Why do they call it "Hot dog"?!
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Maybe they secretly put dog in there and then make it hot.
Or maybe they used to make them with dogs.
becuase long red processed slautherhouse left overs is to long
Probably the same reason they also refer to it as a weiner.
Slang.
perhaps its relating to the "weiner dog" and its hot
From Wikipedia: The term "dog" has been used as a synonym for sausage since at least 1884 ('A sausage-maker...is continually dunning us for a motto. The following, we hope, will suit him to a hair: "Love me, love my dog."') and accusations that sausage-makers used dog meat date to at least 1845 ("Dogs...they retails the latter, tails and all, as sassenger meat.")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog
I'd say because it looks like that long dog (Dachshund?), and that they're usually sold scalding hot.
Well if there is a hot dog then he is obviously sweating or dehydrated.
1690s - Another legend is that the popular sausage (known as "dachshund" or "little-dog" sausage) was created in the late 1600s by Johann Georghehner, a butcher living in Coburg, Germany. It is said that he later traveled to Frankfurt to promote his new product.
Heat up that "little-Dog" and you get a hot dog.
The term "hot dog" is credited to sports cartoonist Tad
From the press box, Tad Dorgan could hear the vendors yelling, "Get your dachshund sausages while they're red hot!" He sketched a cartoon depicting the scene but wasn't sure how to spell "dachshund" so he called them simply, "hot dogs." And the rest is history.
1852 - The butcher's guild in Frankfurt, Germany introduced a spiced and smoked sausage which was packed in a thin casing and they called it a "frankfurter" after their hometown. The sausage had a slightly curved shape supposedly due to the coaxing of a butcher who had a popular dachshund. The frankfurter was also known as a "dachshund sausage" and this name came with it to America. (A dachshund is a wiener dog). Hence the name, "hot dog."
It appears it was named after a cartoonist drew a picture of the food being served at a sporting event....
T.A. "Tad" Dorgan (1877-1929), a newspaper cartoonist for the New York Evening Journal, was nearing his deadline and desperate for an idea. Hearing the vendors, he hastily drew a cartoon of a frankfurter with a tail, legs, and a head, so that it looked like a dachshund. Not sure how to spell the word "dachshund" he simply wrote "hot dog!" The cartoon was a sensation and the term hot dog was born. According to the 1996 Maine Antique Digest
Interesting, here is the rest of the link.....
http://www.whatscookingamerica.net/Histo...
well this is a good question
really they are called frankfurters.
they are called hot dogs because some vendors could not say dachsaund and said hot dog all this happened in the1900's or so well with hot dogs you know what a dachsaund looks like.........hot dogs!!!!!!!!!!!!
hope this helps !!!!!!!!!!!!
A hot dog is a type of fully-cooked, cured and/or smoked moist sausage of soft, even texture and flavor. It is usually placed hot in a soft, sliced bun of approximately the same length as the sausage, and optionally garnished with condiments and toppings. The resulting product is often called a hot dog.
The flavor of hot dog sausages varies widely by region and by personal preference, as do the toppings on the sandwich. The flavor of the sausage itself can resemble a range of similar meat products from bologna on the bland side to Hungarian Debrecener in the spicier varieties.
Hot dogs are traditionally made from beef, pork, or a combination of both meats. Kosher hot dogs are also available, usually all-beef. Unlike many other sausages (which may be sold cooked or uncooked), hot dogs are always cooked before being offered commercially. Unless they have spoiled, hot dogs may be safely eaten without further cooking though they are usually warmed before serving. Vegetarian hot dogs and sausages, which are made completely from meat analogue, are also widely available in most areas where hot dogs are popular.
Hot dogs are also called frankfurters, or franks for short (named after the city of Frankfurt, Germany, where sausages in a bun very similar to the hotdog, though made of pork only, originated), or wieners or weenies (named after the city of Vienna, Austria, whose German name is "Wine", the original wieners are made of a mixture of pork and beef). Hot dogs are sometimes derisively called tube steaks.[1] In Australia, the term frankfurt is used rather than frankfurter. Tiny frankfurts, called cocktail franks or cheerios,[citation needed] are sometimes served at parties and eaten on the end of a toothpick. In the German speaking countries, except Austria, hot dog sausages are generally called Wiener or Wiener Würstchen (Würstchen means "little sausage"). In Swiss German, it is called Wienerli, while in Austria the terms Frankfurter or Frankfurter Würstchen are used.
In the United Kingdom "hot dogs" are available made with British sausages.[citation needed] However a hot dog sausage is always pre-cooked at the factory before packaging, which is generally not true of such regional British sausages.
I have been blessed with the infinate wisdom of John Belushi. The ultimate asnwer to your question is...."Why not?"
cuz it looks like dog's tail
As Colleen said in an episode of Road Rovers: "No one REALLY knows..."
yas why?????????
its bad name
Wallaahhhh i dunno knoww.. maybe bczz it looks like a weiner dogggyy
U tell us Hatem !!!
bcz it makes dogs hot