Joey Chestnut National Hot Dog Days interviews
For National Hot Dog Day on July 17, Joey Chestnut did interviews for The Daily Meal, Mashed, People and BroBible.
In the Daily Meal interview he discusses the breakdown of his relationship with Major League Eating
According to Major League Eating, your invite was rescinded because of your partnership with Impossible Foods. Were you shocked by that ban?
Chestnut: I was shocked. My partnership didn’t go against any of our previous agreements. They changed the agreement. They kept referring to Impossible as a hot dog company. That was what their story was. Impossible makes a lot of products. It was kind of weird, because the things I’ve been doing with Impossible are ground beef and chicken nuggets. They’re being very selective.
Two months ago, I did a bologna contest for Major League Eating and the sponsor was Elm Hill Meats, and that meat company also makes hot dogs. So, it made no sense that Major League Eating was alright with that, and that’s actual hot dogs, sold right next to Nathan’s. And they’re not okay with me working with Impossible, which is selling completely different products.
They acknowledged that my work with Impossible wouldn’t go against any of my previous agreements, but they changed the agreement. It was very frustrating. Then, when they started leaking information, they were trying to tell people I was turning vegan. Which, I have nothing against vegan people, but I eat green food after contests. That’s part of me recovering after a contest. It was very unfortunate, the way that whole situation went.
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Anonymous said
July 19, 2024 @ 6:19 pm
A lot is missing from Joey’s version and the MLE version. What is Joey complaining about? He has tons of publicity and is surely making a bundle. So just be happy for yourself unless you are making less money than you were with MLE. Follow the money. Doesn’t add up.
Anonymous said
July 20, 2024 @ 1:30 pm
Mind your own
Anonymous said
July 20, 2024 @ 8:18 pm
Vegan
Anonymous said
July 21, 2024 @ 8:21 pm
MLE sucks at promoting eaters. Where’s Hall of Fame online?