Joey Chestnut eats 45 slices of pizza in 10 minutes

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Competitive eater and real American hero Joey Chesnut performed another feat of eat yesterday when he downed 45 pieces of pizza in 10 minutes.

This gives Chestnut a sort of junk food Triple Crown.

The 24-year-old rocketed to competitive-eating celebrity when he won Coney Island’s July Fourth hot-dog eating contest in 2007. He took the title again this summer by gulping down 59 dogs in 10 minutes. He won a contest in Tennessee last month by wolfing down 93 Krystal hamburgers in 8 minutes.

Mmmmmmm, records.

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