Nela Zisser has uploaded a video of her eating 120 chicken McNuggets in 16:24. This is 1:51 slower than Matt Stonie needed for the feat, but less time than Furious Pete needed to eat 100 McNuggets. update Jun 4 The New York Post and Dealbreaker have articles.
Morey's Piers in Wildwood, NJ will hold eating contests for professionals and amateurs on June 21 awarding cash. Previous contests have awarded $500.
Professional skateboarder Nick Dompierre posted a video of his attempt at a 20,000 calorie eating challenge.
Sports Media Watch has this year's TV schedule for Wimbledon. ESPN will show tennis from 8am to 4pm Eastern, which will relegate the live broadcast of the Nathan's finals to ESPN2 or another network. (Since July 4 is a Saturday this year, the Nathan's finals could be shown on ABC without conflicting with local news or other weekday programming.)
Ethan Teske and Mitch Dombrowski appeared on Good Day Wisconsin yesterday.
Stephanie Wu has a facebook post on Spike's Junkyard Dogs Kennel Club record and the mystery about who holds the overall record for the chain. Matt Stonie ate 23 hot dogs in 2010.
Michael Jenkins has the top 4 at today's Krystal slider eating contest at Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale Beach, FL: 1) Joe Menchetti 23 in 3 min 2) Mitchell Manresa 20 3) Benjamin Meltzer 19 4) Michael Jenkins
Kyle Hanner ate 17 hot dogs in 5 minutes to defend his title at the Salt Games in Myrtle Beach, SC today.
Newsweek has an article about female competitive eaters focusing on Molly Schuyler with some quotes from Miki Sudo. The reporter dined with Molly Schuyler at Burgers and Beer in Sacramento, where she said she wanted to attempt to eat the restaurant's entire menu if the meal would be free if finished.
Will Millender has the top 4 for today's pizza eating contest at Rocco's Pizza in Brooklyn: Geoff Esper 28 slices, Dave Brunelli 20, Wayne Algenio 15, Will Millender 11. update Jun 4 The Brookly Paper has a contest report
2015 Acme oyster contest
update Jun 1 NOLA.com has an article and gallery (which captions Corey Fanguy as Alex Perez)
update Sonya Thomas has defended her title with 41 dozen in 8 minutes.
Top 4
1) Sonya Thomas 41 dozen
2T) Adrian Morgan 36
2T) Michelle Lesco 36
4) Corey Fanguy 26
Sonya Thomas, Adrian Morgan, Michelle Lesco, Nate Biller, Corey Fanguy and Alex Perez are expected to compete.
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Chronicle.co.uk has an article about Kate Ovens competing in a hot dog eating contest at GrillStock in Manchester yesterday. According to this video, Josh Wilson was the winner.
A hot dog eating contest will be held at the Rialto Theatre in Tucson on July 3 awarding $500 to the winner. Qualifiers will be held on June 12 and 20.
The Edinburgh News reports that a new restaurant opening on May 29 will be devoted to serving the Kismot Killer Curry challenge. In 2011 two customers attempting the challenge in a competition were hospitalized.
Inspired by Matt Stonie, Sheila Watko attempted to eat 30 scoops of ice cream on the Todd & Jayde Show on 95.5 FM in New York City this morning. She thinks she finished 23.
Stephanie Wu announces that she and Manny Cambra set the house record for the challenge pizza at Randy's Wooster St in Connecticut. They are the 5th duo to succeed in over 2062 attempts.
Kate Ovens has started a facebook page about her food challenges.
Adam Richman participated in an Ask Me Anything interview session on reddit.com yesterday. He says his least favorite challenge (which was a mystery beforehand) was the hot wings at Munchies in Sarasota, FL and was also not fond of the 7 pound burrito at Jack and Grill in Denver (which he claims was actually 9.5 pounds yesterday).
Get West London has an article about Shahina Waseem's victory at in a chilli eating contest at the Foodies Festival at Syon Park, the third spicy eating competition she has won.
Halfling Feast, a competitive eating card game set in a Lord of the Rings type universe will debut at the UK Games Expo. A previous competitive eating card game, Guts of Glory, was set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. (via Gamestable_Dan)
Sub 20 HDB winning qualifier totals since 2004
Here is the list of winning Nathan’s qualifier (excluding women-only competitions) totals of 20 or less since 2004 according to the eatfeats database. Gideon Oji’s 16 hot dogs was the lowest winning total for a male for a qualifier held in the USA without entry restrictions in more than 10 years. (The first four qualifiers were limited to military/police/fire)
Wings & Whiskey will hold a wing eating contest in Denver June 7 awarding a cruiser bike.
The Big Eaters Club produced a slideshow of 10 Portland eating challenges for GoLocalPDX.com.
Youtube has a mini-mockumentary about the Championship Eating Network. The fictional channel is used as an example of a minimally-viewed offering which is required to be included in cable packages and is part of Consumer Action's campaign against the practice of bundling. (via IBTimes.com)
Tailgate Fan has an interview with Crazy Legs Conti (conducted in March or earlier) in which h makes the claim an injury has never occurred at a MLE contest. (Conti was present at a 2004 jambalaya eating contest in Washington, DC where Dale Boone required the Heimlich maneuver. According to Eat This Book, Crazy Legs blocked a media camera while "The Mouth of the South" received medical attention.)
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