<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>American hot dog eating record setWatch out, Takeru Kobayashi. Here comes Joey Chestnut. Chestnut, a 22-year-old civil engineering student at San Jose State, ate 50 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes Thursday at the Las Vegas qualifier for a spot at the table at the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. The mark sets the American hot dog eating record, beating the 42 hot dogs and buns swallowed by Sonya Thomas last year. In the same competition, Chestnut had only eaten 32. "I was hoping to do 40," said Chestnut, the champion in pork ribs (5.5 pounds in 12 minutes), waffles (18.5 in 10 minutes) and jalapeno poppers (118 in 10 minutes). "I did 48 at home, but it's always harder to do it in front of a crowd." Kobayashi, who flies to Coney Island each year from Japan for the hot dog eating championship held July 4, holds the world record of 53? hot dogs and buns. He has won the last five contests, but in two of those victories he ate less than 50 hot dogs and buns. "This could be so critical to our sport," said George Shea, chair of the International Federation of Competitive Eating, which sanctions more than 100 eating contests, including the Nathan's event. "It's never good for the same athlete to win so many years in a row. The Fourth of July has been stolen from Americans because of Kobayashi's dominance and now America has someone who they can get excited about." "I'm going to push harder on our Independence Day to take the title back," said Chestnut, who is 6-foot-1 and 230 pounds. "My brother is in the National Guard in Iraq and there will be a lot of people behind me." Chestnut estimates he has won $50,000 in cash and prizes in a year on the circuit, including a car and ring after prevailing in the Wing Bowl. In the event, which took place in Philadelphia, he ate 173 buffalo wings in 30 minutes.</div> LinkHalf of me is saying wow that is incredible and how does he do that, while the other part is thinking of how disgusting it must be to eat that many damn hot dogsat one sitting. I know i couldnt eat that many at once. Now they just need a cookie eating contest so Balla could win.
Kobayashi is amazing. He eats so much and he still has a ripped 6pack. I was watching this special on him and he ate 37 plates of noodles at a restaurant.Hes an amazing eater. It should be interesting to see if this guy can beat him come contest time.
Damn, Kobayashi has some competition now. He's still by far the best though, this kid can't beat him.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pistonfan11 @ May 19 2006, 11:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I can't believe that that guy is that skinny and eats so much, talk about a metabloism.</div>He has an abnormal condition with his stomach where it goes down towards his bladder further then a normal person's does, so the size of his stomach is decieveing by his appearance.
