Top Dog’s offerings made more sense to me to eat with knife and fork, no bun. Same with Aidells.
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The other day I went to the local Costco and knowing I would be purchasing a dog, I brought my own spicy brown mustard (in a little 1-cup zipper bag). Some other customers were intrigued and I was able to share it with a few. The prepackaged onions were available. Now, if they’d make the buns a little longer. I have found an acceptable bun sold at Wally’s world of all places, but I’ll keep those at home for the other foot-longs.
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Is this more disgusting or revolting?
Neither.
I’m impressed.
How can anyone be impressed by professional competitive gluttony?
Why wouldn’t I be?
It takes skill and talent, and lots of hard work, to do what Joey Chestnut does, or any competitive athlete.
Ever see the “gluttony” a gymnast goes through? The bone crushing falls and the will to get up each and every time after such a battle with gravity (where gravity always wins)?
Or a baseball player? The number of hours behind a batting cage? Swinging a bat so many times that blistered fingers and hands (even with gloves) are less an inconvenience and more a badge of accomplishment?
Perhaps you think eating so many hot dogs is unhealthy. Perhaps, but ever consider what other “extreme” competitors do that we (generic “we” not specifically “we”) admire? How about ultra marathoners? I dare you to find any medical professional that will say running 100 miles consecutively without rest is “healthy” for the human body. Heck, most would say running even 26.2 miles is borderline unhealthy.
Or how about Ironmen? Having done it myself, I will say it is most definitely not healthy to do a 2.4 OWS, 112 mile bike ride, and finish off your day with a full marathon. I can be pretty certain that the majority of the people out there do not consider Ironmen competitors “disgusting” or “revolting”.
Be careful not to judge the ends, simply because you do not approve of the means in which that person achieves those ends.
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To call these professional food gorgers “athletes” gives up the game. It’s preposterous. So to attempt to draw parallels with real athletes is just intellectually dishonest.
It may take something approximating skill and talent to down 64 hotdogs (I couldn’t bear to watch much past 30), but the same could just as easily be said of, e.g., serial killers, drunks, shoplifters and self-mutilators. If they competed, would that make the competitions athletic ones?
That no talent bum Thomas Aquinas had enlightening things to say about the cardinal sin of gluttony. He would have called these eating contests nimis.
Wasting food through overindulgence is immoral in my book, the same way as food fights are immoral. Making public spectacles of them both glorify and encourage the same immorality.
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So now I suppose you’re going to crap all over my fantasy serial killer league…
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Lunch.
For some reason 1 hot dog is never enough, and 2 is just a tad too much.
But I always err on the side of “too much.”
Cuz, y’know, just to be safe.
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Not at all. I’m learning skill + talent in anything is a necessary and sufficient condition of being an athlete. Trade you Son of Sam for BTK!
Contestants.
All Pork goodness. Perhaps a bit of filler and one or two preservatives and unnatural ingredients. Thank heaven for….
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Is that pineapple cake, I spy. 
Yep, two. Checkout counter enticement that was not to be denied. 
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I just had a freshly hand-dipped corn dog at Arts in the Park in Kalispell Montana. Super hot, excellent cornmeal batter and a fairly good dog. The cornmeal was just slightly sweet, not over the top sweet, just the way I like them. It was served with yellow mustard instead of dijon or brown but that was only a small ding.
Now that is a great way to eat a hot dog!
The show has great Western Art and Photography too! Runs through Sunday the 16th, for all you NW Montana HungryOnioners.
Typed Chowhounders by mistake, so I edited that out ASAP.
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That’s okay, we understand the nostalgia. Are you headin’ up for the Under the Big Sky show? There still is beer in the stores, but I’m sure it is going fast.
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A corn dog is not a hot dog. There, I said it.
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HOLY CRAP!!!
I had no idea The Dead South were playing there tomorrow! I have to see if I can get tickets!
For those of us who have not heard them, here is a link to one of their better songs.
Life is cruel sometimes. They are playing in Emigrant MT tonight, just south of one of my favorite getaway spots in Montana, The Murray Hotel in Livingston. And I have not been paying attention to their tour at all.
My error.
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A corn dog is a hot dog that has gone down the road to perdition…
And emerged in a toasty mess of delicious cornmeal and mustard.
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