PasadenaNow.com reports that the Beef Bowl, a steak eating contest held at Lawry's in Beverly Hills, CA, for members of Rose Bowl teams did not take place before today's game as a result of the new 12 team college football playoff format. The event was held every year from 1956 to 2023 except for Covid cancellations in 2020 and 2021. (Reddit thread about the termination)
The A & E Network has uploaded the series "Airline", an unscripted program about Southwest Airlines passengers, to its youtube channel. In the May 16, 2005 episode, "A Hard Days Flight", Don "Moses" Lerman travels cross-country to compete in the Golden Palace grilled cheese eating contest in Venice Beach.
Food Challenge News has an article about the mysterious disappearance of extreme food challenger Chuck Saragossi, whose "Chuck from the Bronx" youtube channel stopped updating without any retirement announcement in 2016.
Ryan "Max Carnage" Rodacker, founder of the Big Eaters Club of Oregon, announced his retirement from competitive eating at the end of his latest video.
James Webb is the guest on the latest Food Challenge News podcast.
Joey Chestnut did interviews with the San Diego Union Tribune and Times of San Diego to promote his appearance as the Grand Marshal of the Holiday Bowl. He plans to defend his title at Siegel's Bagelmania in Las Vegas in February.
Josh Brett produced a mini-documentary titled "Why Competitive Eaters Don't Get Fat" containing interviews with Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Adam Moran, Leah Shutkever, Katina DeJarnett, Nela Zisser and others. The brief segment about intentional vomiting appears at the end (around 10:20) and consists of clips of eaters denying that they reverse.
Mashed.com produced a video titled "Secrets Man V Food Producers Tried To Hide"
James Webb is the guest on the latest Out of Interest podcast.
Devils Liquor in Tempe, AZ will hold a taco eating contest at halftime of the Peach Bowl on New Years Day awarding $500 to the winner.
A sleeping woman was set on fire while on a subway car at the Coney Island subway station at Surf & Stillwell. The location is adjacent to the site of Nathan's Famous July 4 hot dog eating contest.
Mashed.com has compiled a list titled "Man V Food Challenges That Got Gross".
The King of the Wings contest at the Hudson Valley Wingfest will award $5,000 if the contest record of 1:31 for 18 wings is broken on February 1 in Poughkeepsie, NY. Four qualifiers will be held.
Randy Santel's latest video concludes with a marriage proposal to Katina Eats Kilos DeJarnett, which she accepted.
"El señor de las hamburguesas", a play starring Joe Burgerchallenge, premiered today in Valencia, Spain. Joe plays a food influencer who is kidnapped.
Bandana Eats produced a video of his trip to Comic Con in Singapore for the Waffle Eating Championship. The top 3 (10 minutes) 1) Zermatt Neo 33 waffles 2) Bandana Eats 28 waffles 3) Mayoi Ebihara 23 waffles
Nela Zisser appeared on The Morning Rumble podcast. She says she has put video production on hiatus due to working full time as a psychiatrist. She also called dunking hot dogs in water at
Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest disgusting.
Wings for Wishes wing eating contest will be held in South Miami on March 8.
On the Rodiculous podcast, cooking influencer Rosanna Pansino discussed her experience with Matt Stonie while they recorded an episode of "Youtube Creators". The discussion about Matt starts around minute 39. At 42:00, Rosanna says that Matt told her that he wants to move away from competitive eating since it is taking a toll on his health.
Manchester World reports that Michael Chant ate a meat and potato pie in 17 seconds at the World Pie Eating Championship in Wigan, England on Thursday to break the contest record of 23 seconds set in 2012. The competition is probably the most famous British eating contest.
NOVA PBS has a video asking "What Happens to Your Body During a Speed Eating Competition?" containing interviews with Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus.
The latest BWAAA! podcast is about the "Fat and the Furious" episode of "King of the Hill" that was televised on November 10, 2002 in which Bill attempted to qualify for Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest. Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson guest starred as competitive eating fans.
Joey Chestnut has been named the Honorary Chairman at the Holiday Bowl in San Diego on December. He will also serve as "Chief Egg Nog Official" and oversee dousing the winning coach in egg nog. It is not clear if he will perform an eating exhibition or contest at the event.
Josh "The Goat" Krady is the guest on the latest Food Challenge News podcast.
The Patches and Pins Expo will hold a taco eating contest in Santa Ana, CA on Friday, December 13 awarding $200 to the winner.
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