The last time I was at an eating contest I was 11 years old at the Brandon 4th of July parade festival in Brandon, FL. I ate a whopping 4 hotdogs in the hotdog eating contest. I obviously didn’t win. I also didn’t have the food devouring skills of the competitive eaters at the Hooter Wing Eating Championships held at the Original Hooters location in Clearwater Florida.
Joey Chestnut, The Black Widow, Badlands and about other competitive eaters tried their hand at eating the most Hooters wings in only 10 minutes. For the record I can eat a max of 10. I like my Hooters wings breaded with medium sauce, blue cheese dressing and a side of curly fries and some sweet tea.
The eaters at the contest did not have all that, it was an all out eating contest and there was no room for blue cheese or breading. The eaters got a bucket of 20lbs of medium sauced wings (no drums) with no breading each. They were allowed to bring a drink of their choice to help wash it down. Some brought gatorade but most brought water. I even saw diet Snapple, which I thought was pretty funny at a wing eating contest!
So how did Hooters prepare for the competitive eater? Well I was there as cooks sorted, fried, and sauced 3200 wings in less than 90 minutes. I thought that was pretty amazing but according to the cooks at Hooters it was what they do in a normal Saturday night. Hooters brought in three cooks to do the work for the contest and left the in house crew to handle the regular orders that came in. I felt the entire process went pretty smoothly until when they were about to serve things up and measure out the 20lbs bowls that would be issued to the eaters. They decided to make an additional 400 more wings just to be on the safe side bringing the total to 3600 wings.
I have never seen a competitive eating contest in person before but it was pretty entertaining. The governing body of Major League Eating is International Federation of Competitive Eating. George Shea is the president and emcee of the event, I must say that dude is funny! He made the competition very entertaining and would recommend anyone to check out one of their events.
Joey Chestnut is a celebrity.
1 Joey Chestnut 179
2 Miki Sudo 155
3 Adrian Morgan 149
4 Michelle Lesco 131
5 Sonya Thomas 128
6 Sean Gordon 113
7 Marcos Owens 109
8 Juliet Lee 108
9 Brian Subich 85
10 Erik The Red 82
11 Badlands Booker 78
11 Damien Boykin 78
13 Bam Martinez 72
14 Jon Bello 68
15 Neil Sebree 60
16 Alex Perez 49
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