12 Facts About Hot dog

Hot dog is a food consisting of a grilled or steamed sausage served in the slit of a partially sliced bun.

Hot dog variants include the corn dog and pigs in a blanket.

The hot dog became closely associated with baseball and American culture.

Nowadays, in German-speaking countries, except Austria, hot dog sausages are called Wiener or Wiener Wurstchen, to differentiate them from the original pork-only mixture from Frankfurt.

Term Hot dog has been used as a synonym for sausage since the 1800s, possibly from accusations that sausage makers used Hot dog meat in their sausages.

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In Germany the consumption of Hot dog meat was common in Saxony, Silesia, Anhalt, and Bavaria during the 19th and 20th centuries.

However, Dorgan's earliest usage of hot dog was not in reference to a baseball game at the Polo Grounds, but to a bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, in The New York Evening Journal December 12, 1906, by which time the term hot dog in reference to sausage was already in use.

Hot dog eating champion Joey Chestnut and former hot dog eating champion Takeru Kobayashi agree with the NHDSC.

Hot dog's went on to acknowledge that a hot dog bun is a single roll that is not sliced all the way through and in that way is similar to a submarine sandwich.

The "New York dog" or "New York style" hot dog is a natural-casing all-beef frank topped with sauerkraut and spicy brown mustard, onions optional.

One of the most popular items on the menu is the Moon Dog, consisting of a hot dog topped with cheese, bacon, fried onions, pickles and mustard; the Half Moon serves about 2, 000 on an average summer weekend day.

The hot dog was prepared by Shizuoka Meat Producers for the All-Japan Bread Association, which baked the bun and coordinated the event, including official measurement for the world record.