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This 4th of July's Nathan's hot dog eating contest should be especially exciting. Joey Chestnut, who finished second to perennial champion Takeru Kobayashi at last year's event, just broke the Japanese man's world record by eating 59 hot dogs in 12 minutes. Kobayashi's previous record was 53.75, which he set during the 2006 Coney Island hot dog contest. Chestnut set the new record at the Southwest Regional Hot Dog Eating Championship in Arizona. The prizes included a trip to NYC, a $250 gift certificate to the mall where the event was held, and a year's supply of hot dogs.
(Picture of a Coney Island hot dog, by Tien Mao at flickr)
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BRING THE MUSTARD BELT BACK TO THE USA!!!
That dog looks good but carmalize the onions for chrissakes.
-matty
chicago
sounds fishy to me. They probably were lax in the rules and weren't enforced. Oh well, at least we'll have a good competition with Chestnut and Kobayashi this July 4th. It's gonna be the heavyweight bout of the century!!!!
Were they Nathan's hot dogs?
Kobayashi wooped chestnut's ass in the Crystal burger competition. (Sliders) But he kept it close till the end. You know kobayashi would up his game.
Let the white trash eating contest begin!
the ifoce site says that the dogs were nathan's famous hot dogs and that it was a qualifier for the july 4th event. i assume that it was an ifoce sanctioned event as well, so the rules were the same as the july 4th competition.
I think Kobayashi's going to have a surprise or two up his sleeve (or down his gullet, as the case may be). Don't count him out.
On the other hand, I'm still waiting for the day a contestant's belly just explodes in the heat of competition. I wouldn't stand too close to the table...
you don't caramelize sauerkraut you chicago tool
LOL Murphy let em have it
Cut the guy some slack. He's from Chicago. Probably never saw sauerkraut before in his life because they don't use it. They prefer onions on their hot dogs.
So, if Chestnut wins a year's supply of hot dogs, is that a year's supply for a normal person or a year's supply based on eating 59 every 12 minutes?