Yesterday, Molly Schuyler attempted to eat a 100 patty burger from In N Out at the FoodBeast headquarters. Today, she ate 360 Burger King chicken nuggets to set a record.
The Frankfort, IN Hot Dog Festival will hold an eating contest on July 27 awarding $500 to the winner.
Tuscon Foodie has a post about Miki Sudo and Michelle Lesco completing the 6 pound burrito challenge at Red Desert BBQ. Miki Sudo finished two of the challenges weighing 12 pounds 1.2 oz. in 26:52.
Newspapers.com has a post about a 1929 article about Caroline Bierhals, who ate 100 ice cream cones over 105 minutes to earn the title "ice cream cone eating champion of the world".
Japan Times interviews Takeru Kobayashi
Japan Times has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi about The Good, The Bad, The Hungry. He says that while he is pleased with the film, it did not fully convey his side of his dispute with MLE.
The documentary showed my rivalry with Joey Chestnut, but I had more of a problem with George Shea,†he says. “He used Joey Chestnut to conceal the fact that he had a problem with me. George Shea was employed by Nathan’s, so if you look at the bigger picture, the problem was really between me and Nathan’s. That doesn’t come across in the documentary.
"UK Chilli Queen" Shahina Waseem defeated Johnny Scoville at the Chilli & Cheese Festival in Guildford, England to extend her career undefeated streak in spicy eating contests. (video)
Molly Schuyler ate 34 corn dogs to defend her title at the California State Corn Dog Eating Championship in Sacramento.
Joe Menchetti ate 8 ears in 3 minutes to win the first prize of $500 in tonight's eating contest at Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, NJ.
A press release announces that Joey Chestnut will eat chicken wings at the Hooters in the Mall of Georgia in Atlanta from 11 am to 11 pm on July 29 in honor of National Chicken Wing Day. People who guess his total amount eaten correctly at https://www.hooters.com/ncwd/ will be entered for the chance to win free Hooters wings for a year. Hooters locations will offer all you can eat wings for $15.99 on July 29.
Vegan Playground in San Diego will hold a vegan hot dog eating contest on July 23 awarding $500 to the winner.
50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 porridge eating contest talk
Today is the 50th anniversary of a conversation about a porridge eating contest between mission control and the crew of Apollo 11:
Bruce McCandless in Houston: And in Corby, England, an Irishman, John Coyle, has won the world’s porridge eating championship by consuming 23 bowls of instant oatmeal in a 10-minute time limit from a field of 35 other competitors. Over.
Astronaut Michael Collins: I’d like to enter Aldrin in the oatmeal eating contest next time.
McCandless: Is he pretty good at that?
Collins: He’s doing his share up here.
McCandless: Let’s see. You all just finished a meal not long ago, too, didn’t you?
Aldrin: I’m still eating.
McCandless: Okay. Does that — that —
Collins: He’s on his — He’s on his 19th bowl.
A recording of the conversation was used in a commercial for Quaker Oats UK starring Buzz Aldrin.
Greg Webb won the first prize of $500 in tonight's hot dog eating contest at Up Dog in Independence, MO.
PT's Ranch in Henderson, NV will hold a hot wing eating contest on July 28 awarding $2500/$1000/$500.
Meadowlands Racing in East Rutherford, NJ will hold a corn eating contest on July 20 awarding $500/$250/$100. 10 entrants will be chosen at random.
George Chiger and Julie Goldberg competed in a Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on Fox & Friends this morning in observance of National Hot Dog Day.
Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Darron Breeden and Miki Sudo are listed as expected entrants at the Great Midwest Rib Fest World Rib-Eating Championship in Prior Lake on July 27.
Registration is now open for the Fresno Tacos World Taco-Eating Championship on August 17. Registration will open later today for the pork roll eating contest in Trenton September 21 and the Lewisville, TX tamale contest on September 28.
Bob "Killer" Kuhns ate 25 hot dogs in 12 minutes to defeat defending champion Mark Lyle and claim the first prize of $500 in Saturday's hot dog eating contest at the Festival of Discovery in Greenwood, SC.
Sarah Ow of Singapore has started a youtube channel. Her first video is a buffet destruction with Zermatt Neo.
Joel Hansen won the first prize of $500 in yesterday's Srodek’s Pierogi Eating Challenge at the American Polish Festival in Sterling Heights, MI.
Dan Kennedy ate 41 4 ounce pies in 10 minutes to defend his title at the Red, White and Blueberry Festival in Reynoldsville, PA. Runner-up Andrew Puhl ate 36 pies.
In an interview for TMZ, Takeru Kobyashi claims that Joey Chestnut is a cheater and alleges that he threw crusts into the box in their P'Zone Chow-lenge matchup in 2009. He also belives that the hot dogs Joey Chestnut eats during contests are smaller than normal.
Guelph Mercury has an interview with Canadian food challenger Joel Hansen, owner of the instagram page modelvsfood.
Chez Ma Tante in Montreal will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 18 awarding $500 to the winner.
The facebook for Fat Boy's Pizza announces they have postponed the MLE pizza eating contest that was scheduled for Sunday in Metairie, LA due to weather.
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