Antedating of "Hot Dog"

[Shapiro, Fred]

I believe Barry Popik, as part of his magnificent researches into the history of food terms, has traced the term "hot dog" as far back as September 1893.  The following is a slightly earlier citation I have found:


ASBURY PARK, May 19.—The frankfurter
sausage peddler must go. This is the edict
that has gone forth from the mayor and
council of Asbury Park, and an ordinance
has been adopted forbidding: these renders
within the confines of this resort by the sea.
These "hot dog" peddlers, as they are
familiarly called, have carried on their business
uninterrupted with as much persistence
and tact as their fellow merchants on Coney
island. Standing in front of the hotels and
on the street comers, with their cries of "All
hot," they have been a familiar sight to
thousands of summer visitors. Now this
will be changed.

Daily Times (New Brunswick, N.J.), May 20, 1893, p. 1 (Newspaperarchive)

Fred Shapiro
Editor
Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press)

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