Things To Do in Las Vegas has a list of 17 Sin City restaurant challenges.
Barstool Sports calls Joey Chestnut a "First Ballot Hall of Fame American Hero".
The Gente Love and Taco Festival will hold a taco eating contest in Santa Ana, CA awarding $200 to the first person to eat 14 tacos.
El Chingon in San Diego will hold a taco eating contest on February 22 awarding $500 to the first four person team to finish 42 tacos.
Battle Creek Enquirer has an article about Nathan Klein and his quest to complete over 100 food challenges at Michigan restaurants. He is currently at 93 successes.
Kick'N Chicken will hold a Carolina Reaper Challenge on February 6 in Farmingdale, NY awarding $1000 to the winner.
India.com reports that a restaurant in Delhi, India will award 71,000 Rupees (about $950 USA) to customers that can finish its 10 foot long dosa in under 40 minutes.
Hollywood Zam has a post on "Furious" Pete Czerwinski's battle with cancer. He is currently cancer-free and in remission.
Pledge Times has an article (in English) about Spaniard Jorge González, who quit his job as a police officer to focus on his "Joe Burgerchallenge" food challenge social media accounts.
A melee involving approximately 40 diners broke out at the Bensalem, PA Golden Corral Friday night. The incident reportedly began after the buffet ran out of steak and customers broke in line to get the final pieces of meat.
Raina Huang ate 3.5 pounds of salad in 10 minutes to win an eating contest against Honey "Mega" Bunny, a Flemish Giant rabbit, held today at Chop Stop in Glendale, CA. The rodent seemed uninterested in the competition and barely nibbled at her food. update The Los Angeles Times has an article which makes the interesting claim that Raina's total will be recognized as a Major League Eating record even though she is not a MLE member. Reuters also has a twitter video.
Indie Pix Films uploaded a trailer for "Scarf Face", a documentary examining the darker side of competitive eating with a Summer 2022 release date. Topics include the rivalry between Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi and the shock 2019 death of Juliet Lee which remains a complete mystery. Molly Schuyler and Miki Sudo also appear. Around the 70 second mark of the trailer, an anonymous interview subject with a distorted voice makes the claim "Everything about Major League Eating is a lie".
El Chingon in Fort Worth will hold a taco eating contest on February 22 awarding $500 and a bottle of Don Julio 1942 to the first four person team to finish 42 tacos.
Josh: The Goat uploaded a video of his trip to Sandwich Time Deli & Tex-Mex in Avenel, NJ to take on food challenges with Molly Schuyler and Dan Kennedy.
Robert Oberst, 2 time finalist in "World's Strongest Man" competition, attempted a 12 pound burrito challenge in Winter Park, FL.
Joel Hansen has uploaded a video of the "Zeus" burger challenge he attempted with Eric "Badlands" Booker and Scott Eats at the Clinton Station Diner in Clinton, NJ. The menu item has an official weight of 15 pounds, but their meal originally weighed 27 pounds. (They managed to reduce it to 17 pounds).
WBCKFM reports that Nathan Klein is the first to finish the "Hungry" bowl cereal challenge at One Bowl "The Cereal Bar" in Fostoria, OH.
The La Costeña Jalapeño Eating Contest at the Jalapeno Festival in Laredo, TX will award $3000/$1500/$750 February 19. The contest appears to be limited to Texas residents only.
Molly Schuyler has uploaded a video of her attempt at the burger challenge at Eagle's Deli in the Boston area which consists of 12 pounds of food. Geoff Esper is also present but does not attempt the challenge.
Vorstus posted a screen capture from the "The Incredibles" of the superheroes database providing information about "Mr. Incredible", the star of the Pixar film. It says he ate 47 boysenberry pies, 8 banana splits, 3 apple crumbs and a liter of mayonnaise to win an eating contest at a picnic.
LadBible has a post about Leah Shutkever's passing out while recording a food challenge for a television program in Japan, which resulted in her hospitalization.
Scott Curley won yesterday's sandwich eating contest at Grater Grilled Cheese in San Diego. Raina Huang also competed.
NDTV.com has an article on Indian food challenger Saapattu Raman eating 50 omelets in a video which has received over 6 million views.
Food Challenge News has an interview with Katina Eats Kilos.
LadBible has produced a video about Leah Shutkever calling her the "Queen Of No-Bite Eating"
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