The new poll asks what country do you think would be most likely to win a medal if competitive eating was an Olympic sport. (Assume the USA & Japan take the top 2 spots).
Joey Chestnut wins Chacho’s Tacos
2016 Day-Lee Foods Gyoza Championship
update Aug 26 KPCC has a contest report
update Aug 23 ouendantengoku has a contest video
update Flickr.com gallery
The top 5 | Part 2
1 Matt Stonie 323
2 Geoff Esper 243
3 Miki Sudo 229
4 Gideon Oji 183
5 Juan Rodriguez 181
6 Rich LeFevre 168
7 Pablo Martinez 127
8 Eric “Badlands” Booker 116
9 Carlene LeFevre 80
10 Doug Ecks 72
11 Mary Bowers 65
12 Shimizu 63
13 Lesley Ryder 50
The contest can be viewed on facebook live.
The Tulare County Fair in Tulare, CA will hold a corn dog eating contest on September 17 awarding $500/$200/$100.
The 2016 Chef One Dumpling eating contest will take place at the NYC Dumpling Festival in Sara D. Roosevelt Park in Manhattan on September 24. $2000/$1000/$500 will be awarded to the top 3 men and women.
Joey Chestnut, Gideon Oji, Matt Cohen, Matthew Raible and Sean Mulcahey are expected to compete in the Oktoberfest Zinzinnati bratwurst eating contest on September 17.
The Citizen has an article about Australian competitive eating focusing on "Hulk Smash Food" and "Chompamatic". Australia will send a team to Battle of the Big Eaters 4 to compete with quartets from Japan, Canada and the USA in Dallas later this year.
Nicki Chan Lam has an instagram devoted to her huge meals at https://www.instagram.com/nickichanlam/. Her fiance Marcus Ellis won a bronze medal in badminton for the United Kingdom in the Rio Olympics today.
Nathan's Famous will line up 1916 hot dogs in Grand Central Terminal on September 2 to set a Guinness Record. Joey Chestnut will oversee the event.
The Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver will offer a 10 pound Hercules Burger for $70 from August 20 to September 5.
Baltimore Magazine has an article about Juliet Lee.
The NC Hot Sauce Festival will hold a pepper eating contest in Oxford, NC on September 10 awarding $1000 to the winner and $300 to the runner up.
MLE announces that Joey Chestnut has withdrawn from Saturday's gyoza eating contest in Los Angeles to do Chacho's Tacos contest in San Jose. A press release was just sent out hyping the now canceled gyoza faceoff with Matt Stonie.
Arni's Pizza in Lafayette, IN will hold an eating contest on September 25 awarding $1000/$500/$300/$200/$100.
Las Trancas will hold a taco eating contest in Las Cruces, NM on Thursday awarding $500/$250/$100.
Chelsey Novak won $2000 in an ice cream eating contest for models held yesterday in Hollywood Beach, FL.
Bradzrt has uploaded what appears to be the entire series of Man vs. Food (in low quality) to youtube.
Pro wrestlers "Big Show" and Alisha Fox will attend Saturday's pizza eating contest in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn.
Australian badminton player Sawan Serasinghe ordered a meal from McDonald's including a Big Mac, two McChickens, a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, two hamburgers, 40 Chicken McNuggets, six large fries, a smoothie and brownie after losing in the Olympics. McDonald's food is free to athletes in the Olympic Village with a limit of 20 items per person.
sde.co.ke reports that a man named Otange passed away after choking at an eating contest held at a funeral in the Nyang’iela area in Homa Bay County in Keyna. Feasts are commonly held at Kenyan funerals as a way of honoring the deceased.
The Daily Mail has an article about Emma Dalton's wedding to David Jones in Bromsgrove, England on Friday. The nuptials had a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory theme, with guest receiving golden tickets.
Dave Brunelli ate 300 clams yesterday to win the first prize of $1000 at Peter's Clam House clam eating challenge in Island Park, NY.
Joe Menchetti won both the Royal Caribbean Bakery National Bun & Cheese Eating Championship and the Caribbean Food Delights National Jerk Chicken Wing Championship held Sunday in East Islip, NY. Wayne Algenio was the runner-up in both contests and Paul Donnelly was third in both.
UFC President Dana White competed in a hot dog eating contest in Bangor, ME on August 5. The footage will appear in "Lookin for a Fight", an upcoming Netflix series about grassroots mixed martial arts.
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