Jesse Kankula ate 10 hot dogs in 3 minutes to win the first prize of $500 in yesterday's hot dog eating contest in Chatham, Ontario.
Foodie Pleasure has an interview with Miki Sudo, who claims that her natural stomach capacity is 20 pounds.
Donut-Geddon (Kurt from Cherry Hill) won this morning's donut eating contest at the Amish Market in North Wildwood, NJ and claim a spot in Wing Bowl 24 (contest podcast).
In honor of National Hot Dog Day, Guinness has a list of 5 frankfurter records. The largest ever hot dog eating contest was held in Valencia, Spain and had a field of 3189 competitors.
The Georgetown Safeway in Washington, DC will hold a chicken wing eating contest awarding $400 in cash and $475 in Safeway cards on July 29. The winner will receive $250 cash and a $250 Safeway card.
Abigail (kiki_meow_meow) attempted the challenge at Pho Lucky in Redford, MI (before picture | after).
Slate.com has a blog entry about "Eat to Win", Nina Berman's gallery of photographs taken at eating contests. The project was facilitated by a competitive eating calendar which is not named in the post.
@eatmoregyoza has posted the field for the Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship in Los Angeles August 22: Matt Stonie, Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Adrian Morgan, Michelle Lesco, Erik Denmark, Juliet Lee, Juan Rodriguez, Badlands Booker, Steve Hendry, Pablo Martinez, Rich & Carlene LeFevre, Josh Miller, Mary Bowers & Leslie Ryder.
Saul Star has an interview with Tim Brown, who is conducting the Smoke's Poutinerie World Famous Great Canadian Cross Country Plaid Gravy Train Fries Curd and Gravy Weird Wild and Wacky Poutine Eating Tour 2015. Poutine eating contests are held at each stop, and the overall best time for eating 1.5 pounds of poutine will win a trip to Toronto to compete in the MLE poutine eating contest. (The current top mark is 34 seconds). People can also challenge "Gravy" to a 4.5 pound poutine eating contest and will win a $1000 gift card if he is defeated.
Tucson.com has an article about Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco's training session for the Hooters Worldwide Wing Eating Championship. She hopes to eat 150 wings in 10 minutes tonight. update The official total was 6 pounds or 164 wings.
Diamond Jack's Casino in Bossier City, LA will hold a hot dog eating contest tomorrow awarding $500.
Barkpost.com has a gallery of Will Millender's pet, PBNJ, competing in a hot dog eating contest for dogs at Barkfest in Brooklyn on Sunday.
People.com has an article about "Furious" Pete Czerwinski mentioning that his youtube channel now has 2 million subscribers.
Riscky's Barbecue will hold a rib eating contest on Saturday at the National Day of the American Cowboy in Fort Worth awarding $500 to the winner.
The AP Archive has posted videos of a late 1990s (probably 1998) Nathan's weigh-in overseen by Rudy Guiliani and contest held in Schweikert's Alley won by Hirofumi Nakajima. (Additional AP archive eating contest videos)
Arooga's in Harrisburg, PA will hold a wing eating contest Saturday awarding $250 to the winner.
The Broken Yolk Cafe Instagram reports that Molly Schuyler set a record for its 12 Iron (Wo)Man Omelette challenge with a time of 2.19 minutes at its City of Orange, CA location.
Gideon Oji in Sports Illustrated
Nels Popp has a screenshot of the Faces in the Crowd page in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated magazine featuring Gideon Oji’s Nathan’s performance. (via Beth Cianfrone)
Chatham, Ontario will hold a hot dog eating contest Thursday awarding $850 ($500 to the winner). The entry fee is $100.
BBC Africa reports that Juma Kabigi ate three loaves of bread, eight chapatis, 10 eggs, two raw cabbages, four apples and two bundles of vegetables to win an eating contest in Uganda. His prize was 10,000 Ugandan schillings (approximately $3).
The July 3 cartoon for New Yorker magazine was captioned "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness which may involve an occasional hot dog eating contest'
USA Today has an article about competitive eating health risks with quotes from Matt Stonie and Pat Bertoletti, who says (without providing details) that he has experienced an injury while training.
Matthew Holowicki won Saturday's five pound corned beef sandwich eating contest at Pat O'Brien's in St. Clair Shores, MI.
Sunstar Scheduling has a request for a medic for the Hooters Wing Championship on Saturday.
Yasir Salem had the fastest time in the Tour de Donut in Staunton, IL on July 11 after receiving a time deduction of 250 minutes for eating 50 donuts while bicycling. His unadjusted time was 2:33 for the 32 mile course. (via Bucks County Courier)
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