New York's iconic hot dog takes center stage at annual July 4 eating contest

(27 Jun 2024)
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New York - 25 June 2024
1. Various of hot dog images from street vendor carts
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New York- 21 May 2024
2. Various still images show a 65-foot- long sculpture titled Hot Dog in the City by artists Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw in Times Square
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New York - 4 July 2017
3. Hot dog eating contest
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New York - 3 July 2023
4. Various of record-holder Joey Chestnut holding a tray with hot dogs
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New York - 4 July 2022
5. Chestnut eating hot dogs during competition
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New York - 25 June 2024
6. Hot Dog image with relish
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New York - 25 June 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Yvon Lauren, Visitor from Indiana
“I think that's wonderful. I don't eat meat. I think it’s superb that he has altered his thought and I hope a bunch of people follow that and we stop eating animals.”
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New York - 4 July 2022
8. Chestnut with belt
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New York - 25 June 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Katz, Visitor from Texas
“I think it’s a little outrageous but I think it makes sense because he’s a big hot dog eater and not a veggie dog eater.”
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New York - 4 July 2022
10. Chestnut eating
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New York - 25 June 2024
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Fred Alexander, New York:
“With no Joey Chestnut there is no Nathan hot dog contest, the rest is just a scam. Come back, Joey, come back!”
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New York - 3 July 2023
12. Chestnut at weigh-in event
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New York - 25 June 2024
13. George Shea at desk
14. SOUNDBITE (English) George Shea, Major League Eating:
“We're in conversations with him. Everyone, I believe, hopes to resolve that. Whether we can or not, we don't know right now, but everybody's hopeful that that can be done. If it can't be done and Joey's not there, you're going to really have the first open event for many, many years. Joey's been dominant for 16 plus years. So what you're going to see if he's not there is Geoffrey Esper of Massachusetts, James Webb of Australia, Patrick Bertoletti of Chicago. There are a handful of guys who are going to be going for that number one spot, and it's going to be very, very close."
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New York - 4 July 2022
15. Various of people attending hot dog eating contest
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New York - 25 June 2024
16. SOUNDBITE (English) CJ Atwell, Visitor from Florida:
“In my opinion with hot dogs, I don’t eat hot dogs because I think I think they're super gross and really processed.”
17. Hot dogs for sale
18. SOUNDBITE (English) CJ Atwell, Visitor from Florida:
“It could be an apple eating contest. I think that'd be cool. That'd be fun if they did that in Times Square or something. Just had like an apple eating contest and called it the Big Apple.”
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New York - 3 July 2017
19. Tray of hot dogs at promotional event
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New York - 25 June 2024
20. SOUNDBITE (English) George Shea, Major League Eating:
“There have been lots of conversations on what we should be doing, whether we should have a pea eating contest, whether it should be a vegetarian contest, whether it should be a fruit eating contest, whether we should eat something else. Those have never gotten any traction for the simple reason that the hot dog contest is the hot dog contest.”
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New York - 4 July 2017
21. Wide of women’s competition at Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest
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