Joey "Jaws" Chestnut put away 62 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes on Monday to win a US gorging contest, earning the coveted mustard-yellow belt for the fifth consecutive time.
A fabled stop on the world's competitive eating tour, "Nathan's Famous" hot dog parlor in New York's Coney Island hosts the exercise in sheer gluttony each Independence Day holiday.
Chestnut, a California native who at six-foot tall and 218 pounds is far from the obese American one might assume, prepares seriously for each event and regards himself as a trained athlete.
Can you imagine downing a hot dog with bun in just 10 seconds. How about downing them at that rate for 10 straight minutes. It boggles my mind. How do all those wieners fit into one stomach?
Those 65 hot dogs add up to 20,085 calories (recommended daily intake is 2,000), 1,306 g of fat (RDI is 65), 48,071 mg of salt (RDI is 2,300), 1,476 g of carbohydrates (RDI is 300) 84 g of fiber (RDI is 25), and 688 g of protein (RDI is 50). Joey, you might want to see your doctor in the morning.
Chestnut, seven wieners short of the record 69 he scarfed at Nathan's International Hot Dog Eating Contest in 2009, admitted he had some trouble getting enough water down in the blistering hot conditions.
Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas -- a skinny Korean-born American so-called because she outeats men four or five times her size -- downed 40 hot dogs in the same timeframe to take the first female title.
Chestnut, who won $10,000 for his troubles, would be the undisputed king of hot dog eating if it wasn't for Japan's Takeru Kobayashi, who is involved in a contractual dispute with event sponsors Major League Eating (yes there is suc
h a thing).
Kobayashi, a former world record holder who won the event six times in a row from 2001 to 2006, staged an unofficial contest in New York timed to coincide with the event and claimed a new world record of 69 downed dogs.
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