Hot dogs, per pound, cost much more than ground beef or chicken breast. It's just that hot dogs are easy to cook for the lazy.
Take some ground beef, tomato paste, and pasta and you can make spaghetti and meatballs from scratch for much less than hot dogs.
“Hot dogs, per pound, cost much more than ground beef or chicken breast. It’s just that hot dogs are easy to cook for the lazy.”
That’s exactly it. Most of these people are too darned lazy to cook healthy meals.