Taco in a Bag announces that Takeru Kobayashi, Molly Schuyler, LA Beast and Bob Shoudt will pay a visit to their Chicago location early next week. It is not clear if Kobayashi will attempt the Taco Trough challenge.
The field for the Elk Grove (CA) Giant Pumpkin Festival World Pumpkin Pie-Eating Championship on October 4 has been announced: Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Erik Denmark and Pablo Martinez. Matt Stonie will apparently miss the competition.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski announces that he has finished the last radiation therapy in a series of 20 treatments. Let's hope he is declared cancer free in two months when he learns the outcome.
Bacci's Pizza will hold an eating contest in Chicago on September 26 awarding $1750 ($1000 to the winner).
A website for Dale Boone's campaign for the mayor of Brookhaven, GA has been set up at http://voteboone.com
The Dallas News has an interview with defensive lineman Nick Hayden where he compares his competitive eating abilities to those of his Dallas Cowboy teammates.
Applications are now being accepted for the amateur division of Smoke's Poutinerie eating contest in Toronto on October 3. @
Marco Owens announces (in comments) he has taken the lead in the Taco Trough challenge at Taco in a Bag with a time of 3:15, beating Pat Bertoletti's time by almost a minute. He thought that would result in an immediate payment of $5,000, but the contest will continue and pay the prize to the fastest finisher as of September 23. (No mention of that date is made in the original challenge announcement). (via email) update Stephanie Torres just finished the challenge in 4:30, which puts her in the lead for the $2000 prize.
WOW247 has interviews with Matt Stonie, Tim Janus, Miki Sudo and Michelle Lesco about what it takes to be a champion eater.
Ben’s Chili Bowl World Chili Eating Championship will take place October 10 at Taste of DC. Joey Chestnut is expected to defend his title.
A Bub's "Big Ugly" burger eating contest will be held on September 20 in Carmel, IN awarding $350 ($200 to the winner). The contest is open to Indiana residents only.
OursportsCentral.com has an article about Carmen Cincotti, who will compete in the Trenton Thunder World Famous Case's Pork Roll Eating Championship on September 26 after winning the qualifer.
Miki Sudo profile in Maxim
Maxim has a long profile of Miki Sudo focusing on last month’s gyoza contest titled Competitive Eating’s Fastest Rising Star Has Nowhere to Go But Down (Gideon Oji, Geoff Esper, Leslie Ryder or Nela Zisser probably deserve that accolade)
This is probably the most interesting new revelation about Miki’s background in the article:
Sudo has always been drawn to the quirkier sides of life. Her Japanese immigrant father and American mother met while working at a travel agency in New York City in the seventies, one they would come to inherit after the owners of the company left the country after getting into trouble with the Mafia — a fact she shares as if it’s an everyday occurrence to come to own a travel agency because of la cosa nostra. Her father moved the family to Japan when she was five, where they lived for seven years.
Miki’s rival for the top American female competitive eater, Molly Schuyler, is not mentioned in the article.
The youtube channel for Japanese female competitive eater Yuka Kinoshita has passed the 500,000 subscriber mark. Her videos have also been viewed more than 100 million times.
Kyle Hanner (16 miles) and Yasir Salem (64 miles) won their divisions in the Tour de Donut bicycle race / eating contest in Arcanum, OH. Kyle Hanner finished with a negative time after receiving a 90 minute deduction for eating 18 donuts during the race.
El Hefe in Tempe, AZ will hold a taco eating contest tonight awarding $300 to the winner.
The MLE top 50 has been redone: Miki Sudo and Tim Janus have swapped #3/#4 and Adrian Morgan and Erik Denmark have exchanged #6 and #7. Geoff Esper is #12 and Gideon Oji is #15. I do not think anyone has been added or ejected.
Here is a new off-topic poker / gambling thread for the start of the NFL season.
Jamie McNeil ate 16 wings in 3 minutes to win the first prize of $1000 in yesterday's Wing Bowl at Tioga Downs in Nichols, NY.
Wayback Burgers will hold its Triple Triple Challenge on September 18. The fastest overall time to eat a nine patty burger will win $3330.
Teams will compete in a steak eating contest at The Big Texan in Amarillo, TX in tonight's episode of The Great Food Truck Race at 9 pm on the Food Network.
Dave "The Termite" Wood announces he won yesterday's contest at the NJ Taco Festival in Augusta, NJ.
Molly Schuyler defends Kennett Square mushroom title
Results from the National Fried Mushroom Eating Championship at the Mushroom Festival in Kennett Square today:
1) Molly Schuyler 11 pounds
2) Dave Brunelli 5.5
3) Kevin Ambs 4.5
Male amateur winner Teddy Delacruz – 4 pounds (won Eat Off)
Female Amateur winner Janet Dietz – 1.5 pounds
James Burgess ate 12 lobster rolls to win today's eating contest at the Hampton Beach (NH) Seafood Fest. Defending champion Artie Pilakos was unable to compete due to a wedding.
Legistorm reports that "Big" Brian Subich has been hired by Representative Keith Rothfus (R-PA) as a constituent advocate.
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