Tacos Gavilan in Los Angeles will hold a taco eating contest for amateurs on Octber 5 awarding $1500/$1000/$500 to both the top 3 men and women.
RIX Sports Bar in The Colony, TX will hold a 22 inch pizza eating contest on October 2 awarding $200 to the winner.
Pierozek in Brooklyn will hold a pierogi eating contest on October 8 awarding $500 to the winner, $300 to the runner up.
The Topsfield (MA) Fair will hold a hot dog eating contest on October 2 awarding $203 to the winner.
Ethan Teske ate 20 tacos in 6:48 to win the first prize of $250 in an eating contest held at Tacos Tacos Tacos in Duluth.
Wayne Algenio ate 100 meatballs to win today's eating contest at the Feast of San Gennaro in Manhattan. New York City Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa says he was denied the opportunity to judge the competition after receiving an invitation. The Guardian Angels founder claims that Mayor Bill de Blasio or the Gambino crime family could be responsible for the snub.
2021 Trenton Thunder pork roll contest
Official results. 10 minute contest
| 1st | 45 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 41 | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | 36 | Ricardo Corbucci | |
| 4th | 32 | Darron Breeden | |
| 5th | 21 | George Chiger | |
| 6th | 12 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 7th | 11.5 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 8th | 10 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 9th | 7.5 | Rene Rovtar | |
| 10th | 7 | Alex “Moose” Perez | |
| 11th | 5.5 | Julie Goldberg |
Bob Shoudt is in attendance and has a youtube livestream of the contest
2021 Lewisville Western Days tamales
| 1st | 86 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 76.5 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 54 | Steve “The Rabbit” Hammond | |
| 4th | 53 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 5th | 52 | Gordon “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 5th | 52 | Bartley Weaver, IV | |
| 7th | 43 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 8th | 29 | “Big Eater Mike” Michael Whities | |
| 9th | 25.5 | Wade Peck | |
| 10th | 24.5 | Sophia Devita | |
| 11th | 24 | “Nasty” Nathan Biller | |
| 12th | 21 | Katie Prettyman | |
| 13th | 20.5 | Sergio Reyes-Raya | |
| 14th | 17.5 | Jocelyn Walker | |
| 15th | 12.5 | Kathryn Tesch |
Western Days is running a Facebook Live stream of the contest
The field for the Destination Outlets World Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship in Jefferson, OH on October 10 has already been determined and will include Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Darron Breeden, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry and Gideon Oji.
Daily Herald has an article about restaurant challenges in suburban Chicago.
Sandusky, OH will hold a donut eating contest on October 9 awarding $500/$100/$50.
"Glizzy Gladiator", a fictional movie project about a former hot dog eating champion's comeback, has hit its fundraising goal on kickstarter. Pledges will close today.
Registration will open on September 22 at noon Eastern for the Destination Outlets World Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship in Jeffersonville, OH on October 10.
Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Michelle Lesco, Gordon Hazzard, Steve Hammond and Jocelyn Walker are expected to compete in the Padrino Foods Annual World Tamale-Eating Championship in Lewisville, TX on Saturday.
Matt Pruznick ate 23 cannolis in 6 minutes to win Friday's eating contest at Feast of San Gennaro in Manhattan.
Joey Chestnut defends Zinzinnati bratwurst title
Official results of today’s bratwurst eating contest at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati (10 minutes)
WCPO article
| 1st | 68 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 66 | Miki Sudo | |
| 3rd | 51.5 | Nick Wehry | |
| 4th | 43.5 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 5th | 34 | Bartley Weaver, IV | |
| 6th | 30 | George Chiger | |
| 7th | 29 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 8th | 15 | John Gebhard | |
| 8th | 15 | Cameron LaFleur |
The top 3 from today's World Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest at the Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, NY via Molly Schuyler livestream.
1) Molly Schuyler 56 slices (previous record 50)
2) Andy Puhl 37
3) Nathan Klein 21
Dan Kennedy was co-MC
Joel Hansen ate 43 tacos to win the first prize of $500 in yesterday's eating contest at Tacos Locos in San Angelo, TX.
The Feast of San Gennaro in Manhattan will hold 4 eating contests: cannolis - September 17, zeppoles - September 22, pizza - September 24, meatballs September 26.
Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper and Darron Breeden are expected to compete in the Pork Roll-Eating Championship at Arm & Hammer Park in Trenton, NJ on September 25.
Fosters.com has a report on Sunday's lobster roll eating contest at the Hampton Beach (NH) Seafood Festival. Manny Cambra ate 22 lobster rolls to win the first prize of $600 and claim his third title at the event. (gallery)
The Big Texan in Amarillo, TX has had its 72 ounce steak challenge finished in under an hour 10,000 times since its opening in 1960. The 10,000th success was by John Lamons on September 1.
Nick Wehry has posted the field for next Sunday's Zinzinnati bratwurst eating contest in Cincinnati which includes himself, Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Geoff Esper, George Chiger, Matt Hazzard and Bartley Weaver.
Interview with Anne Nelson, sister of Caitlin Nelson
Daily Mail has an article about Anne Nelson, whose father, Port Authority Police Officer James Nelson, died in the World Trace Center wreckage. Another shocking fatality would strike the family 16 years later.
Tragedy stalked Anne again in 2017 when her sister Caitlin (then a 20 year old college student) died in a freak accident when she choked in a charity pancake eating contest.
‘I think that loss is what really made me process my father’s death a little more. Even though I had gone to therapy before, the enormity of it all didn’t really hit me until that happened.’
Anne Nelson’s story is proof that people can live through not one but multiple traumas and still recover. Now 31, Anne tries to honor her sister and dad in everything she does.
She currently works as a special needs teacher at an elementary school, inspired by Caitlin’s studies in social work and her father’s life-long emphasis on education. ‘I take a little bit of both of them in what I’m doing and I try to carry them with me through that.’
Nathan’s Hot Dog qualifiers, restricted to NYC civil servants, were held on top of the original World Trade Center from 1998 to 2000. “Hungry” Charles Hardy won all 3 contests. Very little information about the competitions remains on the internet. Here is a screen capture from the 2002 documentary “Footlong”
Pennsylvania News Today has a report on last Saturday's burger eating contest at Taste of Hamburg-er in Hamburg, PA won by Molly Schuyler.
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