All right, today is all about
the hot dog hot diggity dog.
It is national Hot dog day.
The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council.
Yes, that is says that Americans consume
20 billion hot dogs a year and a hot dog.
Alright, so I got a map behind you.
Alright, I want you to tell me
what city in the nation do you
think eats the most hot dogs?
New York buys the most hot dogs New York.
That's a good guess.
What state or city New York City
or Chicago? That's?
I'll go with Chicago too.
With Chicago dogs.
Well, now I gotta pick.
Mouse Detroit Detroit.
OK, here we go. Let's check it out.
New York City residents purchase
more hot dogs than any other city.
Over $101 billion worth
between grocery stores,
supermarkets that probably
figures in those St carts too.
All right now, the region that eats
the bulk of hot dogs every single year,
though, is the southern US.
We here eat more hot dogs than
any other region in the United
States and with that in mind,
I'm guessing there are some
hot dog eaters on this table.
Love them. I'm more of a burger person.
Like sausage or like a Bratwurst,
but if I do get a hot dog I
like mine to be beef ballpark
grilled and it has to be charred.
Ohh you like it dark when my
wife likes it like that too. Yeah
she got the things all right
there. Yeah yeah. Uh-huh
the southern typical except I'm not
as much with chili, but I'll eat it,
but the chili onion mustard slaw
is kind of the Carolina dog.
So right? I like that too.
The yeah. The chili and slaw.
I also love a good like Chicago style dog.
That's that's my other favorite
is that the one with cucumbers or
something on the numbers? It's got a
pickle and tomato, pepper, ketchup,
sport, pepper, celery, salt, pickle,
right? And I do think part of
it is whatever you grew up on,
do you have a kind of like we
only bought this kind of hot dog
when I was growing up? Oscar Myer
ballpark? Now now nathans is my favorite,
but but back in the day when
we were growing up, I think the
ballpark plump when you cook them.
Yeah, always the thing right?
Yeah, that alright,
so Consumer Reports tasted all kinds
of hot dogs to find the best ones.
Hot dogs may not be the healthiest choice,
so when you have them occasionally
you want them to be really good.
Consumer Reports taste tested hot dogs
from various brands evaluating flavor,
juiciness and whether the hot dogs
and their meat free alternatives have
that snap when you bite into them.
The taste testers unanimously agreed.
Go for Nathan's or Hebrew national and if
you're looking for a meat free option,
look no further than the beyond meat,
sausages or the
impossible. The meatless brought worst
from beyond that impossible were so good.
That I would actually choose them over
most regular hot dogs or brought worst.
Interesting that he would choose
the meatless and not because
he like is all playing bass.
He's like just on taste.
So I like Nathan's.
My wife likes the Hebrew Nationals,
so those are the two brands
that we buy the most.
Hebrew nationals. Yeah, they're good.
So I went out today and we asked people
I was doing a story in Kernersville.
So we just asked people how
do you like your hot dogs.
So I expected mustard chili slaw,
onions with no.
Take a look. Or not,
I get a hot dog. It's gotta be grilled
with the butter on the bottom side of
first and then I like a melted cheese
afterwards and plenty of onion and
throw bacon on it. I'm pretty happy,
so that's usually how after all.
So I put hot dogs with the
bun in a casserole dish,
pour some cheese on it,
put some chili on it,
bake it in the oven so I like to get
my bun first grilled with butter on it,
and I boil my hot dog and beer
and then chili and mustard and
ketchup and cheese and bacon.
I slice the hot dog down the center
so captures all the toppings.
And you get your technical with it.
I like to cook. I
do not eat hot dogs. They
are absolutely disgusting,
never, never, not.
Even if we put cheese on it.
Oh God, now he's
out and I am with her.
I don't ever eat a hot dog.
Oh, you don't? I don't have
purses like I'll eat the hot dog,
but if there's other options,
I'm going to go with the other. Is it?
Just don't tell me what it is you know,
like, well, that's what I was gonna say.
Is it because of what's in hot dogs?
I just don't like you don't like
the food I like a sausage and
Italian sausage or a cabasa.
Sausage or Bratwurst?
Yeah, but a hot dog.
I know people say it's the same thing.
It is not the same.
It doesn't taste the same, but I do.
I love sausage too. I love the
brats and the Peppers and all that.
Did y'all ever do cut up hot dogs to
put it in like macaroni and cheese?
When yes, that was just talking about that,
but my mom like when she bakes baked
beans she'll cut up like hot dogs
or like sausage and put them in the
baked beans or like Spaghettios
you know how you could
buy the Spaghettios with
the hot dogs? When I was
a kid I did like hot dogs and more
so as a kid. My mom will boil.
Them and cut them up and
put them in the spaghetti.
Remember little pigs in a
blanket to those things.
I love the pigs in a blanket.
Give me some ketchup and I will eat those
videos over here like I'm not
she is that y'all have it y'all
have it and have a great time so
something the other day where a guy
took a piece of I really shouldn't
say this because I love hot dogs
but he took a piece of a hot dog
and he did a microscope on it.
Don't like and I was like I was
like I'm not looking because I
love hot dogs but on the packages
doesn't it say chicken and pork and
like it's like almost everything?
Yeah they do have all beef.
That dog so yeah, I do like those.
If I'm yeah, would you eat that?
You still don't like it? No,
nobody wants to know how the sausage is made.
Yeah no no, no no. Yeah we don't wanna
do a special segment on that.
We also had growing up though.
The hot dogs that have
like cheese inside of them.
So yes I remember.
Yeah then the cheese like kind
of oozes out a little bit.
That our producer just said rap alright,
we're going to break your
favorite hot dog and Chad.