Joey Chestnut (right) won a hot dog-eating contest against soldiers at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, with Impossible Foods pledging to donate $1,000 in support of military families for each hot dog downed. Impossible Foods hide caption
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Miki Sudo (right) and Mayoi Ebihara compete in the women's division of Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, Thursday, at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Sudo won by eating a record 51 hot dogs. Julia Nikhinson/AP hide caption
Joey Chestnut (L) and Takeru Kobayashi (R) compete in the Nathan's hot dog-eating contest on July 4, 2009, in New York. Craig Ruttle/AP hide caption
Joey Chestnut emerges victorious after eating 63 hot dogs in 10 minutes during the 2022 Nathans Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City. Kena Betancur/Getty Images hide caption
Nathan's hot-dog eating contest bans Joey Chestnut over Impossible deal
Customers wait in line at a Costco food court in Hawthorne, California. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People wait in line ahead of the 2023 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday. Yuki Iwamura/AP hide caption
Meat sentry Ray Stack oversees raffle prizes at the Polish Falcons Hall in Depew, N.Y. Kate Kaye for NPR hide caption
Meat Raffles Aren't Just About The Meat In This New York Community
Sausage sizzles in parking lots are popular in Australia, but on man didn't want to drive to get one. He sent his drone instead, but now his $8 sausage could end up costing him $6,900. Ouch. Eric Thayer/Getty Images hide caption
Undaria pinnatifida "wakame." Nicolas Le Corre/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images hide caption
Rich Harlan prepares Coney hot dogs at his restaurant, Red Hots Coney Island, in Detroit. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption