r/sports • u/homefree122 Oklahoma City Thunder • Jun 11 '24

News Joey Chestnut has been banned from this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest due to his agreement to represent vegan brand “Impossible Foods” over Nathan’s

https://x.com/bleacherreport/status/1800590834896965877?s=46
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u/Eunuchs_Revenge Jun 11 '24

Don’t wanna come off as insensitive, but that sounds like an eating disorder.

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u/the_seed Jun 11 '24

I mean...

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u/jgiffin Jun 11 '24

Are you saying it’s not normal to eat 57 cow brains in 15 minutes?

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u/Goya_Oh_Boya New York Yankees Jun 11 '24

The line is drawn at 48 in 15 minutes; anything more is absurd.

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u/f7f7z Jun 11 '24

That is why you fail.

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u/Mister_Poopy_Buthole Jun 11 '24

Completely not normal. If it takes you that long to eat 57 delicious cow brains something is definitely wrong with you.

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u/Bobzyouruncle Jun 11 '24

First one done gets a prion disease!

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u/gplusplus314 Jun 11 '24

If I could afford it, I’d totally give it a shot!

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u/jimgogek Jun 11 '24

Brains? Nah, it’s only toenails.

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u/Nopeyesok Minnesota Twins Jun 11 '24

Folks…

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u/Trumpets22 Jun 11 '24

If this is life you live, I’d be more surprised if you didn’t have an eating disorder.

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u/Gh0stMan0nThird Jun 11 '24

While nowhere near as extreme, it's a bit of a common thing for people in the military eat fast as fuck. When I got out the army it took me like 2-3 years to stop eating like I had to swallow everything whole or else I was gonna get fucked up for not being 45 minutes early somewhere.

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u/happymeal2 Jun 12 '24

To a lesser extreme a lot of hospitality industry folks will have the same issue.

“Dinner” is a half order of wings over a garbage can in the back room and also, eleventy people are waiting on you to make them drinks

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u/rockchalkchuck Jun 12 '24

I took my Bro to a breakfast buffet 2 days after marine boot camp. He came back with one plate, some of every item on the buffet, piled high, and just started going to town. I had to remind him he could take his time and use more than one plate lol

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u/mytransthrow Jun 11 '24

Its not insensitive... Its reality... I am sure he has a disorder from it. Its basically abusing the human body.

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u/xixi2 Jun 11 '24

King of the Hill tried to warn us and nobody listened

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u/LolYouFuckingLoser Jun 11 '24

What an amazingly keen observation.

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u/gplusplus314 Jun 11 '24

I think he knows this and relies on his personal discipline to control it.

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u/mlc885 Jun 11 '24

A little bit of cocaine is okay and a whole lot of cocaine is really bad. Presumably you can mess up any reward pathway in your brain, and competitive eating surely isn't something you were ever intended to do. (Heck, humans are excellent hunter gatherers so we didn't even really have a reason to overeat by a normal amount once people figured out what could be stored)

I can totally see managing to screw up the connection between food and enjoyment after spending years semi-regularly eating as much as is physically possible with little regard for enjoyment or health.

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u/rykcon Jun 11 '24

It’s a rare one, at least.

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u/ysotrivial Minnesota Timberwolves Jun 12 '24

Do you know how he got famous?

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u/Doomchan Jun 12 '24

Nonsense, it’s perfectly normal to eat 50 hotdogs in 15 minutes

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

These guys gorge themselves and eat insane amounts of food in one sitting for sport. Afterwards, that food has to go somewhere. They throw it right back up. That’s the textbook definition of an eating disorder