Nathan’s Famous just submitted a document to the SEC to complete its takeover by Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods and remove its stock market listing. Nathan’s stockholders voted on Friday to approve the transaction and received $102 for their shares. The deal was initially announced in January and terminates 110 years of operation as an independent entity for Nathan’s. Smithfield has been Nathan’s exclusive meatpacker and retail distributor since 2014. Donald Trump has called (in 2016) Nathan’s Famous executive chairman Howard Lorber one of his best friends, which probably made the chance that the federal government would block the Nathan’s / Smithfield merger on national food security grounds low.

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A press release has been made about the “All About Eats” episode of “Elsbeth” that will be televised November 12 at 9:00 pm Eastern on CBS (gallery). The synopsis:

When a Coney Island champion dies after a donut-eating contest, Elsbeth enters the world of competitive eating, where an eager superfan (Sam Richardson) is a little too hungry for the top spot

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Sankei.com reports that Korean food challengers / mukbangers have reported that their youtube videos have been demonetized due to fear of promoting eating disorders. Japanese influencers are concerned that the restriction could be placed on their channels. Auto-translation of start of article:
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On September 11, 2001, George Shea was riding in a car in south Manhattan when the first airliner crashed into the World Trade Center. He called into the local cable news channel NY1 and reported hearing multiple explosions and that an airplane tire fell near his vehicle. NY1’s full morning telecast is available on youtube, George Shea’s call begins’s at 21:30 (Tip: Rob Guy)
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For the first time in over 8 months, the MLE top 50 has been updated. Scott “Scott Eats” Watkins is not ranked, so presumably he declined the MLE contract. updateHere is the full list with the previous ranking

Dropping out:
20 Mayoi Ebihara
33 Max Suzuki
36 Zosan Pacpac
38 Erik Denmark
39 Kelly Wong
40 Pablo Martinez
47 Joey Przybylowicz
48 Julie Goldberg
50 Michael Dietz

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Happy National Hot Dog Day. In 2021, University of Michigan of researchers posted a study claiming that eating a hot dog would shorten the lifespan of its consumer by 36 minutes. Using that figure, the following table list the amount of lifespan truncation for competitive eaters from the combined totals of hot dog events in the eatfeats database. The statistics inclunde MLE contests, non-MLE competitions and exhibitions. The first column is the number of hot dog events for a given competitor.

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A list of the top first-time results for Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contests follows. Scott Watkins set the record for a qualifier debut on July 4. All the top 6 debuts are by non-Americans.

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All Nathan’s Famous hot dog results of 30 or more by women follows:

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All Nathan’s Famous hot dog results of 50 or more follows:
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