Nation Welcomes National Hot Dog Day

Hot diggity dog! July is National Hot Dog Month and July 23 is National Hot Dog Day. During hot dog season ( Memorial Day to Labor Day ), 818 hotdogs are eaten every second . And on the Fourth of July, Americans devour approximately 150 million hot dogs; that’s enough to stretch from coast to coast five times. Depending on where you are, hot dogs can look and taste completely different. From slaw dogs in the South to Chicago dogs in the Second City to Detroit’s Coney dogs , cities take their hot dogs very seriously. One of the first mentions of cooking sausages can be found in Homer’s Odyssey: “As when a man besides a great fire has filled a sausage with fat and blood and turns it this way and that and is very eager to get it quickly roasted”/ CNN . More here .

Question: Which do you prefer at a BBQ — hot dogs or hamburgers? And how do you fix them?