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List Of Competitive Eaters
The following is a list of notable Competitive eating, competitive eaters. Men Women *Takako Akasaka *Carlene LeFevre *Michelle Lesco *Molly Schuyler (2012–present) *Gal Sone *Miki Sudo (2011–present) *Sonya Thomas (2003–present) *Shahina Waseem (2012–present) *Nela Zisser References {{DEFAULTSORT:Competitive eaters Competitive eaters, Lists of people by activity, Competitive eaters Lists of sportspeople, Eaters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Competitive Eating
Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport in which participants compete against each other to eat large quantities of food, usually in a short time period. Contests are typically eight to ten minutes long, although some competitions can last up to thirty minutes, with the person consuming the most food being declared the winner. Competitive eating is most popular in the United States, Canada, and Japan, where organized professional eating contests often offer prizes, including cash. History Precursors An early competitive eater was The Great Eater of Kent, Nicholas Wood, the Great Eater of Kent, whose skill was featured in Iohn Taylor's 1630 pamphlet ''The great eater, of Kent, or Part of the admirable teeth and stomacks exploits of Nicholas Wood.'' The pamphlet, which Taylor asserts is factually true, reports a series of Wood's stunts including eating a whole sheep raw in one sitting (excluding the wool, horns, and bones), 7 dozen rabbits in one meal, and nearly 400 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe LaRue
"Jammin'" Joe LaRue (born February 13, 1960) is a competitive eater from Binghamton, New York who lives in Dayton, Nevada. LaRue was educated at Johnson and Wales University. He is an independent competitive eater associated with All Pro Eating. Previously he was a ranked member (as high as 7th) of mle. LaRue, a culinary arts professional, had notable years of competition from 2003 to 2011, winning an 84 Lumber baked bean eating bout, winning the Footy's Y-100 Wing Ding chicken wing eating contest and placing second at the Sweet Corn Fiesta's Sweet Corn Eating Championship. It was his victory in the 2005 sweet corn eating match (31 ears of sweet corn in 12 minutes) that showed he has top-tier ability. He has held the world record in sweet corn for seven years, with 46 ears of corn eaten in 12 min set in 2010. He currently holds records of pickles, with 4 lb of sour garlic dill eaten in 5 min, Mall food, with 107 oz eaten in 6 min, and 14 Camp Washing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Subich
"Big" Brian Subich is a competitive eater who has participated in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest and the Alka-Seltzer US Open of Competitive Eating. Personal He is originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania Johnstown is the largest city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 18,411 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located east of Pittsburgh, it is the principal city of the Metropolitan statistical area .... References Living people American competitive eaters Sportspeople from Johnstown, Pennsylvania Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Stonie
Matthew Kai Stonie (born ) is an American competitive eater and YouTuber. Stonie won the 2015 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, beating 8-time defending champion Joey Chestnut among others. Stonie has gained fame from his YouTube channel, to which he uploads video footage of his eating challenges. Early life Stonie was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in San Jose. He is of Japanese, Lithuanian and Czech ancestry. He graduated from Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose. In 2013, he was listed as weighing at a height of . His nickname, "Megatoad," is from the character Toad from the ''Super Mario'' franchise. Stonie's younger brother Morgan was oftentimes involved with the production of the challenges uploaded to his YouTube channel early in his career. Career Stonie's Major League Eating debut was at the Stockton Deep Fried Asparagus Championship in Stockton, California, in 2011. At the time, he was the youngest member of the Major League Eating organiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Shoudt
Bob Shoudt (born October 16, 1966), also known as "Humble Bob" or "Notorious B.O.B." (the name of his YouTube channel), is an American competitive eater from Royersford, Pennsylvania. He holds numerous eating records, including the most food ever eaten by weight and/or volume: 23.4 lbs or 312 fluid ounces of salmon chowder, consumed in 6 minutes. He also holds the record for the most food ever eaten in four hours (59.6 lbs) at The Reading Phillies Gluttony Night on June 12, 2018, and the most hot dogs ever eaten at the Fish Tales 4 July hot dog eating contest (52) in Ocean City, Maryland. In 2017 he won WIP's Wing Bowl, eating 409 wings and claiming the largest prize ever won in an eating contest - $50,000 (Hyundai Santa Fe Sport, $10,000 USD, ring, pendant, crown). Outside of YouTube and eating contests, Shoudt is an IT manager. He is an avid mountain climber and fitness fanatic who has scaled Mount Washington, New Hampshire, Pikes Peak, Colorado and Mount Haleakala, Maui; he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoenice
Christopher Thomas Schewe, also known as ShoeNice 22, is an American comedian, competitive eater, and YouTuber. Biography He was born in Albany, New York on May 30, 1969. He is an army veteran. His YouTube channel was started by his son on April 11, 2008 and he recorded himself eating a piece of paper as a prank before eventually becoming viral for filming himself eating other things. He would eat raw eggs, burgers with the wrapping paper, Vegemite, and toilet paper for the purpose of "stopping world hunger", and he managed to rack up over 200,000 subscribers on his original channel while gaining a huge following. He also started chugging large amounts of alcohol, especially vodka. This has led to skeptics thinking he may have staged his videos. Known for his eccentric eating challenges, he is a veteran of the United States Army. He also protested with students at University at Albany following the suspension of Fountain Day at the school in 2011. In 2013, he set the Guinne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasir Salem
Yasir Salem is an American triathlete, marathon enthusiast, cyclist, and competitive eater. He in 2017 was ranked number 11 in Major League Eating’s list of competitive eaters. Salem is the Tour de Donut and the Donut Derby champion. He is also the former National Sweet Corn Eating champion and world record-holder (47 ears of corn in 12 minutes), and has competed in the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest five times. Salem frequently appears in the media to discuss his competitions and activities in outlets such as Runner's World magazine, Bicycling magazine, Triathlete magazine, Men's Health magazine, Men's Fitness magazine, ESPN, Muscle & Fitness, Women's Health, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, MSNBC, ABC. Biography Salem was born in Houston, Texas. He is of Egyptian, Turkish and Armenian ancestry. He attended Clear Lake High School in Houston, Texas, and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as an MBA at Rutgers U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theetta Rappai
Theetta Rappai (20 April 1939 – 9 December 2006) was an Indian competitive eater who used to eat enormous quantities of food. Rappai used to eat 75 idli for breakfast, buckets of rice and curries for lunch, and 60 chapatis for dinner. He is known to have eaten 250 idlis and 1.5 kg of pudding and halwa in one sitting. On a different occasion, he is known to have consumed 75 idlis, 2.5 kg appam, and buckets of payasam. Rappai had won several eating competitions in and outside Kerala. His name had been included in the Limca Book of World Records Early life Rappai was born on 20 April 1939 in Thrissur city, as the eldest among the seven children of the late Kuriappan and the late Thandamma. He shot to fame after he challenged a Thrissur restaurant that offered an all-you-can-eat buffet. He polished off three bucketfuls of rice, one bucket of fish curry, and 10 kg cooked meat. At the end of it, he quipped that he was still hungry. Finally, the restaurant staff had to call t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David O'Karma
David "Coondog" O'Karma is a competitive eating champion, entertainer, and writer from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He was formerly a member of the IFOCE, but is now the director of a Competitive Eating organization called the Association of Independent Competitive Eaters (AICE). Competitive eating He started competitive eating at age 15 in Cuyahoga Falls, at Church's Chicken on Portage Trail. He ate 13 sweet potato pies in one minute to become the WCUE Sweet Potato Pie-eating Champion. From there he entered the Hoolihan and Big Chuck Show's Pizza Fight of the Century and became the only other person (besides Robert "Wild Mouth" Tilk) to defeat champion eater Mariano "Mushmouth" Pacetti. On July 4, 1974, Coondog set his first world record by eating 45 hard-boiled eggs in 8 minutes and 10 seconds, becoming the WCUE Egg-Sucking Champion. Later that summer, at the Cuyahoga Falls Kid's Carnival. In 2001, Coondog O'Karma came out of a self-imposed retirement of 27 years to win the Nath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bozo Miller
Edward Abraham "Bozo" Miller (June 11, 1918 – January 7, 2008) was an American restaurant owner and competitive eater who held the Guinness World Record for "world's greatest trencherman" before the eating records section of that publication was excised in 1990. He was known for eating 27 chickens in one sitting and for out-drinking a lion. Early life Bozo Miller was born in San Francisco to Vaudeville performers Harry and Emmy Miller and spent his childhood based in Oakland but traveling widely. Miller believed he got the nickname "Bozo" because of his father's stints as a clown. Competitive eating Miller was known for feats of gluttony including the consumption of 27 two-pound chickens in one sitting. He reportedly had his stomach pumped afterwards. He explained his motivation as "I don't know. It's something to do." The 1981 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records claimed that Miller had been on a fifty-year winning streak in eating contests, undefeated since 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie MacDonald
Frankie MacDonald (born April 24, 1984) is a Canadian amateur meteorologist from the Whitney Pier area of Sydney, Nova Scotia. MacDonald, who has autism, is known for his boisterous online weather forecasts. Frankie records meteorologist reports which he then posts to his YouTube channel, under the handle of dogsandwolves. MacDonald's videos have received more than 32 million views. He also maintains a Twitter account and blog. Weather reports MacDonald has produced include warnings for his home province of Nova Scotia, a snowstorm in Winnipeg, heavy rainfall in Vancouver, a storm in Minnesota, New York, Australia, and Bermuda during Hurricane Gonzalo of 2014. MacDonald is also a regular on comedian Chrissie Mayr's podcast ''The Wet Spot'' on Compound Media, albeit virtually rather than in person; his regular weather updates provide a humorous contrast to the normally sex-oriented subject material discussed on the show. Videos MacDonald has published over 1,200 videos on Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
