Okay. So who knew just how crazy Americans are for hot dogs? I didn’t. Apparently, Hatfield Quality Meats does. The family-owned meat company says on July 4th alone, Americans will chow down on 150 million hot dogs. That’s enough hot dogs, the company says, to stretch from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles… five times over. That’s just one day. Hatfield says that by the end of the summer, Americans will have eaten an estimated 7 billion hot dogs.

Hatfield Quality Meats will turn out more than 50 million hot dogs, or ‘franks,’ this summer alone. In addition to its traditional meat and beef franks, the company recently introduced new Authentic Deli-style Beef Franks, along with pre-marinated entrees such as Lemon Garlic Pork Loin Filets, Sweet Brown Sugar Ham Steaks and Southwestern-style Smoked Sausage — all for the grill.

What few people realize is that hot dogs — of all varieties — are considered sausages.

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1. Last year, New Yorkers purchased twice as many hot dogs — an estimated
$103 million worth! — as the third region on the list,
Baltimore/Washington. Philadelphia was fourth, Boston sixth and
Harrisburg/Scranton ninth ($46, $34 and $27 million respectively).
2. During “Hot Dog Season,” Memorial Day to Labor Day, Americans typically
consume 7 billion hot dogs — that boils down to 818 hot dogs consumed
every second during the season.
3. Sausage is one of the oldest forms of processed food, having been
mentioned in Homer’s “Odyssey” as far back as the 9th Century B.C.
4. Americans will eat enough hot dogs at major league ballparks this year
to stretch from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco. Hot dogs became
standard fare at ballparks in 1893, a tradition believed to have
started in St. Louis.