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From Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Chowdown champ Joey “Jaws” Chestnut broke his own record to gulp to a 14th win in the men’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Sunday, while Michelle Lesco took the women’s title.
Chestnut downed 76 franks and buns in 10 minutes. That’s one more than he did in setting the men’s record last year, when the contest unfolded without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“It just felt good,” Chestnut, of Westfield, Indiana, said in an ESPN interview after his win Sunday. “Even if I was uncomfortable, having everybody cheer me and push me, it made me feel good.”
Lesco, of Tucson, Arizona, downed 30 ¾ dogs in 10 minutes and called her win “an amazing feeling.”
Reigning women’s champ and record-holder Miki Sudo skipped this year because she’s expecting a baby in a few weeks with fellow competitive eater ...
COMMENT:-
The caloric content of the hotdogs that Mr. Chestnut consumed in 10 minutes was roughly equivalent to the (world wide) average daily caloric intake (2,780 kCal) for 26.25 people or the (central African) average daily caloric intake (1,820 kCal) for ~40 people. In short, in 10 minutes, Mr. Chestnut consumed enough food to feed one person for a month (and most of which, I suspect, he vomited up soon afterwards).
Don't you think that the US should be trumpeting the fact that it is so rich that it can afford to have contests like this and to have people who describe themselves as "competitive eaters"?
NEW YORK (AP) — Chowdown champ Joey “Jaws” Chestnut broke his own record to gulp to a 14th win in the men’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Sunday, while Michelle Lesco took the women’s title.
Chestnut downed 76 franks and buns in 10 minutes. That’s one more than he did in setting the men’s record last year, when the contest unfolded without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“It just felt good,” Chestnut, of Westfield, Indiana, said in an ESPN interview after his win Sunday. “Even if I was uncomfortable, having everybody cheer me and push me, it made me feel good.”
Lesco, of Tucson, Arizona, downed 30 ¾ dogs in 10 minutes and called her win “an amazing feeling.”
Reigning women’s champ and record-holder Miki Sudo skipped this year because she’s expecting a baby in a few weeks with fellow competitive eater ...
COMMENT:-
The caloric content of the hotdogs that Mr. Chestnut consumed in 10 minutes was roughly equivalent to the (world wide) average daily caloric intake (2,780 kCal) for 26.25 people or the (central African) average daily caloric intake (1,820 kCal) for ~40 people. In short, in 10 minutes, Mr. Chestnut consumed enough food to feed one person for a month (and most of which, I suspect, he vomited up soon afterwards).
Don't you think that the US should be trumpeting the fact that it is so rich that it can afford to have contests like this and to have people who describe themselves as "competitive eaters"?
