"hot dog" article, 1913: "hog fruit" (= hot dog)

[Gerald Cohen]

Sam Clements kindly sent me a long 1913 article on "hot dog," and
several points may be of interest to the ads-l members. Here's the
first installment: "hog fruit", evidently a humorous reference to
"hot dog," perhaps based on "hen fruit" (= egg).

Meade, James W. 1913. "Have You got the 'Hot Dog' Habit? No? Then
Hurry   for Everybody That's Anybody is Doing it Now." Atlanta
Constitution, Sunday, April 13, 1913, section A, p. 15. cols. 1-7.
[col. 1]:
'Hail! The Hot Dog!
'At last has the luscious hog-fruit come into its own.  From the
        purlieus of the Great Boulevard of Blaze to the most isolated
jerkwater hamlet in Mississippi, it has made the air fragrant with
the seductive aroma of onions and sauerkraut, and has become an
        industry which is the means of separating the American people
of millions every year.'

Gerald Cohen