{"id":166622,"date":"2025-08-22T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166622\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:56:09","slug":"taco-cabana-to-host-first-world-taco-eating-championship-with-10k-prize-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166622\/","title":{"rendered":"Taco Cabana to host first World Taco Eating Championship with $10K prize in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 Are you hungry for a fun contest with a $10,000 prize? Taco Cabana will be hosting its first World Taco Eating Championship on the Northeast Side of San Antonio to celebrate its 47th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Hopefuls and professional eaters alike can compete to win $10,000 at noon on Sept. 20 by eating as many of the chain\u2019s bean and cheese tacos as they can stomach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A Guinness World Records judge will be at Taco Cabana\u2019s Austin Highway location to potentially crown a new world record holder for the most soft-shell tacos eaten in three minutes, a news release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the competition\u2019s website, cash prizes will be given from first place to sixth place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cAs we recognize 47 years in business, we are proud to unveil a one-of-a-kind spectacle that\u2019s unlike anything we\u2019ve ever done before \u2013 a celebration that features world-class eaters, the electric thrill of a Guinness World Record attempt and the kind of global exposure that takes Taco Cabana to new heights,\u201d said Ulyses Camacho, president and COO of Taco Cabana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">If you think you can take the World Taco Eating Championship crown, you can sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/majorleagueeating.com\/contests\/1031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/majorleagueeating.com\/contests\/1031\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Are you hungry for a fun contest with a $10,000 prize? Taco Cabana will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,4315,990,18478,7202,7203,55717,358,1072,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-166622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-competition","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-northeast-side","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-taco-cabana","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-things-to-do","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115072767447899321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}