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The hot dog is a staple to American summer holidays. Take a look at hot dogs in America throughout history. Bonnie Trafelet/Chicago Tribune/MCT/Getty Images
A Florida State Seminoles fan eats a hot dog prior to the 2013 Orange Bowl at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images
A family enjoys hot dogs on Washington's Puget Sound in 1960. Merle Severy/National Geographic/Getty Images
U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron eat hot dogs in 2012 while watching a college basketball game in Dayton, Ohio. JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images
A vendor sells hot dogs at Candlestick Park in 1965 for the San Francisco Giants' season-opening home game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. staff/AP
A man dressed as a "Star Wars" stormtrooper prepares a hot dog during the 2011 WonderCon in San Francisco. Max Morse/Getty Images
Competitive eater Joey Chestnut competes in the 2012 Nathan's July Fourth hot dog eating contest at New York's Coney Island. Chestnut ate a record-tying 68 hot dogs to win. ERIC THAYER/REUTERS/LANDOV
David Dittman winces as he competes in a hot dog eating contest in Danville, Illinois, in 1957. Art Shay//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
Judges in Chicago measure the length of the world's longest hot dog in 2003. At 16 feet and 1 inch, it bested the previous record of 15 feet, 3 inches. JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty Images
The famous Coney Island hot dog stand in Aspen Park, Colorado, moved to the town of Bailey, Colorado, in 2006. KATHRYN SCOTT OSLER/DEnver Post/Getty Images
A Chicago police officer writes a traffic ticket for the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in 2007. Kevin Pang/mct/ZUMAPRESS.com
Baseball fans eat hot dogs during a game at New York's Shea Stadium in 2003. Ed Betz/AP
Andy Samberg, left, and Alec Baldwin perform in a "Saturday Night Live" skit called Hot Dog Family in 2005. Dana Edelson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
A Georgia State Fair attendee eats a corn dog in Atlanta in 2010. Martin Parr/Magnum Photos
A man in New York buys a hot dog from his car window in Lower Manhattan in 1962. David Hurn/Magnum Photos
The Oscar Mayer Wienermoblie is seen in New York City during a celebration of its 75th birthday in 2011. John Lamparski/WireImage/GEtty Images
Then-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg eats a hot dog at the weigh-in ceremony for the Nathan's July Fourth contest in 2013. Mario Tama/Getty Images
From left, Tim Janus, Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie compete in the Nathan's hot dog eating contest in 2013. Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images
Onion, Mustard and Ketchup race in the Hot Dog Derby during a 2008 Major League Baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cleveland Indians in Cleveland. Cleveland Indians/Getty Images
A pair of dachshunds dressed as hot dogs participate in Ted and Amy's Annual Pet Costume Contest in Brewerton, New York, in 2012. John Berry/The Post-Standard/Landov
Massachusetts Gov. Joseph Ely, left, and New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt stop for a hot dog on the Mohawk Trail in Massachusetts, where the two campaigned together in 1932. AP