MLB Fans to Consume a Lot of Hot Dogs This Season

The Major League Baseball Season started yesterday, and  the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council estimates that MLB fans will consume around 19 million hot dogs this season.  Fans will also consume up to 4.6 million sausages during the summer season.

The combined hot dog and sausage total could stretch all the way across the United States from SafeCo Field in Seattle to SunTrust Park in Atlanta.  That hot dog total by itself would reach as high as 5,332 One World Trade Centers, the tallest building in the western hemisphere and the sixth-tallest in the world.

Hot Dog and Sausage Council president Eric Mittenthal says baseball and hot dogs have been a love affair for multiple decades.  “Year after year, hot dogs continue to hit it out of the park at the concession stand,” he says. “There’s simply no replacing the unshakable bond between baseball and hot dogs.”

Los Angeles Dodgers fans are expected to consume more than 3 million hot dogs, the largest number in the league.  San Francisco Giants fans take the top spot in the sausage race by consuming a projected 475,000 this season.  The Milwaukee Brewers are the only team in baseball that’s expected to sell more sausages than hot dogs.

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