Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti's appeared to be steaming red Kool-Aid, which over the ten minutes of eating covered his face, hands and torso. After being introduced, each one carefully arranged his mise en place, filling large yellow Nathan's cups with his liquid of choice.
The main event began with each man being introduced. "I got the hiccups," she said in her post-contest stage interview. The women's runner-up was rail-thin Juliet Lee - "the Pippa Middleton of Maryland" - and Michelle Lesco came in third. She set the women's record in 2009 by eating 41 hot dogs and buns during the joint competition. Thomas, also known as "The Black Widow," was the odds-on favorite going into the contest. Her jaws and teeth shredded the sausages as if they were saplings being fed into a wood chipper. She shoved hot dogs in her mouth with one hand, while cradling a cup of liquid to wash them down with the other. The 100-pound woman never stopped moving during the contest, constantly bouncing and twisting her way to victory. Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Va., took the Pepto-Bismol Pink Belt title in the first-ever competition for women, eating 40 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes, one shy of her 2009 record. None came close to threatening Chestnut, and the geopolitical subtext vanished.įor the first time, Nathan's sponsored separate competitions for men and women. The other two looked, and ate, like government minders. One of the three - inevitably nicknamed the Great Wall of China at home - looked like a big eater.
Patriotism was running higher than usual thanks to three new entrants from China, a sign that China is applying its thirst for economic power to competitive eating. flags chanting "USA, USA," and women wearing red, white and blue bikinis. Many spectators came in their July 4 finest. Little Jimmy, a midget dressed as Uncle Sam sporting a thick, black handlebar mustache, danced the robot to "Love Train." Seuss hat on stilts, a dancing plush hot dog named the Frankster and two guys in orange tank tops bouncing on a trampoline. The 96th annual hot dog eating contest brought out thousands to the corner of Stillwell and Surf Avenues - "the Madison Square Garden of Gurgitation," in emcee George Shea's words - in front of the original Nathan's Famous hot dog stand to witness a spectacle of spittle so gross one couldn't help but watch. Kobayashi split from Major League Eating and planned to stage his own show in Manhattan today. I mean those, they go down like I was made to eat them."īefore there was Chestnut, there was Takeru Kobayashi, who won the contest for six consecutive years. Grilled cheese sandwiches, chicken wings, ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza. "There's a couple of foods that if you see me eat them in a contest, you can tell I like them.
"I love hot dogs," said Chestnut, who after winning cooled his cheek with a bottle of Pepto-Bismol, a competition sponsor.
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