Origin of "hot dog"

[Mark Odegard]

The thread so-far has been circling the motif of the kind of meat used to
make sausages. Speculations about what kind of meat goes into sausages or
things like Mrs. Whatshername from _Sweeney Todd_'s  meat pies, are probably
as old as commercial cookery itself.

Similarly, an otherwise unpalatable or difficult-to-cook meat can be
satisfactorily processed into sausage. Sausage would seem to have always had
some less-than-usual ingredients, even dog meat.


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