frankfurter sausage

[Fred Shapiro]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

> National Police Gazette, Dec 6, 1879, p. 14/3. "Glimpses of Gotham"
> You have doubtless heard about the inexperienced husband who came home at
> the milkman's hour deathly sick, and who, upon being interrogated by his
> wife, owned up to sixty beers during the night, and laid the sickness to
> one Frankfurter sausage.

I posted that citation here in 2003, as well as an 1885 antedating:

frankfurter (OED 1894)

[1879 _National Police Gazette_ 6 Dec. 14  You have doubtless heard about
the inexperienced husband who came home at the milkman's hour deathly
sick, and who, upon being interrogated by his wife, owned up to sixty
beers during the night, and laid the sickness to one Frankfurter sausage.
They always _did_ disagree with him.]

1885 _New York's Great Industries_ 264  Albert Peiser, Curator of Choice
Beef, No. 1361 Third Avenue. -- A house exclusively devoted to the curing
of the best and choicest cuts of beef, etc., is that of Mr. Albert Peiser,
who established this enterprise in 1880.  He deals extensively in smoked
and pickled tongues, briskets, Frankfurters, Viennas, bolognas, boulard
and cervelat.

Fred Shapiro


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