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.
Mashable.com has curated a gallery of eating contest pictures taken between 1915 and 1987.
John Ernst projected as winner over Dale Boone
update Nov 4 With 100% reporting, the totals are John Ernst 3338, Dale Boone 492 Article about the election results
John A. Ernst Jr. has been projected as the winner over Dale Boone in the Brookhaven, GA mayoral election. As of 9:46 pm, Ernst had a lead of 2,044 votes to 343.
James Carter, grandson of the 39th president, tweeted a link to a document claiming that Boone threatened Ernst supporters.
Joey Chestnut has been announced as a competitor in the gumbo eating contest in Larose, LA on November 7. Miki Sudo, Sonya Thomas and Adrian Morgan are also expected to compete. update Nate Biller, Crazy Legs Conti, Corey Fanguy and Matt Raible are also expected. Adrian Morgan appeared on WWL to promote the contest.
Grantland.com competitive eating content
ESPN terminated its Grantland.com sports / pop culture website on Friday. Here are the competitive eating articles it published, read them while they are still in the archive if you are interested
- June 2011, Patrick Michels on the inaugural Nathan’s women’s finals
- July 2012, “Cousin” Sal Iacono on his attempt at an eating challenge in 1993
- July 2013 Carles’ writeup of Honey Boo Boo episode where the star’s sister attempted the Pigzilla barbecue sandwich challenge at Papa Buck’s BBQ in Metter, GA
- August 2013 Danny Chau asks “Can Matt Stonie Bring About a New Golden Age in Competitive Eating?”
- August 2014, Danny Chau’s report on competing in the Little Tokyo gyoza contest
Fish City Grill in Southlake, TX will hold an oyster eating contest on November 8 for four person teams awarding $1000 to the winning quartet. Teams must raise at least $300.
SCTimes has an article on Jeremiah "Fit vs. Food" Forster of St. Cloud, MN, a former competitive bodybuilder. He has completed over 60 eating challenges.
The FBTSpod twitter has the finishing times for Yasir Salem (6 hours 28 minutes) & Crazy Legs Conti (7:05) in yesterday's New York City Marathon. Conti's time was about 3 times as long as female champion Mary Keitany's result of 2:24.
Mountain Mud Arts has a gallery of the memorial urn it created for Stephanie Torres (via Stephanie Wu).
Recent off topic comments about gambling have been moved here.
Gulf News has a gallery of a pizza eating contest held in Baghdad, Iraq on Halloween won by Walid Aladdin.
Tom T. Pendergrass, Jr. calls Dale Boone a "banned competitive eating candidate who has an extensive criminal record" in a comment on a Brookhaven Post column endorsing Boone's rival John Ernst for the upcoming mayoral election.
The Daily Herald has an article about Guinness world records held by Chicagoland residents with a section about Pat Bertoletti's eating records.
Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran reports that he is in New York City to represent the UK in the third edition of TV Tokyo's Battle of the Big Eaters.
Sportblog has an entry about the pie eating contest held on the October 30th, 1985 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC. Some of the entrants: Hulk Hogan as Hercules, Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff as Batman & Robin, King Kong Bundy as Abe Lincoln and Macho Man & Miss Elizabeth as Tarzan & Jane,
The Northwestern U student paper has an article about Grace Chan, who ate 50 California rolls in about 3 minutes to win the women's division of Todoroki's sushi eating contest last year. She is now a student at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine.
Fusion.net has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi about the World Health Organization report that consumption of processed meats increases the chance of cancer. He says it will not affect his career and does not think it will impact competitive eating in general.
The 2015 St. Elmo Shrimp Cocktail-Eating Championship will be held before the Big Ten Football Championship Game in Indianapolis on December 5.
Valerie Pondering, a blog by a Mormon missionary in Japan, was at a festival holding an eating contest in which an entrant required CPR from paramedics. She does not know the fate of the competitor.
The Auburn (CA) Journal has an article about the "No. 25 Thai Hot" challenge at David's Thai Cuisine which will be terminated after owner David Voraphongphibul sells his business.
Joe.co.uk has a report on an attempt at the Chilli Challenge at Meat Liquor in London which includes five tips for competitive eaters.
Greg "The Floss" Moss shot a 62 to take the first day lead of the TAKE Solutions India Masters golf tournament.
This summer, Seaver "The Achiever" Miller won a silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in the World Police & Fire Games in Northern Virginia. Intestinal issues forced the termination of Seaver's competitive eating career in 2007.
Competitive Eaters diagnosed with cancer
- Balinda Gould ate 42.5 chili dogs in four hours at the Rockford Corner Bar in 2005 to break a 23 year old record and claim a $500 prize. In 2011, she passed away from cancer at the age of 46. (As far as I know, the chili dog record was the only eating contest or challenge she attempted.)
- “Furious” Pete Czewinski Diagnosed with cancer in 2014, requiring the removal of a testicle. Unfortunately that did not stop the spread of the cancer, resulting in radiation therapy in 2015.
- Ed “Cookie” Jarvis Diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2010 He has had 11 tumors removed (some non-cancerous) according to a July 2012 Deadspin article.
- Curtis Sliwa the Guardian Angels founder and 1994 Nathan’s 3rd place finisher was diagnosed with prostrate cancer in 2011.
Boston Magazine has an article about New England eating challenges which contains Geoff Espers training tips.
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