"hot dog"--a hashhouse-lingo connection?

[Sam Clements]

Of course, with college students continuing to use the term, you probably
didn't need hash-houses(but I'll keep on searching).

>From the Washington Post(reprinted from the Harvard Lampoon), January 13,
1907. (p 7 col 6)

   Freshman---Chicken sandwich and a frankfurter and some coffee, please.
    Sophomore--Cold bird, a hot dog, and some wash.  Rush it!
    Senior--A frigid fowl, a torrid canine, and a steaming cup of luscious
beverage.
    Law Student--The party of the first part desires a sandwich of or
composed of chicken, a roll wherin is compressed a frankfurter, so called,
and a cup, jar, or receptacle filled with coffee.

SC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Cohen" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 8:02 PM
Subject: "hot dog"--a hashhouse-lingo connection?


> It just occurred to me that hash-house lingo might have been one of
> the mediums which helped spread the term "hot dog." If this really
> did happen, "hot dog" as a feature of hashhouse lingo would have been
> short lived, ending when the term passed into general usage (as with
> eggs "sunny side up.")
>
>   Below my signoff is a relevant item I'm including in a compiled
> bibliography on "hot dog."
>
> Gerald Cohen
>
> Irwin, Wallace 1907. Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy ('Hashimura Togo').
>         1907, 1908 by P. F. Collier & Son; 1909 by Doubleday, Page &
Company
>         (mentioned in an ads-l message sent by Barry Popik, April 19,
2001).
>         p. 95:
>         'Best nourishment may be obtained for 5 cents by ordering 3
> sausages        from Frankfurt Germany with slice of toast.
>         'Yesterday I go as customary to this.  As customary I say,
> "Give me        the same, those 3 sausages from Frankfurter."
>         'And Mr. Swartz, turning to cookeryman, cry with voice:
>         "Hot-dog!"
>         'Therefore I must not eat them food because it is
> cannibalism.  If Mr.    Swartz is not speaking Slank talk, then he
> should be sent to prison for    Pure Food Laws.'
>