Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LAS VEGAS, Calif., Oct. 26 (UPI) -- A Las Vegas man won $1,000 by downing 25 hot dogs, more than six pounds of meat, at the West Coast Hot Dog Eating Contest in California. Thomas Gilbert, 28, ate 18 hot dogs in the 15-minute first round of the event Sunday and chased them with seven more frankfurters during the finals at the Derby Deli & Dueling Piano Bar in Mission Viejo, the Orange County (Calif.) Register reported Monday. Advertisement Gilbert faced a field of 24 eaters in the first round and the competition was narrowed to only three people, including Gilbert, for the final 15 minutes. "I'm ready for dessert," Gilbert joked after being awarded his $1,000 prize.
