Wonder Classic Hot Dog Buns - which are side-split - account for 97% of total hot dog bun sales, according to Ashley Smith, the company’s brand manager. The well-known brand Wonder sells both variations of buns. It’s probably less waste, a little less dough,” Cornelis said. “And I would think, as a producer, the side slice is more cost-efficient. Cornelis presented some possible reasons for the side-sliced’s dominance: For one, he said, the New England variety may be a little “bready” for some people. Reached by Marketplace this week, Cornelis said that if you take stock of the type of hot dog consumed at carnivals, fairs, ball games and hot dog-eating contests, most appear to be side-sliced. The side-sliced hot dog and hamburger buns many Americans are familiar with today originated sometime in the mid-’50s with the invention of the mechanical side slicer. Michael Cornelis, vice president of American Pan, told The Boston Globe that prior to the advent of New England–style rolls, commercial bakers used to slice buns all the way through. Nissen to develop a bun for its fried clam strip sandwich. Hot dog buns that are top-sliced can be traced to a chef at the former restaurant chain Howard Johnson’s who, in the 1940s, asked the Maine bakery J.J. “There’s no telling it could have been a regular white bread bun,” he said.
There’s no agreement on what the first hot dog (including its bun) looked like, with the only written evidence about it in various newspaper accounts, according to Bruce Kraig, food historian and author of the book “Hot Dog: A Global History.” Kraig noted the earliest written record is from Coney Island in the 1870s. The top-sliced bun tends to have greater structural integrity than its side-sliced counterpart, enabling consumers to load it up with toppings, and its features are rectangular, rather than tubular. You can typically find side-sliced hot dog buns at grocery stores around the country, where they’re spliced nearly all the way through, with a “hinge” keeping both sides connected.īut top-sliced buns - also known as New England-style or frankfurter buns - are cut vertically, from the top of the bun (as the name would imply). Condiments, the type of sausage link and, yes, even the way the bun is sliced, have all been subject to regional influences. The simple oblong American hot dog, infinitely customizable, allows us to project onto it our personal tastes, our customs, our hometown pride. The hot dog - despite its humble quality or, perhaps, because of it - has inspired some of the great philosophical inquiries of our time, puzzling experts and instigating vigorous debate.ĭoes ketchup belong on a hot dog? Is a hot dog a sandwich? Why? Splitting a bun on the side seems to defeat the purpose of keeping the toppings on the top.
I was surprised to learn later in life that not all hot dog buns are split this way. Why are some hot dog buns split on the top and some split on the side? I grew up in New England and ate a lot of hot dogs. Marketplace reader and listener Susan Lund from Washington, D.C., asked:
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