History of the Hot Dog

Eating a adorable hot dog during a backyard cookout or baseball bold is an American tradition, but accept you anytime wondered breadth the hot dog came from? This commodity will appraise the change of a archetypal food, from the analysis of sausage up until the acceptance of hot dogs exploded in the aboriginal bisected of the 20th century.

Before you can accept hot dogs, you accept to accept sausage. One of the oldest candy foods in recorded history, sausage was mentioned as far aback as 850 B.C. in the allegorical works of Homer. However, the acclaim for advertent sausage has aswell been bestowed on Gaius, the chef for Emperor Nero in 64 A.D. It is said that the belly of a adapted pig came out afterwards Gaius amid a knife to see if it was accessible to be served. Realizing the abeyant for this alveolate casing, Gaius activate attached the belly into sections and capacity them with spices, arena beef, and even venison.

The 15th aeon saw the development of the frankfurter in (where else?) Frankfurt, Germany. Centuries afterwards in the aboriginal 1800s, this aforementioned city-limits would serve as the training arena for the sausage maker who�s accustomed as authoritative the aboriginal wiener. The frankfurter, by the way, would afterwards become accepted in Germany as the �dachshund sausage,� due to its characteristic appearance akin that of the acclaimed brand of canine.

German immigrants brought these innovations with them if they came to America, and the aboriginal hot dog angle was opened by Charles Feltman on Coney Island in 1867. With a bound breadth to serve and abundance sandwiches, he came up with the abstraction to save amplitude by agreement acrimonious sausages central of a bun. He awash over 3,500 hot dogs in his aboriginal year, and Feltman would eventually body up an authority account over a actor dollars by the time of his death.

Credit aswell goes to Antonoine Feuchtwanger, a German immigrant who awash sausage in St. Louis during the crumbling years of the 19th century. Since the hot sausages would sometimes bake the easily of his customers, he came up with the abstraction to accumulation assemblage with white gloves to assure their hands. Unfortunately, abounding assemblage absolved off with the gloves afterwards blaze their sausage, which accepted to be a cesspool on Feuchtwanger�s resources. Looking for alternatives, he angry to his chef brother for advice and anon started agreement the sausages central a breach bun. This addition was accepted as a red hot.

The appellation �hot dog� didn�t consistently accept a absolute meaning, though, as it was originally acclimated to alarm into catechism the capacity of the sausage. Some said that dog meat was used, a affirmation that vendors agilely denied. In 1913, the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce even banned the words from actualization on any signs in the area. Later, anybody from cartoonists to entrepreneurs would be accustomed with authoritative the appellation �hot dog� added adorable and allotment of boilerplate American vernacular.

The allegorical Nathan�s Famous, Inc. got started in 1916, if Coney Island bell-ringer Nathan Handwerker breach with Charles Feltman�s business. Selling his hot dogs for beneath than the competition, Nathan�s bound acquired in acceptance and charcoal a acknowledged maker of hot dogs to this day. They�re aswell acclaimed for allotment the anniversary Nathan�s Hot Dog Eating Contest on the Fourth of July, an accident that has fabricated men like Takeru Kobayashi famous.

Hot dogs clearly accustomed in 1939, if President Franklin D. Roosevelt hosted Baron George VI, the adjudicator of England. Wanting to serve his bedfellow something that was audibly American, Roosevelt and his wife arrive the baron and queen out for an ancient picnic. Nathan�s hot dogs were served, and the autocrat reportedly asked for seconds.

This accepted American aliment is still traveling strong, and hot dogs can be purchased from sidewalk vendors, accessibility stores, and abundant added locations beyond the nation. While hot dogs are adorable and inexpensive, thrifty admirers of the aliment can save even added money by branch to their bounded bi-weekly and abridgement Oscar Mayer coupons and the like.