National Hotdog Day

Photo c/o russopower.com

Araw pala nila ngayon!  Di ko alam 'yon, na meron na palang ganito!  It's National Hotdog Day. Today is the day for some of you who's favourite go-to breakfast is hotdog/s. How will you celebrate the day? Perhaps you'll dress-up your hotdog, add more trimmings to it, make it look more colorful and attractive, perhaps yummier? Some of you might slice them up and incorporate them in your spaghetti dish, others will have it the old-fashioned way with a bread bun, while others might experiment, especially on this day, and have hotdog soup, hotdog stew, etc. 

I was born and grew up at a time when the hotdog was either not available in our home because of economic reasons (we were poor) or it just wasn't in our menu (because we were poor, among other reasons). It is perhaps because it is a processed food and my family back in the day, preferred to have home cooked meals and/or prepared our own food.  This might also explain the reason why I don't particularly like them or if I do would have them sparingly and mostly if it was given to me as a sandwich.

Here's a link to a good inside story on the American hotdog and why it's popular in the Philippines.