"hot dog" vs. hot dog (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/24/2013 11:58 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>Caveats: NONE
>
> >
> > rural,
> > unsophisticated (why is there no adjective "hickish"?) Tennessee --
>
>I, like several other participants of this list, have roots in
>Tennessee.  This comes across in a way that you surely must not have
>meant.

I was poking fun at NYC (where I and several other participants of
this list have roots), where a hot dog would appear on a menu as a
"wienerwurst" and eating out is the sine qua non.  (See: Woody Allen.)

Joel

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