{"id":1576078,"date":"2022-07-27T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T23:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576078"},"modified":"2022-07-27T19:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T23:30:33","slug":"watch-competitive-eating-legend-breaks-record-after-downing-nearly-four-dozen-chicken-fingers-in-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-competitive-eating-legend-breaks-record-after-downing-nearly-four-dozen-chicken-fingers-in-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Competitive Eating Legend Breaks Record After Downing Nearly Four Dozen Chicken Fingers In Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-competitive-eating-legend-breaks-record-after-downing-nearly-four-dozen-chicken-fingers-in-minutes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576078&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Competitive eating legend Joey Chestnut just did it again when he broke a record after downing nearly four dozen chicken fingers in just minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It all went down Wednesday in Las Vegas at a new Raising Cane\u2019s chicken restaurant in honor of National Chicken Finger Day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-joey-chestnut-manhandles-protester-while-scarfing-down-63-hot-dogs-in-15th-july-fourth-contest-win\">Chestnut<\/a> set a new record when he scarfed down 44 Cane\u2019s chicken fingers in five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The whole spectacle was live-streamed and shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2s2mMDDCVTs\">YouTube<\/a> by Cane\u2019s. In the clip that can be seen below, the man who\u2019s proved he\u2019s the Tom Brady of competitive eating admitted before the timer started that he would have to \u201chustle\u201d in order to break the record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese things are big [the chicken fingers],\u201d Joey explained. \u201cThey\u2019re big. They\u2019re meaty. But they\u2019re delicious. I\u2019m gonna have to hustle. Just find my happy place and keep going. So, I think 40 to 50, it\u2019s doable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joey Chestnut vs. Raising Cane\u2019s\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2s2mMDDCVTs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>At the start of the competition, it was announced that there were 75 of the restaurant\u2019s famed chicken fingers placed in front of Chestnut. The MC then counted down from five before the giant clock on the table started ticking away.<\/p>\n<p>The competitive eater then began wolfing one chicken finger at a time while he was flanked by two Vegas dancers, who were wearing red sparkling dresses, feather boas, and feather headgear.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd cheered his name \u201cJoey, Joey\u201d and rooted Chestnut on as he tackled one chicken finger after another. The champ rotated between shoving the chicken fingers in his mouth to taking drinks to help get them them all down.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cAmerican Legend,\u201d as the MC labeled him, seemed to tackle the first two dozen without any struggle at all before he appeared to be moving more methodically as the clock ticked down. Then, it was announced that \u201cJoey Chestnut\u201d had set a new record for the restaurant chain, eating 44 Cane\u2019s chicken fingers in just five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>After the champ got a chance to breathe and soak up his victory, Joey said he was \u201cliving the dream\u201d by getting to travel the country and set records for eating great food.<\/p>\n<p>On July 4, Chestnut scored his 15th Nathan\u2019s Hot Dog Eating Contest win in 16 years, after chowing 63 hot dogs in 10 minutes, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-joey-chestnut-manhandles-protester-while-scarfing-down-63-hot-dogs-in-15th-july-fourth-contest-win\">The Daily Wire<\/a> previously reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competitive eating legend Joey Chestnut just did it again when he broke a record after downing nearly four dozen chicken fingers in just minutes. It all went down Wednesday in Las Vegas at a new Raising Cane\u2019s chicken restaurant in honor of National Chicken Finger Day. Chestnut set a new record when he scarfed down &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1576080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1576080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}