Smooth Silky Bacon Hot Dog

// September 4th, 2009 // Advertising, Consumer, Retail

Our obsession with wrapping things in bacon is long standing, and has certainly peaked with the arrival of bacon-only blogs and bacon memes.

John T. Edge (whose writing on Southern food is fantastic and mouth-watering) examined the origin and popularity of Mexican-style hot dogs in the NYT last week.

“… By 1953, Oscar Mayer was running print ads, selling American consumers on the virtues of bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Perhaps Mexican consumers, inspired to emulate American dietary habits, took Oscar Mayer at its word, wrapping American-made hot dogs in American-made bacon, and claiming the resulting construction as their own …”

One Response to “Smooth Silky Bacon Hot Dog”

  1. steve says:
    November 5, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    hi Colin,
    I found your (2003) post on Santa exhibiting at a trade show on google. Being in the biz, I’ve got to say that your post is hilarious! I wanted to comment on it, but the post was closed, so I’m commenting here instead.
    Regarding this post… I like bacon, and I like hot dogs, but some things just aren’t meant to go together…
    Steve
    PS. I don’t use words like “for shizzle” and “peeps” either. :)

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