Sizzling Canine Consumption in America

We’re getting so near the three-day weekend — a.ok.a, the unofficial begin of summer time — that we are able to mainly scent the new canine on the grill.

And so as to add a touch of enjoyable to the combo, the Nationwide Sizzling Canine and Sausage Council, a really actual group primarily based in Washington, D.C., has crunched the numbers and is kicking off summer time with some (sometimes eyebrow-raising) information about our nationwide love affair with these ‘canine. 

For starters, the council reveals that Individuals devour a staggering 7 billion-with-a-B sizzling canine throughout sizzling canine season, which it says spans from Memorial Day by Labor Day. In the event you do the maths, that is a mind-boggling 818 sizzling canine each second throughout that three-month interval. Not even Joey Chestnut can match these numbers. 

The grandest day for warm canine consuming is July 4, when Individuals wolf down 150 million sizzling canine. In response to the Council, that’s sufficient sizzling canine to stretch from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles 5 instances. (Be aware to the Council: We’re eagerly ready for the day you’ll be placing these transcontinental sizzling canine chains collectively. We’d like to be a part of it.) 

July is the most important gross sales month for warm canine — and it’s additionally Nationwide Sizzling Canine Month, which suggests there’s in all probability some sort of cause-and-effect occurring there. A full 10% of annual sizzling canine gross sales occur in July.

Talking of Los Angeles, the West Coast metropolis consumes extra sizzling canine than some other spot in America, out-eating New York, Dallas, Chicago, and Boston. However on a per-capita foundation, even L.A. can’t sustain with Paducah, Kentucky. In terms of the cities with the most important sizzling canine consumption primarily based on inhabitants, Paducah takes the highest…bun, adopted by Greensboro, North Carolina; Charlotte, North Carolina; Buffalo, New York; and Knoxville, Tennessee. 

And when you’re at the moment in Terminal 3 at Chicago’s O’Hare Worldwide Airport, you may discover a line of consumers at Gold Coast Canine, or one of many different eating places that serves up ‘canine to vacationers. O’Hare is the nation’s prime sizzling dog-eating airport, promoting six instances extra sizzling canine than Los Angeles’ LAX and New York’s LaGuardia airports mixed. Abe Froman lives eternally! 

Sizzling canine are nonetheless a well-liked concession at Main League Baseball stadiums. In 2019, the Los Angeles Dodgers shifted essentially the most sizzling canine, as Dodgers followers ate a whopping 2.7 million sizzling canine that season. With 81 regular-season house video games and three extra within the Nationwide League Division collection, that averages out to round 32,140 sizzling canine per sport. (No, we won’t be exhibiting our work.) 

Nonetheless, you kick off this unofficial season, grill safely. And keep in mind: Mates don’t let mates put ketchup wherever close to their sizzling canine.