Nathan's.

Pepto-Bismol sponsored the Nathan's Hotdog Eating Contest in Coney Island on Sunday, and as part of the Pepto team, I went down there with some friends and coworkers. As a vegetarian, the thought of hotdogs in general is unsettling enough, but the mass overeating of them is truly disgusting. Offensive almost. Add midgets in costumes, cheerleaders in skimpy outfits and shirtless drunken meatheads all in the baking July 4th sun in trashtown Coney Island and you get...

Pure magic?

I'm not a patriotic person. I think people that have a boner for America are kinda weird. But as I looked around at people of all races, sexes and sizes stuffing their mouths with hotdogs, people wasted in the street and of course, the camera crews that came to capture it all, I felt a little different. When the announcer, President of Major League Eating, yelled out 'Isn't this the greatest country in world?' I raised my can of Coors Light along with everyone else, and thought 'It sure is.'