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Monday, May 12, 2008
Chicagoan wins hot-dog eating contest in Apple Valley; next stop: Coney Island
Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti of Chicago won a spot in the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest by downing a lot of tube steaks this weekend in Apple Valley.
Bertoletti ate 41 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes during the Saturday contest, according to the International Federation of Competitive Eating, a New York organizaion that supervises and regulates eating contests nationwide. Patrick Vandam was second with 30 and Mike Fitzgerald was third with 23 1/2.
The contest, which was held at Cub Foods in Apple Valley, is one of 13 regional qualifiers for the Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating competition. The contest is held the Fourth of July at Coney Island.
Bertoletti is known as a "sweet specialist" and holds nearly every pie record on the books, according to IFOCE. Last July, he ate 9.17 pounds of blueberry pie — hands free — in eight minutes during the Stand By Me World Pie Eating championship.
Besides winning a seat at the Nathan's table, Bertoletti also gets a year's supply of hot dogs.
The 2007 Nathan's champion, Joey Chestnut of San Jose, Calif., ate 66 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes.
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