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"It’s just a little silly, and it’s sort of like, proudly silly. Like, ‘We will celebrate whatever we want.’ And in this case, we choose a hot dog contest."

Joey Chestnut is now well on his way to a Kobayashi-like dynasty

Oh, no, is the city going to ban the purchase of

The hot dogs were barely digested when Takeru Kobayashi threw down

It's our favorite July 4th tradition, this side of smiley-face fireworks: The

Gothamist has decided to liveblog this year's Nathan's Famous July Fourth