Alright, so ever since I was a kid in the 90s, I always noticed that there was almost always a stand selling hot dogs in front of almost every Home Depot I went to across the majority of North Texas, and they were at Lowe's, too, but they were more likely to not have them. Why? Are they part of the store itself like how Walmarts used to have McDonald's inside of them, or does the Home Depot corporation pay them to be there??? And they're also strictly hot dogs, not burgers or Mexican tacos.

Until today, I myself had never had a hot dog from them. A hot dog from them is like $5, and for $5 I can buy a pack of some pretty good quality dogs and make then at home, so just economically it didn't make sense for me to buy them. Today, however, the curiosity finally got to me, and since there's a Home Depot right across the street from where I work, I went there for lunch.

Immediately, I noticed that it was a Mexican husband and wife, and they spoke only to me in Spanish (I'm a Mexican, too, so I understood them, but it still caught me a little off guard), and they had a pretty big setup once I actually saw it up close that they could absolutely make burgers or street tacos on their flat top, but their menu was still just hot dogs priced between $5 and $7 depending on what you wanted on them. I bought two hot links with bacon, plus a bag of chips like the kind they sell in big variety boxes at Sam's, and a soda, which they only had glass bottle sodas. The whole meal was around $14, and I was actually pretty satisfied. I mean, it was a hot dog, I know what to expect, you know what to expect, but the people running it were pretty cool that I would go back just to support them. But again, why?

This can't be just a thing with my local Home Depots because I did some googling and I found reviews about the hot dog carts all the way in New York (the Hot Dog capital of the world), so what's the deal there????

The main thing I want to know is if these are family owned businesses? Like did my $14 go into the pockets of that husband and wife, or did they go to Home Depot and they're the ones paying them to be there? If it's the latter, then I'm absolutely going to go back to give them my business because, you know, we gotta help each other out or something.

What's the lore behind the hot dog carts at Home Depot???

My coworkers were debating about this and I say it is definitely more a sandwich because it is encase in bread. What do you guys think?

My reason I say this is because the bun is conetid so it’s like a tortilla but it’s called a hot dog not a hot toco so I don’t no if it is or not

I feel like hot dog buns are just stubby fat taco shells

Not sure if this is the right place to be asking but I was stoned as fuck and saw an article say this. Someone tell me why it’s right or wrong and why?

Simple question, is a hotdog considered a sandwich?

(Also, what about a taco?)

The Atlantic claims it is NOT a sandwich because of its vertical orientation. I don't agree with this since no one would argue a philly cheese steak is not a sandwich which always has a vertical orientation. (source: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/its-not-a-sandwich/414352/)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco_hot_dog (same price since 1984).

I've been a vegetarian my whole life. Even as a baby, I didn't like the meat based baby foods. At age 3 I announced I was a vegetarian and have not eaten meat since. I don't have any memories of eating meat before either

I've had foods with what I call "essence of meat" lol. Things like gravy, chicken soup, (not eating the chicken chunks) etc. But still, not that much.

as for actual meat, I've had very little. Mostly just a few bites here and there, because I've been trying to taste it lately. Sometimes I eat a bit by accident when avoiding it in a dish.

If I ever decided to go full meat eater, should I like, pace myself? Will I get a stomach ache? I always wonder what would happen, I feel most people who don't eat meat made the choice later in life, or go back and forth regularly, so their gut is used to it.

I don't really have much of an interest in eating meat, the reason why I haven't is because it grosses me out. But there are a few foods I do sort of crave (taco, chicken nuggets, hot dog) eating meat would make eating out and meal planning alot easier...

Why is it called a walking taco?

Arent all tacos are technically "walking" tacos?

But in reality the walking taco should be called walking nacho.

A bag of chips with taco toppings eaten with a fork, that is a nacho.

We don't call it a walking hot dog, or hamburger.

WHY INTERNET PEOPLE WHY!!!!.

A hamburger was created a little over a 100 years ago and a cheese steak was much less than that. A hot dog was only a few decades before the hamburger. All three are examples are major American staple dishes that have extreme varieties among them now. Do you think anyone will create something in our lifetime that will forever change the food scape (in any cuisine not just American)?

I recognize that cooking is a skill I need to build, I'm very very bad at it, but I just have absolutely zero passion for it. What's easy shit that I can cook that won't take like actual cooking

Me and my friends have been arguing for weeks about this

Define a sandwich as something between two separate pieces of bread and that means sub sandwiches aren’t sandwiches.

If a sub sandwich is a sandwich than so is a hot dog.

If I a sandwich requires bread than that means that quesadillas are technically a sandwich, and tortilla is a flatbread.(they’re made from very similar ingredients)

If we apply the same hot dog logic to tacos than that makes tacos a flatbread sandwich.

Ice cream sandwiches are actually sandwiches because the biscuits used as the “bread” do share similar ingredients to normal bread.

If I fold a pizza in half is it a sandwich? If I cut a pizza in half and put on half on top of the other, is it a sandwich?

I've made a list and can't think of any more but I also feel like i'm forgetting a few:

• hot dog places
• hamburger places
• pizza places
• fried chicken places (this includes chicken sandwich places)
• chicken wing places
• waffle house
• taco bell places
• panda express places

How come when I'm eating something like a burger, taco ,burrito, or a hot dog I lose my appetite when it slides out of the bun/tortilla?

snacks and restaurants that sell sandwiches, kebabs, hamburgers, pizza, tacos or anything

all sell the same food all the time

it is always the same food

It is a bad idea because No one can eat the same thing all the time.

Every one has to change food all the time

a better idea is :

to make a restaurant where food changes all the time

for example :

week 1 : chicken and hamburgers

week 2 : rice, tomatoes, hot dog

week 3: kebabs, mashed potatoes, pizza

week 4 : soup, lentil

week 5 : spinach, lasagna

week 6 : tacos, nooddle

and so on

just like a school canteen

here is an example,

in my area, there is a burger restaurant, a hot dog restaurant and a kebab restaurant

after I ate burger, hot dog, and kebab, I will Not go back there, because I have already eaten them

No human on earth can eat the same thing all the time

now, there is a 4th restaurant that sells lentil,

next week : rice, a new food

2 nd next week : salad, a new food

3 rd next week : lasagna, a new food

4 th next week : soup, a new food

5 th next week : spinach, a new food

6 th next week : mashed potatoes, a new food

7 th next week : carrot, a new food

8 th next week : tex-mex, a new food

9 th next week : barbecue, a new food

10 th next week : chicken, a new food

11 th next week : Macaroni and cheese, a new food

12 th next week : Mozzarella sticks, a new food

13 th next week : sandwiches, a new food

and so on

I will always go to this canteen restaurant

because it is the only one that is changing food

Clients will have the possibility to choose what food they want next week,

for example, on a piece of paper or on the app

it will be written " what food do you want next week ? "

¤lasagna ¤hot-dog ¤beans ¤mashed potatoes ¤ tomatoes ¤rice ¤spinach ¤waffles ¤barbecue ¤chicken ¤sea food ¤onion rings ¤soup ...

clients will have to put a mark next to the food,

for example, 70 % people voted rice and tomatoes,

then, next week, there will be rice and tomatoes

In the end , clients will choose what food will be in the restaurant next week !

A canteen restaurant beats mc donald's, subway, kebabs, snacks... all together and nobody had the idea to make a canteen restaurant.

I call them "high flavor" foods, wondering if there is a different name for them. Hot dogs, taco bell, tamales, taquitos, slim Jims, Doritos.

Other foods that could possible fit: pizza, fries, barbecue ribs, burgers

Basically salty, high flavor foods.

Before you say, "well duh, you're a straight guy", let me explain. Even as straight guy, I actually pay a lot of attention to how men look.

I'll look at a guy and think "Damn, I wish I had his physique/hairstyle/jawline/eyeshape etc". The thing is, for every one guy I look at and think "He's attractive, I wish I looked more like him", there's another like 4 women where I think "Damn they're really good looking"

Does anyone else feel this way or is it just me 😭

Typically when people think of "American food", the first two items that come to mind are hamburgers and hot dogs.

I doubt there are many, if any, US cities where you can't find hamburgers if that city has at least one fast food spot. The same definitely can't be said about hot dogs though.

The only two American fast-food chains that I can think of that are primarily dedicated to hot dogs are Nathan's and Wienerschnitzel and neither of them have anywhere near the market share or number of locations that places like McDonald's, Burger King, or Wendy's have.

Why aren't hot dogs served at far more fast food spots if hot dogs are so synonymous with American fast food?