How interesting it is to know the history of some classic dishes. Everyone must have eaten a classic hot dog. This simple and cheap food has been a big part of many people’s lives.
In New York, it is truly impossible not to notice how this “dish” is so common in the city. New Yorkers love street food, and as expected, the hot dog is perfect for this lifestyle. But how did this sausage served in a bun and accompanied 
with mustard and sauerkraut end up in the Big Apple?
It all starts with the invention of the sausage, which, it seems, was in Germany. Although meat wrapped in animal skins has been produced for over 20,000 years and was even considered a delicacy during the time of the Roman Emperors, it was in 1487, in the city of Frankfurt, that the sausage was invented. The city of Vienna, Austria, also claims to be the birthplace. For this reason, the famous sausage made with pork is called frankfurter or wiener.
In the mid-19th century, the sausage arrived in the USA through German immigrants and quickly became popular. To be considered a true hot dog, one more element is necessary: the bun. A German immigrant began selling the sausage wrapped in a milk-based bun with sauerkraut from a cart on Bowery, New York. By 1871, Charles Feltman, a German baker, opened a shop specializing in Coney Island and sold over 3,500 hot dogs in the first year.
However, what is the origin of the term hot dog? The most likely theory is that along with the sausages, German immigrants also brought to 
the USA the dachshund puppies (in German “dachshund”). Since the shape of the dog resembles a sausage, the Germans themselves began to joke with the name. As Americans had difficulty pronouncing dachshund, the term hot dog gradually became popular.
There are also those who say that the term gained “fame” at a baseball game in 1901. It was cold, and vendors shouted for people to get the “red hot” sausages while they were still hot. Cartoonist Tad Dorgan saw the scene and made a cartoon with the sausage inside the bun. Not knowing how to spell dachshund, he simply wrote hot dog.
Regardless of what the “truth” is, the fact is that the hot dog has practically become an American symbol and more specifically a New York symbol.
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