Joey Chestnut (left). Photo by David Dee Delgado, Getty ImagesToday is July 4. This day marks the American celebration of America with two equally stupid and uniquely American events: Fourth Of July fireworks displays and hot dog eating contests. The latter is easy to forget, at least until world's fireworks experts invent new shapes or colors (or make a fun new sound), but the hot dog eating contests are worth mentioning! It's not true. He is a famous hot dog eater who won the Nationas Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest on New York's Coney Island. He is Joey Chestnut. Although that's a lot of hot dogs, and it was too fast for any other metric, Joey Chestnut still found what he liked. We can go our entire lives without ever becoming Joey Chestnut at something. Or is he the most efficient? Is there a person who can eat hot dogs faster and is judged on a different standard to speed? These questions are impossible to answer because Joey Chestnut, and all the competitors in the Nathans contest, only exist for one day each year, and then they disappear into oblivion.AdvertisementCNN has the news. Some people have to work Sundays, which is okay. It also states that Chestnut won the title for the 14th consecutive year. He also ate 26 more hotdogs than the second-place winner, which suggests that he could have stopped eating hotdogs and had chips or potato salad after some time. Joey, why are you eating so many hotdogs? You're going to be sick! It's too late! He already stepped through the portal into the hotdog dimension.
