why are they called hot dogs?

Question

are there dogs in those long red sticks made up of ???

Answer 1

The American story of the invention of the hot dog, like the hamburger and ice cream cone, is often attributed to the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. However, similar sausages were made and consumed in Europe, particularly in Germany, as early as 1864. The hot dog's association with baseball also predates the 1904 Exposition. St. Louis Browns owner Chris von der Ahe sold them at his ballpark in the 1880s.

Hot dogs were frequently known as frankfurters or franks, but the name "hot dog" became popular by the early 1900s. "Dog" has also been used as a synonym for sausage since at least 1884. The first known use of the phrase "hot dog" appears in print on October 19 1895 in the Yale Record of New Haven, Connecticut which reads "They contentedly munched hot dogs during the whole service." though likely refers to a hot "dog" and not a "hot dog" as two weeks prior the same paper recorded Tis dogs' delight to bark and bite, Thus does the adage run. But I delight to bite the dog when placed inside a bun. Hot dog became an extension of the older use of dog to mean a sausage.

Hot dog lore suggests that newspaper cartoonist Tad Dorgan coined (or at least popularized) the term "hot dog" when he used it in the caption of a 1906 cartoon illustrating sausage vendors at the Polo Grounds baseball stadium because he couldn't spell "frankfurter". In some versions he could not spell dachshund. However, it appears in print well before this date and the actual cartoon featuring the hot dog is from a bicycle race at Madison Square Garden not a baseball game at the Polo Grounds.

Claims of "invention" of the hot dog are difficult to assess, because different stories assert the creation of the sausage itself, the placing of the sausage (or another kind of sausage) on bread or a bun as finger food, the mass popularization of the existing dish, or the application of the name "hot dog" to a sausage and bun combination. In 2001 the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council stated that others assert the hot dog was created in the late 1600s by Johann Georghehner, a butcher living in the German city of Coburg. Others have also been "acknowledged" for supposedly inventing the hot dog. Charles Feltman and Antonoine Feuchtwanger are among this group.

Answer 2

In America, hot dogs do not contain dog, though they may in Asia. I know in Korea they eat dog and in the Philippines they eat cat.
Anyhow, this is the story of how the hot dog got its name. In the early 1900s, an artist named Tad Dorgan was sketching something about a baseball game. When he was drawing the hot dogs (which were called something else then) in their buns, he drew Dachshunds (wiener dogs) in the buns and called them "hot dogs." What he did caught on really quick with the public and that's how the hot dog got its name.
And as far as what hot dogs are made of, well, it's many different pieces of meat by-products after real meats are processed into their finished product, along with fats and fillers. Probably the #1 reason why some people don't eat them at all. I personally prefer turkey dogs because of their lower fat content.

Answer 3

It is said that the famous cartoonist T A Dorgan (Tad) recorded these odd new things in a cartoon in the New York Journal, drawing them as dachshunds in buns, and called them hot dogs because he couldn’t spell frankfurter.

Answer 4

Because they are served Hot and are really only the kind of food you should be feeding a dog

Answer 5

cuz "hot dog" sounds better than "processed meat of different animal parts on a stick"

Answer 6

darn i new the story .but lost it .sorry

Answer 7

The leftover parts of the pig. (GROSS)