This fourth of July thousands of people turned out to Brooklyn's friendliest slum Coney Island to watch the Nathan's hotdog eating contest. The competitive eating league (yes MLE stands for Major League Eating, its a real thing), is dominated by one small Japanese man named Takeru Kobyashi, who unhinges his jaw and inhales food like some sort of Asian boa constrictor eating a mouse. I like to savor and enjoy my food not stuff it down my throat, but the culture and scene surrounding MLE is frankly hilarious and entertaining so I pay attention to it. This year, I guess driven by some weird patriotism, onlookers booed Kobyashi and instead cheered on native southerner Joey Chestnut to win the contest by 3.5 dogs. In total Chestnut ate a ridiculous 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes which is 6.8 hotdogs a minute. All in all a good time was had by all and we whooped the Japanese like it was 1945.
Enjoy this link to a nice slide show of the show http://deadspin.com/5307965/the-nathans-4th-of-july-hot-dog-eating-contest-is-america/gallery/
PS: also in MLE news Elephants beat humans in a hotdog eating contest the day before, 505 dogs to 143, they still cant make guns or cars.
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