Molly Schuyler is the subject of a documentary on topic.com which includes footage of her breakfast taco record at Juan in a Million and victory at the La Costena jalapeno eating contest in Laredo, TX.
jackhirons posted a painting of Rich LeFevre competing in the 2006 Wing Bowl on his Instagram.
The Des Moines Register has a gallery of the pie eating contest that has been held as an event during the RAGBRAI cross-Iowa bicycle tour. This year's competition was held over video.
The Peanut Butter & Jelly Deli will hold "The Jampionship", a peanut butter and jelly sandwich eating contest awarding $250/$100/$50 in West Allis, WI on August 15.
BarBend.com has a report on Brian Shaw's video of his attempt to eat 15,000 calories in a day, which was his everyday diet when he won four World's Strongest Man titles.
The British Eating League will hold a chicken nugget eating contest at The George in Stockton on Tees on October 3 awarding £1,000 cash to the winner. Qualifiers start on August 8. The organization will also hold a beans on toast eating contest on Saturday, July 25 awarding £100 cash and a £50 food voucher to the winner.
A tamale eating contest could be broadcast as part of Lewisville, Texas virtual Western Days festival that will replace the cancelled in-person event.
Molly Schuyler and Dan Kennedy attempted to eat 8 total challenges at Rey Azteca in State College, PA (Dan Kennedy video) The total weight was estimated to be over 30 pounds.
Joel Hansen recently completed the 72 ounce steak challenge at The Big Texan in Amarillo, TX in 12:24, which is believed to be a Canadian record. Raina Huang also attempted the challenge and finished in 24:41. (video)
NewsMiner has a report on Randy Santel and Katina "Eats Kilos" DeJarnett finishing the 40 by 26 inch "Garbage Pizza Challenge" at Riverside Pizza i Nenana, Alaska in 44:40. They were the first pair to beat the 45 minute limit.
Pop Times has an article titled "How Do We Get Used to the Heat In Chile Peppers?"
The BBC has an article titled "Coronavirus: The slow death of the American all-you-can-eat buffet".
Tim Janus appeared on the latest episode of the Run Along podcast to discuss his retirement and the reasons for the termination of his competitive eating career. At the peak of his training, he says he was drinking 3.5 gallons of water multiple times a day, which he immediate threw up.
LexMedia has a video of Geoff Esper attempting the 30 inch pizza at Nick's Place in Lexington, MA without assistance.
thatslife.com.au has an interview with Mimi "The Mini Monster" Zhang, billing her as Australia's "biggest female eater".
The BBC Archive twitter posted a video from 1972 of Bob Owen, "Britain's unofficial egg eating champion" eating 50 raw eggs.
The Mirror has an article about British competitive eating focusing on Leah Shutkever. Kyle Gibson and Crazy Legs Conti are also quoted.
The New York Times has an article about a paper published in Biology Letters by James Smoliga, a physiologist at High Point University. titled "Modelling the maximal active consumption rate and its plasticity in humans—perspectives from hot dog eating competitions" which claims that the maximum possible total for a human competing in a 10 minute hot dog eating contest is 83 hot dogs. (Science Mag article)
British GQ has an interview with Kate Ovens.
A clip of Nela Zisser's Nutella video posted by The Sun's twitter account currently has 3.9 million views, about 4 times the viewership of the recent Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on ESPN.
NewsMiner.com has an article about Randy Santel and Katina Eats Kilos attempting the undefeated Garbage Pizza Challenge at Riverside Pizza in Nenana, Alaska Saturday.
"Snack" Jack Diamond won Saturday's cheesesteak eating contest at DELCO Steaks in Broomall, PA.
Ronnie Hartman did an Ask Me Anything interview session on reddit.com. He billed himself as a pro competitive eater currently signed with MLE despite recently announcing his retirement.
Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry have posted a video of their preparation for the Nathan's finals.
"Beer Slayin Barbarian" was the winner of the recent CROSSFat Johnsonville sausage eating contest. "YourManCody" was runner-up, "Track the Bear" was 3rd and Mike Horacek fourth.
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