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The Dog House: Dog Facts

• The average hot dog contains about 180 calories, about 75 percent of which come from fat.
• The longest hot dog ever was 1996 feet. It was created by the Sara Lee Corp. in honor of the 1996 Olympics.
• Babe Ruth once at 12 hot dogs and 8 bottles of soda between games in a double header. After the game, he was hospitalized with severe indigestion.
• An estimated 26 million hot dogs are served at American baseball parks each year.
• Americans will eat an estimated 20 billion hot dogs each year.
• More hot dogs are eaten in Dodgers' Stadium than in any other ballpark in the U.S.
• 450 hot dogs are eaten every second of every day in the United States or an average of 65 per year/per person
• Hot dogs are served in 95 percent of homes in the USA
• More than three-fourths of all hot dogs are eaten at home, while15 percent are purchased from street vendors, and 9 percent are purchased at ball parks
• Mustard remains the most popular hot dog topping, with 87 percent of hot-dog eaters using it
• The 6" hot dog is most popular, preferred by approximately 50 percent of hot dog eaters, while about 26 percent prefer the 7" hot dog. Only 4 percent prefer the foot long version
• Russia has become the leading importer of American hot dogs. In 1997 Russia chowed down some 53 million pounds of US sausage and bologna, mostly in the form of hot dogs. That's up from 25 million pounds a year earlier.