 invitation from el paso soldiers at fort bliss in texas they wrote in a social media post we're going to invite joey chestnut to the fourth of july contest we would love to invite you to our pop goes the weasel or pop goes the fort july 4th celebration to celebrate with our troops and see if you can take on some of our soldiers in a hot dog eating contest and joey chestnut says absolutely in response thank you fort bliss texas for the invitation i'm