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Charles Curtis

Joey Chestnut nearly beat the 2024 men’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest winner … in half the time

We were robbed of what could have been a masterful performance on July 4th.

Patrick Bertoletti took the Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest crown from Joey Chestnut on Thursday after Chestnut had to bow out due to his partnership with Impossible Foods. Bertoletti ate 57 hot dogs in the allotted 10 minutes, which is pretty impressive.

But perhaps Chestnut knew he had to make a statement. So at Fort Bliss in Texas later that day, Chestnut did a five-minute contest and ate … 57 hot dogs.

That’s pretty wild and means we could have seen him perhaps deliver another incredible record-setting day in Coney Island.

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