the hot dog eating contest at coney island is on independence day.
the hot dog eating contest at coney island is on independence day.
when is the hot dog eating contest at coney island?
on independence day
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the nathan's hot dog eating contest is an annual american hot dog competitive eating competition. it is held each year on independence day at nathan's famous corporation's original, and best-known restaurant at the corner of surf and stillwell avenues in coney island, a neighborhood of brooklyn, new york city.
nathan's hot dog eating contest
the nathan's hot dog eating contest has been held at the original location on coney island most years since about 1972, usually in conjunction with independence day. nathan's promoter mortimer matz claimed that on july 4, 1916, four immigrants held a hot dog eating contest at nathan's famous stand on coney island to settle an argument about who was the most patriotic. he also made the spurious claim that the contest has been held each year since then except 1941 ("as a protest to the war in europe") and 1971 (as a protest to political unrest in the u.s.). a man by the name of jim mullen is said to have won the first contest, although accounts vary. one account describes jimmy durante (who was "not" an immigrant) as competing in that all-immigrant inaugural contest, which was judged by eddie cantor and sophie tucker. another describes the event as beginning "in 1917, and pitted mae west's father, jack, against entertainer eddie cantor."
nathan's hot dog eating contest