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