King Hot Dog Takeru Kobayashi may be unable to compete in this year’s extravaganza July 4th Hot Dog Eating Competition!
Arthritis of the jaw has rendered him “all but paralyzed.”
In the face of the daily, brutal war that Kobayashi faces against stomach-stretching quantities of food, Kobayashi laments, ”My jaw refused to fight anymore … [it] has abandoned the frontline.”
With the condo-building on Coney Island and this hot dog tragedy, what’s next? How much must we bear?

I heard he’s just pussying out because someone broke his record.
oh, dip!!
dip like so many hot dog buns in luke-warm water?
We should’ve dipped those Saltines in water.
We would’ve kicked the shit out of that record.
And I heard he’s using his mom’s death as an excuse on top of it.
Vagina.