Hot Dog Champion Takes On Hamburgers
Above is Chestnut at yesterday’s eating contest.
The competitive eater who has already won famous hot dog eating contest swallowed 103 small hamburgers in 8 minutes Sunday to take home $10,000.
Joey Chestnut, is 23 years old, from San Jose, California.
He beat the previous record of 97 Krystal burgers — 2 1/2 inches square — held by Japan’s Takeru Kobayashi, set at last year’s Krystal Square Off.
Brad Wahl, vice president of marketing for The Krystal Co said:
“We never thought we’d see someone anywhere near, let alone past, the century mark when we started the Krystal Square Off in 2004,”
Here is Joey in a previous eating contest.
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Chestnut managed to eat more hamburgers than 12 other contestants.
103 hamburgers,that’s not much.
