What's with the hotdogs?
![Satoshi hotdog](/assets/images/satoshiHotdog-0ca640f8c04c6804c7cbd92985ee23b8.jpg)
Are you hungry? Might be time for a hotdog.
The Bitcoin Cash community has an ongoing in-joke associating Bitcoin Cash (BCH) with images of or references to hotdogs or deliberately conflating/mislabelling/misunderstanding BCH as an acronym for "Big Costco Hotdog" instead of "Bitcoin Cash".
Origin
![Hotdog telegram](/assets/images/hotdogTelegram-df7f7ff0e333526894cd02fd5bb58e26.png)
Hotdogs are getting expensive these days.
The joke started organically on the Bitcoin Cash telegram group for discussing BCH price movements. A long period of relative BCH price-stability began comparisons to the famously $1.50 fixed price hotdogs at Costco which have not changed in price (despite inflation) since 1985. You can join the fun here.
![Hotdog price freeze](/assets/images/hotdogPriceFreeze-8792e609b14ec0ffa4fde7a5772d22c1.png)
Fact check: true. Source
![Hotdog Start](/assets/images/hotdogStart-656cf3b755614b237e5cf1f0c79c3ee8.png)
Original hotdog conversation started like this. Source
Humour
![Hotdog up only](/assets/images/hotdogUpOnly-0ebc8e8b01b3dc12a6d3b74eda2c2ec9.png)
Hug your hotdogs to let them know they are valued.
The hotdog is quite an appropriate item for this kind of joke because:
- Hotdogs are well-known globally as a casual consumer purchase, the kind of thing that will commonly be bought with Bitcoin Cash once BCH is at global reserve currency.
- Hotdogs are somewhat phallic and associated with circuses and sports matches which lends them quite a comedic & fun vibe.
- Costco famously has a price freeze on their hotdogs at exactly $1.50 - which has not changed since 1985 - even in the face of rampant inflation & other product cost increase (emphasizing the whole point of limited supply, inflation resistant Bitcoin Cash). It is also ironic/humorous to contrast a "fixed price" hotdog with the enormous volatility of Bitcoin Cash.