WLWT.com reports that Joey Chestnut ate 14 slices of pumpkin pie in 3 minutes at Frisch's Big Boy in Fairfax, OH yesterday. He hoped to eat 24.

November 24, 2022 at 1:01 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cincinnati, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments (8)

GuinnessWorldRecords.com reports Miki Sudo (6 in 1 minute) and Nick Wehry (12 in 3 minutes) set Guinness records for hot dog eating. Miki also broke Leah Shutkever's record for eating a burrito by less than a second.

November 23, 2022 at 8:05 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Records | Permalink * Comments

Food Challenge News has an interview with Canadian food challenger Mike Jack, whose youtube channel Mike Jack Eats Heat focuses on spicy challenges. He recently received a Guinness world record for eating 50 Carolina Reaper peppers.

November 23, 2022 at 3:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Ontario, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (3)

A press release announces that ESPN has extended its contract with MLE to show Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on July 4 until 2029. During that time period, the live contest will probably be web streamed only since ESPN will be broadcasting Wimbledon in early July until 2035.

November 22, 2022 at 1:39 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:ESPN, Nathan's Hot Dog Contest | Permalink * Comments (2)

The Ottawa Citizen has an article about Darrient Thomas attempting the Mac Daddy burger challenge at the Wellington Diner.

November 21, 2022 at 1:29 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Darrien Thomas, Ottawa | Permalink * Comments

A video of Leah Shutkever eating a burrito in 35.26 seconds, which received a Guinness World Record, has gone viral. A reddit post about it currently has 8247 comments. The video has also been posted several times on twitter.

November 20, 2022 at 3:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burrito Eating Challenges, Leah Shutkever, Records, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Sally Field competes in a hot wing contest MCed by Guy Fieri in a preview of "80 For Brady". The movie, which will be released on February 3, also stars Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Rita Morena and is based on a real world story about a quartet of friends attempting to obtain tickets for Super Bowl LI to see the New England Patriots play the Atlanta Falcons.

November 19, 2022 at 2:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Movies | Permalink * Comments

MLE will hold a bagel eating contest at Siegel's Bagelmania in Las Vegas on January 15. Registration opens Saturday.

November 18, 2022 at 12:17 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Las Vegas | Permalink * Comments

PhillyMag has an article about the retirement of Angelo Cataldi from WIP with a section about the Wing Bowl his morning radio show hosted:
Angelo isn’t exactly contrite about overseeing Wing Bowl: “You know what? I don’t feel that bad about it. I feel like we were a product of the times and we reflected what was acceptable. We pushed it a little, but we kind of knew where the line was. Or at least not to go too far over.”

November 17, 2022 at 2:39 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Philadelphia, Wing Bowl | Permalink * Comments

Food Challenge News has an interview with Leah Shutkever. She says she was inspired to start her youtube channel by Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran at the "Battle of Big Eaters" international competition in New York City.

November 16, 2022 at 12:48 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Leah Shutkever | Permalink * Comments

MrBeast just became the youtube channel with the most subscribers, surpassing PewDiePie. In 2020, MrBeast faced off against Joey Chestnut in a giant pizza slice challenge. Earlier this year, he produced a video of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory in which Matt Stonie and Joey Chestnut appeared.

November 15, 2022 at 12:24 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics, Videos | Permalink * Comments

In a recent podcast, pro wrestler Matt Hardy discussed a 2007 pizza eating contest vs. MVP. He says that Vince McMahon instructed him to vomit on his opponent during the competition:
And Vince goes over to me and said, ‘So what I’m seeing here is you’re eating and you know, maybe MVP does kind of win this but you’re gonna win in the end because you ate this pizza so fast. You’re gonna puke on him.

November 14, 2022 at 1:49 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes | Permalink * Comments

Raina Huang won the first prize of $1000 at the taco eating contest at the Great Las Vegas Taco Festival on November 6

November 13, 2022 at 12:12 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Las Vegas, Raina Huang, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (4)

The VooDooChef Podcast has an interview with Miki Sudo.

November 12, 2022 at 3:49 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Miki Sudo, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments

Erik "The Electric" Lamkin attempted two "Octuple Bypass" challenge burgers at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas.

November 11, 2022 at 3:44 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Erik Lamkin, Heart Attack Grill, Las Vegas | Permalink * Comments (1)

The Food Network Obsessed podcast has an interview with Casey Webb, the current host of Man v Food. MSN has an article about the podcast.

November 10, 2022 at 2:09 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments

Gregory Foster November 9, 2022 at 3:41 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Records, Spicy Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

Joey Chestnut is expected to defend his title at the St. Elmo Shrimp Cocktail Eating Championship in Indianapolis on December 3. This will probably be his last chance to obtain a non-Nathan's victory in 2022.

November 8, 2022 at 2:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Indianapolis, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments

Belfast Live has an article about Katina eats Kilos (called "Katrina" throughout the article) and Randy Santel attempting challenges at Safari in Bainbridge, Northern Ireland.

November 7, 2022 at 3:11 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Belfast, Eating Challenges, Katina DeJarnett, Randy Santel | Permalink * Comments

TOI.News has an article about Brandon "Da Garbage Disposal" Clark and Bob Shoudt attempting the 22 pound pizza challenge at Italia Pizza Cafe in Southaven, MS.

November 6, 2022 at 1:25 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Notorious" Bob Shoudt, Brandon Clark, Memphis, Mississippi, Pizza Eating Challenges, Team Challenges | Permalink * Comments

Raina Huang will see how many bao dumplings she can eat in two minutes at November 5, 2022 at 4:35 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Chicago, Raina Huang | Permalink * Comments (1)

Lancs.live reports that Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran is the first person to finish the Tipsy Bao Box challenge at Tipsy Chef in Preston, Lancashire. The challenge consists of a triple smash cheeseburger, a chicken & candied bacon burger, 4 pork belly bao buns, dirty hash browns and fries.

November 4, 2022 at 2:53 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran, Burger Eating Challenges, Lancashire | Permalink * Comments

Michael Lopez ate 70 tacos to win the first prize of $200 in a taco eating contest held November 1 at La Calle in Houston.

November 3, 2022 at 2:47 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Houston, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (1)

Joey Chestnut will attempt to set a record for the most pumpkin pie eaten in 3 minutes at Frisch's Big Boy in Fairfax, OH on November 23.

November 2, 2022 at 3:46 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cincinnati, Joey Chestnut, Records | Permalink * Comments (2)

Stephanie "nuttyfoodiefitness" Joshi posted a video of her 3.5 pound burrito eating contest versus her boyfriend.

October 31, 2022 at 2:16 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burrito Eating Challenges, Stephanie Joshi, Videos | Permalink * Comments (12)

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