Hundreds of people came out to feast their eyes on the 10th annual Smoke’s Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship at Yonge and Dundas Square Saturday, a competition that offers its participants all the “weird, wild and wacky” cravings their hearts may desire.

Sanctioned by Major League Eating (MLE), organizers say the event is the largest poutine eating competition and the second largest professional eating competition in the world. The contest sees poutine connoisseurs and competitive eaters devouring as many pounds of poutine in 10 minutes.

This year, 12 professional eaters in the world took the stage with the goal of capturing the title of “World Poutine Eating Champion.”

Last year’s champion Joey (Jaws) Chestnut once again won the championship this year after eating 28 pounds of poutine, crushing his previous world record of 25.5 pounds of poutine.

Chestnut beat Geoffrey Esper, ranked second in the world. Esper claimed second place in the competition by eating 27.25 pounds.

Miki Sudo, ranked sixth in the world, claimed third place by eating 24.25 pounds of poutine.

The event also featured another gravy-fueled eating competition: the CEO Charity Eat-Off, a two-minute poutine-eating competition.

This year’s charity event welcomed more than 40 Canadian CEOs. Smoke’s Poutinerie CEO Ryan Smolkin claimed first place after eating 7.5 pounds of poutine. However, he passed the title to Aramark Canada vice-president of operations Steve Prisco, who consumed 7 pounds of poutine. Givex president Brittain Brown won third place after eating 6 pounds of poutine.

The event surpassed its charity goal with $153,000 raised to benefit Friends of We Care. Additional funds were also raised on site, organizers said, and a total of more than $403,000 has been raised to date.

With files from Abhya Adlakha