Hot Dogs vs. Hamburgers: Which Is More American?

[Sakuraba is #1]

Here are some fun facts:

McDonald's sells 75 hamburgers per second.

7-Eleven sells the most hot dogs in America: 100 million annually.

Americans eat 14 billion burgers every year.

Americans eat 9 billion hot dogs every year.

The burger market is a $73 billion business.

The hot dog market is a $2.1 billion business.

One thing is for sure, the American backyard cookout is incomplete without two iconic foods: hamburgers and hot dogs. Which do you prefer?

 

[Sakuraba is #1]

 

[JSN]

Hamburger because it utilizes high quality American beef as well as American cheese product.

 

[Fugazy]

Burgers

 

[TJ Dillashank]

A good burger can make ones day

 

[BayAreaGuy]

A burger is far superior.

It's also more American, because other countries have sausages and so forth

 

[mb23100]

Hot dogs. I'm probably the only American that doesn't care for hamburgers. They just do nothing for me. I went to In-n-out and 5 guys when my nephews were here and both were just way too greasy especially 5 guys.

 

[GoodBadHBK]

Slice the dog in half, stick it on the burger

Burger dog

 

[Bald1]

Probably hot dogs. Every culture has a version of a meat patty, but edible food byproducts is uniquely American. Not sausages, but leftover goo shoveled into plastic tubes. Gak.

 

[Striderx5]

 

[TheMaster]

Their both pretty Germanic if you ask me

 

[Spounman]

Burgers, I rarely eat hot dogs.

 

[The Big Yin]

Burgers. Hot dogs are a German thing and are American in the same vein as saying nachos are American.

 

[Osculater]

Da the burger dog is more American

 

[TheNinja]

Hot dogs are more American.
Burgers are far superior.

 

[Omegaboy13]

Went to check the facts on 9 billions hot dogs a year, because I thought that was super high. Turns out I played myself, because all the stats I'm seeing have it at closer to 20 billion. That's 70 hotdogs per person annually in the US.

I'm amazed honestly. I probably eat like 5-10 hot dogs a year, and the fact that there are people eating enough hotdogs to make up my 60 weiner shortfall has me feeling proud as hell.

 

[DaleBoca]

The Hamburger came from Hamburg Germany. Im quite sure so did the hotdog(Well, modern day Germany).

Boom roasted.

 

[Fugazy]

The Hamburger came from Hamburg Germany. Im quite sure so did the hotdog(Well, modern day Germany).

Boom roasted.

Yeah but Germany as we know it came from America… so howboutthat

 

[William Huggins]

Hamburger because it utilizes high quality American beef as well as American cheese product.

High quality American beef........... okay

 

[AbominableJoman]

Hamburger, and it’s not close or phallic shaped