Ed (Cookie) Jarvis, Sonya (The Black Widow) Thomas, Takeru (

UNITED STATES – JULY 04: Ed (Cookie) Jarvis, Sonya (The Black Widow) Thomas, Takeru (The Tsunami) Kobayashi and Eric (Badlands) Booker (l. to r.) wolf down weiners during the 90th annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Kobayashi, who weighs 144 pounds, stuffed down a gut-busting 49 dogs in 12 minutes to win the coveted Mustard Yellow International Belt for the fifth straight time, and Thomas, 100 pounds, crammed in 37 to take second place. (Photo by David Handschuh/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)