NEW YORK (Reuters) - This year's Nathan's Famous hot-dog eating contest proved a mild disappointment to Joey Chestnut, the Fourth of July event's perennial champ, even though he handily won the annual display of gastronomical excess for the 12th time this year.
Chestnut took the crown in the annual U.S. Independence Day competition by downing 71 dogs and buns in 10 minutes. But the 35-year-old "competitive eater" from San Jose, California fell short of his record-setting performance of 74 at last year's contest, staged for decades on the beachfront in New York City's Coney Island.
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