Eric Booker

Eric Booker (born June 21, 1969) is an American competitive eater and rapper.

See also: Eric Booker (golfer)
Eric Booker
Booker at the 2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest
Personal information
Birth nameEric Booker
Full nameEric "Badlands" Booker
Nickname(s)BadlandsChugs, Badlands Booker
EthnicityAfrican American
Born (1969-06-21) June 21, 1969
Jamaica, Queens, New York
ResidenceLong Island, New York, United States
OccupationCompetitive eater
Years active1997-present
Height6 ft 5 in (196 cm)
Weight400 lb (181 kg) lb[1]
Spouse(s)Regina Booker
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2012 – present
Subscribers2M subscribers
(July 2020)
Total views177,298,593 views
(July 2020)
Catchphrase(s)"Chugging the world, one bottle at a time. BadlandsChugs is back."
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers

Competitive eating career

Booker trains for competitions by trying to stretch his stomach and develop jaw strength. He eats large amounts of fruit and vegetables and drinks a gallon of water in a sitting in order to stretch his stomach, and chews over twenty pieces of gum at a time to build jaw strength.[2] He maintains that competitive eating is a healthy sport, and has lost weight since he began competing.[3] He is presently ranked 21st by the IFOCE.[4] Booker is also known for his YouTube channel, BadlandsChugs, in which he primarily performs various chugging challenges.[5] In 2019 over the span of a year, his YouTube channel amassed over 1 million subscribers.

Accomplishments

Some of Booker's accomplishments include:

  • Burritos: 15 Qdoba burritos/ 8 minutes[6]
  • Candy bars: Two Pounds Chocolate Candy Bars / 6 minutes[6]
  • Cannoli: 16.5 cannoli in six minutes / 2004[7]
  • Corned Beef Hash: 4 pounds of hash / 1 minute 58 seconds[6]
  • Cheesecake (Mini): 50 Mini-Cheesecakes / 6 minutes[7]
  • Doughnuts: 49 glazed doughnuts / 8 minutes[6]
  • Hamentaschen: 50 Hamentaschen / 6 minutes[6]
  • Matzo Ball (Ben's Deli): 21 baseball-sized (half-pound) matzo balls / 5 minutes, 25 seconds / 2003[6][8]
  • Matzo Balls (Ruthie & Gussie's): 30 matzo balls / 5 minutes, 25 seconds
  • Raw Onions: 8.5 ounces Maui Onions (three onions)/ Whalers Village / 1 minute/ August 8, 2004[6]
  • Peas: 9.5 one-pound bowls / 12 minutes [6]
  • Pumpkin pies: 4⅜ Entenmann's Pumpkin Pies / 12 Minutes/ November 22, 2004[6]

Music career

Since 2004, Booker has performed and recorded competitive eating themed hip-hop as Badlands Booker, and he frequently performs selections from his albums at competitions.[9][10][11] He also creates/uses his own music for his YouTube videos.

Albums:

Hungry & Focused

Hungry & Focused II: The Ingestion Engine

Hungry & Focused III: The Reframing

Hungry & Focused IV: Fork, Knife & Mic

Extended Play

Surf & Stillwell

Surf & Stillwell 2

Surf & Stillwell 3

Big Man Mentality

Big Man Mentality 2

gollark: > I need a nuke to defend myselforbital bombardment > nukes
gollark: A good teacher can make it more interesting, and maybe inspire some students to care somehow, at least.
gollark: I think it *is* a fundamental issue. If you force people to learn things they don't care about and don't want to do, they'll do the bare minimum.
gollark: They also have this graph of % in work/study, which is oddly different to the earnings one.
gollark: Possibly. As far as I know medicine courses also are pretty small in size and significantly more government-regulated/managed than other ones.

See also

References
  1. https://majorleagueeating.com/eaters/14
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 10, 2011. Retrieved February 27, 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Eating champs to chow down at Everett wingding by Brian Alexander
  3. http://archives.starbulletin.com/2004/08/04/features/story2.html The Totally Earnest Eater by Pat Gee
  4. https://majorleagueeating.com/eaters/
  5. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIvMEZips_QKqajfXGY_C5Q
  6. International Federation of Competitive Eating, Eater Profiles: Eric Booker. Copyright 2004. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 26, 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. Amy's Robot (blog) Robot-on-the-Spot: The World Cheesecake Eating Championship. http://amysrobot.com/archives/2004/09/robotonthespot_the_world_chees.php
  8. The Jewish Advocate; April 2005: by Nogg, Ozzie. Matzah ball-eating contest proves mother was right; Eric Booker cleans his plate, eats 21 matzah balls in five minutes. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5090/is_/ai_n18506795
  9. https://store.cdbaby.com/artist/BadlandsBooker
  10. https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/selden-man-goes-to-the-dogs-and-buns-1.2067973
  11. https://majorleagueeating.com/eaters/14
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