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"HOT DOG" IN LOS ANGELES TIMES

   The LOS ANGELES TIMES ProQuest database now extends to parts of 1928.  Still no "taco."


      HOT DOG'S WOES TOLD IN BOOK
              Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: Jul 23, 1926.                   p. 3 (1 page)
   CHICAGO, July 22. (AP)--The common or baseball-park variety of frankfurter has come into its own.
   On the shelves of the University of Chicago library with the classics of literature and the latest words or science reposes a volume solely concerned with the well-being of the "hot dog."
   It is the thesis submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy by Lee M. Roderick, who, studying meat spoilage, became so intrigued by the troubles of the frankfurter that he wrote a whole book about nothing else.
(Maybe someone in the Chicago Culinary Historians who is interested in "hot dog" research can tell us what it says?--ed.)


      HOT DOGS, BURY YOUR NAME DEEP!
              Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: Mar 21, 1922.                   p. II1 (1 page):
_Chicagoan Arrives to Re-_
_Christen Delicacy as "Hot_
_Cow and Pig."_
(Go to work on OREOS, pal--ed.)


      "HOT DOG" IS DOOMED, BUT ONLY THE NAME
              Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: Sep 27, 1925.                   p. 21 (1 page)
_Meat Packers Want Sausage Called by_
   _Some More Succulent Term_
   The "hot dog" is doomed by decree of the meat packers.  Not the dainty which has become almost the national food of tourists and pleasure seekers, but the name.  The packers say the succulent sausage within a roll properly garnished with piccalilli and decorated with mustard, deserves a better name.
   Call them "red hots," or "hots," is the plea made in a nation-wide campaign.  Red hots, they say, are the products of the finest meats.  The best casings have to be imported from Russia.  Spices come from the lands of the Near East.  They are combined by men who are skilled in the arts of preparing dainty morsels for the delight of the public appetite.
   How the uncomplimentary "hot dog" ever came to be applied to this estjhetic article of diet seems lost in antiquity.  Back in the 90's, it is said, it was considered a fine jest of comic artists to picture links of sausage, going barking down the street, or to show dogs entering butcher shops and sausages coming out.  Practical jokers were accustomed to breaking up parties with hearty laughter by barking like dogs when sausages were being passed.

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BROOKLYN DIRECTORY INFO

   I checked for Feltman and Frischman in the Brooklyn Directories.  Surprisingly, I couldn't find Frischman(n) before the mid-1890s.  Fortunately, I had the good sense to also check the New York Directory.


BROOKLYN
CITY AND BUSINESS
DIRECTORY
FOR
THE YEAR ENDING MAY 1ST,
1873
COMPILED BY GEO. T. LAIN
PUBLISHED BY LAIN & COMPANY
Brooklyn
1872
Pg. 237:
Feltman Charles, baker, c 10th and 6th av


LAIN'S
BROOKLYN
DIRECTORY
FOR
THE YEAR ENDING MAY 1ST,
1895
PUBLISHED BY LAIN & HEALY.
Brooklyn
1894
Pg. 447:
Frischman Ignatz, bakery, h Surf av C. I.


TROW'S
NEW YORK CITY
DIRECTORY
VOL. CI
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
MAY 1, 1988
THE TROW CITY DIRECTORY COMPANY
(1887?)
Pg. 665:
Frischmann Ignatz, baker, 181 E. Houston

TROW'S
NEW YORK CITY
DIRECTORY
VOL. CIII
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
May 1, 1890
THE TROW CITY DIRECTORY COMPANY
(1889?)
Pg. 674:
Frischmann Ignatz, baker, 1485 Second av.