No dog in it but still we call it Hotdog? Why?

Question

Reason defies logic but practice does not. How come the name Hotdog when no dog in it ?

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Is it a fact that there could be dog meat in it? OMG!!

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Answer 1

"Hot dog" first came into use in an old joke involving a dog's "pants" (the verb "pant" substituted for the noun). The following was widely reprinted in newspapers, from at least 1870: "What’s the difference between a chilly man and a hot dog? One wears a great coat, and the other pants." The October 18, 1894 University of Michigan humor magazine The Wrinkle contained this on the cover page: "Two Greeks a 'hot dog' freshman sought. The Clothes they found, their favors bought." "Hot dog" meant a stylish dresser, someone who was sharply attired. A popular phrase was "puttin' on the dog."

The night lunch wagons (popular in cities and on college campuses) that served hot sausages were called "dog wagons" by the 1890s. At Yale University, a "dog wagon" called "The Kennel Club" opened in 1894. The first known use of the phrase "hot dog" (sausage) 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;" two weeks prior, the Yale Record 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, "hot dog" appears in print well before this date. The actual "Tad" cartoons featuring hot dogs (New York Evening Journal, December 12 and December 13, 1906) are from a bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, not a baseball game at the Polo Grounds

Answer 2

An English town is marking the 150th anniversary of the inventor of the hot dog. Harry M. Stevens, born in Derby in 1856, was a humble caterer who emigrated to the USA in the 1880s. With his vendors at a baseball game at New York City’s Polo Ground in 1901, he sold hot ‘dachshund’ sausages in rolls – a snack later abbreviated by newspaper cartoonist Tad Dorgan to “hot dog”. The drawing became famous, as did the hot dog’s association with baseball.

Answer 3

The hot is obvious, but why dog? It is a reference to the alleged contents of the sausage. The term dog has been used as a synonym for sausage since at least 1891 when Farmer & Henley's Slang And Its Analogues glosses it as university slang for sausage.

Answer 4

The term "hot dog" is credited to sports cartoonist Tad Dorgan. At a 1901 baseball game at the Polo Grounds in New York, vendors began selling hot dachsund sausages in rolls.

From the press box, Dorgan could hear the vendors yelling, "Get your dachshund sausages while they're red hot!" He sketched a cartoon depicting the scene but wasn't sure how to spell "dachshund" so he called them simply, "hot dogs." And the rest is history.

Answer 5

Hot dogs were frequently known as frankfurters or franks, but the name "hot dog" became popular by the 1890s. In the 1830s, it was widely rumored that the dogs that roamed urban streets were regularly rounded up (by "dog wagons") and made into sausages; by the 1840s, the term "dog sandwich" was used. The 1860s popular song "Der Deitcher's Dog" (written by Septimus Winner and known by the lyrics "Where oh where has my little dog gone?") contained:

Und sausage is goot: Baloney, of course,
Oh! where, oh! where can he be?
Dey makes ‘em mit dog, und dey makes ‘em mit horse:
I guess dey makes ‘em mit he.

Answer 6

The term "hot dog" is speciesist. As a dog, I consider it offensive and it makes me uncomfortable. How would you feel if it was called a "hot person?"

You should know that the term "hot dog" harks back to crueler times, when humanity considered the dog to be a lower species that was forced live on table scraps (if there were any) and had to sleep in the barn. Although we've made progress, this prejudice continues even today, as we are routinely denied entry to restaurants, public transportation and physician's offices. Many of my peers are even forbidden the basic right to sit on the furniture of our own choosing.

Please consider using a more politically correct and species-neutral term, such as "hot sausage" or "tube steak."

Answer 7

Name derives from vendors selling sausages that looked like dachshunds. They were cooked. Hot Dogs.

And how do you know there isn't dog in them? Were you there at the meat processing plant?

Answer 8

people also refer them the wiener canines. and they are lengthy like a warm canines and in the experience that they are brown can oftentimes seem as if one million a touch too. plus they supply the impression of being particularly lovable in hotdog costumes in the time of halloween in case you do the type of element haha. i for my area have by no ability talked about as them a warm canines yet i continually have talked about as them wiener canines. and wiener is yet another be conscious for a hotdog.

Answer 9

I think the reason why they call it a hot dog is cuz it looks like a weener dog!

Answer 10

I think the inventor of the hot dog named it such because its shape was similar to that of a Dachsund. Though, ingenious in his culinary creation, this man did not have the best reading skills. So, although he wanted to name his creation the "Hot Dachsund," unable to spell "Dachsund," he ultimately named it a hot dog.