Hangzhou, China held an eating contest where competitors ate hot peppers while sitting in ice buckets.
To celebrate National Chicken Wing Day, Hooters restaurants will offer All You Can Eat Wings on July 28 (all day) and July 29 (11 am to 4 pm).
The National Fried Mushroom Eating Contest will award $1000/$500/$300 in Kennett Square, PA on September 10. There will also be a contest for local amateurs awarding $200/$100.
Live 105 DJ Kevin Klein will hold a championship parade for Joey Chestnut today on the San Francsico Embarcadero today at noon.
Arooga's Route 22 in Harrisburg, PA will hold a hot wing eating contest on July 30 awarding $300 to the winner.
A burger eating contest will be held Thursday at the Coney Island location of Wahlburgers. The competition will be recorded for an upcoming episode of "Wahlburgers" and Donnie Wahlberg will serve as judge.
Creusa Marques Ramos ate 113 quail eggs in 12 minutes to win a contest held in Bastos, Brazil for her third victory in a row in that event.
Takeru Kobayashi ate 22 plates of Indomie Goreng noodles in 3 minutes at the Jakarta Fair in Indonesia this weekend.
Blasting News on history of clear soft drinks
Blasting News has an article about the history of clear soft drinks that concludes with this paragraph:
Crystal Pepsi’s return is credited to Kevin Strahle, a competitive eater and You Tube star, who once worked for PepsiCo. His online campaign began after he bought a 20-year-old bottle of Crystal Pepsi, drank it on camera and proceeded to throw it all up. Will Crystal Pepsi revitalize PepsiCo’s bottom line? No one can say, and not even the crystal ball at this time, is very clear.
The Ohio State Fair will hold what is billed as the world's largest ice cream eating contest in Columbus on August 3. They hope to have at least 250 participants.
Noshfest will hold a bagel eating contest in Marietta, GA on September 4 awarding $500 to the winner.
Emma Dalton has produced a video of her eating two Empire State Burger Challenges at Tinseltown in under 9 minutes.
Sad news from Vancouver: I received an email that Ken "The Demolisher" Wong passed away at the age of 65. The funeral will be on March 30.
Molly Schuyler ate 32 corn dogs in 8 minutes to win the first prize of $2500 in the Milo's Corn Dogs eating contest held at the California State Fair in Sacramento today.
All Pro Eating will hold a bun & cheese and jerk wing eating contest in Heckscher State Park in East Islip, NY on August 14. Both contests will award $400/$200/$100.
Sophia DeVita produced a video where she attempted to eat 10000 calories of vegan food in a day to celebrate attaining 10,000 youtube subscribers.
Leah Shutkever won a £250 voucher from the Rub Smokehouse in Birmingham, England for having the fastest time to finish the cookie burger challenge in June.
The California Hot Sauce Expo will hold four spicy eating contests in Long Beach this weekend.
The California State Fair in Sacramento will hold a qualifier for its corn dog eating contest tonight. The main event tomorrow will award $2500/$2000/$1000/$500/$100. Bob Shoudt will be competing.
Draft Kings fantasy competitive eater salaries
In honor of National Hot Dog Day, Draft Kings posted ratings for six competitive eaters. Interestingly, Miki Sudo has a higher rating than Takeru Kobayashi.
Joey Chestnut will be a food judge at Beach, Bacon and Brewfest at Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City, OR on Saturday.
John "Oink Oink" Bradley reports that Bob Shoudt won the first prize of $1000 in tonight's crabfries eating contest at Chickie's and Pete's in Philadelphia. Dave Brunelli was the runner up.
The MLE top 50 has been redone. Carmen Cincotti is now #4 and Gideon Oji is #5. No one has been added. (Via Wayne Algenio).
The Starboard in Dewey Beach, DE will hold a "suicide" wing eating contest on July 24 where liquids will not be allowed. The overall victor will receive $500 and the top person of the opposite gender of the winner will receive $200.
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