why are hot dogs called "hot dogs"?

Question

are they made out of dogs?

Answer 1

A hot dog is first and foremost a kind of sausage, and the sausage has been around at least since the ancient Greeks. By the middle ages every region in Europe had its own version of a sausage, but in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, in the late 1600's, a butcher named Johann Georghehner developed what became called the Frankfurter sausage or just plain "frankfurter." Meanwhile, in Austria, Viennese butchers had an idea for a similar sausage and it was named after their city. Vienna is "Wien" in German and so we have Weiner sausages or "weiners" that originated in Wien (the city we call Vienna), and "frankfurters" that originated in Frankfurt. Some people noticed the shape of these sausages and called them "dachshund sausages" because they looked like the little German breed of dog used for hunting badgers. Badger is "dachs" in German, dog or hound is "hund;" hence dachs-hund. Today, both frankfurter and weiner are names still used for this kind of sausage and the Oscar Mayer Company created what they call Weinermobiles, which travel the country calling attention to their products.

In the 1860's German immigrants were calling them "dachshund sausages" which they sold from pushcarts in New York City, often placing them in a milk bun with a serving of sauerkraut and mustard on top. In 1871 a German butcher named Charles Feltman began selling them at his Coney Island restaurant.

In the midwest, sausages -- without a roll or bun -- were sold at The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where they were a big hit. When the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened, there were weiners or frankfurters sold there, too. Arnold Feuchtwanger, the sausage concessionaire in St. Louis in 1904, is said to have provided white gloves for his customers to use while eating his sausages. When people began taking the gloves home, he asked his brother-in-law, a baker, to make a sausage-shaped bun in which to serve the frankfurter. Soon there were people all over the country eating sausage sandwiches in a long soft roll.

You may wonder how these sausages became known as "hot dogs." Credit goes to Thomas "Tad" Dorgan, a sports cartoonist for a newspaper,The New York Journal. He was in the press box at the N.Y. Polo Grounds on a particularly chilly day in April 1901. During the baseball game no one was buying ice cream, so the concessionaire, Harry Stevens, began selling sausages and rolls, calling out, "red hot dachshund sausages!" They were a big hit. Tad Dorgan wanted to draw a cartoon of a barking sausage steaming in its roll, but he didn't know how to spell "dachshund," so he wrote "hot dog!" instead, and the name caught on.

Answer 2

Hot dogs were frequently known as frankfurters or franks, but the name "hot dog" became popular by the early 1900s. The origin of this name is not precisely known, but at that time hot dogs were often marketed as "dachshund sausages" since they resemble the dog breed of that name. 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 "dachshund." However, this rumored cartoon has never been located; as well, the phrase "hot dog" appears in print as early as 1895, in the Yale Record of New Haven, Connecticut). "Hot dog" is the most commonly heard term in spoken language in most of the U.S., though they are still called "franks" in New York, and often labelled that way on supermarket http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hot_dog...

Answer 3

Because the meat ingredients of a hot dog are a mystery. It was once rumored that stray dogs were the source of the mystery meat. The "dog" is served hot so hence "hot dog".

Answer 4

im with the first one on this its because hot dogs are made up of the stuff the butcher cant sell by it self like the well . . .ya you dont want to know

Answer 5

Names really are only good for soup. People try to label all the time for my Fashion choices of what I am or seem to be. My reasoning is that the term hot dog is the fact their served hot and with the condiments of your choice!

Answer 6

Cause they're hot and dogs love it. !!

Answer 7

Yup. Yummmm.

Answer 8

cuz they are dogs and they are hot maybe i don't know.

Answer 9

Because they look like Dachshunds.

Answer 10

no it is because they are simply made of gross **** ....they have to come up with an appealing name to sell them.....