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If you’ve ever had a hot dog outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you probably got it from Dan Rossi — aka the Hot Dog King — who sleeps in his van parked outside the landmark to protect his coveted spot. In the nearly 20 years that Rossi has been slinging dogs outside the Met, he’s become quite the Big Apple legend — something he says he, quite frankly, “doesn’t get.” “As far as ‘icon,’ I’m it, I guess. I enjoy it a little bit, I just don’t understand it,” the 74-year-old Marine veteran told The Post with a laugh...

Eating superstar Joey "Jaws" Chestnut shook off a rain delay and gobbled his way to another win at Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest, downing 62 franks and buns in 10 minutes. Chestnut out ate runner-up Geoffrey Esper and the rest of an international field of 15 competitive eaters by double digits to clinch his eighth straight Mustard Belt and 16th overall. Esper, of Oxford, Massachusetts, managed to ingest 49 hot dogs and buns. In the women's contest, defending champion Miki Sudo forced down 39½ hot dogs and buns to collect her ninth Mustard Belt. But before...

Joey Chestnut picked up his 16th Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest win on Tuesday at Coney Island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn holding off James Webb and Geoffrey Esper in the men’s field. Chestnut devoured 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes. He set the record for most hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes with 76 in 2021. He had 63 in last year’s contest. hestnut got off to a hot start, eating five hot dogs and buns within the first 30 seconds. With 5 minutes remaining in the contest, Chestnut ate about 40 hot dogs and...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile had to make a pit stop on Friday after thieves targeted the iconic vehicle. The catalytic converter on the 27-foot-long hot dog on wheels was stolen, according to Joseph Rodriguez with Penske Trucks. According to Rodriguez, his team at Penske helped give the vehicle a temporary repair so it could get back on the road. Rodriguez said staff at Penske near West Hacienda Avenue and South Decatur Boulevard sealed up where the catalytic converter had been cut. The iconic vehicle was back on the road and able to make it to...

Hot dogs are a classic American food. Not only is it a light meal and customizable, but it’s one that you always enjoy at happy times. You have a hot dog at BBQs with friends and family, at sports events, on trips to new cities, and more. And, in recent years, the hot dog has genuinely undergone a revolution. Today, you can get the most unique, delicious combination of flavors that will leave you dreaming about hot dogs for weeks. We’ve scoured America’s menus and found the 10 best hot dogs. Of course, Chicago made the list, but you might...

The most common question posed by a visitor on arrival in Reykjavik, capital of the so-called Land of Fire and Ice, tends to be where are the nearest hot springs rather than where is the closest hot dog stand. But it's an answer to the latter that I'm most keen to hear on arriving at my hotel in Iceland after a day and a half's worth of flying. In a nation with a cuisine that includes rather less accessible delicacies such as fermented shark, blood sausage and - oh boy - foal meat, hot dogs, you see, are a curious...

New Port Richey resident Jason Stoll had obtained a permit to close a street and sell hot dogs. When the permit expired at midnight, Stoll still had a few more dogs to sell, so he kept going. He hadn't got that "Hustle Eat Sleep Repeat" tattoo for nothing. However, police officers were ready to open the road back up to normal traffic. They let Stoll know that it was time to pack up and go home, but Stoll was still hustling. When the officers insisted, Stoll threw a hotdog at them, striking one of the officer's uniform. The police officers...

FanDuel and DraftKings are among the books that have announced refunds, giving back money on any straight bets for Chestnut to eat more than 74.5 hot dogs. Chestnut finished with 63 hot dogs Monday, good enough to hand him his 15th title but well short of last year’s record of 76. It was Chestnut’s worst showing since 2015...Midway through the contest, with Chestnut just getting going at 17 hot dogs, a protester in a Darth Vader mask rushed the Coney Island stage and unfurled a sign next to Chestnut. Chestnut quickly put the protester in a headlock before organizers took...

The world’s greatest eater will limp bravely into battle in the sport’s premiere event on Monday, July 4th. Joey Chestnut shocked the competitive-eating community on Friday when he hobbled into Hudson Yards in New York City on crutches during the official weigh-in before the 2022 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest — a 4th of July tradition on Coney Island. “I’m gonna eat like a madman,” the world’s top-ranked eater told Fox News Digital before weighing in at 235 pounds.

Joey Chestnut wins 12th Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest

Joey Chestnut wins for the 16th time. Downs 63 hot dogs. He said he was going for 80...but he's still the champ.

It is the age-old problem. Balancing buns. Whether you are doing the math of 8 hot dogs in a package and 12 buns in a bag, or half your guests are eating their burgers "keto-style" on slabs of lettuce, it seems inevitable that you will wake up the morning after any backyard barbecue with a lot more leftover buns than you have leftover meat to put in them. And we all know that despite the logic, thinking of them as bread for sandwiches tends to not go over terribly well with kids. Related—The Best New Idea for a Summer Party...

Police say the driver lost control of the semi-truck and after the truck overturned, the filling spilled out.This truck driver probably didn't relish this situation — an overturned semi-truck spilled 15,000 pounds of hot dog filler onto the roadway in Pennsylvania, according to authorities. According to a police report, the Freightliner was speeding down Interstate 70 in Rostraver when the driver began to lose control. The truck then left the roadway and drove into the soft shoulder. As this happened, the cab of the truck was impaled by several trees, which helped stop the truck. Police say that because of...

CHICAGO — Thousands of Chicagoans scarfed down hot dogs in hopes of being named Vienna Beef’s Top Dog — but no one was quite as passionate as Stephanie Esposito. Esposito, of the Southwest Side, visited 367 hot dog stands in just five weeks to win Vienna Beef’s Hot Dog Stand Challenge.(snip) Esposito doesn’t know how many hot dogs she ate during the challenge — but, at 367 stands in just 35 days, she visited an average of more than 10 stands per day. She said she racked up an extra 9,000 miles on her car.(snip) By becoming Vienna Beef Top...

ROCKFORD, Mich. (AP) — A competitive eater wolfed down 50 chili dogs in 22 minutes, setting a local record at a bar in western Michigan where thousands of customers have their names on the wall for eating just a fraction. Molly Schuyler showed up and just started eating Wednesday at The Corner Bar in Rockford while other customers watched with their own meals, WOOD-TV reported. “Hot dog!” Schuyler said. After 19 minutes, she had eaten 44 hot dogs. “Brought her out six more dogs. In 22 minutes, she ate 50," server Lisa Paavo said.

Looking for a more hygienic way to roast a hot dog that doesn’t involve it rolling around on a rarely cleaned grill? Taking advantage of the Coandă effect, YouTube’s NightHawkInLight has created a bizarre BBQ alternative that instead levitates a wiener inside a red hot coil. Even if you’re not familiar with the Coandă effect, you’ve probably seen a video or two online of it in action, and have definitely experienced it in real life. Named after Romanian inventor Henri Coandă, it describes an effect where a fluid jet—either a liquid or gas—has the tendency to cling to the contours...

A New Mexico restaurant is trying its hand at making a new ketchup recipe specifically for hot dogs. At Year of the Dog in Raton, a lot of their homemade sauces and toppings are from scratch so making a new ketchup seemed like a no-brainer. Mahasin and Naemon Thurman own the gourmet hot dog restaurant. It started as a street cart in Trinidad, Colorado but in 2020 they opened up a walk-up restaurant. The Thurman’s believe ketchup gets a bad rap and wanted to see if they can give the condiment a makeover. Their new ketchup is a bit thicker...

You may not be traveling to go swimming or see fireworks this weekend, but one thing is universal to July 4, even in the midst of a pandemic: hot dogs. Whether you're having a few hot dogs yourself at home or tuning in to watch competitive eaters gobble up a few dozen in the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, hot dogs should be top of mind Saturday. Even this yearly tradition isn't untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic; for the first time, the contest will be held indoors without any spectators, in Brooklyn, New York, rather than Coney Island. And...

A lot of workers have been "86'd" from their jobs right now. But there is a local restaurant feeding furloughed workers for free every Tuesday. It is called the "86'd Program." The Urban Hotdog Company reports that business has been pretty since switching to take-out only. Now, the restaurant is giving back. "We started brainstorming and decided to service...the service industry," Matthew Bernabe said. Now, the restaurant is feeding anyone out of a job every Tuesday. They have been doing this for a month now, and they don't plan on stopping. They say as the crowd gets bigger, so does...

As you know, “Will & Grace” actors Eric McCormack and Debra Messing have called on the media to publicize the names of those attending Trump’s Beverly Hills fundraiser later this month. McCormack and Messing deny that their attempt to create a blacklist would actually amount to a blacklist. Because the topic of blacklists has again been in the news, Pat Sajak thought he’d get in on the action: