Antedating of "Hot Dog"

[Alison Murie]

"these renders'?  Vendors, maybe?
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On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:

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> 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:
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> 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.
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> Daily Times (New Brunswick, N.J.), May 20, 1893, p. 1
> (Newspaperarchive)
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> Fred Shapiro
> Editor
> Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press)
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