WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., June 29 (UPI) -- California-based discount travel site VirtualTourist.com released its list of the top five eating competitions, including contests in New York and England.
PITTSBURGH, May 25 (UPI) -- A Maryland mother of two was recovering Sunday after eating 29 hotdogs in 10 minutes to win a Pittsburgh-area contest, a report says.
BOSSIER, La., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- A professional chef from Chicago won this year’s World Grits-Eating Championship in Louisiana.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A San Jose, Calif., man ate his way to victory at a Philadelphia chicken wing-eating contest, wolfing down down 182 and setting an all-time Wing Bowl record.
MIAMI, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Joey "Jaws" Chestnut gobbled 21 pretzels in 10 minutes to win the 2007 Pretzel Twister World Pretzel-Eating Championship in Miami.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Japan's Takeru Kobayashi has become the world's leading hamburger eater at the Krystal Square Off III World Hamburger Eating Contest in Chattanooga, Tenn.
BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A 420-pound professional competitive eater won the fourth annual National Chicken Wing Festival in Buffalo, N.Y., by eating 137 wings in 12 minutes.
HONG KONG, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A Japanese man has maintained his status as one of the world's top speed eaters by ingesting 100 roasted pork buns in 12 minutes.
CONEY ISLAND, N.Y., July 4 (UPI) -- Takeru Kobayashi of Japan won Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island, N.Y., Sunday.
ST. JOHNS, Antigua and Barbuda, July 1 (UPI) -- With the "Super Bowl of competitive eating" coming up, BetWWTS.com Tuesday released odds on the July 4 Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest.
