July is National Hot Dog Month, and what better way to celebrate than by swinging by Tallahassee’s newest offering in the sausage space, Link Sausages & Beer? Part of Jesse Edmunds’ Seven Hills Hospitality Group (which also includes Liberty Bar & Restaurant, Black Radish, The Hawthorn, Bar 1903, and Rae’s), Link opened earlier this year in the spot that used to be home to El Cocinero.
According to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, Americans consume about 20 billion hot dogs annually, averaging out to an estimated 70 hot dogs per person each year. “[Sausage] is a 5,000-year-old food,” says Edmunds. “It’s something that is deeply ingrained in almost every culture on the planet.”
The earliest recorded instance of sausage making was in ancient Sumeria, around 3100 B.C.E. But wait, let’s pump the brakes to pose an age-old question: Is a sausage a hot dog? Is a hot dog a sausage?…