America: Hot Dog Eatin’ Champions
Have you ever seen that King of the Hill episode where Bill enters a national hot dog eating competition going head-to-head with the Laosian world champion? These things really happen. This Fourth of July, Joey Chestnut won the Yellow Mustard Belt and broke the world record for hotdogs consumed in 12 minutes with a shocking 66 dogs at the 2007 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest. This beating out his Japanese rival, Takero Kobayashi who ate a mere 63. Go America! Go ever expanding waistlines!
Hot dog history was made this Fourth of July, with Joey Chestnut of San Jose, Calif., shattering records – including his own – and winning the Yellow Mustard Belt at the 2007 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, Brooklyn.
At Wednesday’s midday match, the 23-year-old civil-engineering student beat six-time defending champion Takeru Kobayashi, 29, of Japan, by downing a record-breaking 66 dogs.
Kobayashi ate 63 dogs. In the final 120 seconds of the 12-minute competition the competitors appeared to be an adrenaline surging jaw-to-jaw tie – until Chestnut won.
"It’s time it came back to America … on the Fourth of July," Chestnut, draped in the Stars and Stripes and still catching his breath, said after claiming the title.
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