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The Business Of Hot Dogs On Coney Island (Pics + Video)

wallstreetfighter.com — One brave soul takes a close look at this year's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest and what the hot dog business means for the United States.

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  • charlieville, on 07/08/2008, -2/+14This article made me hungry for 58 hot dogs.
  • Callsorputs, on 07/08/2008, -1/+16That Joey Chestnut sure can take down a hot dog! Did that come out too gay?
  • louiebaur, on 07/08/2008, -4/+9Yummy I like hot dogs!
  • ameologger, on 07/08/2008, -2/+7dang .. time to eat!
  • JerichoSam, on 07/08/2008, -1/+7It wouldn't be July 4th without being able to watch these gustatory athletes. At least there were no televised reversals this year!
    • AmyVernon, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2nice vocabulary, Sam!
      • JerichoSam, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1The ESPN coverage of this contest is fun to watch. Paul Page and the other reporters cover it as a major sporting event and draw comparisons to "lesser sports." All in jest, of course. The sad thing is, I think it's funnier than most sitcoms.
  • hep2djive, on 07/08/2008, -1/+6I am going "Homer Simpson" on this. Doh!!!-nuts
  • mrinternet0, on 07/09/2008, -0/+6I had two hot dogs today. They were delicious.
    • elizabethb221, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1I can beat that. In the course of the past three days I've eaten 9.

      Worth it.
      • eengineer, on 07/09/2008, -0/+06 on saturday. 1 at a baseball game, 2 for dinner, 3 late at night drunk.
    • Greengoo, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1"What's wrong?"
      "My girlfriend ate 37 hotdogs....'
      "At once???"
      /clerks
  • marabout40, on 07/09/2008, -0/+6When I used to live in NYC and used to eat meat and processed foods, my favorite hot dog was Gray's Papaya on 6th Ave. I could eat those things all day. Haven't had a hot dog in over 11 years and don't miss 'em.
    • BoonTobias, on 07/09/2008, -0/+16th and 8th? just had it on sunday, though i must say the papaya drink sucked balls
    • elmetald00d, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1do you miss your testicles though?
  • manacit2, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2 * ns1.savvis.com returned (SERVFAIL)
    * ns2.savvis.com returned (SERVFAIL)
    mirror?
    • ngmcs8203, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Don't worry, you can just go to the other 3 or 4 Hot Dog Competition stories that have front paged today and yesterday and get the gist of this story. This one just has somebody else's perspective on it.
  • Namco, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Wheres the typo in the shirt?
    • stdalton, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Should be "its" instead of "it's". With the apostrophe it means "watch America defend IT IS title"
  • fuzzybeard, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2I like to think ahead. I humbly offer this for the aftermath of the Nathan's contest, it is also a NYC product:

    ***** Toilet paper
    http://www.*****.com/

    /blindfold and cigarette ready for being buried
    • swatward, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1I think you're overreacting to being buried. Buried.
    • fuzzybeard, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Nah, just being pragmatic. Besides, I usually take a pessimistic viewpoint; that way, when I'm wrong, it's a good thing!
  • Throbert, on 07/09/2008, -0/+5I like how eating a hotog is the definition of patriotism . . . .
  • Raisedshoulder, on 07/09/2008, -0/+4Yes let's show the 3rd world countries how awsome we are!
    • RationalXubrnce, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1 How long do you think it takes a Haitian to consume 19000 calories? I bet there are some who would be happy to get that in month.
  • mushoo, on 07/09/2008, -1/+4So is this in any way considered gluttony?
    It would be fun to bring St. Thomas Aquinas back from the dead to see his reaction and what he would name this.

    He had cataloged gluttony into the following;
    'Prae-propere, laute, nimis, ardenter, studiose.'
    'too soon, too expensively, too much, too eagerly, too daintily.’
    In lieu of his authority I guess I could just add; only in America, only from America, or as American as apple pie.
    • bxblox, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Except aside from joey, the guys who win are usually japanese...
    • bosssmiley, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1'too soon, too expensively, too much, too eagerly, too daintily.’

      No winning with that fussy b*st*rd, was there? ;-)
  • DesertFlyer, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2$8 for the Cyclone... jeez.
    • RationalXubrnce, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1 It's normally 5 or maybe 6 now. They must raise it just for that day.
  • popstation, on 07/09/2008, -0/+0Makes me wonder why people are so fat, when little kids watch this ***** they probably think it's ok
    to eat 60 hot dogs.
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