How not to celebrate the Fourth of July

Most people, including myself enjoy a hotdog or two over a grill during the fourth of July. Every year hundreds of people flock to Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Competition to watch several individual contestants shove tons of hotdogs down there face. We are talking tiny asians to large americans competing for money and fame. One contestant has eaten 36 hotdogs in a 10 minute period.

Now it might just be me but this is sick. First let me state that I love a good hotdog but considering their made of fragmented pig body parts, there can be no good that comes from eating extremely fast a substance that is barely meant for dogs. Studies have shown that competitive eaters are starting to have medical issues. This was no surprise to me but these grown men apparently don't have too much of a filter when it comes to the dog world. Somehow, the sport keeps on growing. The one redeeming quality is competitor Dave "Coondog" O'Karma stated, "It was worth that discomfort to get what I wanted. It was fun -- not the eating so much, but the trips, getting to see all kinds of places and different people. I'm a house painter in real life. How else could I ever get the opportunity like that? For an average dopey guy, I kind of went a long way with something stupid."

Now I could go for a hotdog.