That's the look of sheer joy.

Joey Chestnut broke the world record for hot dog eating yesterday by eating 59.5 HBDs (hot dogs and buns) in 12 minutes. The previous record was set by the Tiger Woods of eating contests, Takeru Kobayashi, who ate 53.75 HBDs in 12 minutes last fourth of July. Chestnut is also the champion at eating jalapeno poppers (118 in 10 minutes) - a contest that I like to refer to as the "Flaming O-Ring Challenge."

“These guys’ numbers have just been going up at a tremendous clip,” Ryan Nerz (representative for Major League Eating) said. “I always thought there was a limit — a limit to the human stomach and a limit to human willpower — but I guess not.”

The true test for Chestnut comes on the fourth of July when he faces Kobayashi at the premiere hot dog eating contest of the year held by Nathan's Famous on Coney Island. In speaking about Chestnut's chances, xenophobe and chair of the International Federation of Competitive Eating, George Shea, argued, "the Fourth of July has been stolen from Americans because of Kobayashi's dominance and now America has someone who they can get excited about."