How it's made hot dogs?

How Shrunken Heads Were Made; Bonus Hot Dog Facts. The name "frankfurter" comes from the fact that a popular hot dog-like sausage was originally made in Frankfurt Germany (Frankfurter meaning "of Frankfurt"). The name was brought over to America sometime in the late 19th century from German immigrants who were familiar with the Frankfurter sausage. In U.S. grocery stores alone, about $1.7 billion per year are spent on hot dogs. read more

After all that, hot dogs are cooked in their tubing, cooled, and packed. This footage comes from "How It's Made," on the Science Channel, which you can watch on Thursday nights at 7pm/6pm central. New episodes air at 9pm/8pm central, and the finale, on December 17, will reveal how channel signs, wetsuits, and aluminum aircrafts are made. read more