OK, if the hamburger is from Hamburg, Germany, where is the "weiner" from?!
OK, if the hamburger is from Hamburg, Germany, where is the "weiner" from?
The answer is similar to the hamburger answer.
Answers:
1805 - The people of Vienna (Wien), Austria point to the term "wiener" to prove their claim as the birthplace of the
hot dog. It is said that the master sausage maker who made the first wiener got his early training in Frankfurt,
Germany . He called his sausage the "wiener-frankfurter." But it was generally known as "wienerwurst." The wiener
comes from Wien (the German name of Vienna ) and wurst means sausage in German.
1860 - In the United States , the wienerwurst became known as a "wienie" in the 1860s and as a "wiener" by the
early 1990s.
- http://www.lechienchaud.com/history.html...
German Americans brought us weinerwurst, German for Vienna sausage, which eventually became shortened to wiener. Other German immigrants referred to smoked sausages as bundewurst, which is German for dog sausage. By the late 1920's, weinie roasts became the rage, with guests bringing their own hot dogs to roast over an open fire.
- http://homecooking.about.com/od/foodhist...