In 2007, Chestnut won the Wing Bowl XV, an annual Philadelphia event at the Wachovia Center. He ate 45 bratwurst sausages in ten minutes. Chestnut lost to Kobayashi in the Johnsonville World Bratwurst Eating Championship in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Although Chestnut turned in a great performance, leading Takeru Kobayashi through most of the contest, the final tally put Chestnut at 52 and Kobayashi at 53 + 3⁄ 4 (a new world record). As July 4 approached, there was speculation that 2006 might be the year when Kobayashi would be beaten. 2006 Ĭhestnut qualified for the 2006 Nathan's Contest by eating 50 HDB. He later beat him by eating 91 hamburgers in the finals, finishing second to the 97 hamburgers consumed by Kobayashi. Ĭhestnut defeated Thomas in the Waffle House World Waffle Eating Championship and placed second to Kobayashi in a Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Championship qualifier, eating 56 Krystal Burgers in eight minutes to his 67. On October 22, 2005, Chestnut set a new world record for downing 32.5 grilled cheese sandwiches in ten minutes at the Arizona State Fair, as part of the World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship circuit. That same year, during Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, he ate 32 HDB, placing third behind Takeru Kobayashi and Sonya Thomas.
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