Jennifer Saito ate 16 curry bao dumplings in 2 minutes to win Saturday's contest at Wow Bao in Chicago.
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest is being used to illustrate articles about the World Health Organization's new report that claims consumption of processed meats increases the chances of colon and stomach cancer.
Registration for the Pizza Brawl eating contest will take place on November 4 at Double Decker in Media, PA. The contest in Broomall, PA on December 19 will award $5000.
Dave Wood wins 2015 Rock the Tot finals
Ray Maas has uploaded a video of yesterday’s Rock the Tot finals in Cleveland. The amounts of tater tots eaten in 3 minutes according to that video:
| 1st | 4.125 | David “The Termite” Wood | |
| 2nd | 3 | Raymond Maas | |
| 3rd | 2.9375 | Mark “The Gripper” Kolbusz | |
| 4th | 2.8125 | Ian “The Invader” Hickman | |
| 5th | 2.625 | Pete “Broken Wing” Maurizio |
Omaha.com reports that Molly Schuyler eating the 72 ounce steak at Sayler's in Portland in 2:44 appears in the latest edition of Ripley's Believe it or Not.
Aunt Chiladas Easy Street Cafe will hold a taco eating contest on October 29 awarding $250 to the winner.
Joey Chestnut wins Tulsa brats
| 1st | 66 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 43 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | |
| 2nd | 43 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 31.5 | “Nasty” Nathan Biller | |
| 5th | 13 | Frank Ortiz | walk-on contestant |
Joey Chestnut ate 66 sausages to win today’s contest at Lind @e Oktoberfest in Tulsa.
Takeru Kobayashi defends Chronic Tacos title
update Nov 12 LA Taco has a contest report
update Nov 2 Hedonist Shedonist has a contest report
update Oct 31 LA Wonders has a contest report claiming Pat Bertoletti won $1000
update Oct 25 Erik Lamkin has a contest video
Results from Erik Lamkin
| 1st | 144 | Takeru Kobayashi | new record |
| 2nd | 114 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 3rd | 81 | Erik “The Electric” Lamkin | |
| 4th | 67 | Edward Chin | |
| 5th | 63 | Kevin Ross | |
| 6th | 50 | Naader “Freak8r” Reda |
Takeru Kobayashi ate 144 tacos in 10 minutes to defend his title at the Gringo Bandito Hot Sauce taco eating contest at Chronic Tacos in Redondo Beach, CA. Pat Bertoletti was the runner up with over 100.
Kobayashi vs. two pregnant women Friday on CBS Los Angeles
Bob Shoudt wins Philadelphia Cheesesteak Festival contest
update Oct 25 Videos: jt2044 | Lol all day | MCKnUxXx
Results from comment:
| 1st | 9.5 | “Notorious” Bob Shoudt | |
| 2nd | 9 | David “Tiger Wings and Things” Brunelli | |
| 3rd | 5.5 | Kevin “Qwazy” Ambs | |
| 4th | 4.5 | John “Oink Oink” Bradley | |
| 5th | 4 | Dimitry “The Ukraine Train” Shchupak |
Bob Shoudt won the first prize of $3000 at the Cheesesteak Festival in Philadelphia today.
2015 Bass Pro Shops Moon Pie contest
update Oct 25 The Brister has a contest video
| 1st | 69 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | |
| 2nd | 38 | Yasir Salem | |
| 3rd | 37 | Gideon Oji | |
| 4th | 35 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 5th | 32.5 | Matt “Sweet Tooth” Cohen | |
| 6th | 28 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 7th | 24.5 | Matthew Raible | |
| 8th | 18 | “Moonpie Mike” | |
| 8th | 18 | Allen Franks | |
| 10th | 10 | Alex “Moose” Perez | |
| DQ | ? | “The Fabulous Rachel” |
Matt Stonie won the contest with a record 69 Moon Pies.
Matt Stonie, Badlands Booker, Yasir Salem and Gideon Oji are expected to compete.
"Meliissalovesfood" reports that she and her two sisters all broke the previous women's dumpling record of 57 at Crane Bar in Sydney.
Molly Schuyler ate a large stuffed pizza by herself in 5:02 to win a contest at Chicago Fire Pizza in Sacramento on Monday. The competition was for two person teams.
The Daily Mail has an article about Li Yongzhi of Shawoli, China, who reportedly eats up to 5.5 pounds of chilli peppers daily.
WBIR has a segment about Randy Santel's unsuccessful attempt at the Rocky Top ice cream challenge at It's All so Yummy Cafe in Knoxville. Randy mentions his upcoming team pizza challenge with Matt "Sweet Tooth" Cohen in the clip.
Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to shut down a hot dog stand on tonight's episode of the Middle of the Night Show on MTV at 11 pm eastern. WWE heel "The Miz" will also appear on the program.
2015-16 Nashville Nathan’s qualifier
update Oct 22 The name of the female winner was Noelle Morgann
results Part 1 | Part 2
| 1st | 24 | Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski | |
| 2nd | 23 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 3rd | 19 | Pedram “The Punisher” Esmaeelzadeh | |
| 4th | 17.5 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 5th | 16 | “Nasty” Nathan Biller | |
| 6th | 14 | Frank “the Kaiser” Wach | |
| 7th | 13 | Matthew Raible | |
| 8th | 11.5 | Stephen Underwood | |
| 9th | 8 | Alex “Moose” Perez |
| 1st | 6.5 | Mrs. Dudzinski | no first name given |
| 2nd | 6 | Taylor Coombs |
Brian Dudzinksi, Crazy Legs Conti, Nate Biller, Ronnie Hartman and Matt Raible are expected to compete. Taylor Coombs will hopefully prevent a repeat of the spring Nashville qualifier where no preregistered females showed up and a walkon won by default.
Reporter Newspapers has a biography of Dale Boone with information about his career as a television producer in India. He will temporarily retire from competitive eating if he is elected mayor of Brookhaven, GA.
Philadelphia Weekly has interviews with Bob Shoudt and Dave Brunelli about competing in Saturday's Cheeststeak Festival eating contest.
Bar Louie has announced the competitors in the Rock the Tot finals in Cleveland Saturday: Ian Hickman, Mark Kolbusz, Raymond Maas, Pete Maurizio and David Wood.
Riverbender.com has an article about Kyle Hanner's donation of $500 of eating contest winnings to Alton Day Care & Learning Center.
First We Feast has an an article on how Nela Zisser meshes her modeling with competitive eating. (Her latest video: 50 dumplings in 3 minutes).
ReadFrontier has an interview with Joey Chestnut about competing in Saturday's bratwurst eating contest at Linde Oktoberfest Tulsa.
Crazy Legs Conti will discuss his chicken wing eating techniques on Friday's episode of You're Eating it Wrong on the Cooking Channel.
Reporter Newspapers reports that Dale Boone is trailing his rival John Ernst in fundraising for the Brookhaven, GA mayoral campaign $56,000 to $3,900.
Mike Longo announces that he ate 51 wings to win the first prize of $500 at the Kickin Chicken Wing Fest in Richmond.
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