I wrote this in jest after the 2022 Nathan's Hot Dog Joey Chestnut debacle on July 4th.

 

I heard that Kamala would be taking Joey Chestnut's spot in Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest this year ... she's a sure ringer.

 

Joey Chestnut Is Out Of 2024 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest In Beef Over Vegan Franks
(IT’S NATHAN’S Hot Dog Eating Contest. If you want to have The Nasty Meatless Dog Contest, go somewhere else. No sympathy here.)

The hot dog news from Coney Island is hard to swallow.
Joey Chestnut, perennial winner of the annual July 4th Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Competition, is out of this year’s beef barf over a deal he made to represent a different wiener brand, The Post has learned.
And not just any brand, but Impossible Foods, which recently launched a vegan frankfurter impostor made from plants.
California-born Chestnut has won it 16 times, including every year since 2016. He gobbled  a world’s record 76 dogs and buns in 2021 and kept his title with a paltry 62 down the hatch last year.
He was expected to once again take his usual spot for the hot dog contest on the stage at the corner of Stillwell and Surf avenues — one block from the famous Boardwalk and a Coney Island tradition since 1916 — until the unexpected food fight.
A rep for Major League Eating (MLE), which Nathan’s sanctions to run the event, said the organizers bent over backwards to meet Chestnut’s various other demands.
They even agreed to let him participate in a rival Labor Day dog-eating fest to be taped for TV as long as no hot dog brand was mentioned.
But they said they drew the line on letting Chestnut pitch for a different hot dog brand.
“The two sides could still come to a resolution before July 4, but it depends on Joey,” an insider said.
“He’s the Michael Jordan of competitive eating. But imagine if Michael Jordan said to Nike, ‘I love being the face of Nike but I want to do commercials for Adidas too,” the source said.
Neither Chestnut nor his agents would immediately comment. Impossible Foods didn’t respond either.