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Americans love to watch people eat astounding amounts of food.
That's the entire premise of the annual Nathan's 4th of July hot dog eating contest. You put a bunch of people on stage — some who look the part and others who do not — and make them jam hot dogs down their throats until a champion is crowned.
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It's both barbaric and hard to look away.
Competitive eating has actually faded in popularity compared to a few years ago when some of the bigger names in the "sport" were household names. Fox even aired some competitive eating competitions where many Americans learned that categories when beyond hot dogs and chicken wings to harder-to-comprehend ones like "butter."
One of the king's of the eating circuit, Takeru "Hot Dog" Kobayashi is from Nagano, Japan. For years, he took on American Joey Chestnut for the mustard-colored belt that marks the winner of the Nathan's contest.
The two did reprise that rivalry for a Netflix special where the two titans of eating a lot of hot dogs quickly squared off. During "Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef," Chestnut ate 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the $100,000 grand prize, while Kobayashi took in a more modest 66.
