Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton is reportedly one of president-elect's Donald Trump's favorites for Secretary of State. In 2015, his daughter, Jennifer Sarah Bolton, ate 151 oysters in 3 minutes in to win an oyster eating contest in Fondren, MS.
The Walt Kammann Sausage Fry will hold a sausage eating contest in Yuma, AZ awarding $1000 on December 2. A qualifier will be held on November 17.
Nashville will hold the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl Hot Chicken Eating World Championships on December 29. Comment on the bowl's facebook page to get a spot in the contest.
El Santaneco in Chelsea, MA will hold a pupusa eating contest tomorrow awarding $200 to the winner and $100 to the runner up.
The Malay Mail has a report on Japanese female competitive eater Yuri Ishizeki's trip to Sabah, Malaysia where she attempted several eating challenges.
Joey Chestnut has uploaded a video of him finishing a 5 pound Burritozilla at Iguana's in 1:41. Molly Schuyler took 1:32 in a recent contest and Matt Stonie needed 1:50 in a video.
Nela Zisser created a burger challenge at Eat Burger in Hamilton, NZ which took her 3:03 to finish.
Yesterday's episode of the Jerry Springer show had a pancake eating contest between two midgets who are cousins.
Craigslist has an interview request for a Toronto competitive eater that will pay $50.
The Barnsley Archives twitter has a program for a charities carnival held from August 17 to August 24, 1918. One of the competitions on August 22 was a toffee eating contest for wounded soldiers.
Mamma Mia's in Rockford, IL has extended the $500 prize it will award to a pair that can finish its Don Pizza Challenge until the end of November.
Donald Trump & competitive eating chronology
A timeline listing the intersection of the worlds of competitive eating and the 2016 Republican presidential candidate follows:
- 1966 Fred Trump, father of Donald, has the Steeplechase demolished. The Coney Island amusement park had earlier rejected a purchase offer from the Handwerker family, founders of Nathan’s Famous.
- 2005 Sports Illustrated has a blurb
about filmmaker Michael Tollin’s plans for a fictional movie based on
Bill “El Wingador” Simmon that did not come to fruition. Tollin would
later make a documentary about the USFL spring football league in which Donald Trump was cast as the villain. - 2005-2007 The Trump Marina in Atlantic City holds a wing eating contest for females only during Super Bowl weekend.
2005 Feb 3 Wing Fling 1 Trump Marina Atlantic City, NJ 2006 Feb 4 Wing Fling 2 Trump Marina Atlantic City, NJ 2007 Feb 3 Wing Fling 3 Trump Marina Atlantic City, NJ 2007 contest video
- 2009-2012 The Trump Plaza Beach Bar in Atlantic City, NJ hosts a Nathan’s qualifier. The winners of those contests:
2009 May 23 1st 30.5 10 min “The Lovely” Juliet Lee Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier Atlantic City, NJ 2010 May 29 1st 40 10 min Bob “The Notorious B.O.B.” Shoudt Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier Atlantic City, NJ 2011 May 28 1st 27 10 min Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier – men Atlantic City, NJ 2011 May 28 1st 34 10 min Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier – women Atlantic City, NJ 2012 May 19 1st 45 10 min Tim “Eater X” Janus Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – men Atlantic City, NJ 2012 May 19 1st 18.5 10 min Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier – women Atlantic City, NJ - 2013 The Trump Plaza was sold to Meruelo Group for $20 million. No Nathan’s qualifiers would take place at that site after the sale.
- Dec 2015 Everybody Loves Raymond’s in San Antonio starts a “Shut Your Mouth Trump” spicy burger challenge in response to negative feelings about the candidate by the restaurant’s clientele.
- Feb 2016 Donald Trump visits Chez Vachon in Machester, NH for a campaign stop. A picture of him in front of the “Wall of Fame” for the restaurant’s poutine challenge would receive a lot of publicity. Hillary and Bill Clinton would also visit the location.
- May 2016 Burger Urge in Queensland, Australia holds a “Trump Burger” contest awarding a trip to Trump Tower in New York City won by Col “The Conqueror” MacLaurin.
- Aug 2016 Howard Lorber, chairman of Nathan’s Famous, is announced as a member of Donald Trump’s economic policy team. Lorber received a $25 million payment in 2015 after a special dividend was issued to Nathan’s stockholders.
Outside has an article about the 13,000 calorie / day diet Pete Kostelnick ate while running from San Francisco to New York City. He completed the journey in a record 42 days and averaged 72 miles a day on foot.
Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran has produced a video about post contest/challenge recovery. This is the first in a series before he travels to New York in two weeks to represent the UK in Battle of the Big Eaters 4.
A parody game show Joey Chestnut did promoting Sun Microsystems new server in 2008 can be viewed on youtube. The campaign was dropped due to "company branding issues".
King Carb has a youtube interview with Erik "The Electric" Lamkin.
British bodybuilder Ryan John-Baptiste has posted a in one day.
Don Chingon in Brooklyn has a request for people to attempt their burrito challenge today for Japanese television. This will probably be a segment for Battle of the Big Eaters 4 to be broadcast on Jan 1, 2017.
Eric "Badlands" Booker and Carmen Cincotti appeared on a Facebook Live video for Deadspin.com in honor of National Sandwich Day tomorrow.
Foxwoods announces it will not hold a MLE turkey eating contest in 2016. This reduces the number of MLE contests awarding $10,000 or more in 2016 to 2 (Nathan's & Hooters wings), half of the number in 2015. The 2015 Arizona Sports Expo wing eating contest awarding $10,000 was not brought back.
Catholic.com has a forum thread titled "Is participating in competitive eating Biblically sinful?"
SBS.com.au has an article about Issac "Sir Eats-A-Lot" Martin which includes a report on his attempt at the sandwich challenge at Charc in Sydney.
Matt Stonie will do a live pizza challenge tomorrow at 9 pm eastern / 6 pm Pacific on the live.me app.
Statesman.com has a preview of Yasir Salem competing in the Austin Tour de Donut bike race/eating contest on November 13.
The Guardian has a report on the noodle eating contest that will be held in Morioka, Japan on November 6. Competitive noodle eating has reportedly been practiced in that city since the 17th century.
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