On the Fourth of July, we come collectively as a nation to have a good time America. No model understands this higher than Nathan’s Well-known Scorching Canine.
Since 1967, albeit with occasional breaks, the corporate has sponsored an consuming contest both on or round Independence Day. The proceedings have modified, as have the prizes and the celebrity that follows the occasion. The premise stays the identical: Whoever eats probably the most sizzling canine wins.
Since Takeru Kobayashi’s unbelievable 2001 debut, that’s meant placing down at the very least 50 sizzling canine and buns (HDBs) in a ludicrously brief timeline (10 minutes, down from 12 after the 2007 contest).
However there’s a bit extra to the competitors than exhibiting up and chowing down. The Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Worldwide Scorching Canine Consuming Contest has some strict guidelines that should be adopted to finish one devoted gurgitator’s quest for the mustard yellow (or pink, within the case of the ladies’s competitors) belt.
Right here’s a breakdown of what they embrace.
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The most typical query surrounding the annual occasion — at the very least the one not associated to the toilet aftermath following it — is: Why isn’t former champion Takeru Kobayashi competing? That’s as a result of the IFOCE, the governing board of the competitors and largest aggressive consuming circuit on this planet, requires all gurgitators at Coney Island to be a part of its roster.
Kobayashi, a six-time champ, reportedly demurred on the federation’s demand to signal an unique contract and hasn’t been a part of the occasion since 2009.
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Fairly easy. No shortcuts. Simply eat a bunch of canine.
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This implies condiments are authorized, although not often used. Drinks, however, are allowed not solely to scrub down the new canine but additionally to dunk the buns into to create a softer, extra malleable texture for gurgitators to energy by way of. More often than not that’s water, however some rivals use fruit punch. Carbonated drinks seem like few and much between.
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Officers dot the dais as roughly 20 gurgitators chow down, watching carefully to make sure every canine is eaten in full. Eat too sloppily and it may draw a warning. Like in soccer, two yellow card warnings end in ejection.
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Yep, which means vomiting. Don’t puke. For all of our sakes.
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The official rely measures sizzling canine and buns (HDBs) all the way down to the eighth. Like when 2000 champion Kazutoyo Arai ate 25 1/eighth HDBs.
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Every competitor will get 5 sizzling canine. First one to complete them will get the mustard yellow belt. This has occurred solely as soon as within the fashionable period, when Joey Chestnut downed his 5 HBDs in 50 seconds to out-kick Kobayashi.
