Why is sausage also called hot dog? In fact, not even wearing a dog bite. Let's look into the year 1852. At that time, the union producing sausages in the city of Frankfurt to a new kind of sausage. Long and slender shape, not big and fat as usual. Sheath thin almost transparent. It contained chopped meat that was given a lot of spices and smoked.
One of the sausage-makers has a dachshund who is very cute. He recommends his friends to bent a little sausage, such as Dachshund's body. Surely people like, because it's funny, he said.
The 1880's, in St. St. Louis, Missouri, United States, Antoine Feuchtwanger was a German who came from Frankfurt, selling Dachshund sausages. Sausage was sold, but his name is difficult to say the American tongue. For simplicity, there is call frank(s), Wiener, and others. Meanwhile, in Coney Island, United States, Charles Feltman who came from Frankfurt is selling pies with a stroller. When the inns provide hot food, people prefer that hot food than pie. Feltman losing customers.
People advised him to switch selling various hot food. However, Feltman did not have enough money. Just his stroller. How could cook a variety of food in the stroller?
Feltman had an idea. He sells hot Dachshund sausages clipped bread so do not need a plate. Sausage was given a mustard and pickle cabbage to make it more appetizing. To heat the hot dogs, he just needs a small stove and a saucepan. Wares named "Frankfurter Sandwiches" and it sells. Feltman until he could open a restaurant, "Feltman's GermanyBeerGarden" on the beach where the cruise.
When that restaurant running well, its price increased. Two Franks fan named Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante to be upset. They recommend assistants Feltman, Nathan Handwerker, to stop and sell their own Franks with half price. Beginning in 1916, selling Nathan Franks made by his wife, Ida. Apparently, the doctors like it. Other people were interested. Sausage bread wedged increasingly popular.
In New York City, a businessman named Harry Franks Steens Franks told employees peddling at every baseball game yelling, "Red-hot dachshund sausages!” (Sausage Dachshund is red and hot). One day, a famous cartoon artist, Ted Dorgan, the peddlers witnessed shouting. He then had the idea to draw a Dachshund covered moter, pinned to the bread. Because the dachshund is difficult to say most Americans, the picture was given a name hot dog. The picture was published in various media. The reader considers funny. The term hot dog became famous.
Although frankfurters sausages from Germany, but the hot dogs are produced and popularized in the United States. Now, every year is made about 17 billion hot dogs in the United States. Each person on average Americans eat 80 hot dogs a year. If the hot dogs were strung, the length can reach the moon and back again by about 2.5 times! Hot dogs are never reach the moon since the Apollo astronauts aircraft armed with hot dogs, too. (source: children reading series, the origin of 2, Summary)
