Aggressive consuming star Joey “Jaws” Chestnut has been informed he can’t be a part of America’s premiere scorching canine contest after hanging a take care of a vegan model.
His removing from subsequent month’s Nathan’s Scorching Canine Consuming Contest in New York got here after he struck a sponsorship take care of Not possible Meals, a vegan scorching canine maker in competitors with the Nathan’s model.
“We’re devastated to be taught that Joey Chestnut has chosen to signify a rival model that sells plant-based scorching canine somewhat than competing within the 2024 Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Scorching Canine Consuming Contest,” Main League Consuming (MLE) stated on Tuesday.
MLE added that Chestnut was welcome to re-join the competitors, however solely after he dropped his vegan sponsorship.
“Joey Chestnut is an American hero. We might love nothing greater than to have him on the Nathan’s Well-known Worldwide Scorching Canine Consuming Contest,” the assertion says.
“We hope he returns when he isn’t representing a rival model.”
Chestnut has gained the Nathan’s contest, which is televised within the US, 16 occasions.
The foundations of the competition, which is attended by some 40,000 folks yearly, require rivals to eat as many scorching canine (and buns) as they will within the span of 10 minutes.
Chestnut, 40, holds the world file for warm canine consuming, having scoffed a whopping 76 on the 2021 contest.
He additionally holds quite a lot of different eating records, together with downing 141 hard-boiled eggs in eight minutes, 23 meat pies in 10 minutes, 182 rooster wings in half-hour, and 25.5 ice cream sandwiches, also referred to as choc ices, in six minutes.
Chestnut has not commented on the league’s determination.
MLE stated it and Nathan’s “went to nice lengths” to accommodate Joey however that it appeared he and his managers “prioritised a brand new partnership”.
The Fourth of July competitors has taken place yearly since Polish immigrant Nathan Handwerker opened his stand on Coney Island in 1916.
The story goes that on 4 July 1916 – the 12 months Nathan’s Well-known Scorching Canines was based – 4 European immigrants have been arguing about who amongst them was extra American. They determined to settle it with a scorching canine consuming contest.
Nonetheless, the true origins of the competition remain shrouded in mystery.
