Why are hotdogs called hotdogs, do they have dog in them?

Answer 1

Hot dogs originated in New York.
Hot dogs were first tested as a snack food at a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball game.
The Brooklyn Dodgers saught the help of a retired meat butcher to help them come up with the snack food.

They were first called Dodgers, and the name was shortened to the name dogs. Since they were served hot, they became known as hot dogs.

This retired butcher then opened a hot dog stand during the summer at the Coney Island amusement park. This is where people could try his hot dog without having to go to a Dodger game.

The name of this hot dog stand was Nathan's hot dogs.

Many people beleive that Nathan's hot dogs were the original hot dog.

While they were started by the same person, the hot dogs were served at the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball games first, before they were available at the Nathan's hot dog stand.

Answer 2

A long time ago, hotdogs were called weiners because a quickbuck meat packer discovered that he couldn't sell some parts of butchered animals to anybody because people thought they were gross: too slimy, greasy, fatty or bad-smelling to be worth eating.

So Mr. Weiner took those nasty animal parts (meat byproducts) and ground them up into a mash, added some salt and spices, mixed it up, and stuffed the result into a thin skin like a sausage.

Then he began a razzle-dazzle advertising campaign to make people think that these nasty meat concoctions were just the thing to eat on a picnic. He made his weiners look like part of "the American way." And the gullible people all fell for it! Mr. Weiner got rich! He laughed all the way to the bank at people for being such suckers.

How do you sell crap to an American? Tie a red ribbon around it and say it's fly attractant! Tell them to hang it up on one room of their homes and the flies will all go in there, leaving the other rooms fly free!

Anyway, today we call them hotdogs because they are red (a hot color) and there's a kind of dog - I forgot its name - whose body looks like a weiner.

Answer 3

Why is it called a "hot dog" if it's not made out of dog?

The journey of the hot dog from a simple sausage to a staple of the American diet began in 1852 Germany, when the Frankfurt butchers' guild created a long, thin sausage and named it "frankfurter" in honor of their town. Shortly after that, someone noticed that the new sausage looked like a dachshund and started calling it a "dachshund sausage," after the long, thin dog. The name stuck and soon people were calling the frankfurter a dachshund sausage.

In 1906, Harry Mosley Stevens, who operated the New York Giant's ice cream and soda concession, decided to add the dachshund sausage to his menu. Stevens realized that in New York's cold spring afternoons the last thing anyone wanted was cold ice cream and that the dachshund sausage, which would stay warm in its skin and warmer still in a roll, was just the thing for his customers.

Stevens had his vendors hawk the sausage, instructing them to sell it by yelling, "They're red hot. Get your dachshund sausages while they're red hot."

While attending a game, Ted Dorgan, a leading cartoonist, saw the popularity of Stevens's new food idea and decided to lampoon it in a cartoon. In the cartoon, vendors were selling real dachshund dogs in a roll, yelling "Get your hot dogs!" at each other. As a result, the name "hot dog" caught on, and--after Stevens was able to convince people that it wasn't made out of dog meat--the hot dog became a hit.

Answer 4

NO MAN A HOT DOG IS A PIG THEY CALL IT HOT DOG BECAUSE BACK N DA DAY HOTDOGS USED 2 BE SO HOT AND THEY WILL REMIND U OF A DOG MY UNCLE WHO PASSED AWAY IN 1929 JAKE FOREST SAID DAMN THATS A HOTDOG THEN IT SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD U SHOULD LOOK IT UP

Answer 5

human beings additionally refer them the wiener canines. and that they are long like a warm canines and in the event that they're brown can in many cases appear like one million slightly too. plus they seem extremely gorgeous in hotdog costumes for the time of halloween in case you are attempting this sort of element haha. i in my view have in no way called them a warm canines yet i continually have called them wiener canines. and wiener is yet another observe for a hotdog.

Answer 6

The origin of the word "hot dog" stirs as much debate as the existence of UFOs. Conflicting stories abound and everyone wants to claim ownership of the catchy moniker of America's favorite food.

Why are there so many stories about how the hot dog got its name and who invented the hot dog bun? Could there be a conspiracy involved?

The truth is out there … and with the help of avid hot dog historians and linguists, the Council set out to find that truth.

The infamous story about cartoonist Tad Dorgan of New York Journal?

"Forget about it," says Bruce Kraig, Ph.D., hot dog historian and professor emeritus at Roosevelt University in Illinois.

As the legend goes, Dorgan observed vendor Harry Stevens selling the "hot dachshund sausages" during a game at the New York Polo Grounds and shouting "Get your red-hot dachshund sausages!" Dorgan illustrated this scene with a dachshund dog nestled in a bun with the caption "get your hot dogs."

No one has found a copy of the cartoon said to have given the hot dog its name. Maybe the cartoon never existed. Or maybe it is buried deep within the National Archives or the maze of the Pentagon.

Kraig suggests cartoon began as a joke between Dorgan and the vendor who were reputedly good friends, but was by no means the first reference to "hot dogs." In fact, one report the Council came across suggested the story may have come from Stevens' obituary in the New York Herald on May 4, 1934, in which the events are recorded.

But references to dachshund sausages and ultimately hot dogs can be traced to German immigrants in the 1800s. German immigrants brought not only the sausage with them in the late 1800s, but also dachshund dogs. Kraig says the name hot dog probably began as a joke about the Germans' small, long, thin dogs. Ever the butt of humor and rumor, the moniker that stuck was likely a joke regarding the provenance of the tasty sausage served on a bun cut lengthwise.

Barry Popick, a prominent hot dog historian and linguist at the university, says the word "hot dog" began appearing in college magazines in the 1890s. Students at Yale University began to refer to the wagons selling hot sausages in buns outside their dorms as "dog wagons." Kraig said one of the popular stands was dubbed even "The Kennel Club." It didn't take long for the use of the word "dog" to become "hot dog." Popick found the first reference to "hot dogs" in an article published in the October 19, 1895, issue of the Yale Record which referred to folks "contentedly munching on hot dogs."

The equally infamous story about the vendor who loaned his customers white gloves to hold the hot sausages, but ultimately implored a local baker to design a bun?

Not a chance, says Kraig. "Everyone wants to claim ownership of this invention," he said.

But the truth is that Germans have been eating their "little dog" sausages with bread for ages, Kraig said. Some reports say German immigrants first sold them from push carts in New York City's Bowery in the 1860s. Another story claims Charles Feltman, a German butcher in 1871, served the sausages with milk rolls from his stand on Coney Island. The hot dog bun made its popular debut at the Colombian Exposition where visitors enjoyed large quantities of the sausages. Since the sausage culture is German, it is likely that Germans introduced the practice of eating the dachshund sausages, which we today know as the hot dog, nestled in a bun.

Answer 7

I think the better question is why do hot dogs come in packages of 10, but hot dog buns come in packages of 8?
That's one that gets me, lol!

Answer 8

Only in parts of China and Korea

Answer 9

Probably cause they slightly resemble dachshunds (wiener dogs.) It's gross if you think about it!

Answer 10

Only in China