Dave's Doghouse

Sausage is one of the oldest forms of processed food, having been mentioned in Homers Odyssey as far back as the 9th Century B.C. Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, is traditionally credited with originating the frankfurter. However, this claim is disputed by those who assert that the popular sausage known as a dachshund or little-dog sausage was created... in the late 1600s by Johann Georghehner, a butcher, living in Coburg, Germany. According to this report, Georghehner later traveled to Frankfurt to promote his new product. Actually, in 1987, the city of Frankfurt celebrated the 500th birthday of the hot dog in that city. Its said that the frankfurter was developed there in 1484, five years before Christopher Columbus set sail for the new world. Regardless the people of Vienna (Wien), Austria, point to the term wiener to prove their claim as the birthplace of the hot dog. As it turns out, it is likely that the North American hot dog comes from a widespread common European sausage brought here by butchers of several nationalities. Also in doubt is who first served the dachshund sausage with a roll. One report says a German immigrant sold them, along with milk rolls and sauerkraut, from a push cart in New York Citys Bowery during th 1860s. In 1871, Charles Feltman, a German butcher opened up the first Coney Island hot dog stand selling 3,684 dachshund sausages in a milk roll during his first year in business. The year 1893 was an important date in hot dog history. In Chicago that year, the Colombian Exposition brought hordes of visitors who consumed large quantities of sausages 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. He loaned white gloves to his patrons to hold his piping hot sausages. Most of the gloves were not returned. Todays hot dog on a bun was probably ...Read More