Image from the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council showing that Americans eat about 20 billion hot dogs each year - or around 70 hot dogs per person.
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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These numbers seem to be out of date. No date is listed on the infographic. But if you calculate the population from their numbers you get a US population of 285 million, or approximately the US population from the 2000 census.
Despite the out of date data, the number should seem low because the methodology assumes all Americans eat hot dogs.
Some people don't eat hot dogs. But they are included with this methodology. According to a 2018 survey by Gallop, 5% of the US are vegetarians. If we remove them from our population and recalculate...
75 hot dogs per person. Still seems low.