California Travel Tips
Happy Hot Dog Month
Published on: July 01, 2015
July is National Hot Dog Month — perfect timing for the largest hot dog consuming day of the year — the 4th of July. During Independence Day weekend the best gestimates put the number of hot dogs eaten at around 160 million! If every citizen ate as many hot dogs on the 4th of July as California’s own hot dog-eating champ, Joey Chestnut, that number would jump to 8 billion hot dogs bitten, chewed and swallowed. Joey Chestnut, a competition eater who has won 8 consecutive annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contests (2007-2014), holds world titles for a variety of foods, including eggs, chicken wings, asparagus, burgers, steak, matzoh balls, bratwurst and wontons.
HOT DOG TRIVIA:
- Top condiment is mustard.
- Most dogs eaten is world record by Joey Chestnut who scarfed down 69 hot dogs with buns in 10 minutes on July 4, 2013.
- California is home to many hot dog loving enterprises, including Wienerschnitzel and Pinks.
- Carl’s Jr. began in July 1941 as a hot dog stand in Los Angeles.
- On July 18, 2015 Nathan’s Mobile Sampling Tour arrives in Imperial Beach for the Sun & Sea Festival.
- The world’s top hot dog eater trains for his events by stretching his stomach with milk, water and protein supplements.
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