Say it ain’t so, Joe!
The extensively attributed accusation directed at Shoeless Joe Jackson by a foul-mouthed child in all probability by no means occurred, however an analogous attraction ought to be directed at Meatless Joey Chestnut. Joey Chestnut has been a staple of Coney Island’s Fourth of July hotdog consuming contest since 2016. However Joey has modified groups. A treacherous rival Benedict Arnold turns his coat, Joey swaps loyalty to Nathan’s meat hotdog to the meatless canine.
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A consultant of Main League Consuming (MLE), which Nathan’s sanctioned to run the occasion, stated organizers had bent over backwards to satisfy Chestnut’s numerous different calls for. They even agreed to have him take part in a rival Labor Day dog-eating pageant taped by Netflix so long as no scorching canine model was talked about.
However they are saying they draw the road at giving chestnut pitches for a special canine.
A supply stated Chestnut was paid $200,000 to look on Nathan’s competitors final 12 months, and was provided a $1.2 million, four-year contract.
MLE stated in an announcement: “We’re devastated to be taught that Joey Chestnut has chosen to symbolize a rival model that sells plant-based scorching canines as a substitute of competing within the 2024 Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Scorching Canine Consuming Contest.”
Chestnut took cash from a rival hotdog maker known as Unimaginable Meals. Unimaginable appears proper. That firm makes a “frank” that’s not product of meat. It’s a plant-based cheat. I do not find out about you, however making a “frankfurter” that is not product of meat is like claiming you drink milk that comes from nuts. Possibly chestnuts ought to take an endorsement for aggressive tofu consuming. Possibly quiche. I do not like hotdogs or apple pie, however rattling, they’re American.
Disagree Dan. I do not care who you might be. On the 4th of July it’s important to eat actual scorching canines. Go to Russia on the 4th of July if you wish to eat vegan canines. https://t.co/PLLbbbvLeb
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) June 11, 2024
“Skilled consuming” is monumentally silly. I feel the concept of stuffing your mouth with 50+ hotdogs is disgusting. It isn’t a sport. However rattling, not less than Coney Island’s Fourth of July hotdog consuming contest used an American staple: the hotdog. And hotdogs imply meat, or not less than meat byproducts, or something that was meat-adjacent in some unspecified time in the future.
Consuming an excessive amount of is just not a recreation. Chestnut’s essential rival was a pal named Kobayashi. He had to surrender “aggressive consuming” as a result of he developed arthritis in his jaw.
Kobayashi stated his abdomen expanded a lot that it compressed his lungs and he had bother respiration.
Now that MLE has misplaced its most well-known skilled fodder, maybe sponsors of the annual Coney Island occasion ought to return to their roots. Do away with the “entitlement” and pull folks from the group. Corn-fed fatties and a few drunkards who’re tempted by their dates.
I want to see it. I might tune in for the inevitable crash. Like a NASCAR race, I simply need to see the predictable carnage, a number of amateurs stuffing too many canines down their throats and their stomachs rebelling past rise up.
Because it stands, I’ll take pleasure in my annual custom of ignoring Nathan’s Well-known Hotdog Consuming Contest.
