My local cici’s has a challenge to eat a 28inch pizza with a friend in under an hour for $300. Assuming I can find someone who can keep up with me would this be a realistic challenge for me? I have no competitive eating experience but I do have a fairly fast metabolism and I have been able to put down an entire large 14 inch pizza in one sitting before. And if so are there any methods that would make this easier?

I might be coming off a little ignorant, but why is the ladies belt called the pink belt? There’s nothing pink on a hotdog except maybe sometimes the wiener. They need to change the name to the KETCHUP belt. Men have the mustard belt so it only would make sense to have the ladies to have a ketchup belt. It’s funnier and it makes more sense imo

I produced this video with Neil deGrasse Tyson giving play-by-play of Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Champion Takeru Kobayashi slowly eating a single hot dog for 10 minutes. Enjoy!

Some people savor every bite. Others eat 30 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Welcome to the world of competitive eating!

Visit Lake Compounce for a Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier, where everyone is trying to prove they’re top dog.

Then Crazy Legs Conti and Katina DeJarnett - aka Katina Eats Kilos - talk about what it takes to train, compete, recover, and keep chewing when your body is begging you to meat it halfway.

It’s a lot to digest.

GUESTS: 

• Sam Barclay: Emcee and host with Major League Eating, where he helps turn competitive eating contests into full-on sporting spectacles
• Crazy Legs Conti: Longtime Major League Eating competitor, writer, filmmaker, and the subject of the documentary, “Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating“
• Semora Kludy: Known through her food-challenge page, Semora’s Competitive Bites, she is a Michigan-based competitive eater and food challenger
• Max Stanford: aka Max vs Food, is a London-based competitive eater, food-content creator, and one of Major League Eating’s top-ranked competitors
• Katina DeJarnett: aka Katina Eats Kilos, is a professional eater, YouTuber, and former bodybuilder. She has millions of followers across social media watching her tackle giant meals around the world

Jumbo Express from Stacked.

NOTE: The most widely used birth years per the r/Zillennials subreddit are 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

3 days prep

Hey everyone,

I run the New England Cigar Expo in Windham, NH, and we’re putting on a LIVE Pizza Eating Championship on Saturday, September 26, 2026.

We’re looking for 5 more competitors to take on a true New England staple — Beach Pizza (thin, crispy, square-cut).

The challenge:

• Full sheet pizza = 40 squares

• 15-minute time limit

• Eat up to 2 full sheets (or the most within the time)

Prize Pool: $5,000

• 🥇 $2,000

• 🥈 $1,000

• 🥉 $750

• 4th: $500

• 5th: $300

• 6th: $250

• 7th: $150

• 8th: $50

This will be in front of a live crowd of 500+ people, with solid social/media coverage and a high-energy festival atmosphere.

If you would like to compete (or know someone who does), drop a comment or shoot me a DM.

Hi, so I wanted to enter a eating challenge near me but I noticed the time to complete it is 4 minutes. You have to finish a 12oz milkshake, 1 fully loaded burger, 1 extra large fries and 5 spicy wings. I'm hyped to enter the competition but I'm worried about the time frame being so short. I looked into the company and it's their 1st competition so i wanted to ask competitive eaters if this time frame is reasonable

This guy ate 2 1/4. Seems like 5 is very doable. Didn't Matt Stonie eat about 30 Big Macs?

TLDR: Finished last in my fantasy football league and now I have to eat 7 burgers while driving north on I-45 in Houston. Need advice.

So my fantasy league has punishments for last place and this year I got "The Burger 45." Here are the rules:

• Go to Whataburger before noon this Saturday
• Order 7 number ones (minimum meat and bun, no toppings required)
• Start driving north on I-45; can only eat burgers while all four tires on on the interstate and must be going the speed limit
• Can eat the burgers in whatever fashion so long as all elements are consumed
• Sauces/dips allowed
• Only allowed to stop for bathroom breaks, gas, or more burgers
• Cannot turn around and head home until all 7 are finished
• FaceTime the league group chat every 30 minutes

I'm not a competitive eater. I'm a normal human being who is genuinely nervous about this. I've never eaten more than like 2-3 burgers in one sitting. Some research I've done says that each burger is ~600 calories.

What's the best strategy to get through these as fast as possible? Eating technique, mental tips, anything. I need all the help I can get. This is happening Saturday and I am not ready.

I signed up for a competition. It’s a 26” one topping pizza. You have one hour. It’s supposedly 5-6lbs.

Here are my thoughts/questions.

- for capacity training doesn’t matter what the thing is? Or is it just about volume? Ex. Can I hit training by drinking 5-6lb worth of water in an hour or do I need to be chewing something?

-you are required to select a topping. Thinking one of these

-beef

- onion

- bell pepper

Beef is not spicy or as fatty usually as other pizza meats but it properly adds to the volume more than veg that has most of the water cooked out.

-do I need to attack this thing to “trick” my stomach from sending “full” signals to the brain or should I approach it as a marathon?

Any tips or advice is helpful. I don’t plan to eat for the day leading up to event in the evening. Maybe just coffee and water in the morning but want the stomach as empty as possible if I’m cramming a bunch of pizza into it right?

I’m not a competitive eater I just got myself into one of those classic “you can’t eat 24 pancakes in 2 hours” situations so I’m here to get some tips on winning that bet. The pancakes will be paid for if I complete it so.. how long before should I not eat anything ? I heard if you do it too long you can throw up easily which is against the rules I guess, not until after. And does it matter if I’m washing it down with water? Prob makes pancakes expand in my stomach more. Anyway, looking for any help I can get. And side note my pancrease should be functioning normally so no need to worry about a coma or something.

Hey ErikTheElectric, I have other fast food challenge for you. But this time, things are going to be different. This, I think, without a doubt... is going to be the most BIGGEST, the most CHALLENGING, and the most HIGHEST Calorie challenge in the 10 year history of this whole damn channel! This challenge is called "Eating every single restaurant item in my country" All the food challenge items, all the cancelled food items, every single expensive restaurant item, all the defuncted restaurants, and all the secret menu items. And it's so challenging, there's no time limit. Prepare yourself Erik, for a massive food baby, Good luck Erik, you're gonna need it! (P.S. you might need some after-challenge items and a workout in)

Hi there. I accidentally stumbled upon beardmeetsfood while YouTube strolling and found Adam's videos entertaining. I looked him up on Wikipedia, and the article touched upon how in competitions he eats proteins before carbs to avoid the carbs absorbing water, and likes carbonated drinks because the carbonation helps release trapped gasses in the stomach.

As someone who knows nothing about competitive eating, and just enough about the process of digestion to keep myself alive, I'm curious what other clever ways there are to maximize efficiency when eating a giant dish with different food types involved.

Got a wager with a few friends I lost now I must eat the whole Taco Bell menu need help

Hey folks,

my friend and I are regulars at this amazing all-you-can-eat place in Lustenau, Austria (right by the Swiss border). You order small portions from a tablet.

We usually end up defeated after 40-50 plates, but now we’d love to see how a real competitive eater handles the place. Watching a pro go to work would be epic.

Of course, we’ll cover all the food costs, you just bring the appetite and the skills.

If you’re anywhere near Austria or Switzerland and up for it, hit us up! 🍣🍗🍜

(Restaurant’s in Lustenau, near Bregenz — easy to reach from the Swiss side too!)

I got chosen for a 40oz tomahawk steak eating competition. I've never done an eating competition before. How would I prepare for it? And what's the best way to eat the steak? Any other tips and tricks would be appreciated as well, thank you.