NY Times cartoonist Dargan

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NEW YORK TIMES CARTOONIST DARGAN
("Hot Dog," continued)

   So bad it's funny.
   First, it's Dorgan, not Dargan.
   Second, as everyone knows, the NEW YORK TIMES doesn't run cartoons!
   Once!  Mention my name once, ever?

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Food facts and fun stuff

The hot dog was given its name by a cartoonist, says Douglas B. Smith in his book Ever Wonder Why? The story starts with a Frankfurt butcher who named the long frankurter sausage a "dachshund sausage" after his dog. Then in the U.S., in 1871, German butcher Charles Feltman opened a stand in Coney Island, selling dachshund sausages.

In 1901, New York Times cartoonist T.A. Dargan noticed one sausage vendor used buns to handle the hot sausages after he burnt his fingers, and Dargan decided to illustrate the incident. He wasn't sure of the spelling of dachshund and simply called it "hot dog."