
July 4, 2006
Coney Island
Brooklyn, NY
"A new world record has been set at the international hot dog eating championships. For the sixth year in a row, Japan's Takeru Kobayashi won the competition, managing to scoff almost 54 hot dogs in 12 minutes." ITV.com
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Did you know
July 4th
is the biggest
hot dog holiday
of the year?
According to the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, Americans will
eat over 155 million
hot dogs in that one weekend alone, and some seven billion
between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
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Nachos:
Nachos were created
in 1943 in the Rio Grande border town
of Coahuila, Mexico. They were invented
by Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya when the wives of some American airmen fighting in World War II arrived at his restaurant after the kitchen had closed. Knowing a good thing when he tasted it, Anaya added Nachos to
his menu shortly thereafter. Nachos didn't gain the notice of mainstream America until after their popular showing at the 1966 Texas State Fair when they became part of the very "in" Tex-Mex cuisine of thousands
of food-savvy Texans.