We have been eating sausages for a very long time. The ancient Greeks enjoyed them, and sausages have been popular all over Europe for hundreds of years. By the late 1600s a type of sausage called a ‘dachshund sausage’ was being made in Germany. When German immigrants started going to live in the USA, ‘dachshund sausages’ went with them. And about a hundred years ago they started being sold on the streets of New York, shoved into bread rolls with sauerkraut.
On a cold in 1901 one street seller was calling out to his customers, ‘Red-hot! Buy your dachshund sausages while they’re red-hot’! A cartoonist passing by took up the idea and drew cartoons of dachshund dogs wrapped in bread rolls. But the cartoonist didn’t know how to spell ‘dachshund’. He called the sausages and rolls ‘hot-dogs’ – and the name caught on.
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