# When is the last time you ate a hot dog? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088 "2018-08-04T14:23:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/21 "2018-08-04T17:51:19Z")
Today, actually, about an hour ago. There’s a wonderful hotdog stand here, that opened just over a year ago. Hopefully it stays open forever, it’s the only dedicated hot dog place in town. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/22 "2018-08-04T17:53:31Z")
We had chili dogs a couple of weeks ago…but normally, I like then with cheese and ketchup. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/23 "2018-08-04T18:02:37Z")
Chili dog at Portillo’s last Sunday. ETA: OK, actually two chili dogs… ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/24 "2018-08-04T18:07:15Z")
My apartment building had a resident BBQ last week, so I had one hot dog as well as some BBQ chicken. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/25 "2018-08-04T18:09:49Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > Chili dog at Portillo’s last Sunday. > > ETA: OK, actually two chili dogs… Please tell me that Portillo’s hasn’t expanded to Phoenix as well. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/26 "2018-08-04T18:09:54Z")
It’s been years. Can’t really guess how long ago. At least 10, I think. Maybe. Even then it would have been a turkey dog or some such. If it was a pork-anus dog I wouldn’t have touched it. Just completely horrible “food”. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/27 "2018-08-04T18:16:26Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I always keep two packs of five all-beef jumbos in the fridge. I’ll never understand why buns are sold in bags of eight, since this matches no form of hot dog packaging that I’m aware of. Both hot dogs and buns come in packages of eight, so there’s no mis-match. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/28 "2018-08-04T18:37:50Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > And I just realize I messed up the poll. Is there any way a moderator can add an option for “More than 10 years ago”? That’s my answer. I’ve eaten those vegan fake-outs as you call them, although I haven’t eaten one of those in years either. But an actual hot dog, I haven’t eaten one of those in easily over 10 years, but I have eaten one before. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/29 "2018-08-04T18:39:21Z")
I don’t eat hot dogs very often, but I did have a kraut dog a couple of weeks ago at a local [Casper’s](https://www.caspershotdogs.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/30 "2018-08-04T18:52:03Z")
I hardly ever eat hot dogs. There have been times I’ve gone for years without eating one. But as it happens I did eat one around three weeks ago (I was out with my father and he decided he’d like a hot dog for lunch). So I voted for within the past month but that’s not characteristic of my usual habits. If you had posted this poll a month ago, my answer would have been within the past ten years. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/31 "2018-08-04T18:55:01Z")
I actually made hot dog soup one day last week. It wasn’t as bad as it sounds. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/32 "2018-08-04T19:21:23Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Please tell me that Portillo’s hasn’t expanded to Phoenix as well. One in Scottsdale, one in Tempe (that I know of). Very popular. I usually get the combo sausage and Italian beef, but sometimes a hot dog. Haven’t tried a chocolate cake shake yet. ETA: Lots of Midwesterners here, especially in the winter. Half my neighbors are snowbirds from Illinois/Minnesota/Canada… ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/33 "2018-08-04T19:29:59Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Please tell me that Portillo’s hasn’t expanded to Phoenix as well. Well, [they’re in Arizona](https://www.portillos.com/all-locations/). I wonder if the quality keeps up or if it’s like Uno’s where the out-of-state franchised locations are a shadow of the original. Anyone who has had both Chicago area and far-flung Portillo’s able to chime in? As for hot dogs, the [butcher shop](http://reamsmeatmarket.com/) near my work makes them and sells them fresh outside the store during the summer. Delicious. The downside is that my younger one will only eat their hot dogs now and doesn’t care for any of the store-brand ones, even Vienna or the kosher dogs. If I say I bought hot dogs, he just asks “You mean the good ones?” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/34 "2018-08-04T19:33:13Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > As for hot dogs, the [butcher shop](http://reamsmeatmarket.com/) near my work makes them and sells them fresh outside the store during the summer. Delicious. The downside is that my younger one will only eat their hot dogs now and doesn’t care for any of the store-brand ones, even Vienna or the kosher dogs. If I say I bought hot dogs, he just asks “You mean the good ones?” Your kid has good taste. There is a local German deli that stocks some amazing sausages. Whenever we are there for lunch, we stock up on brats and wieners for the freezer. Light years better than Oscar Meyer or Bar S. ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/35 "2018-08-04T19:37:59Z")
My kids plays a lot of baseball. That means a lot of hot dogs are consumed. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/36 "2018-08-04T19:53:46Z")
Had one last week for lunch. It was heated in a skillet, put on a bun, dosed with a fiery picante sauce and a healthy forkful of sauerkraut. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/37 "2018-08-04T21:02:40Z")
Last month I visited Frankfurt so of course I had to have a Frankfurter so my answer was this month but before that I hadn’t had one in about a year because I try to eat healthy. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/38 "2018-08-04T21:26:07Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Both hot dogs and buns come in packages of eight, so there’s no mis-match. Where I live, they come in packs of five (jumbo) and ten (regular). The buns are still in bags of eight, though. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/39 "2018-08-04T22:24:46Z")
Two days ago. And I added the extra poll option, since I happened to see the request. But it’s perfectly fine to report a post for that sort of thing: I can’t read every thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-a-hot-dog/819088/40 "2018-08-04T22:26:35Z")
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