On the outside, she says the hot dog is an iconic dish that exemplifies the ingenuity and individualism of the United States; on the other, its continued popularity and affordability is only possible thanks to the dark side of capitalism.
, processing plants owned by the U.S.'s five largest meat companies accounted for 59,000 COVID-19 cases and 269 deaths among workers between March 2020 and February 2021 alone.
"Most hot dogs that you eat wouldn't be possible, really, without the industrial process and all of these sort of ethical quandaries that come with it," she said.Loftus says she researched competing origin stories and usually found a mix of marketing campaigns and fabrications, most centred on "one man's exceptionalism" of having the idea before anyone else.
The company once touted that it began in the 1920s as an impromptu dare between immigrants on how much they could eat in one sitting — as proof of "Who is the most American?" Loftus said.The working-class association people have with an affordable hot dog or other fast foods isn't as longstanding as one might believe, either, Pilcher said, noting that going to a baseball game and eating a hot dog while in the stands was a leisure-time activity that many people couldn't afford.
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