Why is the United States of America the greatest nation in the world? Is it the “freedom” or the nuclear warheads? No. The United States of America is the greatest nation in the world because here we consider eating a sport.
At noon EST today, in Coney Island, some of the world’s greatest hot dog “gurgitators” gathered at the the Nathan’s Hot Dog stand at Stillwell and Surf in Brooklyn to eat as many hot dogs as they could in 10 minutes (it used to be 12 minutes, but they wanted to curb some of the vomit). It’s incredible to watch this event covered by ESPN; the sports analygies analogies were profuse. At times they compared six-time title winner Kobayashi to Muhammad Ali and defending champion Joey Chestnut to Tiger Woods. There were times that I thought I was watching a drawn-out SNL skit.
Ultimately, Chestnut beat Kobayashi in overtime (a five hotdog eat off) after they tied with 59 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
God bless America.
“Analogies.”
I’m so disappointed in you.
My favorite phrase turned by the commentators was “they rip through those dogs like Lindsay Lohan through a mini-bar”
My dad was sad about the Pringles, too.
AKG, we miss your posts. Where ARE YOU? Saving the world from the LoLcat invasion, no doubt. I can haz judo chop to neck?