It’s National Hot Dog Month! Yes!

And Nathan’s just had its famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. What a way to honor the frank – shove as many into your mouth as you can in a short amount of time.

This year’s champion is Joey Chestnut, who set a new record of 69. He absolutely shattered his own record. He beat it by one.

Chestnut says he does this for the “prestige” and not the prize money. And can you blame him?

Read on for more about the hot dog record here.

And have your own contest at home with these beef franks. Ya gotta eat the buns, too. So make sure you’re hungry first.

If you do hold your contest at home you won’t win the prize money, but the prestige factor will definitely be there.

Eat on, my hot dog loving friends!

Photo courtesy of AP via foxnews.com.

Oh, man! Our friends at AllRecipes and FoodWishes.com have given us this great video to help us make “Beerbecue Flank Steak.”

That is, of course beer + barbecue sauce + flank steak.

A beautiful combination.

It makes the beef oh-so-tender and so, so flavorful.

I absolutely LOVE a great barbecue sauce!

Check out the video and try this yourself. It is summer, ya know!

Enjoy!

I just read an article and this was part of its title:  “Grumpy? Eat a Steak.”

Now, that’s a prescription I can get behind!

I KNOW I always feel less grumpy after I eat a steak. That’s a fact, Jack.

But this article also prescribes steak for when you have lost your sense of taste — probably meaning you lack zinc. Along with loads of iron, beef steak is a great source of zinc.

Amazing, huh? Read on here for more fascinating facts about food prescriptions. I can tell you one thing – I will probably never lack zinc in my life. Just sayin’.

Photo courtesy of Alamy via DailyMail.co.uk.