Green’s Dictionary of Slang

eating match n.

(W.I.) a feast.

[WI]cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).
[WI]C. Rampini Letters from Jamaica 85: Then ensues a feast or ‘eating match’.
[WI]cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).