HISTORY of Hot Dog

The 1600s

A German called Johann Georghehner created the "dachshund" sausage. "Dachshund" is a German small long thin dog.

The 1860s

The very first hot dog — the "dachshund" sausage in a roll — was sold by Germans in New York. It became popular in the US later.

1871

Charles Feltman, a German, started the first Coney Island hot dog stand. It made hot dogs known to more people.

1893

Chris Von Der Ahe started the American tradition of eating hot dogs at baseball parks, making hot dogs more popular.

1901

A New York cartoonist. Tad Dorgan, saw the red hot "dachshund sausages sold on streets. He wanted to draw a picture of it, but he wasn't sure how to spell "dachshund, so he simply wrote "Hot Dog". It is widely believed how Hot Dog had its name.

1949

The first vegetarian hot dogs came out.

HOT DOG FUN FACTS

World record for eating hot dogs: 73 in ten minutes.

Hot dogs were one of the first foods eaten on the moon !

About 150 million hot dogs are eaten by Americans each July 4th.

About 21 million hot dogs were sold at American baseball parks

in 2010.

New Yorkers eat more hot dogs than any

other city population in the US.