Chihuahua sandwich; South Waco Shrimp (chicken tails); NPR on hot dogs

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I just did entries on the Chihuahua Sandwich (not a "hot dog") and  South 
Waco Shrimp (chicken tails):
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_http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/chihuahua_sandwich/_ 
(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/chihuahua_sandwich/) 
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_http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/south_waco_shrimp_chicken_tai
ls/_ 
(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/south_waco_shrimp_chicken_tails/) 
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This NPR "hot dog" story of last month just caught my attention. NPR--in  
2007--still uses the TAD hot dog myth, citing it from 1902? Does NPR get federal  
funds for this? Does NPR have an ombudsman to write to? On second thought, 
maybe  I'll just kill myself.
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_http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10331291_ 
(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10331291) 
 
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Kitchen Window
_ (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4578972) By _Howard  
Yoon_ (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5615753) 
 

Welcoming the Dog Days of Summer

_NPR.org_ (http://www.npr.org/) , May 23, 2007 
    
How did we get the name "hot dog"? The story starts in Vienna, Austria, and  
Germany in the 1800s, where the "wiener" and "frankfurter" were first 
invented.  Both sausages were thinner than bratwurst or knockwurst but still heavily  
seasoned and less spicy than their relatives — knockwurst, bratwurst and  
kielbasa. 
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One of the popular Frankfurt butchers of the day "curved" his sausages in  
homage to his pet dachshund. The name "dachshund sausages" stuck, and this style 
 of link, thinner and less spicy than regular sausages, made its way to the  
United States, where street vendors eventually put the sausages inside a bun 
to  simplify eating them.  
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Historical gastronomists argue over how exactly hot dachshunds came to be  
called "hot dogs," but the most compelling tale comes from a 1902 Giants  
baseball game on the New York Polo Grounds. A cartoonist for the New York  Evening 
Journal drew a picture of a frankfurter with the head, tail and  legs of a 
dachshund, but he did not know how to spell "dachshund." His caption  read simply, 
"Hot dog!" 



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