Man Eats 50 Hot Dogs in 12 Minutes
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Finally on this July 4th, a disappearing act. At Coney Island one man ate 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes. And Jeanne Moos gets right to the "meat" of the story.</s>JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From the word go, you could forget fast food. We're talking super sonic. The crowd was stunned. By Japan's</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think it is biological possible.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, my God, ladies and gentlemen, 22 hot dogs and buns. He has broken the world record. Can anyone beat this man?</s>MOOS: Fat chance. He demolished guys almost three times his size, guys with names like...</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hungry Charlie Hardy. Man Mountain.</s>MOOS: The prince moved a mountain of hot dogs at Nathans, the most famous of hot dog eating contests.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We will run out of numbers. Even the Prince himself says he doesn't understand.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He says he follows the rhythm of the music.</s>MOOS: He broke each hot dog in two, a move dubbed the Solomon method. Inhaled the halfs and then the bun. The TV Tokyo correspondents with beside himself. All the other contestants were awestruck.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I want to hide.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gentlemen, put down your hot dogs!</s>MOOS: The prince managed to down a total of 50 hot dogs. Let's see your stomach.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a conspiracy theory going around that the Japanese contestant is a kamikaze, and his stomach would explode after this.</s>MOOS: The 23-year-old champ graduated from college with a business degree said he would have eaten 20 more hot dogs.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our dog couldn't eat that fast. We got a dog, and he couldn't eat that fast.</s>MOOS: The top finishing American came in third with 23 hot dogs, less than half the Prince's total. A former champ has a theory about why skinny guys win the Mustard Belt. He basis it on his own experience.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The more weight I gained, the less hot dogs I would eat.</s>MOOS: But three medical journals rejected his study. How could anyone fit all these in their stomach?</s>QUESTION: Where do you think the hot dogs are?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They may be in his leg. They went into his mouth. Maybe he has a secret exit.</s>MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York