A writer for Men's Health attempted to eat The Rock's cheat day diet, which resulted in a response from the WWE legend.
In her latest video, Stephanie "nuttyfoodiefitness" Joshi faced off against Rob Lipsett in a 100 chicken McNugget challenge.
ChronicleLive.co.uk has an article about Kyle Gibson eating every menu item available at Five Guys. The challenge was a fundraiser for the Newcastle West End Foodbank.
The Infographics Show has an animated video about eating 10,000 calories a day for a week.
SalisburyPost.com has a report on Randy Santel completing the burrito challenge at Go Burrito in Salisbury, NC.
Food challenge youtube channels with over 100K+ subscribers
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🇺🇸 Matt Stonie â˜‘ï¸ | 12.3M | 2,336,401,272 | Aug 23, 2012 |
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🇯🇵 Yuka Kinoshita â˜‘ï¸ | 5.48M | 2,034,870,303 | May 21, 2014 |
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🇸🇦 Hussain Sallam â˜‘ï¸ | 5.29M | 777,764,846 | Mar 2, 2006 |
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🇨🇦 Furious Pete â˜‘ï¸ | 5.18M | 1,021,575,005 | Aug 10, 2006 |
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🇮🇳 Viwa Food World â˜‘ï¸ | 3.65M | 621,977,787 | Aug 29, 2017 |
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🇪🇸 Esstik â˜‘ï¸ | 3.21M | 347,193,330 | Feb 28, 2013 |
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🇺🇸 LA Beast â˜‘ï¸ | 2.59M | 427,701,590 | Aug 7, 2010 |
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🇺🇸 Hellthy Junk Food â˜‘ï¸ | 2.34M | 512,939,561 | Jan 26, 2013 |
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🇺🇸 Badlands Chugs â˜‘ï¸ | 2.14M | 189,529,928 | Sep 25, 2012 |
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🇺🇸 Nikocaco Avocado â˜‘ï¸ | 2.09M | 489,444,261 | May 27, 2014 |
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🇧🇷 Corbucci Eats â˜‘ï¸ | 1.90M | 260,867,537 | May 2, 2006 |
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🇨🇦 Veronica Wang â˜‘ï¸ | 1.71M | 303,476,427 | Jun 26, 2010 |
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🇹🇼 Chien Tsu â˜‘ï¸ | 1.53M | 202,941,782 | Jul 10, 2016 |
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🇯🇵 Taniyaaan1125 | 1.46M | 329,057,183 | Sep 17, 2016 |
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🇺🇸 Erik Lamkin â˜‘ï¸ | 1.30M | 221,709,523 | Aug 10, 2013 |
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🇺🇸 Randy Santel â˜‘ï¸ | 1.10M | 318,835,610 | Sep 23, 2011 |
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🇬🇧 Beard Meats Food â˜‘ï¸ | 1.07M | 211,129,958 | Jan 12, 2015 |
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🇸🇬 Peggie Neo â˜‘ï¸ | 1.02M | 181,542,493 | Sep 26, 2015 |
LadBible uploaded a video about Leah Shutkever's attempt at the burger challenge at Polo 24 Hour Bar in London yesterday for National Burger Day. The video has over 4 million views in less than 24 hours.
American log lift record holder Rob Kearney, who bills himself as "World's Strongest Gay", completed an 8,000 calorie ice cream challenge at a Friendly's restaurant. (video)
Men's Health has a video interview with Australian food challenger Jesse "Food Coma" Freeman.
Miki Sudo has uploaded a video of Nick Wehry attempting the undefeated 14 pound challenge at Pizza Mia in Newburgh, NY consisting of pizza, wings and fried dough challenge.
The World Slopper-Eating Championship will return to the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo on September 5. The contest will be closed to spectators but will be livestreamed. Joey Chestnut and defending champion Darron Breeden are expected to compete along with six unnamed Major League eaters.
Raina Huang, Derek Hendrickson and Blaine Koenig will compete in a hot eating contest at Dirt Dog in Las Vegas on August 29.
A press release announces that Nathan's Famous will hold a qualifier in Dubai, UAE. The competition will use halal hot dogs and award the top male and female spots in the finals on July 4, 2021. This will be the first Nathan's qualifier outside the USA since a 2013 event in Calgary, the first outside North American since 2011 in Beijing.
To celebrate passing 300,000 youtube subscribers, Italian food challenger Thomas Hungry ate a cake looking like a youtube subscriber counti.
Epic Games will hold the #FreeFortnite Cup, a virtual apple eating contest, on August 23. The competition was inspired by the video game being locked out of the Apple App Store. The event is expected to award approximately a million dollars in prizes worldwide, which puts to shame the purse for any real-world eating contest. The top prize is an Alienware gaming laptop with a price of $2500.
Shine.cn on big eating video deprecation
Shine.cn has an article about the deprecation of big eating videos on Chinese streaming platforms which mentions the passing of a host in Shenyang, Liaoning Province just before he was to broadcast himself eating a large bowl of pork belly in June. Some Chinese big eaters have rebranded, with @大胃mini (big stomach mini) changing her ID to @梨涡少女mini (dimple girl mini). The article calls into question the authenticity of some of the videos:
In reality, the body simply cannot handle extreme quantities of food every day. To keep viewers, hosts must cheat, either throwing up after the show, or cutting scenes where they spit out food they’ve chewed, making viewers believe they have actually eaten everything.
Loyal followers are very defensive when questions are raised about unusual eating habits, saying their favorite hosts are just “born that way†and there are frequent quarrels with others who question the authenticity of videos.
update Aug 22 The BBC also has an article about the decline of eating videos.
update Aug 24 The New York Times has an article.
Lonestar Cheeseburger in San Angelo, TX will hold a cheeseburger eating contest on September 18 awarding $500 to the winner.
EJW Studios has posted a trailer for an upcoming cartoon about a Popeye's Chicken eating contest.
Wayne Algenio's appearance on the Brooklyn episode of "Eddie Eats America" was televised by The Cooking Channel yesterday and can be streamed online. The episode will be rerun at 10:30pm eastern on September 1.
Bracknell News has an article about Kate Ovens completing the challenge platter at Blue's Smokehouse in Bracknell, England which consisted of a rack of ribs, pulled pork, burnt ends and brisket, a half chicken, three sausages, coleslaw, chips and corn. The challenge was part of the Eat Out to Help Out campaign to promote restaurants.
WDPH has an article about Nick Wehry completing the challenge at Pizza Mia while Miki Sudo watched. The challenge weighs 14 pounds and consists of a garlic knot pizza, 12 Buffalo wings, a giant order of fried dough and 2 liters of soda.
Guy Sliwinski drew a picture of a Scooby Doo / MLE crossover episode in which Matt Stonie and Joey Chestnut faced off against Shaggy and Scooby in a hot dog eating contest.
Kyle Gibson ate 30 doughnuts in 7:45 to win Friday's British Eating League contest, edging out Max Stanford, who needed 8:16. Max ate 50 chicken nuggets in 2:01 to win yesterday's qualifier.
PWInsider has a report on yesterday's Reel Rumble at the Mahoning Drive In in Lehighton, PA in which "Megabyte" Ronnie Hartman made his pro wrestling debut. Ronnie and his teammate Faye Jackson defeated Rex Lawless and Dominic Garrini.
The Jerusalem Post reports that Nathan's Famous will start producing halal hot dogs in partnership with a United Arab Emirates subsidiary of Mezzan Holding KSC for sale in the Persian Gulf region.
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