"Frankfurter Roll" (NYT, 1904)

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"FRANKFURTER ROLL" in NYT

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New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Mar 7, 1904. p. 12 (1 page)

_FRANKFURTER ROLL MAN DEAD._
_Ignatz Frischman Won Fame and Fort-_
      _une at Coney Island._
   Ignatz Frischman, who is said to have been the introducer at Coney Island of the now popular "frankfurter roll," died on Saturday at his home, 182 Prospect Park West.
   Mr. Frischman was fifty-three years old and a native of Austria.  About twenty years ago he established a bakery at Coney Island.  He observed that the crowds which flocked there as the island grew in popularity as a resort displayed a fondness for frankfurter sandwiches.  In those days the frankfurter was served to the hungry pleasure seekers between two slices of bread.  It occurred to Mr. Frischman that it would be more delectable tucked in the depths of a Vienna roll of a special size.
   Acting on the idea he began baking rolls and supplying them to the frankfurter men, who, finding that they increased business, ordered more and more of them.  Mr. Frischman, as a result, was soon turning out "frankfurter rolls" by the thousands from his ovens.  For years his bake for the average Summer Sunday was 100,000 rolls, and he was known the length and breadth of the island.  For some time Mr. Frischman had lived retired, his business, at Surf Avenue and West Twelfth Street, being carried on by his son.  He was a member of the Shakespeare Lodge, F. and A.M., and a veteran of the old Gravesend Volunteer Fire Department.  His wife and one son survive him.


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Heatwave ... have a hot dog!
303 words
9 August 2003
Belfast News Letter
14
English
(c) 2003 Century Newspapers, Ltd.

SHORTLY after the frankfurter was created in Germany in 1852, someone noticed that the sausage looked like a dachshund and began calling it a "dachshund sausage" after the long, thin dog - the name stuck.

In 1906, Harry Mosley Stevens, who operated the New York Giant's ice cream and soda concession, decided to add the dachshund sausage to his menu realizing that in New York's cold spring afternoons the dachshund sausage, which would stay warm in a roll, would provide a hot snack alternative.

Stevens had his vendors yell, "They're red hot. Get your dachshund sausages while they're red hot."

While attending a game, a cartoonist saw the popularity of Stevens's new food idea and drew the vendors selling real dachshund dogs in a roll, yelling "Get your hot dogs!"

As a result, the name "hot dog" caught on, and after Stevens was able to convince people that it wasn't made out of dog meat the hot dog became a hit!
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