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Joey Chestnut picked up his 16th Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest win on Tuesday at Coney Island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn holding off James Webb and Geoffrey Esper in the men’s field. Chestnut devoured 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes. He set the record for most hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes with 76 in 2021. He had 63 in last year’s contest. hestnut got off to a hot start, eating five hot dogs and buns within the first 30 seconds. With 5 minutes remaining in the contest, Chestnut ate about 40 hot dogs and...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted their first state dinner Tuesday evening in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron.SNIPJoining the main guests of honor, Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, is an exclusive list of 130 guests, who will be seated across 13 candlelit tables of 10 in the State Dining Room. Among the attendees are Apple CEO Tim Cook, who brought as his guest former Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, statesman Henry Kissinger, Chief Justice John Roberts, media mogul Rubert Murdoch, managing director of the IMF Christine Lagarde, two Olympic gold medalists, Bernard Arnault, chairman...

The most common question posed by a visitor on arrival in Reykjavik, capital of the so-called Land of Fire and Ice, tends to be where are the nearest hot springs rather than where is the closest hot dog stand. But it's an answer to the latter that I'm most keen to hear on arriving at my hotel in Iceland after a day and a half's worth of flying. In a nation with a cuisine that includes rather less accessible delicacies such as fermented shark, blood sausage and - oh boy - foal meat, hot dogs, you see, are a curious...

FanDuel and DraftKings are among the books that have announced refunds, giving back money on any straight bets for Chestnut to eat more than 74.5 hot dogs. Chestnut finished with 63 hot dogs Monday, good enough to hand him his 15th title but well short of last year’s record of 76. It was Chestnut’s worst showing since 2015...Midway through the contest, with Chestnut just getting going at 17 hot dogs, a protester in a Darth Vader mask rushed the Coney Island stage and unfurled a sign next to Chestnut. Chestnut quickly put the protester in a headlock before organizers took...

Joey Chestnut wins 12th Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest

Joey Chestnut wins for the 16th time. Downs 63 hot dogs. He said he was going for 80...but he's still the champ.

The world’s greatest eater will limp bravely into battle in the sport’s premiere event on Monday, July 4th. Joey Chestnut shocked the competitive-eating community on Friday when he hobbled into Hudson Yards in New York City on crutches during the official weigh-in before the 2022 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest — a 4th of July tradition on Coney Island. “I’m gonna eat like a madman,” the world’s top-ranked eater told Fox News Digital before weighing in at 235 pounds.

Apparently the world’s supply of a favorite hot dog condiment doesn’t cut the … err … mustard. And, as a result, we may be looking at an international mustard shortage sooner than we think. According to Business Insider, a year of poor mustard seed production is the cause of what may result in a lack of mustard on American grocery store shelves in the near future. Experts say you can thank climate change for the large drop in mustard seed production, with Canada (the world’s second largest producer) and France watching the most recent growing season’s yields fall 28 percent...

Police say the driver lost control of the semi-truck and after the truck overturned, the filling spilled out.This truck driver probably didn't relish this situation — an overturned semi-truck spilled 15,000 pounds of hot dog filler onto the roadway in Pennsylvania, according to authorities. According to a police report, the Freightliner was speeding down Interstate 70 in Rostraver when the driver began to lose control. The truck then left the roadway and drove into the soft shoulder. As this happened, the cab of the truck was impaled by several trees, which helped stop the truck. Police say that because of...

Hot dogs, rightfully, loom large in the American imagination. And just as our nation houses a breathtaking spread of regional pizza styles, America’s many, many different hot dogs inspire continual creativity and spark passionate arguments. Each regional variation on a hot dog is a reflection of the community that loves it. Every last one deserves a spot in our hearts and our digestive tract, so let’s dive into a compendium of these United States of Hot Dogs. Ready? One quick thing before we get started: You’re not going to see Dodger Dogs or Fenway Franks on this list. That’s on...

We are going to have hot dogs for Thanksgiving, today. Thanks to Biden we saved 16 cents!

The price of some of America’s favorite foods, including burgers and hot dogs, are set to soar — as annual inflation hit a 30-year high in October, the feds announced Wednesday. Major US food companies, including Tyson Foods, Conagra and Kraft Heinz, are reportedly preparing to hike prices on some of their meat products to offset higher supplier costs, according to supplier letters to wholesale customers that were obtained by CNN. Ball Park hot dogs and burgers, State Fair corn dogs, Jimmy Dean frozen breakfast items, Hillshire Farm sausage and lunch meat, and Hebrew National and Oscar Mayer hot dogs...

A fresh bun, that juicy meat, a dash of onions, and slathering of mustard — it makes the mouth water. But is a hot dog really worth losing 36 minutes of healthy living? This is the question posed by "experts" led from the University of Michigan who have evaluated more than 5,000 foods by how much they affect your healthiness. They say that chicken wings can cost you 3.3 minutes of robust living whereas salted peanuts and baked salmon gain you some 26 and 16 minutes, respectively. The study was undertaken by environmental health expert Olivier Jolliet of the University...

FOX 2 - "You love the smell of them coming out," said Daniel Williams. "I am a little bit hungry, I love to get a hot dog." Williams, like so many, found the aroma of cooking hot dogs wafting through the air of Home Depot stores comforting - something to count on. Hot dogs no more at Home Depot Home Depot has pulled the plug on hot dog vendors at all Michigan stores. "This is one of the few Home Depots that grill hot dogs not boil and they are really good," said one customer. But customers learned on Monday...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki tried to defend a White House tweet on Friday that boasted how President Biden's economic policies would be saving Americans $0.16 cents on traditional items for a Fourth of July barbecue. 'Planning a cookout this year? Ketchup on the news,' the White House tweeted. 'According to the Farm Bureau, the cost of a 4th of July BBQ is down from last year. It's a fact you must-hear(d) – Hot dog, the Biden economic plan is working. And that's something we can all relish.' The tweet was accompanied by a GIF laying out the price...

Looking for a more hygienic way to roast a hot dog that doesn’t involve it rolling around on a rarely cleaned grill? Taking advantage of the Coandă effect, YouTube’s NightHawkInLight has created a bizarre BBQ alternative that instead levitates a wiener inside a red hot coil. Even if you’re not familiar with the Coandă effect, you’ve probably seen a video or two online of it in action, and have definitely experienced it in real life. Named after Romanian inventor Henri Coandă, it describes an effect where a fluid jet—either a liquid or gas—has the tendency to cling to the contours...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a press conference today, Press Secretary Jen Psaki reminded Americans that they must turn in their permission slips for eating a delicious grilled July 4th hot dog by this Friday. "We know you people enjoy your hot dogs, but it is the top priority of this administration that you enjoy this food safely," said Psaki cheerfully. "With the COVID risks involved in gathering around the grill and the choking risks of eating processed meat, we ask that you please get a slip signed by your mommy, daddy, or local magistrate before partaking." Those who fail to turn in...

By now, you probably have a bucket list a mile long for what you want to do when it's finally safe. I will personally be posting up in my favorite dive bar, drinking many vodka sodas, and making everyone listen to The Boys Are Back In Town over and over. Dr. Anthony Fauci, however, has different post-pandemic dreams, and they include enjoying a beer and a hot dog at a baseball game. Dr. Fauci appeared on KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO in Los Angeles over the weekend and discussed everything from vaccine distribution to how to open schools safely. But the end...

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) destroyed countless jobs in her state by imposing a series of authoritarian Coronavirus lockdown orders....Now she’s telling unemployed healthcare workers waiting for their unemployment benefits to eat hot dogs.

A Sioux Falls meatpacking plant was forced to close when it became the epicenter of COVID-19 in South Dakota. Three weeks after executives from its Chinese owner, WH Group, visited the plant, a month after President Trump’s ban on travel from China, nearly 600 of Smithfield Foods’ 3700 employees tested positive for the virus, as have 135 additional people in close contact with employees. Smithfield Foods was started in 1936 by a family in Virginia. Today, the Chinese own Armour and the famous Smithfield hams, together with the most quintessential American brand of all -- Nathan’s Famous hot dogs, with...