 In
1987, Frankfurt, Germany celebrated the 500th birthday of the
frankfurter, the hot dog sausage. Although, the people
of Vienna (Wien), Austria will point out that their wiener sausages
are proof of origin for the hot dog. (By the way, ham, being
pork meat, is found in hotdogs.) According to Douglas B. Smith
in his book "Every wonder why?" the hotdog was given
its name by a cartoonist.
A butcher from Frankfurt who owned a dachshund named
the long frankfurter sausage a "dachshund sausage,"
the dachshund being a slim dog with a long body. ("Dachshund"
is German for "badger dog." They were originally
bred for hunting badgers.) German immigrants introduced the
dachshund sausage (and Hamburg meat) to the United States.
In 1871, German butcher Charles Feltman opened the first "hotdog"
stand in Coney Island in 1871, selling 3,684 dachshund sausages,
most wrapped in a milk bread roll, during his first year in
business.
In the meantime, frankfurters - and wieners - were sold as
hot food by sausage sellers. In 1901, New York Times cartoonist
T.A. Dargan noticed that one sausage seller used bread buns
to handle the hot sausages after he burnt his fingers and
decided to illustrate the incident. He wasn't sure of the
spelling of dachshund and simply called it "hot dog."
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法兰克福熏肠
猎獾狗（一种身长腿短的德国猎狗）
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