National Hot Dog Day is July 20th. It sometimes makes fun of the hot dog, but it is certainly one of America’s favorite foods and small businesses contribute an incredible amount to the hot dog industry.
Whether you call them hot dogs, sausages, sausages, sausages, sausages, cones or hot dogs, the hot dog is the quintessential American delicacy.
Last year, Americans spent more than $ 7.5 billion on hot dogs and sausages in U.S. supermarkets consuming them in homes, barbecues, ball stadiums, food stalls and more.
Frank Facts for National Hot Dog Day
Interestingly, hot dogs are serious business, the global hot dog and sausage market is valued at $ 69.3 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach 80.5 billion by the end of 2025.
With the forecast that the market will grow by 1.9% over the period from 2019 to 2025, many are trying to try their hand at starting their hot dog stand or buying a hot dog franchise business.
- Los Angeles city residents consume more hot dogs than any other U.S. city, devouring about 30 million pounds of hot dogs. Los Angeles Dodgers fans consumed 2.7 million hot dogs in 2019.
- Hot dogs are served in 95% of households in the United States and the consumption of hot dogs in America reaches its peak from Memorial Day to Labor Day. It reaches its peak on July 4, when the nation consumes a whopping 150 million hot dogs.
- A standard hot veal puppy has an average of 190 calories.
- New Yorkers buy more hot dogs at points of sale than in any other city in the country.
- Travelers passing through Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport consume more hot dogs there than LaGuardia in New York and Los Angeles International.
According to the National Hot Dog and Sausage, Council Americans consume about 20 billion hot dogs a year, and the average American eats about 70 hot dogs each year. National Hot Dog Day is always marked on the third Wednesday in July.
History of the Humble Hot Dog
Hot dogs began as Frankfurter Würstchen or sausages served during imperial coronations. By the end of the 19th, it would gradually cross the Atlantic to Americath century. There is much debate about how the humble hot dog was born. The popular tradition of hot dogs tells us that a German immigrant named Anton Feuchtwanger incorporated bread into his hot dogs in St. Louis. Louis, Missouri, so your customers don’t have to burn their hands.
Another tradition holds that hot dogs first became popular in the U.S. when a German immigrant began selling them from a cart in New York City’s Bowery district. In 1871, a certain Charles Feltman opened the first hot dog stand on Coney Island, and his business grew and spread south where the first sausage was served at a baseball park in 1893, creating the link between hot dogs and baseball.
The name “hot dogs” is often related to a cartoonist who observed carts selling “red dachshund dogs” on New York Polo grounds and was unable to write the dachshund, so he opted to print hot dogs.
In general terms, franks and wieners were the popular names for the Americanized hot dog and were named after their hometowns, Frankfurt, Germany, and Vienna, Austria. Although hot dogs, franks and sausages are commonly used interchangeably today, a frank usually refers to a wholly veal product, while a sausage usually contains pork.
But what is a Hot Dog?
Regardless of how hot dog came about, today there are several variations of hot dog, even generating a vegetarian variety despite the objections of hot dog purists. The law may be on his side, however, the California legislature in 2013 defined hot dog as a whole, skinless cured and cooked sausage or stuffed in a gut, which can be known as sausage, frank, furter , wiener, red. hot, Vienna, Bologna, garlic
Bologna, or knockwurst, and which can be served on a loaf or a roll ‘.
Meats used in hot dogs often come from muscle. In some cases, producers may also include other varieties of meat such as liver and hearts. However, the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires manufacturers to declare these ingredients on the packaging with the mention “with variety meats” or “with meat by-products”. The meat is then ground into small pieces and mixed with spices and preservatives which are then introduced into the casing.
State variations
But it’s not that simple. Several states and regions have their opinion on the hot dog with its unique meat selection and its condiments and topping. In Tuscon and Phoenix, they are called Sonorans, which are hot dogs wrapped in grilled bacon, in New York State they are called Michigan Red Hots, which are beef franks with a natural gut, served on a loaf of bread. steamed and topped with a minced meat chili (no tomatoes or beans), chopped raw onion and mustard.
Rhode Island offers hot veal dogs that are served on steamed rolls with meat sauce, mustard, chopped onion and a little celery salt. While Chicago offers a steamed poppy seed bread with a beef frankfurter topped with yellow mustard, bright green seasoning, chopped onion, juicy red tomato wedges, a kosher-style pickled spear, a couple of peppers spicy sportswear and finally a ray. of celery salt.
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