“If Hot Dogs are wrong I don’t wanna to be right!” Doug Heffernan, The King of Queens.
There is no “meat-adjacent” food as delicious as a hot dog. Kosher, bun-length, all meat, all beef, chicken, Oscar Meyer, Ballpark, Hoffy, Bar S, Sabrett, Hebrew National, Vienna; it doesn’t matter. Whatever scraps are scraped up off the processing plant (more palatable term then “slaughterhouse”) floor are chopped and formed into a cylindrical flavor bomb. Especially good are the crunchy ones tightly packed into the intestines of some unknown creature.
One posting is not enough to sing the praises of this delicacy so look for future insights into the wonderful world of sausage dining. But for now I end with a pop quiz. I hope you took notes:
Who sells more HOT DOGS each year than the total of all the major league ballparks in the United States? Give up?
Costco! Over 150 million hot dogs and over 100 million rotisserie chickens. It seems to me with these numbers Costco should not bother selling anything else; only hot dogs and rotisserie chickens. I have sent them letters suggesting as much but to date have not received a reply. You’d think that someone with my demonstrated business acumen would be pursued by a major executive search firm. Another of life’s perplexing mysteries.