Eric Booker

Eric Booker (born June 21, 1969), known professionally as Badlands Booker, is an American competitive eater, rapper and YouTube personality.

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. He maintains that competitive eating is a healthy sport and has lost weight since he began competing. He is presently ranked 21st by the IFOCE. Booker is also known for his YouTube channel, BadlandsChugs, in which he primarily performs various chugging challenges. In 2019, over the span of a year, his YouTube channel amassed over 2 million subscribers.

Accomplishments

Some of Booker's accomplishments include:

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

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. Besides his own nine albums, Booker has also made guest appearances on albums by Jendor and Loser's Lounge.Much of the music used on his youtube channel is created by himself.