 pm
I think there was actually a tomato eating contest at buñol during those festivities. Never found where o when it actually took place. News said a kid supposedly managed to eat 8 whole tomatoes in 40 seconds. There are more contests (one of them i’m actually aiming to participate in) i know of in Spain. I hope i have more luck getting a seat that i had with IFOCE :P. I had to actually search for them myself. Just listing the most ‘famous ones’ i know of (however not as famous as eating contests are in other places in the world at all like USA).
Rules are weird in barely all contests.
Calçotada de Valls in Valls (desciption of calçots in the video’s description)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvcAEIsP1c
45 min contest, eat it as it is supposed to be eaten, that means a piece of bread in one hand all the time but when you are actually peeling the calçot, one by one, and only drink you can use is wine (though i could see they granted some exceptions last year, as i see water next to one of the eaters in the video)
Horchata and fartons drinking contest in Xátiva (actually an eating contest, but that’s the actual name of the event!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiBtKVHbI-o
Farton: Baked good or pastrie typical from Valencia among other places of spain.
3 rounds. first 10 minutes, you have to eat 12 fatons (big sized ones) to qualify for next round. 1 minute to wait for those who didn’t qualify to leave. Then 5 minutes to eat 6 fartons. 1 minute rest so everyone who didn’t make it leave. Then 15 minutes for you to eat as much as you can. Only allowed drink is Horchata, which tastes good but a few minutes into the contest makes me feel almost as bad as when eating butter on its own.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart%C3%B3n
Contest size fartons (aprox): http://pasteleriaybolleriamoreno.com/productos/img_prod/farton_large.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horchata#Spain
Meatball eating contest in Tabuenca
Unlimited time(actually about two hours)
You have to actually wait in a queue after you finish a 10 meatball plate to get next one, so there is nothing as pace here. They did try to bring a guinnes word record supervisor last two years.
Worth mentioning also:
A Madeleine eating contest in Saceruela ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_%28cake%29 The english article doesn’t mention it but it’s also typical product here in Spain) with the same 3 rounds of the farton eating contest. I think you can use any drink you want, they give you milk or water only though.
Tangerine eating contest in somewhere in Catalonya region (2-3 minutes, contest rules say 3 minutes, winner this year said in an interview his final total was ‘1,8 kg (about 4 pounds) in two minutes’) You have to peel the tangerines yourself and the peel is substracted from the final totals.
Chesnut eating contest. You have to peel chesnuts yourself. Slowest eating contest ever for sure.
Crème caramel or flan eating contest(everywhere, all the year!).
Donut eating contest in Castellbisbal. It didn’t take place this year(should have been the 13th edition of the contest), but it was a two round eating contest 2 minutes each. One hand, one at a time, picnik style. First rounds, higher totals pass to the final (1 hour after the first first round starts). You can finish the donut you have in your hand after buzzer sounds. Totals if first and final round not acummulative.
I’m taking a break, eating challenges right after!
gastroboy said
July 12, 2010 @ 4:07 pm
Cocido madrileño eating challenge in el Boñar de León (Madrid)
The challenge is to eat a HUGE pot of cocido madrileño: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocido_madrile%C3%B1o#Ingredients
Some people that have tried it say it’s well more than 12 kg of food. Enough stock to do some water training and then a mountain of fat rich meat including morcilla (some people, specially foreigners find it gross) and a bunch of chick peas, potatoes and other vegetables. Noone has actually finished it. I have found some people claiming to have done it on the web, but no proof, restaurant owners actually claim noone has ever finished it.
Price: A trip to Canary Islands.
12,5 KG burger in Parma (Madrid)
http://www.lashamburguesasmasgrandes.com/fotos.htm
60 cm of diameter, hard bread, 12,5KG lean meat Burger.
The price for finishing it is just silly: Free burger plus anything more you want to eat along with the burger.
gastroboy said
July 12, 2010 @ 4:11 pm
BTW the horchata and farton contest webpage is down since last year contest (??) , but it said the whole contest was inspired by Kobayashi’s showdown at Nathan’s in 2001 (this year would be the 9th year the contest is held). They called Kobayashi ‘that chinesse guy’ though… ouch!
gastroboy said
July 13, 2010 @ 7:08 pm
PS: OJ my first comment where i wrote about 9 or 10 eating contests taking place in Spain was lost… No way to recover it? what happened?
ojrifkin said (Registered July 27, 2005)
July 13, 2010 @ 9:20 pm
Your first comment has been retrieved, GB. Thank you for pointing out the problem.
eatchugmore said (Registered December 16, 2007)
July 14, 2010 @ 1:47 am
I have heard about the “cocido”, the problem is actually that the dish and the restaurant itself is very disgusting more than the amount of food, so maybe that’s why nobody has been able to finish it, if you see reviews about the place everybody says it is in one word a “porqueria” this is a link where you can see the dish http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/423256/0/canarias/cocido/leones/
Eat, Hug More said
July 14, 2010 @ 8:41 am
Looks like post contest puke. Maybe thats why.
gastroboy said
July 14, 2010 @ 5:14 pm
Eatchugmore, you’re right, most of the people find the place disgusting. Some people claim to have seen insects (cockroachs) walking on the walls. Other people say that while the place is not the cleanest restaurant in the world people overdo it. Hovewer, i can tell you, the main issue is still the dish’s size.
The pic in the article is not the actual challenge dish. I remember by heart that somebody claimed it was about 3 times the dish in the pic + plenty of stock. I haven’t tried the challenge myself so i dunno for sure.
Eat Hug More, it’s not meant to be an artistic dish, but (if done right) tastes good ;). It could have a better presentation though, i’m gonna give you that :P.