Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to 1886, (Corrected Citation)
Dan Goncharoff
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Tue Jan 22 15:07:07 UTC 2013
Isn't that what the basket was for? The rolls?
the fiend who carries in one hand a tin cooking arrangement, and on the
other arm a basket.
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DanG
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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> Good point, Amy. And no rolls are mentioned. Were the dogs sold wrapped
> in waxed paper?
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> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:
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> > On 1/22/13 12:03 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
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> > > From: "Shapiro, Fred"<fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> > > Subject: Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to
> > 1886
> > > (Corrected Citation)
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> > > The Tennessee provenance of the term "hot dog" now seems stronger, as I
> > have found an 1886 citation from that state:
> > >
> > > hot dog (OED 1892)
> > >
> > > 1886_Nashville Tennessean_ 14 Nov. 9/2 (ProQuest Historical
> Newspapers)
> > >
> > > "Hot stuff," "hot pup," "hot dog," sings out the fiend who carries in
> > one hand a tin cooking arrangement, and on the other arm a basket.
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> > > Wiener means little and generally speaking, the purchaser gets a
> > little the wurst of it. (No diagram of this joke.) Wurst means, in
> > English, sausage; so that when one of these peddlers says wiener wurst to
> > you he means do you want a little sausage. The tin vessel which he
> carries
> > is divided into two compartments. The upper is filled with water, in
> which
> > are about a thousand, more or less, skin sausages. In the lower
> apartment
> > is the alcohol stove that keeps the sausages hot.
> > >
> > Here's what intrigues me: the equivalence of "wiener" with little. Are
> > they falsely analogizing by/playing on "wee"? They get "wurst" right, so
> > something's going on with "wiener." And the mention of "a thousand" may
> > be exaggeration, but still indicates a small size. So, I'm inferring
> > that in this appearance, they're very much like what we still call
> > "Vienna sausages".
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