American is hot dog eating champion

Posted on July 5, 2007 by John

hotdogs.jpgSan Jose native’s Joey Chestnut defeated six-time winner Takeru Kobayashi in Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest this past Wednesday, as detailed in “American is hot dog eating champion.” Chestnut even beat his recently set world record, devouring 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes. Long live Takeru Kobayashi!

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I'm a Taiwanese-American and was born & raised in Western Massachusetts, went to college in upstate New York, worked in Connecticut, went to grad school in North Carolina and then moved out to the Bay Area in 1999 and have been living here ever since - love the weather and almost everything about the area (except the high cost of housing...)
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