Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2021 and has been updated.
With the Fourth of July comes everyone’s favorite guilty pleasure: the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, an annual tradition featuring the art of consuming an absurd amount of processed meat in a short amount of time.
The competition rose to notoriety through the likes of Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi, who have each won the event multiple times.
For this year’s contest, Chestnut isn’t competing due to his deal with Impossible Foods, so we’ll have a new men’s winner in 2024.
With that in mind, we’re taking a look back at every winner of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest since 2000, both men and women.
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