Move Over, Kobayashi: Joey Chestnut Is an Eating Contest Renaissance Man
If you ask any American to name a competitive eater, nine out of ten will probably still say, "That tiny Japanese guy who eats all the hot dogs."
But 24-year-old American Joey Chestnut has lately been making Takeru Kobyashi look like a one-trick pony as he travels around the world, gnawing out his place in competitive eating history.
Not only has Chestnut beaten six-time champ Kobayashi in the last two Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contests at Coney Island, but he is racking up eating championships at a record-setting pace.
According to sometimes-true source Wikipedia, Joey the Jaws now holds at least 17 different eating world records, in everything from asparagus to matzo ball soup. And Chestnut added yet another title this weekend, bringing a crowd out to Times Square as he dominated the Famous Famiglia pizza-eating contest in Times Square.
Chestnut ate up 45 slices--crusts and all--in just ten minutes.
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[Photo: Joey Chestnut]
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