Kyle Hanner will attempt to win the fruitcake eating contest at Santa's Candy Castle in Santa Claus, IN tomorrow for the third year in a row. WWE legend Mick Foley will not return, but an unnamed bigger celebrity is promised.
Buffalo.com has an article about the "Big Elm" burger challenge at Elma Town Grille in Elma, NY containing an interview with Stephanie Wu, the most recent finisher.
The Wing Bowl 24 announcement reports that Molly Schuyler and defending champ Pat Bertoletti are expected to compete.
Don "Moses" Lerman headlines the latest edition of Tablet Magazine's Unorthodox podcast. During the program, he tries to eat as many latkes as possible in five minutes.
The Ducktown Tavern in Atlantic City will hold a hot wing eating contest on January 31 awarding $500 to the winner. Qualifiers will be held in December.
"Uncle Rico" won this morning's in-studio Wing Off to claim a spot in Wing Bowl 24. Jack Diamond was the runner up.
2016 MLE schedule includes bacon & meat pies
Several 2016 contests are listed on the upcoming MLE schedule:
- February 6, Chili, Orlando, FL $3500 purse – registration opens Dec 3
- March 5, Meat Pies, Bay St. Louis MS $5000 purse – reg opens Jan 4
- June 19 Bacon, Lathrop, CA $4000 purse – reg opens March 31
- September 24, Tamales Lewisville, TX $3500 purse – reg opens July 22
StatesmanJournal.com has a gallery of Ryan "Max Carnage" Rodacker of the Big Eaters Club attempting to eat nine pounds of popcorn.
The Establishment has a joint interview with Miki Sudo and Michelle Lesco.
Nela Zisser appeared Australia's Daily Edition to talk about her latest video where she ate 10 scorpions in Thailand. She hopes to surpass Yuka Kinoshita's mark of 62 McDonalds burgers in an upcoming video. (Daily Mirror article)
NUVO has an interview with Joey Chestnut about defending his St. Elmo's shrimp cocktail title in Indianapolis on Saturday. Interestingly, no mention is made of Matt Stonie's 2015 dominance. update The interview was from 2014.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinksi is currently doing an Ask Me Anything session on reddit.com to promote the release of his book, Stay Hungry. Some of the chapter titles include Dale Boone, Wing Bowl an Kobayashi. In the session Pete said he will do a video with Matt Stonie in the near future.
Wing Bowl 24 tix on sale December 8
updated 8:53WingBowl.CBSLocal.com announces that Wing Bowl 24, “Game of Bones” will take place on February 5 and tickets will go on sale December 8. The overall winner will receive a Harley and $10000. The runner up will receive $5K. A Wing Off will be held January 14 ad Sugarhouse Casino.
Information about Wing Bowl 24 will be announced tomorrow morning (November 30) on WIP.
The Fink Beats the Stomach podcast announces the Finkies competitive eating awards ceremony at Bar 9 in New York City on January 16. Voting will open December 1 for 5 categories: male eater of the year, female of the year, rookie of the year, upset of the year and youtube feat of the year.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinksi will do an Ask Me Anything interview session on reddit.com on Monday at noon eastern to promote the launch of his book Stay Hungry.
Oxy.com has an interview with Miki Sudo about her victory in the Lewisville, TX tamale eating contest.
A picture autographed by Joey Chestnut is currently available on amazon.com as a lightning deal for $11.99. 94% of the pictures have been sold as of 12:37 pm eastern. (via Matt DeMougin)
MLE head to head results Nov, 27 2015
Here are the head to head results for people with 2 or more MLE contests over the past 365 days. Matt Stonie is the first person with a 100% winning percentage since Kobayashi in 2007.
| 1 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) | 100% | 103-0 |
| 2 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) | 95.8% | 184-8 |
| 3 | Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) | 88% | 22-3 |
| 4 | Miki Sudo (M Su) | 80.9% | 137-32-1 |
| 5 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan (A Mo) | 79.8% | 74-18-2 |
| 6 | Geoffrey Esper (G Es) | 76.9% | 40-12 |
| 7 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco (M Le) | 72.5% | 93-35-1 |
| 8 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) | 68.9% | 56-25-1 |
| 9 | Yasir Salem (Y Sa) | 64.6% | 88-48-1 |
| 10 | Gideon Oji (G Oj) | 59% | 62-43-1 |
WWE has compiled a playlist of its competitive eating videos.
This is That, a CBC Radio program, produced a segment about Camp Odoon, "the world's number one training facility for those who consider themselves to be 'food athletes.'". The show describes itself as "a current affairs program that doesn't just talk about the issues, it fabricates them".
Very good news from "Furious" Pete Czerwinski: he has received the results from his radiation therapy sessions and has been found to be cancer free.
WTOP has Thanksgiving eating advice from Joey Chestnut, who turns 32 today.
George Shea has posted the field for the December 5 St. Elmo's shrimp eating contest in Indianapolis: Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Yasir Salem, Steve Hendry, Gideon Oji, Matthew Raible, Andrew Kogutkiewicz and Tracy Goode. If Matt Stonie misses the contest, that will keep his winning streak alive into 2016.
Century 21 produced a video starring Geoffrey Esper claiming his eating speed is similar to the realtors proficiency in selling houses.
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