How did the hot dogs get its name?

Answer 1

In 1852, the butcher's guild in Frankfurt-am-Main created a smoked, spiced sausage in a thin casing, dubbed a "little-dog" or "dachshund sausage" for its obvious resemblance to the low-riding German dog. (Those funny Germans!) Its other popular name was, of course, the frankfurter. Wiener comes from a similar sausage made in Vienna. Unlike the usual wursts, dachshund sausages were usually sold with bread.

In 1871, an immigrant German butcher opened the proto-hot dog stand at Coney Island, selling the dachshund sausages wrapped in a milk roll. (That is why "coneys" is another name for Hot Dogs.) By 1893, the portable meat-tubes were already a regular accompaniment to Baseball games and other sporting events.

The popular legend on the etymology of hot dog holds that a cartoonist named T.A. "Tad" Dorgan attended a polo match in New York in 1901 where vendors roamed the aisles imploring patrons to "get your red-hot dachshund sausages." Enchanted, Dorgan drew a smiling dachshund nestled in a long bun, but couldn't spell dachshund, so he captioned it "hot dog!" and thus the food got its name. Charming, but untrue.

According to the NHDSC, historians have never been able to find this alleged cartoon, even though Dorgan's body of surviving work is vast.

The real source of hot dog: Like so many unpleasant things in America, it came from Yale. The term had been recorded there as early as 1894 as a sarcastic description of the dubiously composed sausages that vendors peddled from "dog wagons" near the dorms.

Answer 2

Well, back in Australia, some farmers in the area were having troubles with the dingo's (a dingo, is, to be put simply, a "wild dog") So, one day a farmer came home to his wife, who told him that his baby was missing. So as he was looking for lil Bubba, he saw a dog chewing on a baby sized bone, and his friend who was with him exclaimed "maybe the dingo ate 'cho baby" so the enraged farmer took the dingo back to his barn, and drowned the beast by nailing its ears to the bottom of a tub filled with his hidden stash of moonshine. Now, the moonshine was flamable so he threw a match down a makeshift tube threw its throat so the dogs lungs,l that were lined with alcohol, cooked the dog from the inside out. that night the farmer and his family ate the dog and little Bubba, and they loved it, so cooked dingo became a delicacy around there. But cooked dingo didnt sound to good, so they renamed it a "Hot Dog"

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