"hot dog" article, 1913; catfish/cat

[Gerald Cohen]

At 7:11 PM -0400 10/22/03, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>>---"'Hot cat' stand"--what exactly is this?
>
>Presumably a catfish stand (altered for humor). If the catfish stand is
>unfamiliar, one can find several instances by the usual Googling.

Thanks; this looks like the solution. But there's no need to assume
that "catfish" was humorously altered to "cat." "Cat" can mean
"catfish"; cf. "There's more than one way to skin a cat." It's known
that the reference here is to a catfish, not a feline.

Gerald Cohen