Hot Dogs are also called "frankfurters," "frank," "weenie," "wienie," "wiener,"dog," and "red hot."
NASA has approved hot dogs as a regular item on Apollo moon flights, Skylab missions and space shuttle flights.
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1. Dodger Stadium – 1,674,400
2. Coors Field – 1,545,000
3. Wrigley Field – 1,543,500
4. Yankees Stadium – 1,365,000
5. Minute Maid Park – 1,248,000
6. Edison Field – 1,133,000
7. HHH Metrodome – 850,000
8. Citizens Bank Park – 800,000
9. Shea Stadium – 745,000
10. U.S. Cellular Field – 495,000
Chicago Dogs - this type of hot dog is served on a poppy seed bun and is garnished with yellow mustard, dark green relish, chopped raw onions, tomato slices and celery salt.
Kansas City Dogs - these are served with sauerkraut and melted Swiss cheese on a sesame seed bun.
New York City Dogs - these contain steamed onions and pale yellow mustard.
Coney Island Dogs - created by the Original Coney Island company5, this type of dog comes topped with a spicy meat mixture.
Southern Slaw Dogs - these are probably the only ones served with coleslaw.
Corn Dogs - these are placed on a stick, dipped in corn bread batter and deep-fried.
Tex-Mex Dogs - these are topped with salsa, Monterey Jack cheese and chopped jalapeno peppers.
Pigs in a Blanket - these come wrapped in pastry and are baked. More commonly known as plain sausage buns.
Baltimore Frizzled - split and deep-fried.
Lilies/Lilliputians - these cocktail-sized sausages are usually served as an appetizer, and come with a sauce.
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The Dos and Don't s of Hot Dog Dining
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9th Century B.C. - Sausage is one of the oldest forms of processed food, having been mentioned in the novel Homer's Odyssey.
15th Century - In 1484 the frankfurter was developed in Frankfurt, Germany.
19th Century - A master sausage maker made his first "wiener" in Vienna (Wien), Austria. He called his sausage the "wiener-frankfurter." The "wiener" comes from Wien (the German name of Vienna) and "wurst" means sausage in German.
Wieners and frankfurters don't become hot dogs until someone puts them in a roll or a bun. There are several stories as to how that first happened.
1860s Theory 1 -German immigrants sold them, along with milk rolls and sauerkraut, from a push cart in New York City's Bowery during the 1860s.
1880 Theory 2 - A German peddler, named Antonoine Feuchtwanger, sold hot sausages in the streets of St. Louis, Missouri. He would supply white gloves with each purchase so that his customers would not burn their hands while eating the sausage. Customers kept taking the gloves and walking off with them. He reportedly asked his brother-in-law, a baker, for help. The baker improvised long soft rolls that fit the meat, thus inventing the hot dog bun. When he did that, the hot dog was born. He called them "red hots."
1893 Theory 3 - In Chicago, the Columbian Exposition brought hordes of visitors who consumed large quantities of sausage sold by vendors. People liked this food that was easy to eat, convenient, and inexpensive. In the same year, sausages became the standard fare at baseball parks. This tradition was begun by a St. Louis bar owner, Chris Von de Ahe, who also owned the St. Louis Browns major league baseball team.
1900 Theory 4 - Charles Feltman, a German butcher, opened up the first Coney Island hot dog stand in Brooklyn, New York. He installed a small charcoal stove in his pushcard, boiled the sausages in a kettle, and advertised them as "frankfurter sandwiches." He sold 3,684 sausages in a roll during his first year in business. He is also credited with the idea of the warm bun. The hard-working Feltman built a mini-empire with a hotel, beer gardens, restaurants, food stands, and various rides to amuse his customers. At his death in 1910, he left a business worth over one million dollars which all started with selling hot dogs.
1916 - An employee of Charles Feltman, Nathan Handwerker, broke away from Feltman in 1916 and, with his wife Ida, started Nathan's Famous, Inc., which now calls itself the world's greatest hot dog purveyor. He opened his stand in Coney Island near the corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues and called it "Nathan's."
1902 Theory 5 - Another story is that the term "hog dog" was coined in 1902 during a Giants baseball game at the New York Polo rounds. Vendors were hawking hot dogs and yelling "They're red hot! Get your dachshund sausages while they're red hot!" In the press box, sports cartoonist, T.A. (Tad) Dorgan, a Hearst newspaper cartoonist, was nearing his deadline and desperate for an idea. Hearing the vendors, he hastily drew a cartoon of barking dachshund sausages nestled warmly in rolls. However, his spelling was fairly poor, a problem he solved by simply writing 'hot dogs'! Although historians generally credit him with the name, the supposed cartoon has never been found.
1942 - Corn dogs, hot dogs in a fried cornmeal batter, were introduced at the Texas State Fair, created by Texan Neil Fletcher.
Sources:
http://www.answers.com/topic/hot-dog
http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/A1021834
http://www.hot-dog.org/ht/d/sp/i/38570/pid/38570
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