Nathan's Hot Dog Contest

This is not seasonally relevant, but I was organizing my journals in preparation to move and I found an article I clipped from the 4th of July weekend papers in 2008. It's a summary of the annual Coney Island Nathan's hot dog-eating contest and it is hilarious.

Here is my favorite part:

Staring into the weiner abyss, the pair found the pluck to continue, devouring the beef and buns with renewed gusto, before Chestnut finally prevailed to chants of "USA!"

When it was over, Kobayashi was left holding a soggy mush of bun in his hand, and Chestnut had achieved nearly mythical status in the annual event held by Nathan's Famous since 1916.

It was a frankfurter photo finish.