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This week’s entry: Quick hits
What it’s about: Lots of things! Over the years, we’ve come across Wikipedia articles that fascinated or amused to some degree, but were too short to write a full column about. So for the next few weeks, we’re going to shake up the format, and move through our 6,218,869-part series a bit faster by tackling multiple subjects in brief.
World’s Longest Hot Dog: There is no more bitterly contentious issue in our divided nation than whether a hot dog is a sandwich. But there’s also a surprising amount of controversy over who has made the world’s longest hot dog. The now-dissolved Sara Lee company made a 1,996-foot dog for the ’96 Olympic Games in Atlanta, but that record is disputed, as while the hot dog was that long, the bun was produced in segments. Many consider a continuous bun necessary to holding the record because the bun is, as Wikipedia artfully puts it, “an integral part of the hot dog unit.”