Antedating of "Hot Dog"

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:56 AM -0400 10/28/09, Alison Murie wrote:
>"these renders'?  Vendors, maybe?
>AM

So one would think.  Or at least "these
renderers", if that activity is a side-product of
the sausage trade...

LH

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>On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
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>>Poster:       "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
>>Subject:      Antedating of "Hot Dog"
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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.
>>
>>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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