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Nathan's Famous hot dogs held its first Fourth of July hot dog-eating contest in Coney Island.
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Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating contest was canceled as a protest to the war in Europe.
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Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating contest was canceled as a protest to civil unrest and the reign of free love in the United States at the time.
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The IFOCE organizes, supervises and regulates eating contests around the world and plays a central role in competitive eating.
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Glutton Bowl was produced by the IFOCE for the Fox network. The Glutton Bowl was a 32 eater tournament and was won by Takeru Kobayashi of Japan.
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This was the creation of a smaller league that followed "picnic style" competitive eating rules which do not allow for food dunking of food in water.
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During 2006, ESPN telivised 3 hours of IFOCE competitive eating events including Nathan's Famous hotdogeating contest, the Johnsonville Brat contest and the Krystal Hamburger contest.
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Spike tv announced that it would be televising Major League Eating events on its cable network channel. The event televised was called "Chowdown"
