Beard Meats Food's attempt at the 100 ounce steak challenge at The White Hart in Swaffham has been ranked as the top viral video recorded in Norfolk, England in 2022.
Raina Huang is the guest on the latest 411 Lounge podcast.
Harry's Bar in Wigan, England announced that it is postponing its World Pie Eating Championship, probably the best publicized British eating contest, due to railway strikes. Organizers hope to hold the event, which has not taken place since 2019, in January.
Food Challenges News has an interview with Dan "Killer" Kennedy, who did his first food challenge to celebrate a 200 pound weight loss.
Beard Meats Food recorded a new song, "I Got Cheesecake" to benefit the Stroke Association charity, which has reached #3 on the UK Singles chart . Mads.de has an article in German about the song.
Nela Zisser announced that she has graduated from medical school.
Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry attempted to eat 30 pounds of stuffing in a video livestreamed tonight.
Molly Schuyler has uploaded a video of her visit to The Rockford Corner Bar in July 2021 to attempt to break Tim Janus' 2006 record of 43.5 chili dogs. (article about the challenge)
Ken Hoffman has an interview with Mary Bowers about her quest to locate her birth parents in Korea.
Joey Chestnut contributed a list of his favorite Indianapolis area restaurants to Indianapolis Monthly's Best of 2022 issue.
Grunge.com has a post looking back at the October 2012 death of Edward Archbold, who passed away after choking in a cockroach eating contest held at Ben Siegel Reptiles in Deerfield Beach, FL.
On December 16, Piada Italian Street Food in Easton, OH will hold a spaghetti eating contest inspired by the movie "Elf". The pasta toppings will be maple syrup, chocolate syrup, marshmallows, M&Ms, rainbow sprinkles and a Chocolate Fudge Pop-Tart.
The Peterborough Examiner has an article about Ontario food challenger Mike Jack. He recently received his ninth Guinness World Record for eating 50 Carolina Reaper peppers in 6:49.
The Laredo, TX Jalapeno Festival will hold the La Costeña Jalapeño Eating Contest on February 18. It appears the contest will award $3000/$1500/$750.
In an eating contest held during halftime of tonight's Cleveland Cavaliers game, Joey Chestnut ate 47 pierogis to defeat three amateurs who combined for a total of 33.
Barstool Sports has a post about Leah Shutkever's burrito eating video billing it as a Guinness World Record. GWR just announced it has certified Miki Sudo as the burrito record holder.
Minor League Baseball awarded The Golden Bobblehead for Best Digital Campaign or Activation to the Indianapolis Indians for hosting Joey Chestnut's attempt at a boxed popcorn eating record.
Geoff Esper wins St. Elmo’s Shrimp Cocktail eating contest
Official results. 8 minute contest, results in pounds.
| 1st | 16.4 | Geoffrey Esper | 15th MLE victory of 2022 |
| 2nd | 14.9 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 11 | Nick Wehry | |
| 4th | 10.6 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | ends contest winning streak, ends 2022 with 1 win (Nathan’s) |
| 5th | 6 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 6th | 4.5 | Matthew Raible | |
| 7th | 2.5 | Holly Titus |
Leah Shutkever uploaded a video of a burger eating contest versus strongman competitor Eddie Hall held at Archies in Manchester.
MinnesotasNewCountry.com has a post about Randy Santel failing to complete the American “Barbarian” Pancake Breakfast Challenge at the Nicollet Diner in Minneapolis. The meal consists of a 3 pound pancake, 6 fried eggs, bacon, 4 sausage patties, 2 English muffins, hash browns, and more.
Kelowna10 has a video about British Columbian food challenger Scott Watkins, who is also known as "Scott Eats".
RIP Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin
RIP Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin, whose passing was announced earlier today. He had suffered significant diabetes-related issues in recent years which required amputation of a foot. In addition to qualifying for Nathan’s Famous finals 5 times (2005-08, 2011), he was also a frequent guest on the Opie & Anthony radio show. His most famous moment on that program was probably the “baby bird” video from December 2006 in which he intentionally regurgitated egg nog into an intern’s mouth. updateNJ.com has an article about Pat.
The field for Saturday's St. Elmo's Shrimp Cocktail Eating Championship in Indianapolis has been announced and will include the top 5 ranked active MLE competitors: defending champion Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry and Gideon Oji. Derek Jacobs and Matt Raible are also expected to compete.
BayNews9.com has an article and video about the hot dog eating contest held at Cholo Dogs in Orlando on November 12 won by Michael Jenkins.
Cherish "Five Pounds" Brown has posted a video of last month's pie eating contest at The Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, NY.
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