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Question

Where did the name "hot dog" come from????

Answer 1

The History of the Hot Dog

There is a good deal of disagreement regarding the origin of the Hot Dog. People in Frankfurt am Main, Germany claim they discovered the Hot Dog in 1487. Others argue, the Sausage sometimes called the Dachshund for its shape, was created in the late 1600's by Johann Georg Hehner, a butcher from Coburg in Breisgau, who is said to have traveled to Frankfurt to promote his product. Others in Vienna, (Wien) Austria claim originating the Hot Dog as they point to the name Wiener as evidence of the Hot Dog's true heritage.

In any case it is known that Charles Feltman, a German Butcher opened up the first Coney Island Hot Dog stand in 1871. He sold 3,684 Dachshunds in his first year. In 1893 Chris Ahe, the owner of the St. Louis browns started selling Hot Dogs at the Ballpark. In 1901 the phrase Hot Dog was coined. On a cold April day Concessionaire Harry Stevens was losing money, selling Ice Cream and soda. He ordered his salesmen to buy all the long skinny sausages they could find and sell them from portable Hot Water tanks while shouting get your Red Hot Dachshund sausages while they last. Sports Cartoonist Ted Dorgan could not spell Dachshund so he used the term Hot Dog instead in his strip. Hence the name stuck and is the term we still use today.

Anton Feuchtwanger would loan his patrons gloves to handle the Hot little items. When he realized that his customers were little inclined to return the gloves he got together with his Brother in Law, a baker, and hence the concept of the Hot Dog Bun was born.
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Answer 2

Hot doggies! Where did the hot dog get its name?
If a New York sports cartoonist almost a century ago had known how to spell “dachsund”, the hot dog would not be called a hot dog.

Sausages are one of the oldest processed foods, with records stretching as far back as 900 B.C. Most corners of Europe had developed their regional sausage specialties by the Middle Ages, but the first true frankfurter wasn’t eaten until the late 1600s. Johann Georghehner, a German butcher, is most often credited with creating the first frankfurter. Back then, these sausages were often referred to as “dachsunds” because of their distinctive curve that looks like a dachsund dog’s posture.

Incidentally at around the same time a similar sausage recipe was being developed in Vienna, Austria. Like the German sausage, the Austrian version was named after its birthplace. Today Americans still refer to frankfurters as wieners.

German immigrants bought their dachsunds (the sausages, not the dogs) with them when they arrived in New York City and sold them on the streets from carts. However, hot dogs hadn’t yet been dressed in a bun, and roadside snackers often found the naked sausages a little too hot to handle.

Enter Arnold Feuchtwanger, an enterprising hot dog vendor at the St Louis World’s Fair in 1904. He hit upon the idea of lending his customers gloves while they ate their dachsunds to prevent them from burning their fingers. It was a great idea, except his customers had the unfortunate habit of wandering off with the gloves. Luckily Feuchtwanger’s brother-in-law was a baker, so he whipped up a batch of elongated rolls, which were the perfect blanket in which to nestle a steaming dachsund.

So where does the cartoonist with bad spelling come into it all? Thomas “Tad” Dorgan, a sports cartoonist for the New York Journal was hiding from an imminent deadline at the New York Polo Grounds one chilly April day. He heard the vendors’ cries of: “Get your red hot dachsund sausages!” and a bolt of inspiration hit as he scribbled a cartoon of neat little barking sausages snuggled into their bread rolls. Unfortunately (or fortunately) Dorgan didn’t know how to spell “dachsund”. So he gave the cartoon the hasty caption, “hot dogs” instead.

Answer 3

Where did hot dogs get the name "hot dogs"?

A. The Polo Grounds in New York City. Hot dogs were sold from hot water tanks as vendors shouted, "Get your Dachshund sausages while they're red hot!" Sports Cartoonist Tad Dorgan sketched a cartoon of barking dachshund sausages nestled in warm buns. Unsure of how to spell dachshund, he simply wrote "Hot Dog". The cartoon was a sensation and the term "hot dog" was born.
Where did hot dogs originate?

A. The city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany claims to have "invented" the hot dog in 1484. Hence the name "frankfurter" or "frank" that's often given to them. The first smoked sausage arrived in America in the 19th century. Back to top

Answer 4

Hot dogs most likely originated in germany, as Germany was, and still is well-known for its sausages, and a hot dog is somewhat similar to a bratwurst or kielbasa

Answer 5

If I recall it came from New York long ago,when a man set up a little wagon & sold them on a street corner ,can't remember how the name came by though.

Answer 6

i made it up when i dropped the dog in the fire va la a hot dog lol