July 16 is National Hot Dog Day, and in this undated photo, courtesy of the Enderby and Distict Museum and Archives, the trio of Louise Cook (from left), Judy Blackburn, and Patsy Teather enjoy a hot dog over a bonfire in the great outdoors. Photo courtesy of Enderby and District Museum and Archives
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I refer to Wednesday, July 16, being National Hot Dog Day with the accompanying photo from the Enderby and District Museum and Archives showing three women enjoying a wiener roast in the great outdoors (undated, unfortunately).
So while I missed National Hot Dog Day – third Wednesday in July every year since 1991 – by one day, it is also National Hot Dog Month, so there's still time to enjoy the delectable snack, which can also be called a frankfurter, a footlong, a wienie, wiener, or wienerwurst, or even a red hot.
According to nationaldaycalendar.com, more than 25 million hot dogs are sold at baseball stadiums each year. My personal favourite is the footlong with a Granville Island Beer at Vancouver's beautiful Nat Bailey Stadium.
Hot dogs got me through college at BCIT, where the snack shacks around campus sold them for 50 cents.
Hot dogs are portable, and easy to make. Like the women in the photo, I think the best way to enjoy them is roasted over a fire. I have a relative who eats two hot dogs for lunch every day. He boils the wieners. You can pan-fry them, or rotisserie cook them, which leads to an interesting factoid from nationaldaycalendar.com:
• 7-Eleven sells the most grilled hot dogs in North America - 100 million annually.
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