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Chew on this tidbit of news: eight-time Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest champion Joey Chestnut is coming to Winnipeg.

Chestnut will compete in a five-minute all-you-can-eat fish taco challenge at Investors Group Field during halftime of a Winnipeg Blue Bombers football game versus the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Aug. 7.

JOHN MINCHILLO / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVES Joey Chestnut holds the Mustard Yellow belt as he celebrates winning the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating contest with a total of 69 hot dogs and buns in 2013 at Coney Island in New York.

Challengers can sign up for the official Major League Eating event here.

Chestnut, 30, successfully defended his hot dog eating crown by chowing down on 61 hotdogs in 10 minutes on July 4 in Brooklyn, N.Y. He ate 23 Joey’s fish tacos in five minutes in a similar competition in 2013. His top challenger managed to eat only seven.