Sometimes, when the hunger pangs hit, it might feel like you could eat an elephant. While most of us couldn't actually accomplish this feat, there's one food industry legend who just might be able to — Joey Chestnut. Chestnut is a competitive eater who's been in the game since 2005, and is most well-known for his participation in Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest.
More specifically, he's become a legend thanks to his of eating 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes (although ) which he set in 2021. isn't just a hot dog fanatic, however. He's actually participated in dozens of eating competitions, too.
In fact, he holds over 50 world records in professional eating. Among the foods in his repertoire are tacos, hard-boiled eggs, and shrimp wontons. In all three categories, he managed to eat over 100 of these foods in eight minutes.
The breakdown of these impressive accomplishments Of the records for tacos, hard-boiled eggs, and shrimp wontons, the first of these accomplishments by professional eater Joey Chestnut took place on February 11, 2012 as part of the CP Biggest Eater Competition 2011-12. In this challenge, Chestnut had just eight minutes to eat as many shrimp wontons as he could, and boy did he deliver — he managed to consume a whopping 390 wontons. The next year, Chestnut participated in the first-ever hard-boiled egg competition on October 5, 2013 in Radcliff, Kentucky.
During this competition, he broke the then-reigning world record, which wa.
