Many of his fans don’t realize that Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest champion Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti is a professional tweezer-slinging chef.

Likewise, few recognize that John “Thin Crust” Carruthers of Crust Fund Pizza is an encased meats champion in his own right.

But mark me: The world will bend the knee this September 15 when Title Belt Dogs Bertoletti and Carruthers square off at the next Monday Night Foodball , the Reader ’s weekly chef pop-up at Frank and Mary’s Tavern .

This matchup has been years in the offing but only began to materialize last summer after Bertoletti took the Mustard Belt on Coney Island, ingesting 58 dogs in ten minutes . Leveraging his triumph into clicks, he launched a weekly hot dog of the week tutorial on his YouTube channel .

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