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[PrisonerOfHope]

Chestnut Downs 62 At Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, But A Lady Steals The Show
Monday, July 4, 2011 3:21 pm
Written by: Max Thompson




Joey Chestnut could teach us all a thing or two about consistency, not to mention the most absurd kind of gluttony.

Chestnut, 27, from San Jose, Calif., won his fifth consecutive Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Monday by plowing through 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes. That was good enough to win by nine franks over second-place chow artist Patrick Bertoletti.

Asked how he was doing afterward, Chestnut remarked that he felt "great!"

Who wouldn't after ingesting 20,000 calories?


More significantly, for the first year ever, we have a women's contest wiener -- er, winner. Sonya "Black Widow" Thomas put away 40 hot dogs, which had to come as little surprise to competitive eating fans. (Yes, they exist.) The Black Widow downed a personal best of 41 in 2009.

Thomas won by a larger margin than Chestnut, with her closest competitor, Juliet Lee, finishing with 29 1/2 hot dogs consumed.

[shann0]

Nasty! I won't even eat hotdogs, do you know what's in those things? Yuck! Eating contests are disgusting, I can't watch the video, LOL

[PrisonerOfHope]

Nathan's is awesome - best hot dogs, great burgers, and terrific fries. But 20,000 in ONE SITTING? That's more calories than many people in this world get in a month!