NWAHomePage.com reports Joey Chestnut did a "Hot Ones" style spicy chicken nugget challenge at the University of Health and Performance in Benton County, AR as part of its Veterans Day celebration yesterday.
Wayne Algenio won the Orlando qualifier for the Fat Shack 5K Challenge on Saturday. The final January 25 in Colorado will award $5000. update Dan Kennedy won the Philadelphia qualifier
James Webb, Nick Wehry and Dave "US Male" Goldstein are expected to compete in Benny’s Invitational Pizza Eating Championship in Manayunk, PA on November 16. This will be Goldstein's first MLE competition since 2010. update Geoff Esper, George Chiger, Larell Marie Mele, William Myers, Rene Rovtar and Cherish Brown are also expected to compete.
Norms Hotcake Eating Championship
Full results (10 minutes)
| 1st | 46 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 2nd | 44 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 41 | James Webb | |
| 4th | 36.5 | Miki Sudo | |
| 5th | 35.25 | Nick Wehry | |
| 6th | 23.5 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 7th | 18.5 | Mirza “Snowman” Selmic | |
| 8th | 12.25 | Naader “Freak8r” Reda | |
| 9th | 11.5 | Sergio Reyes-Raya | |
| 10th | 11 | Tandra Childress | |
| 11th | 6 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown |
James Webb is running a livestream of today’s Norms Hotcake Eating Championship in Las Vegas.
La Nova Wings will hold a Wing Bowl awarding $1000 to the winner before the Buffalo Bills game on November 17.
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports that Outlaw Egg Rolls will close on December 14. The food truck sponsored a MLE egg roll eating contest in 2022 and planned a 2023 competition, but it was canceled due to lack of funding.
Bloomberg has a column about the hot dog eating contest held at the MustardFest in Springfield, Ohio on September 21. The majority of the piece discusses Haitian immigrants in Springfield. Joey Chestnut made a personal appearance at the event, but did not participate in the competition that was won by Jack Legath.
Yahoo! of Japan has an article about Takeru Kobayashi's plans to start a hot dog eating contest in Japan and start his own brand of frankfurters. Kobayashi retired from competitive eating after his "Unfinished Beef" showdown with Joey Chestnut in September. (via Super News Chan)
Emmy DeLuca won the first prize of two Baltimore Ravens tickets in Saturday's street corn eating contest at Banditos Tacos & Tequila in Nottingham, MD.
The Northwestern University student newspaper has a review of the play "Dogs" that premiered Friday at the Red Theater in Chicago. Most of the characters are competitors in a women's hot dog eating contest.
Geoff Esper, Pat Bertoletti, James Webb, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry and Derek Hendrickson are expected to compete in the NORMS Las Vegas: Hotcake Eating Championship on November 9.
The play "Dogs", set at a women's hot dog eating contest, premiered last night at the Red Theater in Chicago. It is scheduled to run until November 24.
Mosaic Pizza in Brisbane, QLD will hold a pizza eating contest on Sunday awarding $500 to the winner, $250 to the runner up.
Philly Voice has a review of the new documentary "No One Died: The Wing Bowl Story", which debuted last week at the Philadelphia Film Festival.
A 2013 episode of "Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy" in which Larry MCs a Quadruple Bypass Burger eating contest at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas will be rerun Saturday on The Nest network at 4pm Eastern. Miki Sudo was one of the competitors.
Scott Eats ate 25 donuts in 5 minutes to win the first prize of $1,000 at the Donut Fun Run in Alameda, CA on October 19.
CapeCon will hold a pizza eating contest in Cape Girardeau, MO on November 3 awarding $200 to the winner.
Joey Chestnut turned down “Beetlejuice 2” cameo
ScreenRant.com has a post about director Tim Burton’s request for Joey Chestnut to have a cameo role in Beetlejuice 2. Chestnut turned down the offer to focus on training for a contest, most likely Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest in 2023.
During Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice 2 commentary feature, the director speaks about the creative nature of developing the latest batch of dead people seen in the afterlife. Among the group is a man who died during a hot dog-eating contest, one of the first afterlife characters Burton created, and someone Betelgeuse is sitting next to while in the waiting room in the sequel. Burton’s Beetlejuice 2 commentary reveals he actually wanted famous hot dog contest eater Joey Chestnut to play the afterlife character, but the competitor was too busy training for an upcoming event.
Burton shared that he was inspired by Chestnut’s record-breaking events when creating afterlife characters, so he decided to add someone who died as a result of eating too many hot dogs. When Beetlejuice 2 started filming, Chestnut would’ve been prepping to compete in the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest held every Fourth of July.
Carlos Rodon is the New York Yankees starting pitcher for tonight's World Series game versus the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2014 after being drafted by the Chicago White Sox, he discussed his competitive eating fandom in an episode of the Cespedes Family Barbecast podcast.
Adam Richman reported that his production van was broken into and many items were stolen at a M1 truck stop in Barnet, England while traveling between London and Birmingham. The former host of "Man v Food" was recording the second season of "Adam Richman Eats Britain".
Daily Mail has an article about the Fat Shack 5K challenge that will award $3000/$1500/$500 in Colorado on January 25. Entrants will need to qualify at a Fat Schack on November 9 by eating a Fat Shack Sandwich, a classic double cheeseburger, a side of French fries, 12 Mac N Cheese Bites and 5 Deep Fried Oreos in under 15 minutes. (List of qualfier sites).
PR News Online has an interview with Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest co-founder Mortimer Matz, who turned 100 in July.
The trailer for "No One Died: The Wing Bowl Story" can be viewed online and includes clips of Jason Kelce, Joey Chestnut and Molly Schuyler. On Pattison has an article about last night's premier of the documentary at the Philadelphia Film Festival.
Bloody Elbow has a post about Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran's recent video of his attempt to set a chicken wing record at a restaurant in Liverpool while the previous holder, MMA Fighter Paddy Pimblett, watched.
Dan Kennedy ate 26 4 ounce meatballs in 3 minutes to win first prize of $1000 at the Emporio meatball eating contest at the StrEAT Festival in Pittsburgh Sunday,
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