{"id":199093,"date":"2024-06-14T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T20:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=199093"},"modified":"2024-06-14T16:22:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T20:22:03","slug":"joey-chestnut-banned-from-nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest-the-juicy-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=199093","title":{"rendered":"Joey Chestnut Banned from Nathan\u2019s Hot Dog Eating Contest: The Juicy Details"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> \ud83c\udf2d <strong>The Gist:<\/strong> Joey Chestnut, the top champion of Nathan\u2019s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, was banned from this year&#8217;s event because he made a deal with a vegan hot dog company, Impossible Foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf54 <strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> Chestnut&#8217;s absence is a big deal for the contest, which is a popular American tradition on July 4th each year. His participation attracts many fans and media attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf7d\ufe0f <strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chestnut signed a deal with Impossible Foods to promote their vegan hot dogs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nathan\u2019s, known for its beef hot dogs, saw this as a conflict of interest.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This is not strictly about vegan vs. non-vegan. Nathan&#8217;s would take issue of Chestnut signed a deal with any competing company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcdc <strong>Catch Up Quick:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nathan\u2019s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest has been a July 4th tradition since 1916.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joey Chestnut has been the top champion, setting many records over the years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=37]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udf2d The Gist: Joey Chestnut, the top champion of Nathan\u2019s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, was banned from this year&#8217;s event because he made a deal with a vegan hot dog company, Impossible Foods. \ud83c\udf54 Why It Matters: Chestnut&#8217;s absence is a big deal for the contest, which is a popular American tradition on July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talk-of-the-town","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}