It's National Hot Dog Day. Whoops: Wednesday WAS National Hot Dog Day.

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Romney celebrates National Hot Dog Day: ‘It’s the best meat there is’

BY JUDY KURTZ - 07/20/23 10:28 AM ET

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“Well, as you all know, today is National Hot Dog Day. Perhaps you also know that hot dog is my favorite meat,” Romney said in a video, sporting a hat emblazoned with an image of a hot dog and grasping the cylindrical-shaped sausage in his hand.

“I love hot dogs. I love ‘em in buns. I love them outside of buns. I love them in baked beans. I just like hot dogs,” the 76-year-old lawmaker said.

“It’s the best meat there is, without question,” he continued.

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1. I'm going to a college league baseball game tonight, having a dog.

What a perfect thing, I'll add a beer too, to help celebrate the holiday.

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2. 'I enjoy sampling the simple foodstuffs of the hoi polloi'

‘Pahdon me, do you have any gochugaru for my tubular steak?’

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3. That time FDR served hotdogs to the king of England

THAT TIME FDR SERVED HOT DOGS TO THE KING OF ENGLAND

"Push it into your mouth and keep pushing it until it is all gone.”

By CLAIRE BARRETT7/21/2022



FDR grilling out. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

What’s good enough to serve to hordes of hungry baseball fans is good enough to serve the King of England — or so President Franklin D. Roosevelt thought.

And certainly, what’s more American than processed meat grilled over a carcinogenic fire?

As war loomed over Europe, King George VI, visiting with Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, joined FDR and members of his staff on June 11, 1939, at the president’s Hyde Park, New York, residence. Displaying some gastrodiplomacy, the menu of that day included “Hot Dogs (if weather permits).”

“WHAT SHOULD I DO?”

“So often when we try to define a national food culture in the U.S., it’s really difficult to do so,” Smithsonian food historian Dr. Ashley Rose Young said. “In the modern context, people often cite things like McDonald’s or international fast food cultures. But if you go back to the 1800s or even through 1950, when you would ask someone to define American culture, they would go through regional cultures, and the hot dog was a regional food that was gaining popularity outside of the Northeast.”

The two members of British royalty were offered some good ‘ol’ American delicacies — albeit proffered on a silver tray.

And while no one can be Joey Chestnut, the king and queen mother reportedly asked Roosevelt how exactly one was supposed to properly take down the slender log of meat.

“Very simple,” FDR retorted. “Push it into your mouth and keep pushing it until it is all gone.”

The queen elected to use a fork and knife instead.

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