37 facts about hot dogs!

The hot dog is a common street food which is considered really tasty and is famous in many countries around the world.

So hot dogs are quite famous and often chosen by people instead of pizza or other junk food. So let’s find out more specific details about this delicious kind of food!

1. The hot dog is a grilled or steamed link-sausage sandwich where the sausage is served in the slit of a partially sliced bun.
2. It is also spelled hotdog or dog.
3. The hot dog also refers to the sausage itself.
4. The sausage used is the Vienna sausage or frankfurter.
5. The word “frankfurter” comes from Frankfurt, Germany, where pork sausages similar to hot dogs originated
6. These sausages are known since the 13th century
7. The term dog has been used as a synonym for sausage since the 1800s.
8. This is because often people used to believe that sausages were made of dog’s meat.
9. Actually dog meat consumption was not rare in Germany back then.
10. An 18th/19th-century butcher named Johann Georg Lahner brought Frankfurt sausages to Vienna and he added beef to the mixture and simply called it Frankfurter.
11. A German immigrant named Feuchtwanger brought this practice to America.
12. More specifically he brought it in the American midwest.
13. Feuchtwanger’s wife proposed the use of a bun in 1880.
14. Feuchtwanger sold hot dogs on the streets of St. Louis in Missouri.
15. He used to give gloves to his customers so that they could handle the sausages without burning their hands.
16. When customers did not return the gloves he was losing money.
17. So once again his quite smart wife suggested serving the sausages in a roll instead.
18. There are other 2 possible versions about the origin of the hot dog.
19. Both occur in the U.S.A.
20. So if it was not “invented” in Missouri it was either in Chicago or in New York City.
21. This is why the U.S.A. is considered to be the “mother” of the hot dog.
22. According to one story, the use of the complete phrase hot dog in reference to sausage was coined by a newspaper cartoonist
23. His name was Thomas Aloysius “Tad” Dorgan
24. He mentioned it around 1900 in a cartoon.
25. The cartoon was about the sale of hot dogs during a New York Giants baseball game at the Polo Grounds.
26. Common hot dog sausage ingredients include meat trimmings and fat and flavorings.
27. Nowadays ketchup and mustard are also commonly used.
28. Pork and beef are the traditional meats used in hot dogs.
29. Some hot dogs are often made from chicken or turkey.
30. These hot dogs are usually cheaper.
31. There are also vegetarian substitutes for people who wanna eat hot dog but don’t eat meat.
32. Los Angelenos consume the most hot dogs per year
33. In 1939, the King and Queen of Great Britain visited Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York where they ate… hot dogs!
34. In U.S.A. there is a National Hot Dog and Sausage Council.
35. And there is a video about the “savoir vivre” of eating a hot dog!
36. According to this video no ketchup if you’re over the age of 18.
37. And also it should only take five bites to consume the entire hot dog!