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HatDogs andApple Pie America’’s favorite foodsToday we tell about some of the foods thatAmericans like best-America’’s favorites. You may have heard thatAmericans like hot dogs and hamburgers best of all foods. Well, farmers and owners of public eating places might happily agree. So might the nation’’s Meat Institute and the National HotDog & SausageCouncil.But people whose favorites are pizza and apple pie would give the meat-lovers a spirited argument!Naming the favorite foods ofAmericans depends a lot on whom you ask.But one thing is sure. The ancestors of mostAmericans came from other countries. The United States owes many favorite dishes, or the ideas for these foods, to the rest of the worlD、For example, that traditionalAmerican favorite, the hot dog or wiener, had its’’ modern beginning in Germany. The National HotDog and SausageCouncil estimate thatAmericans eat about seven thousand million of these sausages during a summer.HotDog

A、hot dog is usually made from pork, the meat of a pig. Or it is made from beef, the meat of a cow.Another version is made from turkey.
A、vegetarian; version of a hot dog has no meat at all. It often contains tofu, made from soy plants.The hot dog is shaped like a tube. Many people say it looks like aDachshund dog. It is served between two shaped pieces of bread called a bun.Americans often say they especially like hot dogs cooked over a hot fire in the open air. People at sports events buy plenty of hot dogs.For many people, it is not just the meat that tastes so gooD、These people enjoy colorful and tasty additions. For example, they include a yellow or yellow-brown thickened liquid called mustarD、They may also put red catsup and pieces of a white or red, strong-smelling vegetable called onion on their hot dogs.Hot dog eaters often add pickle, a salty green vegetable. Some people place barbecue sauce on top of all this. Or they use a spice called horseradish. It gives the hot dog a pleasant bite.HotDog’’s Story
A、hot dog is also known as a frankfurter or frank. That is because the city of Frankfurt-am-Main. Germany is often said to be the birthplace of this sausage.But the National HotDog and SausageCouncil says there are other ideas about where the hot dog began.One version of hot dog history says a butcher, or meat cutter, from the German city ofCoburg was responsible. It says he invented the hot dog in the late sixteen hundreds. Vienna,Austria, also claims that it created the fooD、The council says butchers from several countries probably brought commonEuropean sausages toAmeric
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A、street salesman sold hot dogs to people in New YorkCity in the eighteen sixties.And, in eighteen seventy one, a hot dog stand opened at theConey Island amusement park in New YorkCity.Hamburgers Americans also eat lots of hamburgers. This ground meat comes from beef. It can be cooked in many ways. Like hot dogs, hamburgers are a favorite picnic fooD、Many public eating places in the United States say hamburgers are their most popular foods. People often eat them in places that serve quickly prepared, moderately priced fooD、Like hot dog experts, hamburger historians disagree about how their subject got starteD、TheEgyptians and Romans apparently ate ancient versions of hamburgers. In more modern days, people in Hamburg, Germany, made something like a hamburger from pork and beef.First Modern HamburgerThe small town of Seymour, Wisconsin, is among severalAmerican towns that claim to have created the first modern hamburger in the United States. In Seymour, a man namedCharlie Nagreen tried to sell meatballs at a local fair in eighteen eighty-five.But as people walked around, it was hard for them to handle the round pieces of meat. So Nagreen flattened the ball of meat. Then he placed this meat patty between two pieces of breaD、In two thousand one, people in Seymour cooked a hamburger tha