[Ads-l] dog sausage in "A Tale of Two Cities"

[Barretts Mail]

This email didn’t make a lot of sense as it was.

Barry Popik quotes (https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/hot_dog_polo_grounds_myth_original_monograph/ <https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/hot_dog_polo_grounds_myth_original_monograph/>) Gerald Cohen as saying, ""The term was based on the popular 19th-century belief that dog meat could turn up in sausages," says Cohen, "and this belief had a basis in fact.” 

FWIW, this struck me as an interesting and well-read reference to that belief/truth. BB

> On 23 Aug 2022, at 18:14, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Probably not of much use, but I saw this reference to dog meat and sausages reading Dickens last night. “A Tale of Two Cities” was published in 1859 according to Wikipedia. Here’s the citation:
> 
> https://tinyurl.com/y42fmtr4 <https://tinyurl.com/y42fmtr4>
> 
> "at the sausage-shop, in every dead-dog preparation that was offered for sale”
> 
> Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
> 


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