[Closed] Competitive Eater Joey Chestnut Is Now The Winningest Athlete of a Single Event

I'm struggling with the term athlete, but well done to him, that is a lot of hot dogs.

Whatever he is it's one of those US only World Champ things so definitely qualifies for use of the word winningest, my 'favorite' love-to-hate USism.

Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor might want to examine those claims.

my ‘favorite’ love-to-hate USism.

Mine is "A-Hole"

"Burglarized". Wtf?!

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Whatever he is it’s one of those US only World Champ things so definitely qualifies for use of the word winningest, my ‘favorite’ love-to-hate USism.

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Yorkshire lad taking part here

Seems like being a giant fat bastard is not the name of the game here - Chestnut looks normal sized by American standards @ 6'1'', 230 lbs.

He has been out-eaten on a few occasions when he was coming up by Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas - pound for pound the GOAT. She won Wing Bowl 2004 weighing in at 99lbs, a little over 7 stone.

If there's a more American headline, I haven't seen it yet (today)

“Burglarized”. Wtf?!

Think you meant hotdogarized - they're not burgers 😉

Am i the only person who is thinking "all that needs is mustard and ketchup"

Seems like being a giant fat bastard is not the name of the game here –

Being fat would be a handicap because your abdomen would be full of body fat and you wouldn't have any room left to fit 40 pounds of dead pig meat.

Apparently it's just a matter of stretching your stomach so you can fit it all inside, then knowing how to relax all the muscles in your throat, then literally stuffing them in as fast as you can (just ramming them down your throat with your hand). You need to do it really fast so that your digestive system doesn't have time to register that you're not hungry any more.

I have a friend who once ate three Big Macs on a dare. First one was good, he said, second one ok, but not really fun, third one was hard work, his stomach just was not interested.