The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council created National Hot Dog Day, an “unofficial” national holiday.
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National Hot Dog Day celebrates the country’s love affair with the cooked sausages wrapped in a soft bun that has become a culinary symbol of Americana with more than 30 billion consumed annually in the U.S., or an average of about 70 per person. It helps minimize bacterial growth and lengthen shelf life, and it also gives hot dogs their bright-red hue.
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To mark the occasion, Saratoga’s newest hot dog joint, Hot Diggidy Dog, is offering up their fare of brats, specialty hot dogs, Italian and Polish sausage hot off on the rotisserie grill, but with a twist.
Every dog has its day, and in the case of hot dogs that’s today.
We’d like to hear: Where do you like to go for hot dogs?
Stop at Pilot Flying J with a coupon (which will be posted to the store’s social media accounts Thursday morning) and receive a free Oscar Meyer hot dog.
Check out these five healthier hot dogs to choose from.
Nathan’s global Hot Dog Eating Competition has taken place at its original Coney Island hot dog stand on July 4 every year since 1916. Los Angeles residents consume about 39 million hot dogs with New York, Atlanta, Philly and Chicago rounding out the Top 5 Hot Dog Consuming Cities past year.
Dictionary.com defines a sandwich as “two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair” and calls a hot dog “a sandwich consisting of a frankfurter in a split roll”. Call it fate but in May of 1965, Delores “Dee” Antonucci’s father, John Ranieri, bought a hot dog cart from a man who, himself, had named it after his mother, Dee.
Officially, the day to honor the dog is the third Wednesday of July, as explained on the website. The rule is “dress the dog”, not the bun.
Full disclosure, my usual is one chili dog and one with relish, sauerkraut, ketchup, mustard, and hot peppers. “Yes, but I think hot dogs considering its history and popularity, it deserves its own category”, Lohr said. Of course, you can’t leave out Sheetz dogs and Sonic Drive-In dogs.
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In Toronto, hot dogs are the only kind of street food allowed by law.
