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Hot cross bun
Hot cross bun: a sweet spiced yeast bun with currants or raisins and a cross on top, eaten at Easter and Good Friday. First printed as "hot cross buns" in 1733; origins contested between pagan, Greek, and monastic traditions.
Hot dog
Hot dog: a cooked frankfurter or wiener sausage served in a split bun, an American dish from German immigrant street food. Known for Coney Island vendors, 19 US regional styles, $11 billion annual US supermarket sales, and IARC Group 1 processed-meat classification.
Hot dog cart
Hot dog cart: a small pushcart or tow-behind mobile food unit limited to reheating pre-cooked hot dogs, descended from 1870s Coney Island pushcarts; launches for $6,000-$9,000, nets $100-$300 daily, and matches restaurants on inspection scores.
Hot Dog Surf Shop
Hot Dog Surf Shop is a surf shop in Kittle, a village on the edge of the Gower Peninsula near Swansea, Wales, selling and hiring surfboards, wetsuits, bodyboards, and surf clothing.
Hot dog variations
Hot dog variations are regional styles of the hot dog defined by toppings and bun type. Key versions include the Chicago dog (poppy seed bun, seven toppings), New York dog, Detroit Coney, Sonoran bacon-wrapped dog, and Seattle cream cheese dog; the NHDSC counts 19 US varieties.
Hot Girl Walk
Hot Girl Walk, a TikTok-fitness practice created by Mia Lind in 2021, is a roughly four-mile walk focused on gratitude, goals, and confidence; it became a trademarked global brand and community walking movement.
Hot honey
Hot honey: honey infused with chili peppers or flakes, a sweet-and-spicy (swicy) condiment. Modern form traces to Mike Kurtz's Mike's Hot Honey (Brooklyn, 2010); used on pizza, fried chicken, and cheese; fastest-growing swicy flavor.
Hot Ones
Hot Ones is an American celebrity interview web series on YouTube, created by Chris Schonberger and Sean Evans in 2015, where guests answer questions while eating ten increasingly spicy chicken wings.
Hot Pockets
Hot Pockets is an American frozen microwaveable stuffed-sandwich brand created by Paul and David Merage's Chef America, launched in 1983 and sold to Nestlé in 2002 for $2.6 billion.
Hot pot
Hot pot (火锅, old name 古董羹) is the Chinese communal cooking method of simmering raw ingredients in a shared pot of broth and eating them as they cook. Term first recorded in Tang-era Tongdian; regional styles include Chongqing numbing-spicy and Beijing clear-broth hot pot.
Hot sauce
Hot sauce, a chili-pepper condiment also called chilli sauce or piquante sauce, combines Capsicum peppers with vinegar, salt, and spices; measured in Scoville heat units via HPLC, kept safe below pH 4.6, and anchored by traditions from Aztec Mexico to Tabasco (1868) and sriracha.
Hot Topic
Hot Topic: American mall-based pop-culture and music-merchandise retailer founded by Orv Madden in 1989 in Montclair, California; went public 1996, launched Torrid 2001, owned by Sycamore Partners from 2013, sold to Spencer Spirit Holdings in 2026.
Hotpants
Hotpants (hot pants, booty shorts, micro shorts) are extremely short, close-fitting shorts worn as women's fashion. Named by Women's Wear Daily in late 1970, they peaked as a 1971 disco-era craze, faded by 1972, and have since revived, notably via Miu Miu's autumn/winter 2023 collection.
Houndstooth
Houndstooth (pied de poule, shepherd's check, dogtooth) is a two-colour broken-check pattern formed by colour order on a 2/2 twill, classically worsted wool, from Scottish shepherd outerwear of the 1800s to Dior-era and modern fashion.
Hourglass figure
Hourglass figure: a body shape with nearly equal bust and hips and a markedly narrower waist; a named category in the FFIT nine-type system and the corseted ideal of nineteenth-century fashion, later embedded in 1958 US clothing sizing.
House of Fraser
House of Fraser is a British department store group founded in Glasgow in 1849 as Arthur and Fraser, which entered administration in 2018 and now trades as FRASERS.
Housewarming party
A housewarming party celebrates a person or family moving into a new home; the word dates to the 1570s. In the US, hosts pay and avoid asking for gifts; many cultures add rituals like Griha Pravesh, bread and salt, or French pendre la crémaillère.
Howard Johnson's
Howard Johnson's, the American roadside restaurant and motor lodge chain founded in 1925 in Quincy, Massachusetts by Howard Deering Johnson, famous for orange roofs and 28 ice cream flavors; last restaurant closed in Lake George, New York in 2022, hotels now a Wyndham brand.
HP Sauce
HP Sauce is the defining British brown sauce, a tangy tamarind-and-date condiment created by Nottingham grocer Frederick Gibson Garton, sold for £150, launched nationally in 1903 by the Midland Vinegar Company, and now owned by Kraft Heinz.
Hpnotiq
Hpnotiq: aqua-blue French-made liqueur of tropical fruit juices, vodka, and cognac, 17% ABV, created in 2001 by Raphael Yakoby, popularized through hip-hop, and the base of the Incredible Hulk cocktail.
Hu Deok-juk
Hu Deok-juk (후덕죽, 侯德竹), born 1949, is a Korean Chinese-cuisine chef who led Shilla Hotel's Palsun for 42 years, introduced Buddha Jumps Over the Wall to Korea, and leads Michelin-starred Haobin.
Huarache (food)
Huarache (Mexican food), also called guarache: an elongated oval masa antojito shaped like the huarache sandal, invented in 1935 Mexico City by Carmen Gómez near Canal de la Viga, filled with beans and topped with meat, salsa, and cheese.
Huarache (shoe)
Huarache (Mexican sandal, from Purépecha kwarachi): traditional woven-leather footwear on flat leather or tire soles, a 1940s export industry, Tarahumara running sandal, and subject of the 2025 Adidas Oaxaca Slip-On appropriation dispute.
Hubert de Givenchy
Hubert de Givenchy (1927–2018), French couturier, founded the Givenchy house in Paris in 1952, created the Bettina blouse and sack silhouette with Balenciaga, and defined Audrey Hepburn's style from Sabrina to Breakfast at Tiffany's; sold to LVMH in 1988, retired 1995.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (born 1965) is a British chef, food writer, and campaigner behind the Channel 4 River Cottage series, River Cottage HQ in Devon, and campaigns including Hugh's Fish Fight, War on Waste, and the 2026 book High Fibre Heroes.
Hugo Boss
HUGO BOSS: German premium fashion company founded 1924 in Metzingen by Hugo Ferdinand Boss; brands BOSS and HUGO; EUR 4.3 billion fiscal 2025 sales; Frasers Group holds 48 percent and bid EUR 38 per share.
Huipil
Huipil (Nahuatl huipilli, güipil): sleeveless Mesoamerican women's tunic of one to three backstrap-loom woven rectangular panels with a neck opening, worn in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, with community-specific motifs and pre-conquest origins.
Hummel figurines
Hummel figurines (M.I. Hummel), German earthenware collectible figures made by Goebel in Rödental from 1935 after drawings by Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, identified by HUM numbers and TMK base marks.
Hummel International
Hummel International, also styled hummel, is a Danish sportswear brand founded in 1923 in Hamburg, known for its chevrons and bumblebee, handball and football sponsorships (EHF, IHF, Danish national team), Company Karma projects, and Thornico ownership.
Hummus
Hummus (حُمُّص, Arabic for chickpeas) is a Middle Eastern dip of mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon, garlic, and olive oil; its modern combined recipe is documented only centuries after its ingredients, and it is now a global packaged food.