Major League Eating proposes hot dog eating contest for mayoral contenders

New York City voters might not relish seeing mayoral wannabes stuff their faces with hot dogs, but after the way the Board of Elections botched the initial ranked-choice vote counting, maybe it’s not such a bad idea.

With that in mind, the professional eating league that hosts the Nathan’s Famous Coney Island hot dog eating contest joked Thursday that the City Hall hopefuls scarf down wieners and buns on July 4, in a face-off that would determine the Democratic primary’s winner. “We view this as a patriotic service to New York City that will bring certainty to a laborious and potentially fraught vote-counting process,” Major League Eating Chair George Shea said, in a bid to both solve the city’s primary dilemma and promote his annual rite of summer off the Coney Island boardwalk.