Americans love their spicy click . And we meanreallylove them . The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council estimate thatAmericans eat on 20 billion(yes , billion with a B ! ) hot dogs a class . That ’s about 70 blistering wienerwurst per person . That ’s a lot of hot cad !
The interesting thing is spicy dogsdidn’t even originate in the U.S. There are a couplet of stories about where the hot dog did come in from , but we ’re pretty certain it ’s Germany . One write up says its origin is the wiener , which was first created in Frankfurt . But other say that ’s not true . They say its roots are with the popularsausageknown as the " dachshund " or " little - hotdog " sausage balloon . It was created in the belated 1600s by a fumbler named Johann Georghehner who was from Coburg , Germany . Georghehner supposedly later traveled to Frankfurt to promote his macrocosm . That would excuse the source for the name hot dog .
Whichever story is true,1893 was pivotalfor the hot dog . That ’s because gobs of them were sell that twelvemonth at the Colombian Exposition in Chicago . They were tasty , easy to hold and meretricious . That same year was also when the red-hot dog became synonymous with baseball game . The custom was startle by a St. Louis bar owner , Chris Von der Ahe , a German immigrant and owner of the St. Louis Browns major league baseball squad ( though others arrogate it was New York concessionaireHarry M. Stevens ) .
What’s in My Dog?
And all of this make for us to the query of the day : What on the nose is in those 20 billion raging dog Americans scarf down every year ? Well it depends on a lot of thing , especially the brand you buy . Every brand uses their own formula , which includes different ingredients , spice , binder and flavorings . But according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council , in generalhot dog may include :
How’s That Dog Made?
So not every hot dog will include every component from the list above . As we already mentioned , formula will variegate greatly depending on who is make the dog . But how hot weenie are made is pretty straightforward . Here’show the unconscious process works :
Kosher red-hot dogsare made the same room other hot dogs are made . The primary difference of opinion is that Kosher red-hot dogs do n’t contain pork . They also are made using beef or domestic fowl slaughtered according to Judaic jurisprudence . Common ingredients in kosher hot dogs let in domestic fowl or beef , water , spices colorants and flavorings . The meat is prepare in a casing that is remove after it is make .
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