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Joey Chestnut ate 21 pounds of shrimp in a St. Elmo eating competition
At least they weren’t dining on duck, as the commercial goes.
Before the Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday in Indianapolis between Penn State and Oregon, Joey Chestnut was in a competitive eating competition.
The food du jour was shrimp.
The incomparable Chestnut went through 21 pounds of shrimp to crush the foes.
JOEY CHESTNUT JUST ATE 21 POUNDS OF SHRIMP BEFORE THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
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â Homefield (@HomefieldApparl) December 7, 2024
Arthur Blank’s Ring of Honor celebrations brought out the big names.
Sunday night, the Atlanta Falcons hosted a huge game against the back-to-back Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. It was also a night of celebration as they honored longtime Falcons owner Arthur Blank with a spot in the Ring of Honor.
Part of that celebration included a free soda, bag of chips and hot dog to all fans in attendance. In preparation, the Falcons reportedly purchased 100,000 hot dogs.
Well, competitive eater and enemy to hot dogs everywhere heard free hot dogs and cleared his calendar. The 16-time Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest champ holds the world record with 83 hot dogs and buns consumed in 10 minutes, set just this year.
https://twitter.com/atlantafalcons/status/1837994402515415318
We see what’s going on here, Chestnut. Well played.
I never want to watch something like this ever again. But Joey Chestnut gets the people going.
Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi are still eating hot dogs at their big age.
For reasons beyond my comprehension, someone thought it would be a brilliant idea to have Chesnut and Kobayashi stuff themselves with hot dogs until they’re seemingly on the verge of puking…in front of a live audience. Apparently, it was to settle who was the one true top hot dog eater in the world for $100,000, a WWE-style championship belt and a hot dog trophy.
Netflix went all in on the production, including behind-the-scenes eating techniques, anatomy breakdowns and even warm-up competitions. Viewers watched people gouge themselves with a boatload of wings and watermelon before Joey and Kobayashi took the stage nearly 40 minutes after the special started. It was the first time the two championship eaters battled against each other in 15 years.
https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1830695973539983573
Once the competition was in full swing, I could bet the lint in my pocket that the room undoubtedly smelled awful (probably like sweat and beef â *GAG*) while both men exhausted themselves eating for 10 minutes straight.
Ultimately, Joey broke his personal record of 77 dogs with a whopping 83 dogs, smoking Kobayashi’s effort of 67. I hope they’re proud of themselves because this is DISGUSTING, and NEVER would be too soon if I had to witness this again.
https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1830699048661102719
Of course, this historical moment was not as revolting to some fans as it was to me, and they had a field day with the moment.
Here’s what they said:
https://twitter.com/producerTJeski/status/1830702221895573588
https://twitter.com/ChuckSportsApp/status/1830700501572243603
https://twitter.com/MandyBell02/status/1830698353434169410
https://twitter.com/Brackintology/status/1830700776110624953
https://twitter.com/Brooksbrosmedia/status/1830700703037432168
https://twitter.com/CharismaVacuum/status/1830700411097084084
https://twitter.com/MikeZakarian/status/1830701938616263116
(Feature image courtesy of Netflix.)
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Everything you need to know about this special hot dog contest event.
It’s the matchup of a lifetime.
Joey Chestnut, the all-time great eating champion who has won so many Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contests and who didn’t participate in the 2024 edition, will face Takeru Kobayashi, who won a bunch of the glizzy guzzling contests but who hasn’t participated in years.
They’re in a hot dog eating contest on Monday that will stream on Netflix, giving us a glimpse at what could have been for the last decade or so.
If you’re here, you might be wondering the time, where to stream and other info. We’re here to help!
Here you go:
It’ll be on Netflix.
It’ll be on at 3 p.m. ET on Monday, September 2 2024, which is Labor Day.
That would be in HyperX Arena in Las Vegas.
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Joey Chestnut is at it again.
Professional eater Joey Chestnut might not have participated in the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest last week, but he did one better for all the people enjoying Buffalo Wild Wings’ all-you-can-eat boneless wings.
Chestnut devoured 200 BWW boneless wings in under 38 minutes on Monday, which extends the restaurants’ all-you-can-eat boneless wings and fries promotion on Mondays and Wednesdays through Aug. 14.
The professional eater called it a “record for generations” on Twitter (X) before taking on the challenge, which we’re sure filled him up quickly and made him not want to eat boneless chicken wings for a good while.
What a meal for Chestnut to devour, which benefits us all in the end.
Man of the people. All you can eat boneless extended to 8/14 https://t.co/2VClVREF0O
— Buffalo Wild Wings (@BWWings) July 8, 2024
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Joey Chestnut is unstoppable, even when he’s not in the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.
We were robbed of what could have been a masterful performance on July 4th.
Patrick Bertoletti took the Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest crown from Joey Chestnut on Thursday after Chestnut had to bow out due to his partnership with Impossible Foods. Bertoletti ate 57 hot dogs in the allotted 10 minutes, which is pretty impressive.
But perhaps Chestnut knew he had to make a statement. So at Fort Bliss in Texas later that day, Chestnut did a five-minute contest and ate … 57 hot dogs.
That’s pretty wild and means we could have seen him perhaps deliver another incredible record-setting day in Coney Island.
Watch:
Joey Chestnut: 57 hot dogs in five minutes
Patrick Bertoletti: 58 hot dogs in 10 minutes đ€Ż
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pic.twitter.com/P3Kzkri2Le— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) July 4, 2024
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A look back at every winner of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest over the last decades.
Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2021 and has been updated.
With the Fourth of July comes everyone’s favorite guilty pleasure: the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, an annual tradition featuring the art of consuming an absurd amount of processed meat in a short amount of time.
The competition rose to notoriety through the likes of Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi, who have each won the event multiple times.
For this year’s contest, Chestnut isn’t competing due to his deal with Impossible Foods, so we’ll have a new men’s winner in 2024.
With that in mind, we’re taking a look back at every winner of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest since 2000, both men and women.
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A first-time winner in the annual competition.
Patrick Bertoletti took advantage of the absence of Joey Chestnut to make a statement at the 2024 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Chestnut, who had won 8-straight and 16 of the last 17, was disqualified from this year’s event due to a brand deal with a competitor.
Instead, the raucous crowd saw Bertoletti demolish 58 hot dogs and buns — a new personal best for the eater — earn the coveted mustard belt. Bertoletti beat out Geoffrey Esper, the No. 2 eater in the world, to snag the victory.
“I wasn’t going to stop eating until the job was done,” Bertoletti said after his win.
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— ESPN (@espn) July 4, 2024
Here’s why you won’t see the legendary competitive eater this year.
Are you tuning into the annual July 4th extravaganza known as the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and wondering why you’re not seeing Joey Chestnut downing dogs as usual, breaking records along the way and winning an event he’s won so many times?
We have an answer. We did a longer explainer about the whole thing, but here’s the summary: Chestnut made a deal with Impossible Foods to promote their hot dogs made with plant-based ingredients. Because he made a promotion deal with another brand that he can’t promote — because, y’know, Nathan’s runs the event! — he was out.
Major League Eating said he wasn’t banned, but Chestnut is out. He’ll be at Fort Bliss in El Paso, downing dogs against soldiers on Thursday.
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Hot dogs aren’t Joey Chestnut’s only specialty.
There are few traditions more American than the equal parts fascinating and disgusting art of competitive eating.
And when it comes to competitive eating, there’s one undisputed king: Joey Chestnut.
Chestnut is best known for dominating the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, which is held on July 4 at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. He’s won the men’s title 15 times, which includes every year since 2007 except for 2015 when he was upset by Matt Stonie.
But Chestnut’s record-setting eating includes more than just hot dogs. Ahead of the latest installment of the contest, here’s a rundown of all the Major League Eating world records held by Chestnut.
