He is the Japanese guy who won the contest one year right? Didn’t he beat Chestnut?
That’s my memory too. I was thinking that Kobayashi won a year when JC was “injured” and limited.
This is an annual rite of Americana I share watching with my 31 year old son.
I was shocked the year that relatively small guy hit 50 hot dogs.
Not quite as shocked as the big guys competing against him, though.