THE HOT DOG
In its home country of germany, the hot dog was called the frankfurter. It was named after Frankfurt, a German city. Americans called frankfurters “dachshund sausanges.”
A dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body and shorts legs.
Dachshund sausagens first became popular in New York, especially at baseball games. At games they were sold by men who kept them warm in hot-water tanks.
One day in 1906 a newspaper cartoonist named Tad Dorgan went to a baseball game. When he saw the men with the dachshund sausanges, 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 dachund. Dorgan didn’t know how to spell dachshund. Under the cartoon, he wrote “Get your hot dogs!”
The cartoon was a sensation, and so was the new name. If you go to a baseball game today, you can still see sellers walking around with hot-water tanks. As they walk up and dow the rows they yell, “Get your hot dogs here! Get your hot dogs!”
In its home country of germany, the hot dog was called the frankfurter. It was named after Frankfurt, a German city. Americans called frankfurters “dachshund sausanges.”
A dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body and shorts legs.
Dachshund sausagens first became popular in New York, especially at baseball games. At games they were sold by men who kept them warm in hot-water tanks.
One day in 1906 a newspaper cartoonist named Tad Dorgan went to a baseball game. When he saw the men with the dachshund sausanges, 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 dachund. Dorgan didn’t know how to spell dachshund. Under the cartoon, he wrote “Get your hot dogs!”
The cartoon was a sensation, and so was the new name. If you go to a baseball game today, you can still see sellers walking around with hot-water tanks. As they walk up and dow the rows they yell, “Get your hot dogs here! Get your hot dogs!”
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