Vice.com has a report on last Saturday's Nathan's qualifier held at Seal Bay Resort in Selsey, England.
The Rhode Island Chinese Dragon Boat Races & Taiwan Day Festival will hold a dumpling eating contest on Saturday in Pawtucket, RI awarding a round trip ticket to Taiwan.
Leah Shutkever finished "The Big One" at the Hungry Hossee in Corby in 10:15 to break Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran's record for the 45 item breakfast challenge. The meal is one of the more famous British eating challenges and has been offered for 18 years.
Wisconsin Public Radio has an interview with Katina DeJarnett about returning to the United States after a months-long food challenge tour of the world with Randy Santel.
Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle produced a video about his competitive eating career titled "Why I Never Made It To The Nathan's 4th of July Hot Dog Contest".
The Topsfield, MA Fair will hold a hot dog eating contest on September 30 awarding $205 to the winner.
2023 Selsey, England Nathan’s qualifier
update Official results
1 Max Stanford 34
2 Radim Dvoracek 21.5
3T Ronnie Hartman 14.5
3T John Dawes 14.5
1 Rhea Jarvis 4
If accurate, Max Stanford’s total of 34 would break the UK record of 32 set by Beard Meats Food in 2019, but there might have been a miscount.
update Ronnie Hartman announced he was third with 14.5 hot dogs, Max Stanford was the male winner, and Radim Dvoracek was the runner up.
MLE is billing today’s contest in Selsey, England at Seal Bay Resort as the first British Nathan’s qualifier, but there was an qualifier in Birmingham, England in 2005 using pork pies instead of hot dogs.
The competition won by Rob Burns was the subject of a documentary, “The Big Eat”, which can be viewed on youtube.
Dean Bemrose finished a 20 patty burger challenge in 23:50 at Beast Burger in Hull. The restaurant will pay £200 if Radim Dvoracek's record of 8:48 is broken.
The Star has an article about Singaporean mukbangers with a section about former competitive eater Sarah Ow. Her move away from competitive eating was spurred by a decline in the number of eating contests.
The Irish Sun has an article about Katina DeJarnett attempting a breakfast challenge in Ireland consisting of a roll containing ten sausages, black pudding, eggs, baked beans, rashers and numerous chips (french fries). Some spectators thought that the addition of the chips invalidated the meal's status as authentic Irish cuisine.
Steve's Hot Dogs will hold a hot dog eating contest in St. Louis on September 3 awarding $100 to the winner, $50 to the runner up.
The Hampton Beach, NH Seafood Festival will hold its lobster roll eating contest on September 10. The competition has previously awarded $600/$250/$150.
2023 Buffalo Wing Fest fields
Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Gideon Oji, James Webb, George Chiger, Ronnie Hartman, Badlands Booker, Crazy Legs Conti, Jim Reeves and Mike Harris are expected to compete in the Wing It On! USA Chicken Wing Eating Championship at the Buffalo Wing Fest September 3.
Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Gideon Oji, George Chiger, Ronnie Hartman, Badlands Booker, Crazy Leg Conti, Jim Reeves, Rene Rovtar and Cherish Brown are expected to compete in the Buffalo Buffet Bowl Eating Championship on September 2.
James Webb ate 20 Dagwood Dogs in 4:51 to win a contest held in Brisbane on Sunday. In September, he plans to compete in slopper, buffalo wings, pork rolls and tamale contests
The pumpkin pie eating contest does not appear on the Great Pumpkin Farm's 2023 Fall Festival schedule. The competition on Clarence, NY had previously awarded $1,800.
PMQ has an article about the 28 inch pizza challenge offered by PIE.ZAA in Asheville, NC that was attempted by Raina Huang in June.
Perth Now has an article about Compton Burgers in Perth, West Australia receiving a flood of one star reviews after James Webb criticized coffee he ordered from the restaurant on TikTok. Daily Mail also has an article about the feud.
Joey Chestnut will appear at the Newport, KY Hooters on August 29 and attempt to eat as many wings as possible in an hour. The event is to promote an all you can eat wing special available for $15.99.
Radim Dvoracek from the Czech Republic, Max Stanford, John "Food and the Beast" Dawes along with Ronnie Hartman are expected to compete in the Nathan's qualifier at Seal Bay Resort in Selsey, England on August 26.
MLE top 50 updated, Stonie out
The MLE top 50 has been updated. Matt Stonie has been removed after almost 2 and a half years of inactivity. The top 15.
1. Joey Chestnut
2. Geoffrey Esper
3. Miki Sudo
4. Nick Wehry
5. James Webb
6. Gideon Oji
7. Bartley Weaver, IV
8. Derek Hendrickson
9. Pat Bertoletti
10. Michelle Lesco
11. Max Suzuki
12. Darrien Thomas
13. Zosan Pacpac
14. Mayoi Ebihara
15. Adrian Morgan
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Joe Menchetti, competing as "Joe Merchetti" ate 174 clams to win today's clam eating contest menat Peters's Clam Bar in Island Park, NY.
The NC Hot Sauce Contest & Festival will hold a pepper eating contest on September 9 in Oxford, NC awarding $1000 to the winner.
Taste of Hamburger Festival in Hamburg, PA on September 2 has dropped its burger eating contests for professionals and amateurs and replaced it with an eating competition between teams of professional wrestlers.
Joey Chestnut ate 13 olive burgers in 5 minutes to win a contest at tonight's Lansing Lugnuts game, which was billed as a world record.
Raina Huang will compete in a taco eating contest at The Great Las Vegas Taco Festival on October 29. The first prize is $1000.
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