While we're on the topic of Hot Dogs, how's this place. "Schnack" in Brooklyn has a 30" Hot Dog Eating Competition, and Gustad "IronCheff" Mody thought he'd cut his competitive eating teeth on it. 10 entered, only 4 completed, and he finished 4th. A great effort for his first event, and looks like he had a heap of fun doing it!

From: http://ironcheff.blogspot.com/2006/05/my-first-competitive-eating.html

The food: 30 inch hot dog
The goal: Eat it as fast s possible

I came in 4th place of 10 people. Only the top 4 of us finished the whole hot dog. The rest couldn’t finish theirs. Being that this was my first contest, I am pretty content with amount and speed I did. The hot dog had a lot of girth to it, and the custom bun was pretty thick. It took me about 12 minutes to down the hotdog, followed by a tall pint of cold beer. See all pics from the competition here.

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