Hot Dogs

Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, is traditionally credited with originating the frankfurter. However, this claim is disputed by those who assert that the popular sausage - known as a "dachshund" or "little-dog" sausage - was created in the late 1600's by Johann Georghehner, a butcher, living in Coburg, Germany, who traveled to Frankfurt to promote his product.

• Babe Ruth once ate 12 hot dogs and drank 8 cans of soda during a double header, that he was rushed to the hospital with a sever case of indigestion.
• When Bruce Willis proposed to Demi Moore years ago, he did it in front of a hot dog stand. Can't get more romantic than that!
• The world's biggest hot dog was 1,996 feet long, created by Sara Lee Corp. in honor of the 1996 Olympics.
• The most popular hot dog topping among adults is mustard (87.6%). Among children, it is ketchup.
• Marlene Dietrich said that her favorite meal was hot dogs & champagne.
• Al Capone's and Cary Grant's favorite food was Nathan's Coney Island hot dogs.
• The average hot dog is consumed in 6.1 bites.
• The 2001 world record for hot dog eating is 50 wieners with buns in 12 minutes Chicago's O'Hare International Airport sells more than 2 million hot dogs a year.
• Baseball fans will enjoy "in the ballpark" of 26.8 million hot dogs at U.S. baseball stadiums this season. That's enough to circle the bases 36,000 times.
• President Franklin Roosevelt served King George VI of England hot dogs & beer during a White House visit in 1939. Mrs. Jimmy Carter served hot dogs at a White House picnic in 1977.
• Americans consumed 20 billion hot dogs in 2000. The 7 billion eaten just during the summer months are enough to stretch from Chicago (the hot dog capital of the universe) to Frankfurt, Germany (where it all began) 125 times.
• Weight Watchers includes hot dogs in its medically-approved diet regimen.
• NASA approved hot dogs as a regular item on Apollo moon flights, Skylab missions & space shuttle flights.
• Sausages may be the oldest form of processed food, having been mentioned in Homer's Odyssey in the 9th Century B.C.