The Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest has a brand new champion, as Pat Bertoletti ate 58 scorching canines.
Bertoletti’s victory comes as Individuals throughout the nation are celebrating America’s Independence Day. 1000’s of followers descended on Conley Island to observe aggressive eaters wolf down as many scorching canines (and buns) as doable in a ten-minute time span throughout the scorching canine consuming contest.
Nonetheless, this 12 months’s slate of rivals was noticeably lacking one high-profile contestant — 16-time champion Joey Chestnut.
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Sizzling canines are prepared for the 2024 Nathans Well-known Fourth of July scorching canine consuming competitors at Coney Island within the Brooklyn borough of New York on July 4, 2024. (LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
He was reportedly barred from competing on this 12 months’s occasion. Chestnut just lately signed a cope with Unattainable Meals, a rival of Nathan’s that has launched a vegan wiener, the New York Put up reported.
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As a substitute, he’ll compete towards troopers at a U.S. Military base in El Paso starting at 5 p.m. ET.
Chestnut’s absence left the standard Brooklyn occasion vast open for a brand new winner within the males’s division, with eaters from around the globe competing for the highly-coveted mustard belt.
FILE – Joey Chestnut, winner of the 2021 Nathans Well-known Fourth of July Worldwide Sizzling Canine-Consuming Contest, poses for pictures in Coney Islands Maimonides Park, July 4, 2021, within the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Picture/Brittainy Newman, File)
Final 12 months Chestnut, of Indiana, chewed his strategy to the title by downing 62 canines and buns in 10 minutes. The document, which he set in 2021, is 76.
He was initially disinvited from the occasion over a sponsorship cope with Unattainable Meals, an organization that focuses on plant-based meat substitutes.
Aggressive eater Joey Chestnut poses together with his mustard yellow championship belt throughout a recreation between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Ball State Cardinals at Sanford Stadium on September 9, 2023 in Athens, Georgia. (Brandon Sloter/Picture Of Sport/Getty Pictures)
Main League Consuming, which organizes the Nathan’s Well-known contest, has since stated it walked again the ban, however Chestnut determined to spend the vacation with the troops anyway.
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Chestnut stated he wouldn’t return to the Coney Island contest with out an apology.
Unattainable Meals may also donate to a corporation supporting navy households based mostly on the variety of scorching canines eaten on the occasion, a spokesperson stated.
Fox Information’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.
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