why hotdogs?

Question

whats your opinion?why are hotdogs called hotdogs?

Answer 1

1880 - A German peddler, Antonoine Feuchtwanger, sold hot sausages in the streets of St. Louis, Missouri. He would supply white gloves with each purchase so that his customers would not burn their hands while eating the sausage. He saw his profits going down because the customers kept taking the gloves and walking off with them. His wife suggested that he put the sausages in a split bun instead. He reportedly asked his brother-in-law, a baker, for help. The baker improvised long soft rolls that fit the meat, thus inventing the hot dog bun. When he did that, the hot dog was born. He called them red hots.

Answer 2

I've looked it up on the net and no one seems to have a concrete answer. It has been said that hotdogs originated from cartoonist T.A. Dorgan. In the early 1900's, food concessionaire Harry Stevens was selling them on a cold day in New York's Polo Grounds. He started serving the sausages in long buns to warm up his shivering customers. Dorgan was drawing the scene, but didn't know how to spell frankfurter, so he just called them dogs because they looked like little dachshunds.
Another story is that the word was already being used in 1894 at Yale when "dog wagons" were selling them to dorms and the meat sarcastically got it's name.

Answer 3

The usual story told about this comestible is that it was first sold by a food concessionaire named Harry Stevens at New York’s Polo Grounds, the home of the New York Giants, in the early 1900s. It is said that the famous cartoonist T A Dorgan (Tad) recorded these odd new things in a cartoon in the New York Journal, drawing them as dachshunds in buns, and called them hot dogs because he couldn’t spell frankfurter.

This tale is reproduced in almost every book on word histories I have on my shelves, and at many online sites, too. It seems to have come about as the result of the obituary of Harry Stevens that appeared in the New York Herald Tribune on 4 May 1934, in which these supposed events were recorded; the writer may have borrowed the story from an article in Restaurant Man in 1929. There are variations: the Encyclopaedia Britannica says the first stall selling them was at Coney Island in 1916; I’ve also seen the St Louis World Fair of 1904 cited as the starting point, which takes us well away from the New York nexus of the majority view.

Answer 4

What seems to have happened is that near the end of the nineteenth century, around 1894-95, students at Yale University began to refer to the wagons selling hot sausages in buns as dog wagons. One at Yale was even given the nickname of “The Kennel Club”. It was only a short step from this campus use of dog to hot dog, and this fateful move was made in a story in the issue of the Yale Record for 19 October 1895, which ended, “They contentedly munched hot dogs during the whole service”.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

Hot Dogs were served to the public at the worlds fair and it was served hot with no bread ,it didn't work out to well until they put hotdogs on bread.

Answer 7

Because "Hot Dog!" is an expression and when they were invented which is when a restauranteur ran out of paper plates to serve bread and sausage and put the sausage on the bread in place of the paper plates, a patron said that's a "hot dog of an idea".

Answer 8

"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."

Quoted from here...

Answer 9

ahem!...
in case you haven't noticed
pythons have invented this type of food
they dream about these dogs in there dreams and want them to be in reality
so then one pesky snake catcher heard these pythons talk about this delicious meal and then he stole their idea
only they did not heat up dogs....
it was rats!
yup yup
with fries,
mamaglue

Answer 10

I don't really know. It's like it should be called Hotpig. Weird. I think of it like... A weiner dog is long so I think of him as the dog and i just think of a hot miniature weiner dog. lol