off-topic? Another question on hot dogs

[Joseph McCollum]

>
>Nobody could have anticipated the absolute invisibility of Barry's
>masterful TRUE history of the name of that bun-wrapped sausage that
>was never immortalized in a Tad Dorgan cartoon.
>
>But that's life in the Big Apple.  (Gee, I wonder where that name came
>from . . .  )
>
>--  mike salovesh             <salovesh at niu.edu>        PEACE !!!
>
The History Channel actually showed the cartoon a few weeks ago (in a Sam
Waterston "Official Channel of Every Millenium" snippet).  Is it a
forgery?