Call it a dog, sausage or frankfurter; it's been around since before the 9th century BC. Homer's Odyssey refers to a man by a roaring fire waiting impatiently for his sausage to cook.
In the centuries that followed, many references to the sausage are recorded throughout history. In the 19th century, German immigrants came here and brought their sausages and their dachshund dogs with them.
In 1867, a German butcher opened a stand in Coney Island in New York and sold 3,684 "dachshund" sausages in milk rolls. A cartoon was drawn featuring the sausages, but the cartoonist didn't know how to spell dachshund, so he called them hot dogs. The name stuck.
A study done a few years ago indicated that Americans eat more than 16 billion hot dogs each year. They eat 150 million on the 4th of July alone.
Have a happy Hot Dog Month!!
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