Are hot dogs really dogs

Answer 1

The origin of the term 'hot dog' lies in the suggestion that sausages, because of their anonymous nature - finely-minced ingredients which could be anything - did indeed contain dog meat, as well as meat from any other stray, pet, wild, or feral creature sausage-makers could get hold of. Sausage manufacturing is ancient; records go back many centuries and allegations of questionable ethics have probably been leveled at vendors of sausages and other cheap street-foods from the start. The usage of 'dog' in the sense of a sausage is recorded in the US from the 1880s, and is undoubtedly older; it is only one of many derogatory terms used worldwide to describe a suspect sausage.

A Coney Island hot dog stand established in 1916 reportedly aimed to reassure customers of the food's purity by arranging for men in surgeon's scrubs to eat there.

Records of the popularity of fast-food sausages in the US are available from the 1800s. American street food, of course, goes back much further, but the sale of hot sausages by street vendors was reportedly a German-American initiative. The earliest print evidence so far located of the US phrase 'hot dog' was in an 1893 newspaper column, but the term was undoubtedly in use well before then.

There are suggestions the phrase 'hot dog' originated in the US because the German sausage, the Wiener (or, in Austria, the Frankfurter, sausages apparently being blamed on cities elsewhere) was thought to resemble the dachshund, but this is unsubstantiated; certainly the dachshund (Dakel, or, formally, Teckel, in German) is popularly called a sausage dog in English because of its shape, but there's no real indication of a sausage being commonly called a dachshund for the same reason.

Answer 2

Hot Dogs are not actually made out of pig snouts or meat scraps left on the floor, which is a very popular belief. They are usually made of a blend of meats, usually chicken, beef, pork, or turkey and then meat fat, oatmeal, bread crumbs, various seasonings, and other ingredients. They are then mushed together and put into hot dog molds. Store bought hot dogs are put into cellulose casings, but homemade are usually made of intestines.

Answer 3

No it is pork, and/or beef meat. The name probably comes from a joke about the shape of a dachshund, 'sausage dog'. Both sausages and dachshunds are associated with German immigrants to the USA.

Answer 4

German

The term actually first appeared in print in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1900.

The all American HOT DOG owes its origin to two places outside the US.

Frankfurt, Germany, and Vienna, Austria both lay claim to inventing these sausages. Essentially there is no difference between hot dogs, weiners or franks.

Answer 5

It is called meat but can be labeled by the type of meat in it such as beef, pork, chicken, turkey, etc. In the processing plants it is ground into a paste and put into casings, in this case the meat is called paste.

Answer 6

The ones you buy in stores are made of pork or beef, but theoretically you could make one out of any meat...but don't make one out of your dog, that's disgusting.

Answer 7

probaby blongna.