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.
...But, Hot dogs were popular long before that, in the city of Frankfurt, Germany - where they are called frankfurters.
In Austria, they are referred to, as wieners or weenies - after the city of Vienna, whose German name is 'Wien'.
2006-10-04 22:25:38
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answered by Zarama 5
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The Babylonians were the 1st to concieve it, 3,500 years ago. They stuffed spiced meat into animal intestines.
Other civilizations adopted and modified the sausage. The Greeks called it "orya." In the 9th century BC, the Greek poet Homer praised the sausage in his epic the Odyssey.
The Romans, loved the sausage. It is mentioned in the oldest known Roman cookbook, dated 228 AD. They called it "salsus" - which ultimately became sausage. Over the next 1000 years the popularity of the sausage spread throughout Europe. By the middle ages, they began to take on regional characteristics; their shape and size varied from country to country. Local creations were named for the towns in which they originated. Austria gave birth to the "Vienna sausage," or wienerwurst, from which "weiner" is dereived.
The modern hot dog - the frankfurter - came from a spiced, smoked, slightly curved, thin sausage developed in Frankfurt Germany. Legend has it this shape was a tribute to a popular pet dachshund that belonged to a local butcher. By the 1850's, it was commonly called a "dachshund sausage." It was customarily eaten with sauerkraut and mustard - but no bun.
in the 1890's a German immigrant named Charles Feltman began selling "dachshund sausages" on the street in Coney Island, NY. He was so successful he was able to open a "frankfurter" restaurant, the first in the US.
During the 1904 St Louis "Louisiana Purchase Exposition," another Frankfurt native sold "dachshund" sausages. The effect was far-reaching: besides further popularizing the food nation-wide, he improved on the product: gloves were customarily supplied for customers to wear while eating their frankfurters. But at the fair, too many people walked away still wearing the gloves. The vendor soon ran out of gloves and he convinced a nearby baker to make frank-shaped rolls as a substitute for gloves - a new tradition was born.
The name "Hot Dog" was coined in 1906. A syndicated cartoonist named Tad Dorgan was watching a baseball game at NY's polo grounds. Inspired by the vendors' call of "get your red hot dachshund dogs!" he went back to his office and began sketching a cartoon based on the notion of a real dachshund in a bun, covered with mustard. When he couldn't come up with the correct spelling of dachshund, he supposedly just settled for "hot dog." The name stuck and although Dorgan is clearly given credit for the name, the original cartoon has never been found.
2006-10-05 03:21:17
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answered by stretch 7
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It starts out as a gentle, living breathing animal, then it is loaded onto a truck in appalling conditions, akin to the nazi trains to auswitch. Then it is lined up so it can hear and see its friends and family being brutaly murdered, being totaly helpless to save them or itself. Finaly its life is taken away after knowing was comming, experiencing sheer terror, pain violence and death.
The poor beast is then skinned (sometimes still alive) and its body is mutilated beyond recognition. All the wasted bits such as ears, lips, offal are mashed up into a second rate dogey meat by-product.
You asked....!
2006-10-04 22:27:43
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answered by Leshy 2
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Frankfurt, Germany
2006-10-04 22:19:19
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answered by Anonymous
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Coney Island, New York?
2006-10-04 22:18:37
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answered by MK6 7
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It originated here in the US. It was a sausage that was served at fairs and baseball fields.
2006-10-04 22:16:12
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answered by Anonymous
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Somewhere in America. Same goes for the hamburger and pizza.
2006-10-04 22:20:51
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answered by no nickname 6
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During springtime
2006-10-04 22:20:00
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answered by Anonymous
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It was definately born in america.... and agreeing with magick (wat a luvli person) was sold at fairs and sporting events..... BUT EXCUSE ME, pizza was born in italy................
2006-10-04 22:51:49
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answered by mis_bella91 1
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