The Hungry Hungry Hatters, a competitive eating group at Stetson University, will hold pie, hot dog, wing & ice cream eating contests in DeLand, FL on November 20.
Jaws Restaurant in Perth, Australia will hold a sushi eating contest on December 13 awarding $500. Qualifiers will take place on Sunday and award $100 and a spot in the finals.
Heritage Brewing in Manassas, VA will hold a rib eating contest on November 16. Washington Redskins Nick Sundberg, Dustin Hopkins & Silas Redd Jr. are expected to compete.
Betfair.com has odds for the 2016 Nathan's finals. Matt Stonie is at 1/2 and Joey Chestnut is 11/8. The rest of the field is a 10/1 underdog. There are also odds for Matt Stonie and Joey Chestnut to exceed 63.5 hot dogs.
Arooga's in Hershey, PA will hold a wing eating contest tomorrow awarding $250 to the winner. (via Sara Bozich)
Baltimore Magazine's report on Pete's Grille's pancake eating contest mentions Stephanie Wu's disqualification for being a "professional" from last year's competition.
Philly Voice has a report on how mukbang, the practice of eating meals that are broadcast on the internet, has spread outside its Korean home.
ICv2 reports that Tem-purr-a, a board game about competitive eating cats, will be released in February. The objective is "to eat as much food as they can without getting indigestion, while pushing dishes onto their neighbors in order to make them over-indulge."
Kate Ovens wrote a report for the Newcastle Tab about her attempt at the 27 inch pizza at Toni's Pizzeria in Glasgow, Scotland (video).
Mirror.co.uk reports that an attempt to cook the world's spiciest chilli produced toxic fumes which required the evacuation of four student houses at the University of Manchester. The firefighters responding called it "the most stupid thing they'd been sent out for in 20 years."
A press release announces that Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Michelle Lesco, Badlands Booker, Yasir Salem, Gideon Oji and Crazy Legs Conti are expected to compete in the turkey eating contest at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, CT on November 21. If Matt Stonie misses the contest, he will have a 365+ day winning streak, since his most recent defeat came at last year's turkey eating contest.
The BBC reports that Hull University Students' Union in Yorkshire held an event that started as a cracker eating contest that evolved into a competition where people reproduced sexual positions on-stage.
John Rivera has been announced as the winner in the eating contest at Chit Chat Pizza in Van Nuys, CA. Jon Bello was the runner up and Jimmy Lin was 3rd.
In Nela Zisser's latest video, she attempts to eat 22 Big Macs in one session. update Nov 12 The Daily Mirror and Daily Mail have articles
Spanish Doughnuts will hold a churro eating contest in Melbourne, Australia on Nov 22 awarding $1000 to the winner.
Michael Jenkins announces he and Nate Figueroa ate 36 Krispy Kreme donuts over 4 minutes and agreed to a tie at the Taste of North Miami.
2015 Larose gumbo eating contest
Nate Biller has the top 9 Part 1 | Part 2
The top 3:
| 1st | 15 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 14.5 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 11.25 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 4th | 7.25 | “Nasty” Nathan Biller | |
| 5th | 7 | corey fanguy | |
| 6th | 6.75 | Matthew Raible | |
| 7th | 6.25 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 8th | 6 | “Big Eater Mike” Michael Whities | |
| 9th | 4 | Dave Sarinea |
Miki Sudo appeared on c967 yesterday.
Pete's Grille in Baltimore will hold its amateur-only pancake eating contest on November 20. Previous contests have awarded $500 to the top male and female.
Registration is now open for the St. Elmo World Shrimp Cocktail Championship in Indianapolis on December 5.
The Philly Voice has an article about the amateur only Philly Pizza Brawl that will award $5000 in prizes on December 19 in Broomall, PA. The event will be recorded for local television and spectator tickets will cost $20.
Stephanie Wu reports that Chit Chat in Van Nuys, CA has extended its pizza eating contest. The three fastest times as of November 7 will win $250/$100/$50. Jimmy Lin and Kevin Ross are the current leaders.
The Wall Street Journal has a report on how Frankfurt, Germany is responding to the World Health Organization report claiming that consumption of processed meats increase the risk of cancer.
Elite Daily has an article about Australian competitive eater Cal "hulksmashfood" Stubbs and his burger challenge dominated instagram.
The Sun has a profile of Kate Ovens titled "I am a size ten eating machine".
Battle of the Big Eaters 3 is recording today in Times Square. Team USA appears to be represented by Bob Shoudt and Tom Gilbert. update Team Japan reportedly won its matchup vs. Shoudt/Gilbert Pat Bertoletti faced off against a blondish girl I had not seen before. update #2 Pat competed against Hitomi Sato. It appears Molly Schuyler faced off against Hatsuyo Sugawara.
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