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Why Are the Hot Dogs in Maine Neon Red? (www.saveur.com)
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the red dogs came about as a marketing tactic. The company hired a butcher who’d recently emigrated from Germany, where local meat shops would dye their sausages to set themselves apart from the competition. When the butcher arrived in Bangor and began working at W.A. Bean, he carried on the strategy and it stuck.