Newsflash!
Joey Chestnut has sensationally toppled six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi, who suffered from an unspecified jaw injury, with a world-record 66 hot dogs. That’s a great American name, Joey Chestnut. And Takeru Kobayashi is a great Japanese name.
Thanks to Amercian heroes like Joey Chestnut, hot dog eating, for so long primarily a participation sport, is finally getting the media profile it deserves. Before long I can see it in the top three US sports by ratings, after poker and cars going round and round and round and round and round.
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Ah, yes, I spotted it too. And the jaw injury sprung out at me as well. Unwanted mental image moment.
Posted on 04-Jul-07 at 6:10 pm | PermalinkI want to see their technique. Do they battle their gag reflex and just slide them in? Or is there frenzied yet skillful mastication?
Kobayashi’s only other hot dog eating loss was to a bear.
Posted on 05-Jul-07 at 11:55 pm | PermalinkMica: both techniques are used, I think, or a combination of both. Any mastication would be very slick I would imagine.
Carter: It’s not been the same since they banned bears from the sport.
Posted on 11-Jul-07 at 9:40 am | Permalinkhmm…have to say that although I’m not certain if competitive eating is an international, ahem, sport, it is among the most embarrassing things that I’ve noticed my fellow Americans engaging in. As if there weren’t enough things to be ridiculed for, we’ve got idiots cramming huge quantities of pork parts in their mouths. Classy.
Posted on 11-Jul-07 at 12:04 pm | Permalink