Netflix is capitalizing on the high drama in the hot dog-eating world with its next live streaming event. A few days ago, Joey Chestnut was banned from Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Content for his apparent partnership with a plant-based brand. every major news site in the world is reported in an unintelligible manner.
Cue Netflix, jumping in with its own bona fide food event Chestnut and Kobayashi: Undercooked Beef, It will go live on Monday, September 2. It features two of the most well-known (and only known to most people) hot spot-eating personalities in the form of Chestnut (40) and Takeru Kobayashi (46). semi-retired on the occasion of the second.
“In all my years of competitive eating, Kobayashi stands out as my fiercest competitor,” Chestnut said in a Netflix press release. “For me, my retirement will only happen after I take it down for the last time,” Kobayashi said.
15 years of competition.
Chestnut VS. KOBAYASHI: UNFINISHED BEEF – the ultimate hot dog eating competition – will be LIVE on Netflix on Monday, September 2nd. pic.twitter.com/MeVQP1lQuS
— Netflix (@netflix) June 12, 2024
Chestnut (40) has won 16 of the last 17 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contests (hosted by Major League Eating) and holds the all-time record with 76 hot dogs and buns, set in 2021. Kobayashi (46), meanwhile, is known as the “father of competitive eating” and has won Nathan’s event six times in a row. At one time, he was also excluded from that event (for non-vegan-hot-dog reasons).
The New York Post Chestnut announced a partnership with Impossible Foods, which makes plant-based “Beef” hot dogs. Apparently, this was anathema to Nathan’s, which it called (what the nonprofit Environmental Working Group considers to be) “100 percent beef hot dogs.” not very healthy).
“We are disappointed to learn that Joey Chestnut has chosen to represent a competing plant-based hot dog brand rather than participate in Nathan’s popular 4th of July hot dog eating contest in 2024,” Nathan’s said in a statement. CBS in the statement. “It appears that Joey and his management preferred a new partnership with a different hot dog brand over our long-term relationship.”
By hosting its own event, Netflix is taking meat from Nathan’s annual 4th of July contest – Sherlocking it Apple style, if you like. Includes previous Netflix live events Tom Brady’s roastand after Chestnut vs. Kobayashi, Netflix will air the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight on November 15, 2024.
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