The 4th of July traditional hotdog eating contest got us thinking about why food and the holiday are so intertwined. Some experts have gone deep on the subject of competitive eating. So today is one ...

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Watch someone put down 70 hot dogs in 10 minutes and your first instinct is to assume they must have an extraordinary metabolism, or some genetic quirk that lets them process calories differently than ...

Even people who know little to nothing about competitive eating have heard of this famous contest. It’s held annually on the Fourth of July at Coney Island, outside New York City, where participants ...