hot dog article in NY Times

[Jonathan Lighter]

I can't stand it.

JL

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>wrote:

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> For "hot dog" afficionados:=20
> Barry Popik has drawn my attention to a recent NY Times article on the =
> New York hot dog:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/dining/the-hot-dog-redefined-one-cart-a=
> t-a-time.html<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/dining/the-hot-dog-redefined-one-cart-a=t-a-time.html>
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> The article does not treat the origin of the term "hot dog." But a =
> picture accompanying the article in the above link caught my attention.  =
> It shows a hot dog vendor, "ca. 1910," but the sign on his cart doesn't =
> say "Hot Dogs";
> it says "Hot Frankfurters."
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> The term "hot dog" had not yet become a generally accepted term (still a =
> bit akin in its semantic nuance to "roadkill"), and vendors wishing to =
> entice passers-by to purchase their comestible no doubt felt they would =
> have better luck by having their signs proclaim "Hot Frankfurters."=20
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> G. Cohen
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