why do hotdogs come in that shape?

Question

I feel like a gay person when I eat a hot dog.

Answer 1

to fit in a bun of a similar shape

Answer 2

Because of how they're processed...meat is ground up and when it comes through the processor it comes out like that...same with a lot of sausage. If it was in a different shape it might as well be a hamburger.

Don't be afraid of the hotdog, it won't judge your sexuality...so eat it in peace.

Answer 3

Because hotdogs are sausages!
Sausages are stuffed into casings (typically animal intestines) and get their tubular shape from the casings.

An alternative is to try a fried bologna sandwich and I'm talking the thick deli style not the thin sliced prepackaged stuff.

Answer 4

Because; after butchering the animal the guts are saved and cleaned. Then; after the meat is ground-up, it is stuffed back into this gut.
Then; to get all the air out of the gut it is twisted at equal intervals call dogs. After the meat has cured, the gut is separated at the dogs and sold to people who wonder about and at their shape and content. After the people have eaten enough dogs and grown fat and sassy enough they wonder about the sexual meaning of the HOT DOG.

Answer 5

I have a feeling it's a much worse reason than what you're thinking. After all, when hot dogs first came around, they were meats and meat by-products packed into intestines.

**(Traditionally this casing is made from the thoroughly cleaned small intestines of sheep, and are known as "natural casing" hot dogs or frankfurters.)**

That's the part I got from the website.

Answer 6

LOL FEEL THAT WAY WHEN U EAT A BANANA TOO LOL JOKING BUT THEIR SHAPED THAT WAY BECAUSE SAUSAGE AND HOTDOGS BRATWORTH AND ALL THOSE KELBASI AND ALL THE SAUSAGES AND WIENERS ARE MIXED MEAT THAT GOES THROUGH A MACHINE AND COMES OUT STRAIGHT AND IS CUT OFF AT A CERTAIN POINT AND HAS A SKIN TO KEEP ITS SHAPE ITS JUST THE WAY THE MACHINE HAS THEM COME OUT AS LINKS

Answer 7

Hot dogs were origionally made for baseball games, they needed someway to eat the weiner or "redhot" with one hand. I don't know the inventors name but he added the bun so the patrons at the baseball game wouldn't burn their hands.

Answer 8

It's like eating pickle, carrot, or sausage. You don't have to think about whatever shape the food is like. Just remember hotdog is a food since a gay person doesn't bite off...

If that doesn't work, you may wanna start meditating yourself with clean thoughts.


Anyway, here is a little bit of hotdog's history:

History
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.[citation needed] However, similar sausages were made and consumed in Europe, particularly in Germany, as early as 1864. The hot dog's association with baseball also predates the 1904 Exposition. St. Louis Browns owner Chris von der Ahe sold them at his ballpark in the 1880s. While many persons are credited with the "invention" of the hot dog, according to the National Hot Dog Council the hot dog was invented by a German butcher named, Johann Georghehner in the 17th century.[1]

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.

"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.[1]

Claims of "invention" of the hot dog are difficult to assess, because different stories assert the creation of the sausage itself, the placing of the sausage (or another kind of sausage) on bread or a bun as finger food, the mass popularization of the existing dish, or the application of the name "hot dog" to a sausage and bun combination. In 2001 the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council stated that others assert the hot dog was created in the late 1600s by Johann Georghehner, a butcher living in the German city of Coburg. Others have also been "acknowledged" for supposedly inventing the hot dog. Charles Feltman and Antoine Feuchtwanger are among this group of people.

Answer 9

Their background is much like sausages, which use d intestines from pigs sheep or cows for the casing. They still are used in manufacturing but can also use synthetic casings.

Answer 10

Because they used to and sometimes still use animal intestines to case the meat though now they use synthetic material most of the time i think cellulose which peels off after they precook them.