TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — You know him from being a 16-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Conest winner, but this Memorial Day, Joey Chestnut was in Terre Haute to take on a different challenge.

Hundreds of residents packed into the Rural King parking lot to watch Chestnut crush his original record of eating 32 24-ounce bags of popcorn in 8 minutes. He ate 5 more bags to shatter the record.

It feels great to break the record", Chestnut said. "The audience was pushing me, the popcorn was tasty, the weather was good, so many good things came together, and I was able to crush it."

Chestnut is a current Indiana resident and said the local audience cheering him on gave him the boost he needed.

"I moved to Indiana four years ago and it's so great to do a contest in front of people in Indiana

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