I Will Never Look At A Hot Dog The Same Way Again

Hope everyone had a nice Forth of July weekend!  We had a great time with the standard July fourth festivities but what I want to know is if any of you happened to catch the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating competition on television? It is held every year on the forth of July at Coney Island Amusement Park in New York.  If you have never seen one you have to check it out on You Tube.

But prepare yourself.  Watching people shove hot dogs and buns down their throats one after the other is not a pretty sight.

OMG!  How utterly disgusting!  The winner, Joey Chestnut ate 68 hot dogs AND buns in 10 minutes!   Think about that.  He averaged almost 7 hot dogs and buns a minute.

I still cannot believe that there are people who actually choose to do this.  The winner gets a “Mustard Belt” and $20,000.   Are you kidding me?  You could not pay me enough to do that.  In fact, after watching that contest, I myself, have no interest in eating a hot dog any time soon.

Oh and competitive eating is considered a “sport” believe it or not.   These people train for events such as these.  Most of them come into the Nathan’s competition as the Eating Champion of the World of something.  This one lady was a mere 105 pounds and is the Cheesecake eating Champion of the World.  She ate 11 pounds of cheesecake in eight minutes. Ugh.  Just the thought of that makes me want to hurl.

The Boss watches this every year and it’s kind of like watching a train wreck.  You don’t want look, but…

Surprisingly, after devouring 68 hot dogs, there wasn’t what they call a “reversal”.  I’ll let you figure out what that is.