Sonya Thomas beat champ Joey Chestnut by eating 181 wings at the National Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo, New York.
From "Don't tase me, bro!" to a particularly strange car chase, from Anna Nicole to Joey "Jaws" Chestnut, the staff of "Prime News with Erica Hill" looks back on their most memorable moments of 2007.
Hot dog history was made this Fourth of July, with Joey Chestnut of San Jose, Calif., shattering records - including his own - and winning the Yellow Mustard Belt at the 2007 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, Brooklyn.
Joey Chestnut was like any other nervous 23-year-old on a first date as he drove to San Francisco with Nikki, a fellow San Jose State student he'd met at a party earlier that week. The two hit it off instantly. She was immediately attracted to how normal and down to earth he seemed. Though the choice of venue for the couple's first date -- a wing eating contest -- was a little odd, she loved sports and had never witnessed people eat so much so quickly. Little did she know that her date would soon be the king of the competitive-eating jungle. As the night drew to a close, Joey had a confession for his date: "I took you here for a reason. This is what I do."
If you're a fan of The Simpsons, you've probably seen the episode in which Homer attempts to eat a 16-pound steak, aptly referred to as the Sirloin-a-Lot. That scene is loosely based on a real rest...
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