New York City wiener war recalls glory days when Big Apple battles ruled baseball

New York City's boroughs once battled for World Series wins and baseball bragging rights. The Yankees from the Bronx, the Dodgers from Brooklyn and the Giants from Manhattan won eight straight World Series in Major League Baseball from 1949 to 1956. Those 'diamond daze' of the 1950s are long gone.

Now, delicious barrels of beef franks hitting home runs of happiness and gastronomic grand slams fuel the inter-borough animosity. Hot-dog hawker Sabrett represents Manhattan. Nathan's Famous flies the banner of Brooklyn. It's the Great Weiner War of Gotham. 'New Yorkers eat more hot dogs than any other group in the country,' says the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council.

Sabrett hot dogs – its carts, most notably – have made hundreds of cameos on TV shows and movies filmed in Manhattan over the decades. 'That Girl,' a popular 1960s TV sitcom, the silver-screen hit 'When Harry Met Sally' in the 1980s, and comic book-hero flick 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom' just last year all featured Sabrett street carts. Nathan's Famous, however, is the undisputed champ of Major League Eating on Independence Day.

It was necessary. My character needed to come across as intense as possible, and I found the inspiration for that intensity in my intense love for hot dogs. The director, David Cronenberg, said that he would never work with me again. I kept eating hot dogs when the cameras were rolling, and that seemed to bother him. I say him. He doesn't even like hot dogs.' For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.

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