 Re: Hot Dog
Here is another story. The hot dog was called the frankfurter in its home country Germany. It was named after Frankfurt, a German city. Frankfurters were first sold in the united states in the 1860s, where people called them "dachshund sausages". A dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body and short legs. One day in 1906 a newspaper cartoonist named Tad Dorgan went to a baseball game. When he saw the men with the dachshund sausages, he got an idea for a cartoon. The next day at the newspaper office he drew a bun with a dachshund inside--not a dachshund sausage, but a dachshund. he didn't know how to spell dachshund. Under the cartoon, he wrote "Get you hot dogs!" The cartoon was a senstion, and so was the new name.
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