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2024 NATHAN'S HOT DOG EATING CHAMPIONSHIP - JOEY CHESTNUT BANNED! (1 Viewer)

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Joey Chestnut, perennial winner of the annual July 4th Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Competition, is out of this year’s beef barf over a deal he made to represent a different wiener brand, The Post has learned.

And not just any brand, but Impossible Foods, which recently launched a vegan frankfurter impostor made from plants.
 
There hasn't been a men's champ other than Chestnut and Kobayashi since 2000 when Kazutoyo Arai won with a total of 25 1/8th.

Different times.
I think half the FFA could take down 25 1/8.

ETA: and they really measured dogs in eighths - different times indeed
 
Here's some footage from the 1997 contest. It's very small scale by comparison with today. At about the 2:10 mark, a very young George Shea appears in his familiar straw hat dreaming of bigger things with dollar signs in his eyes.

 



Darren Rovell

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To address the biggest news of the day...Despite reports, Joey Chestnut is NOT BANNED from the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. He made an endorsement decision to support a competitor.Major League Eating still hopes he'll change course.




SO - not banned technically, but it sounds like not competing ether.
 

Darren Rovell
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To address the biggest news of the day...Despite reports, Joey Chestnut is NOT BANNED from the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. He made an endorsement decision to support a competitor.Major League Eating still hopes he'll change course.




SO - not banned technically, but it sounds like not competing ether.
SO YOURE SAYING THERES A CHANCE
….for someone other than Chestnut to actually win, yes.
 
I'm with Nathan's on this one. I've got nothing against veggie burgers and the like, but a vegan hot dog? What is the point of that?
I'm with both sides. Joey is just following the money.

Surely hotdogs are as good for the environment as vegan dogs. Think of all that room in landfills saved by turning inedible waste into hotdogs.
 
Promoter George Shea is trying to control the narrative by framing it as hot dogs vs. vegans but the reality is just another contractual squabble between a sport and its biggest star.
 
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Is it Nathan's preventing him from participating or Impossible? I could totally see how his new sponsor wouldn't want to pay him a bunch of money just to have him promote and bring a bunch of eyeballs to a Nathan's event.
 
Is it Nathan's preventing him from participating or Impossible? I could totally see how his new sponsor wouldn't want to pay him a bunch of money just to have him promote and bring a bunch of eyeballs to a Nathan's event.

Chestnut signed a deal to promote Impossible dogs so Shea and Nathan's said you can't comp-eat. Chestnut claims he's not under contract with MLE and that the organizers are changing the rules on him. This sounds like a similar case to what drove Kobayashi out of MLE.

Impossible dogs is currently leading the PR battle. Joey is the GOAT of eating so this is bad news for the contest however Shea tries to spin it. I guess the best you can hope for is a wide open competition to claim the mustard belt although some of the second tier eaters will be harder to market than Chestnut has been (and he's not exactly the most charismatic of superstars).
 
Impossible/Joey should run a competing event at the same time. Who you want to watch, the goat or some wannabees?
 
There hasn't been a men's champ other than Chestnut and Kobayashi since 2000 when Kazutoyo Arai won with a total of 25 1/8th.

Different times.
Not true. Joey has something like 14 of the last 15 titles. The one loss to Matt Stone.

ETA: Stone beat Chestnut in 2015, 62 to 60.
 
I'm with Nathan's on this one. I've got nothing against veggie burgers and the like, but a vegan hot dog? What is the point of that?
Here's the thing. People into it enough to be fully vegan don't want a vegan hotdog either.

I don't see a massive market for a vegan version of a food item vegans are disgusted by.
Yes, I still don't know any vegans going to Burger King for lunch.
 
I'm with Nathan's on this one. I've got nothing against veggie burgers and the like, but a vegan hot dog? What is the point of that?
Here's the thing. People into it enough to be fully vegan don't want a vegan hotdog either.

I don't see a massive market for a vegan version of a food item vegans are disgusted by.

Yeah that's exactly my point. The product has never made sense to me but I guess they sell. One time a friend of mine put some on my grill at a tailgate. She called it a "Not-Dog." I tried one and it was awful.
 
I'm with Nathan's on this one. I've got nothing against veggie burgers and the like, but a vegan hot dog? What is the point of that?
Here's the thing. People into it enough to be fully vegan don't want a vegan hotdog either.

I don't see a massive market for a vegan version of a food item vegans are disgusted by.

Yep, I will never get the whole "don't want to eat meat, but give me something pretending to be meat" thing
 
Vegetarian head cheese would be kind of neat, maybe use marshmallow pieces to replicate the bits of pig ear and snout trapped in the gelatine. hmm...
 
Yep, I will never get the whole "don't want to eat meat, but give me something pretending to be meat" thing

You have to get your protein somehow :shrug: You can also substitute plant based meat in existing carnivore recipes (sort of).

I don't mind the taste of impossible burger especially where it's not the dominant flavor like in chili. The texture still needs some work though.
 
I'm with Nathan's on this one. I've got nothing against veggie burgers and the like, but a vegan hot dog? What is the point of that?
Here's the thing. People into it enough to be fully vegan don't want a vegan hotdog either.

I don't see a massive market for a vegan version of a food item vegans are disgusted by.

Yep, I will never get the whole "don't want to eat meat, but give me something pretending to be meat" thing
It's not that hard to understand. Imagine you like the taste of something, but are unable to eat it, for some reason. Maybe you're allergic, or can't afford it, for example.

If a cheaper, hypoallergenic version of that food was created by food scientists, why not try it?

Some vegans grew up eating meat, and enjoy the taste, but elect to avoid it due to ethical or environmental concerns. If faux meat doesn't carry that baggage, why not try it?

Now, none of that stuff is particularly healthy, whether real or "fake". But not all vegans choose their diet for health.
 
I don't understand why Nathan's didn't just let this slide.

They should be saying they're going to let Chestnut stay in the event because impossible was not a "hot dog".

Yheyjust run a campaign saying impossible is just a soy-rocket or something,not a hot dog, so Chestnut it's free to pimp them if he likes.

But doing this they've lost their biggest star and they are saying Impossible makes hot dogs.

But what do I know. I have no idea how Big Weiner works.
 

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