July 23rd

By Mutt Mulligan

July is National Hot Dog Month

Happy National Hot Dog Month! TurfMutt loves any excuse to get outdoors, enjoy the backyard and grill. He’s also sniffed out some fun facts about America’s go-to grilling food, the humble hot dog.

• Each year Americans buy more than 350 million pounds of hot dogs at retail stores. That is equal to 9 billion hot dogs!
• The average person eats about 70 hot dogs per year, and hot dogs are served in 95 percent of U.S. homes.
• Major League Baseball (MLB) expects to sell more than 20.5 million hot dogs at baseball stadiums this year.
• Travelers through Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport consume six times more hot dogs than visitors to Los Angeles International and LaGuardia combined.
• On Independence Day alone, Americans enjoy 150 million hot dogs. That’s enough to stretch from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles more than five times!
• Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, is traditionally credited with originating the frankfurter. However, some claim that it was actually created in the late 1600’s by Johann Georghehner, a butcher, living in Coburg, Germany.

For more fun facts, recipes and everything you’d ever want to know about hot dogs, visit the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council.