{"id":21116,"date":"2025-09-13T21:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=21116"},"modified":"2025-09-13T21:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:16:40","slug":"joey-chestnut-consumes-275-nuggets-at-dodgers-giants-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=21116","title":{"rendered":"Joey Chestnut consumes 275 nuggets at Dodgers-Giants game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Joey Chestnut went back home on Friday, conquering a new food challenge in the process.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>The competitive eating legend attempted to eat 99 Impossible Foods plant-based chicken nuggets in nine innings at the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers showdown at Oracle Park &#8212; and didn&#8217;t have much trouble with his goal. Chestnut, who was joined at the giant glove by a contest-winning fan who competed with him, consumed 275 nuggets across the nine innings, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. He racked up 227 in five innings alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve done a lot of wild challenges over the years, but 99 nuggets in nine innings is a new one for me, and I&#8217;m fired up. Doing it back in the Bay where I grew up, at Oracle Park with the Giants, makes it even better,&#8221; Chestnut said before the event. &#8220;I&#8217;m a big fan, and it feels like a home game! &#8230; I&#8217;ve been training, I&#8217;m feeling good, so 99 should go down no problem. Honestly, just talking about it is making me hungry. &#8230; I hope they&#8217;ve got a few extras ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight, Joey Chestnut set out to eat 99 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImpossibleFoods?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ImpossibleFoods<\/a> nuggets in 9 innings at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OracleParkSF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OracleParkSF<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now the 5th inning, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joeyjaws?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@joeyjaws<\/a> has eclipsed the 200 mark <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iV4HZlXVyq\">pic.twitter.com\/iV4HZlXVyq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SFGiants (@SFGiants) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFGiants\/status\/1966705315908616574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Chestnut, 41, is widely regarded as the king of the Nathan&#8217;s Hot Dog Eating Contest, winning the event a record 17 times. However, his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 doesn&#8217;t end there.<\/p>\n<p>He holds over 50 world records, including devouring 182 chicken wings in 30 minutes, 141 hard-boiled eggs in eight minutes, 384 gyozas in 10 minutes and 102 tamales in 12 minutes. During halftime of a Cleveland Cavaliers game in March 2024, Chestnut competed in a pierogi-eating contest and promptly ate 39 in two minutes, beating the combined score (22) of three other contestants.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Chestnut went back home on Friday, conquering a new food challenge in the process. Editor&#8217;s Picks 1 Related The competitive eating legend attempted to eat 99 Impossible Foods plant-based chicken nuggets in nine innings at the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers showdown at Oracle Park &#8212; and didn&#8217;t have much trouble with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[474,12954,12956,413,2748,12955],"class_list":{"0":"post-21116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-chestnut","9":"tag-consumes","10":"tag-dodgersgiants","11":"tag-game","12":"tag-joey","13":"tag-nuggets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}