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Beard Meats Food
Beard Meats Food, aka Adam Moran, Leeds-based British competitive eater and YouTuber; UK's number one independent competitive eater, MLE world rank 17, records in Yorkshire puddings and Jaffa cakes.
Charles Domery
Charles Domery (Charles Domerz), c. 1778–after 1800, Polish soldier in the Prussian and French armies, captured on the Hoche in 1799 and interned at Liverpool, famous for eating 16 lbs of food daily, cats, rats, and candles.
Competitive eating
Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport of consuming the most food in a fixed time, governed by Major League Eating and best known through Nathan's July 4 hot dog contest, the Kobayashi-Chestnut rivalry, and Chestnut's 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
Don Gorske
Donald (Don) Gorske, the Big Mac record holder and "Mac Daddy", is a retired Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, prison guard who has eaten Big Macs daily since 17 May 1972, holding the Guinness World Record for most Big Macs eaten in a lifetime (over 35,000 by March 2025), documented with every receipt.
Furious Pete
Furious Pete, Peter (Piotr) Czerwinski, Canadian competitive eater, bodybuilder, and YouTuber (~5M subscribers); Guinness record holder (4 hamburgers/minute), 72-oz steak in 6:48, ~90 contests won since 2007.
Joey Chestnut
Joey "Jaws" Chestnut is an American competitive eater who has won the Nathan's Famous hot dog contest 18 times and holds the record of 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
L.A. Beast
L.A. Beast, also known as Kevin Thomas Strahle, is a professional competitive eater who has set Guinness World Records, including eating nine powdered doughnuts in three minutes.
Matt Stonie
Matt "Megatoad" Stonie, San Jose competitive eater and YouTuber, won the 2015 Nathan's Famous contest with 62 hot dogs, ending Joey Chestnut's eight-year streak; he holds 14 eating records.
Michel Lotito
Michel Lotito, known as Monsieur Mangetout ("Mr Eat All"), was a French entertainer from Grenoble who ate metal and glass, including a whole Cessna 150 airplane between 1978 and 1980.
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, is a 10-minute competitive eating event at Coney Island, NY, sanctioned by Major League Eating; Joey Chestnut holds 18 titles and the 76-dog record.
Randy Santel
Randy Santel, stage name Atlas, is an American professional competitive eater from Missouri who began in 2010, has won over a thousand restaurant food challenges worldwide, and owns FoodChallenges.com.
Saltine cracker challenge
Saltine cracker challenge (saltine challenge): a food dare to eat six saltine soda crackers in 60 seconds without drinking, crumbs included. Hard because crackers absorb saliva; Guinness record is 6.
Takeru Kobayashi (小林 尊)
Takeru Kobayashi (小林 尊), born 1978 in Nagano, is a retired Japanese competitive eater, six-time Nathan's hot dog contest champion (2001–2006), innovator of the Kobayashi shake, and Netflix rival of Joey Chestnut.
Zermatt Neo
Zermatt Neo is a Singaporean competitive eater and YouTube creator, a former personal trainer and dietitian, ranked No. 1 by Food League Singapore in 2020, known for multi-kilogram hawker-food challenges.