Elk Horn Tivoli Fest aebleskiver eating contest

update SWIowaNewsSource.com has an article

Blake’s Garage has a video

Official Results Part 1 | Part 2

1st 87 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie
2nd 73 Gideon Oji
3rd 53 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan
4th 45 Juan “more bite” Rodriguez
5th 32 Sophia Devita
6th 26 Mark “the muncher” Williams
7th 24 Matthew Raible

It appears Matt Stonie won the aebleskiver eating contest in Elk Horn, IA according to this picture.

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Food and Wine has a blog entry about restaurant eating challenges with quotes from Randy Santel and Ryan "Max Carnage" Rodacker of the Big Eaters Club. Randy Santel predicts he will have 600 successes by 2020 which he claims will be an unbreakable record.
The Napa Valley Register has a report on Joey Chestnut's appearance at the BottleRock festival yesterday where he helped build an 8 layer cake.
Figure competitor hj_jonesy ate a 1 metre pizza to win a contest at Criniti's in Woolloomooloo, NSW Australia on Tuesday.
Little Bones in Winnipeg will hold 5 wing eating contests tomorrow awarding a total of $1850.
Eric "Badlands" Booker appeared on Fox 46 Charlotte to promote tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier at the 600 Festival, so presumably he is the favorite for that competition. Ronnie Hartman will also compete.
Dale Boone won yesterday's eating contest at Heat Pizza Bar in Tuscaloosa, AL.
High Five in Dallas will hold a tater tot eating contest on June 8 awarding $250 to the winner.
The Sun has an article about Leah Shuktever titled "The Perfect Woman?" focusing on her video of eating 12 Krispy Kreme doughnuts in 72 seconds.
Matt "Sweet Tooth" Cohen appeared on WBIR yesterday to talk about competing in the Nathan's Finals.
Bob Shoudt will attend the Reading Fightins minor league baseball "Gluttony Night" on June 6. Fans will have the opportunity to purchase unlimited food and can also face off against "Notorious B.O.B" in eating contests that will be held throughout the evening.
Matt Stonie, Gideon Oji, Adrian Morgan, Juan Rodriguez, Yasir Salem, Sophia DeVita and Matt Raible are expected to compete in the Tivoli Fest World Æbleskiver Eating Championship in Elk Horn, IA Saturday.
The Belfast Telegraph reports that the Hillsborough Oyster Festival in Northern Ireland has been canceled after losing funding. The event's eating contest had brought in MLE competitors including Sonya Thomas, Matt Stonie, Miki Sudo and Bob Shoudt. Michelle Lesco broke Colin Shirlow's ten-year winning streak in the competition last year.
The Milwaukee Taco Fest will hold an eating contest on June 4 awarding $200/$100/$50.
Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, NJ will hold a pork roll eating contest on May 27 awarding $500/$250/$150/$100. Ten entrants will be chosen at random.
The attempt by Michael Noori to eat $1000 of McDonald's menu items in 36 hours has been terminated with $95 eaten in 21 hours.
Newyork.CBSlocal.com reports that 210,606 pounds of supermarket hot dogs have been recalled due to metal contamination. The faulty products are 14 ounce packages of “Nathan’s Skinless 8 Beef Franks” with a use by date of August 19, and 16 ounce packages of “Curtis Beef Master Beef Franks” with a use by date of June 15.

2017 Highway 55 Burgers

update The News & Observer has a contest report

The Hwy 55 facebook has a video of the contest end

Crabtree Mall has a facebook gallery

Derek Farley has a closeup contest video

1) Molly Schuyler 1:37 (new record)
2) Bob Shoudt
3) Darron Breeden
4) Dave Brunelli

The contest is expected to be broadcast on https://www.facebook.com/Hwy55burgers/

“Beard Meats Food” trip to NC is not the first trip by a bearded Briton to that region; Blackbeard was pardoned for piracy by the colonial governor in June 1718.

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2017 Cincinnati Reds Nathan’s qualifier

update Jun 3 MLE has a video

From the Facebook Live video
1) Derek Jacobs 23

1w) Meredith Boxberger 15

Nate Biller, Crazy Legs Conti and Meredith Boxberger are expected to compete.

The previous intersection of the Cincinatti Reds and competitive eating is pitcher Frank Pastore. His time of 9:30 for the Big Texan 72 ounce steak challenge in 1987 has only been surpassed by Molly Schuyler and Joey Chestnut.

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The Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix will hold burrito eating contests on May 28 awarding $250 to the top man and woman.
Takeru Kobayashi produced a video for the Checkers fast food chain of him eating as many french fries as possible in a minute.
NY1 has an article and video about Yasir Salem, who is planning to run a marathon every month in 2017.
Registration is now open for the eating contest at the Chicago Ribfest on June 9. A donut eating contest in Santa Monica on June 2 has also been added to the MLE calendar (registration yet to open).
Joey Chestnut, Rich LeFevre, Pablo Martinez, Mary Bowers and Doug Ecks are expected to compete in the The Baked Bear Ice-Cream Sandwich-Eating Champion in San Diego June 4.
The Travel Channel announces that filming will start this week for a new series of Man v Food that will debut in August. Actor and restaurant business veteran Casey Webb will replace Adam Richman as the host. In 2011, John Lomascolo won the Man v Food Nation Casting Call contest that was to have awarded him with an appearance in an Albany area episode that was not recorded before the series was canceled. We will see if the resumed series fulfills that promise.
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