The birthplace of hot dogs in the US?

Answer 1

I'm sorry to say but no one is certain about the origin. And many places claim to be the birthplace of the hot dog. Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany is most ofter accredited with the creation but according to others in the 1600s Johann Georghehner, a butcher from Coburg, Germany invented the hot dog and is reported to have traveled to Frankfurt to promote it. However when Frankfurt celebrated the 500th birthday of the hot dog they said that the frankfurter was developed there in 1484 before Columbus even sailed to the new world. However Vienna, Austria also claims ownership to the hot dog. It is believed that what we know as the hot dog was influenced by the sausages brought here by German immigrants. But who served the first modern day version of the hot dog in the US is also still under debate do to conflicting stories. What is know is it was sold by German immigrants in New York and was called a dachshund sausage. It was coined as the hot dog in 1901 at the New York Polo Grounds by Tad Dorgan a sports cartoonist who had a deadline and was unsure how to spell dachshund so he wrote "hot dog" in reference to the barking dachshunds he drew inside rolls.