Upping the Antedating of "Surrealism"

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   Leave me out of this!  I have nothing to do with "surrealism"!
   You want "surrealism," try this:


Copyright 2002 Nationwide News Pty Limited
The Daily Telegraph(Sydney)

October 14, 2002, Monday

SECTION: LOCAL-COLUMN- CENTRAL COAST EXTRA; Pg. 7

LENGTH: 72 words

HEADLINE: Food Extra

SOURCE: MATP

BODY:
* THE first hot dog was invented by German butcher Johann Geurghehner, who developed a sausage that resembled a hunting dog which he called the "dachshund sausage".

In the 1860s, German immigrants in New York began selling "dachshund sausages" in buns with mustard and sauerkraut. The snack was nicknamed a "hot dog" by cartoonist Thomas Dorgan -- he was unable to spell the word "dachshund", so coined the new phrase instead.

LOAD-DATE: October 13, 2002