TV Tokyo televised its mixed-gender "Gluttonous King" contest today (
video). Max Suzuki was the winner, Tanisaki Takahito runner up and Angela Sato 3rd.
A new website focused on United Kingdom eating challenges has been set up at http://www.ukfoodchallenges.com. The twitter for the site is @ukfoodchallnges.
City Journal has an account of the Amarillo Opera's meal at the Big Texan where a Croatian tenor attempted the 72 ounce steak challenge.
New Indian Express has an article on how Dale Boone, billed as a holder of 52 world records, celebrated Thanksgiving in Bengaluru, India. He likes the lack of commercialization of the holiday in his home for the past 10 years, but wishes he could purchase an American-sized turkey.
In his latest podcast (competitive eating section starts at 17:00), MMA fighter Chael Sonnen announces that he will face Jamie McDonald in an eating contest at Bear's Smokehouse in Hartford on December 29.
The full video of Tuesday's episode of Tosh.0 guest starring Kate Ovens can be viewed on youtube (starts around 5:15).
Lapham’s Quarterly on pie eating contests
Lapham’s Quarterly has an article about the history of pie eating contests.
At the same time pie-eating contests were taking place in working-class saloons and between black performers, the events were also popular with men of means as head-to-head matches. After the turn of the twentieth century, “gourmandizing†competitions became the vogue among the wealthy, expanding beyond pie-eating to a new world of competitive consumption. In one 1909 competition at the Fat Men’s Club in Manhattan, the winner ate two hundred and ten oysters, six pounds of steak, nine rolls, ten cups of coffee, and three large pies. Such extravagant consumption was connected to wealth; it was expensive to be fat at the turn of the century. Food costs were high enough that most middle-class Americans couldn’t afford the foods consumed by most Fat Men’s Club members, who weighed two hundred pounds on average. But as cheap food became more readily available by the 1920s, and as ideas about body image changed, the Fat Men’s Clubs died out.
MEL Magazine has an interview with Miki Sudo, who retains the MLE turkey title due to the cancellation of the contest at Foxwoods Casino. She says she usually contemplates quitting competitive eating about four minutes into every contest.
Kate Ovens appeared on yesterday's episode of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central (promo video).
Campaign Live has an article on how Chronic Tacos is using its annual eating contest with Takeru Kobayashi to promotes its chain nationally.
The Brooklyn Paper has a report on Saturday's ice cream eating contest at Sky Ice with quotes from runner-up Jo "Gavonne" Rose. Patrick Garcia won the contest.
Bangkok Post reported a competitor in a rice ball eating contest in Hikone, Japan passed away after choking.
Top 20 Wing Bowl performances
The Wing Bowl website has a list claiming to be the top 5 Wing Bowl totals, but it only lists the personal bests from winning performances. Here are the top 20 totals according to the eatfeats database with those restrictions removed:
Oxford University student GraceFitUK has uploaded a video of her attempt
Independent.co.uk has an account of a reporter who competed in last week's noodle eating contest in Morioka, Japan.
PizzeRizzo in Disney World's Hollywood Studios created a "hall of fame" for a fictional pizza eating contest.
The November 30 episode of Wahlburgers (10:01 pm eastern on A&E) will have a burger eating contest at the chain's Coney Island location.
Pete's Grille canceled its pancake contest that was to have been held today due to lack of participants.
Rub Smokehouse & Bar (locations in Birmingham, Nottingham & Newcastle) will award £1000 in vouchers to the person with the fastest time to finish two of its Parmo sandwiches in November.
RealityWanted.com has posted a casting call for the host of an upcoming food challenge show. Votes can be submitted for candidates for the job. update The casting call on on craiglist says "professional" eaters are not wanted and that it will be on a large popular cable network.
Howard Lorber, Nathan's Famous chairman and economic policy adviser for Donald Trump, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning and predicted that the president-elect would be "more thoughtful" than his campaign rhetoric after inauguration. Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King has called for a boycott of corporations with owners or executives that publicly backed the Republican candidate; Nathan's Famous does not appear on his list of 12 companies.
Fox 29 has a video about Dave "US Male" Goldstein's plans to run the Philadelphia marathon while pushing his disabled son Josh this weekend.
Rib contest complaint results in football position change
The Tennessean has a report on how Vanderbilt lineman Adam Butler credits his grievances at a rib eating contest held at the 2012 Music City Bowl for his switch from offense to defense. His coaches thought his complaints about his opposition from North Carolina State cheating showed a combative nature.
“For some reason, the judge voted that we lost the rib-eating contest, and I stood up and argued with the judge,†Butler said. “(The judges) were counting the bones. But (North Carolina State players) had ribs on their plate that didn’t have a bone in it, which means they just took the bones out of the ribs and threw them in the tub.â€
Battle of the Big Eaters 4 recording in NYC
Battle of the Big Eaters 4 recorded in Union Square Park in Manhattan today. Here are what the teams appear to be:
- USA: Molly Schuyler, Erik Lamkin, Bob Shoudt, Dave Brunelli
- Japan: Moeno Azuki, Tanisaki Takahito & two other males
- UK: Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran, Leah Shutkever, Emma Dalton, Marc Pitt
- Australia Issac Martin, Isaac Harding-Davis, Cal “Hulk Smask Food” Stubbs, Shazza McKenzie
Gazette Times has an article about Corvallis, OR eating challenges mentioning that the jackpot for finishing China Blue's Lucky Sevens challenge is now $800.
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