2006-10-22 08:58:40 · 18 answers · asked by michelle_terry21 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
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.
I guess the name hotdog just evolved from that.
2006-10-22 09:01:03 · answer #1 · answered by uk_lad_2003 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1690s - Another legend is that the popular sausage (known as "dachshund" or "little-dog" sausage) was created in the late 1600s by Johann Georghehner, a butcher living in Coburg, Germany. It is said that he later traveled to Frankfurt to promote his new product.
1852 - The butcher's guild in Frankfurt, Germany introduced a spiced and smoked sausage which was packed in a thin casing and they called it a "frankfurter" after their hometown. The sausage had a slightly curved shape supposedly due to the coaxing of a butcher who had a popular dachshund. The frankfurter was also known as a "dachshund sausage" and this name came with it to America.
2006-10-22 16:11:14 · answer #2 · answered by Jazz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ive got a joke about that... two elderly foreign ladies were visiting the states for the first time and had their very first hot dog,they ate it and enjoyed it when they were finished one said to the other "which part of the dog did you get?"
Kidding aside I don't know how it got it's name and I'm not sure if I want to know!!!
2006-10-22 16:11:26 · answer #3 · answered by Bella Donna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it's a hotdog
2006-10-22 16:01:11 · answer #4 · answered by Candy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh my, do you know what is in hotdogs. Yuck. its like hot dog meat!!
mwah xx
2006-10-22 16:02:54 · answer #5 · answered by x !! Me !! x 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of what they used to make sausages out of in the Great depression.
2006-10-22 16:10:03 · answer #6 · answered by Andy C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More people would eat them if they called them hotdogs, than if they called them coolcats.
2006-10-22 16:00:33 · answer #7 · answered by Shayna 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really know, maybe because it's long like a sausage dog without legs!
2006-10-22 16:10:37 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a American word like we use hotpot and its always associated with USA especially NYC with all the street vendors with all the condiments lined up and when your in NY buy from them they are always tasty who needs Mac
2006-10-22 16:10:31 · answer #9 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because a dog ate 1 when it was hot so they called it a hot dog.(but it shoiuld be a dog hot cos the dog ate it first i think) lol
2006-10-22 16:06:33 · answer #10 · answered by Danny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋