Joey Chestnut Barred From Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Due to Vegan Sponsor Beef

Jokes on you Nathan's, now I know Impossible makes hot dogs and want to get some. Their brats are pretty good, didn't know they made hot dogs.

Yes but are these Impossible Hot Dogs made from the dregs of plants that were too disgusting to use for any other purpose? If they can't meet that high bar then I don't know if I even want them.
- They’re made of plant lips and assholes.
- What's even the point of a hot dog if it isn't made from a ground-up pig's asshole?
For real. They’re practically toppings vessels for me anyway. If Impossible dogs don’t give you the hot dog burps, I’ll never eat another beef frank.
- Or you can minmax your hotdog burps and chug hot ham water instead.
My only problems with Impossible products is they're usually quite a bit saltier than actual meat and of course that it's usually more expensive then meat products. If they fixed both of those problems I'd be okay with replacing a good percentage of my meat consumption with them.
- I am once again asking for meat and dairy subsidies to be shifted to alternatives.
  
  I'm perfectly happy with oat milk, especially in how it keeps longer, but not it being twice the price per gallon.
- It's been a little while since I checked, but the last time I was thinking of making chilli, I decided against it because the ground beef was too expensive. I use the fattier/cheaper beef, and depending on which store I checked, the Impossible/Beyond products were either slightly cheaper than real meat, or the same price. Of all the shops I checked, the cheapest option ended up being Impossible or Beyond.
- I say this without judgement as a fellow carnist, but you can definitely get away with eating less meat than you think. It's just a matter of figuring out how to prep and cook other protein sources.
  
  I've got myself up to "almost vegan" except for when visiting family. Next step is bringing my own grillables lol that'll be to-do, I just know it
There's a food truck in my town that serves vegan hot dogs, and they are awesome. If Impossible can manage to make theirs half that good, I'll probably buy them over the real meat ones even though I'm not a vegan.
Yeah fr I'm gonna find some tonight - thanks for the free advertising! Impossible brats are a bangin, so I'm sure the hot dog will be great too.

“hot dog exclusivity provisions”

Well that’s not a phrase I ever expected to encounter.

Check your contract, just one more time. ;)
- Fuck. There it is.

This has backfired spectacularly. Streisand effect, engaged!

Is that meme your own creation?
- yes

Very few things bring me joy these days. Joey Chestnut devouring dozens of hot dogs and buns every 4th of July was one of those disgusting and joyous occasions I could count on every year. Seeing that man throw caution to the wind and inhale that much sodium, fat, lips and assholes, and enriched wheat flour was horrifying and spectacular. Now, I won't even have that.

Major League Eating, hailing him as “an American hero,”

No. Just no.

Who do you worship, if not a guy who mastered a method of lubing up hot dogs so they slide down the throat at a record pace?
- Honestly doesn’t get any more American than that 🫡🇺🇸
- Fair enough.
- So it is basically deep throating, just with a different kind of saussage?

Major League Eating said that it had gone “to great lengths in recent months to accommodate Joey and his management team, agreeing to the appearance fee and allowing Joey to compete in a rival unbranded hot dog eating contest on Labor Day,” but that they’d been unable to come to an agreement.

Lol this is hilarious because I still remember what Major League Eating did to Kobayashi in 2010, but with Joey they're bending over backwards to accommodate him and still lose. Serves them right and hopefully they'll lose a lot of money over their poor treatment of their talent.

If I had spent years earning my legal degree, and then found myself dealing with “hot dog exclusivity provisions” it would be time for me to take a painfully honest look at my career.

It seems like out of the many potential villainous legal careers, the one that includes this is...fine

That headline is deeply appreciated.

Sounds like it’s not so much the vegan thing as him just endorsing a Nathan’s rival.

But if they don't bring veganism into this, how else will I aggressively express how much I love meat and write five paragraphs about how unbothered I am about other people not eating a thing I eat????
And yet

Are Impossible hotdogs as good as the burgers? I eat meat but like alternatives also.

Not sure about Imposible but I've had Beyond sausages and they are delicious.
- I don’t know how people stomach the Beyond stuff. I’d rather go with the old school soy alternatives than Beyond; their textures are just so weird and off-putting, and they always taste wrong.
  
  Impossible is unbelievably good in a lot of applications, though. If they could get their prices down, I’d eat their products a lot more often. Need to try their dogs, though.