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A '''hot dog''' (also known as a '''frankfurter''', '''frank''', '''wiener''', or '''weenie''') is a moist [[sausage]] of soft, even texture and flavor, often made from [[advanced meat recovery]] or [[meat slurry]]. Most types are fully cooked, [[curing (food preservation)|cured]] or [[Smoking (cooking technique)|smoked]]. It is often placed hot in a special purpose soft, sliced [[hot dog bun]]. It may be [[garnish (food)|garnish]]ed with mustard, ketchup, onion, mayonnaise, relish, cheese, chili or [[sauerkraut]]. The flavor can be similar to a range of meat products from bland [[bologna sausage|bologna]] to spicy [[Germany|German]] [[bockwurst]] varieties. Hot dogs made from a range of meats are on the market, but [[Kosher]] or [[Halal]] hot dogs must be made from beef, chicken or turkey. [[Vegetarian hot dog]]s made from [[meat analogue]] are available. |
A '''hot dog''' (also known as a '''frankfurter''', '''frank''', '''wiener''', or '''weenie''') is a moist [[sausage]] of soft, even texture and flavor, often made from [[advanced meat recovery]] or [[meat slurry]]. Most types are fully cooked, [[curing (food preservation)|cured]] or [[Smoking (cooking technique)|smoked]]. It is often placed hot in a special purpose soft, sliced [[hot dog bun]]. It may be [[garnish (food)|garnish]]ed with mustard, ketchup, onion, mayonnaise, relish, cheese, chili or [[sauerkraut]]. The flavor can be similar to a range of meat products from bland [[bologna sausage|bologna]] to spicy [[Germany|German]] [[bockwurst]] varieties. Hot dogs made from a range of meats are on the market, but [[Kosher]] or [[Halal]] hot dogs must be made from beef, chicken or turkey. [[Vegetarian hot dog]]s made from [[meat analogue]] are available. |
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Unlike other sausages which may be sold uncooked, hot dogs are always precooked before packaging. Hot dogs can be eaten without additional cooking, although they are usually warmed before serving. Since even the unopened packaged hot dog can have bacteria it is safer to reheat them (especially important for pregnant women) |
Unlike other sausages which may be sold uncooked, hot dogs are always precooked before packaging. Hot dogs can be eaten without additional cooking, although they are usually warmed before serving. Since even the unopened packaged hot dog can have bacteria it is safer to reheat them (especially important for pregnant women). |
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==History== |
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 A cooked hot dog sandwich garnished with mustard. | |
| Alternative names | Frankfurters Franks Wieners Weenies Hot Dawugz |
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| Place of origin | Multiple claims |
| Created by | Multiple claims |
| Serving temperature | Hot |
| Main ingredients | Pork, beef, chicken or combinations thereof and bread |
| Variations | Multiple |
A hot dog (also known as a frankfurter, frank, wiener, or weenie) is a moist sausage of soft, even texture and flavor, often made from advanced meat recovery or meat slurry. Most types are fully cooked, cured or smoked. It is often placed hot in a special purpose soft, sliced hot dog bun. It may be garnished with mustard, ketchup, onion, mayonnaise, relish, cheese, chili or sauerkraut. The flavor can be similar to a range of meat products from bland bologna to spicy German bockwurst varieties. Hot dogs made from a range of meats are on the market, but Kosher or Halal hot dogs must be made from beef, chicken or turkey. Vegetarian hot dogs made from meat analogue are available.
Unlike other sausages which may be sold uncooked, hot dogs are always precooked before packaging. Hot dogs can be eaten without additional cooking, although they are usually warmed before serving. Since even the unopened packaged hot dog can have bacteria it is safer to reheat them (especially important for pregnant women).
History
Claims about the invention of the hot dog are difficult to assess because various stories assert the creation of the sausage, the placing of the sausage (or another kind of sausage) on bread or a bun as finger food, the popularization of the existing dish, or the application of the name "hot dog" to a sausage and bun combination.
The word frankfurter comes from Frankfurt, Germany, where pork sausages served a bun similar to hot dogs originated.[1] Wiener refers to Vienna, Austria, whose German name is "Wien", home to a sausage made of a mixture of pork and beef[2] (cf. Hamburger, whose name also derives from a German-speaking city). In German speaking countries, except Austria, hot dog sausages are called Wiener or Wiener Würstchen (Würstchen means "little sausage"). In Swiss German, it is called Wienerli, while in Austria the terms Frankfurter or Frankfurter Würstel are used.
The city of Vienna traces the lineage of the hot dog to the Wienerwurst or Viennese sausage, the city of Frankfurt to the Frankfurter Wurst, which it claims was invented in the 1480s and given to the people on the event of imperial coronations, starting with the coronation of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor as King; the hot dog has also been attributed to Johann Georg Lahner, a 18th/19th century butcher from the Bavarian city of Coburg who is said to have invented the "dachshund" or "little-dog" sausage and brought it from Frankfurt to Vienna.[3]
Around 1870, on Coney Island, German immigrant Charles Feltman began selling sausages in rolls.[4][5][6]
Others have supposedly invented the hot dog. The idea of a hot dog on a bun is ascribed to the wife of a German named Antonoine Feuchtwanger, who sold hot dogs on the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, in 1880, because his customers kept taking the white gloves handed to them for eating without burning their hands.[7] Anton Ludwig Feuchtwanger, a Bavarian sausage seller, is said to have served sausages in rolls at the World's Fair–either the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago or the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis[8]–again allegedly because the white gloves he gave to customers so that they could eat his hot sausages in comfort began to disappear as souvenirs.[9]
The association between hot dogs and baseball began as early as 1893 with Chris von der Ahe, a German immigrant who owned not only the St. Louis Browns, but also an amusement park.[10]
Harry M Stevens Inc., founded in 1889, serviced major sports venues with hot dogs and other refreshments, making Stevens known as the "King of Sports Concessions" in the US.[11]
In 1916, an employee of Feltman's named Nathan Handwerker was encouraged by celebrity clients Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante to go into business in competition with his former employer.[12] Handwerker undercut Feltman's by charging five cents for a hot dog when his former employer was charging ten.[12] At an earlier time in food regulation the hot dog suspect, Handwerker made sure that men wearing surgeon's smocks were seen eating at Nathan's Famous to reassure potential customers.[9]
Currently, hot dogs are one of the most famous fast food there is, with pizza slightly ahead. Throughout fairgrounds, parks and even holiday sites, hot dog stands have been seen in many places. Currently, more than $3.4 billion have been made due to the vast amount of buyers.
Etymology
The term "dog" has been used as a synonym for sausage since 1884 and accusations that sausage makers used dog meat date to at least 1845.[13]
According to a myth, the use of the complete phrase "hot dog" in reference to sausage was coined by the newspaper cartoonist Thomas Aloysius "TAD" Dorgan around 1900 in a cartoon recording the sale of hot dogs during a New York Giants baseball game at the Polo Grounds.[13] However, TAD's earliest usage of "hot dog" was not in reference to a baseball game at the Polo Grounds, but to a bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, in the The New York Evening Journal [December 12, 1906], by which time the term "hot dog" in reference to sausage was already in use.[13][14] In addition, no copy of the apocryphal cartoon has ever been found.[15]
The earliest usage of hot dog in clear reference to sausage found by Barry Popik appeared in the 28 September 1893 The Knoxville Journal.[14]
It was so cool last night that the appearance of overcoats was common, and stoves and grates were again brought into comfortable use. Even the weinerwurst men began preparing to get the "hot dogs" ready for sale Saturday night.
— 28 September 1893, Knoxville (TN) Journal, "The [sic] Wore Overcoats," pg. 5
Another early use of the complete phrase "hot dog" in reference to sausage appeared on page 4 of the October 19, 1895 issue of The Yale Record: "they contentedly munched hot dogs during the whole service."[14]
General description
A hot dog is distinguishable from other sausages by its smaller size and relative lack of spicing.
Ingredients
Common hot dog ingredients:
- Meat and fat
- Flavorings, such as salt, garlic, and paprika
- Preservatives (cure) - typically sodium erythorbate and sodium nitrite
In the US, if variety meats, cereal or soy fillers are used, the product name must be changed to "links" or the presence must be declared as a qualifier.
Pork and beef are traditional meats. Less expensive hot dogs are primarily chicken or turkey, due to the low cost of mechanically separated poultry. Hot dogs have high sodium, fat and nitrite content, ingredients linked to health problems. Due to changing dietary preferences, manufacturers have turned to turkey, chicken, or vegetarian meat substitutes, and lowered salt content.
If a manufacturer produces two types of hot dogs, "wieners" tend to contain pork and are blander, while "franks" tend to be all beef and more strongly seasoned.[citation needed]
Condiments
Common hot dog condiments include mustard, ketchup, pickle relish, cole slaw, sauerkraut, onion, mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, cheese and chili peppers. They are served in a bun.
The National Sausage and Hot Dog Council US in 2005 found mustard to be the most popular condiment (32 percent). "Twenty-three percent of Americans said they preferred ketchup....Chili (chili con carne) came in third at 17 percent, followed by relish (9 percent) and onions (7 percent). Southerners showed the strongest preference for chili, while Midwesterners showed the greatest affinity for ketchup."[16]
Commercial preparation
Hot dogs are prepared commercially by mixing the ingredients (meats, spices, binders and fillers) in vats where rapidly moving blades grind and mix the ingredients in the same operation. This mixture is forced through tubes into casings for cooking. Most hot dogs sold in the US are "skinless" as opposed to more expensive "natural casing" hot dogs.
Natural casing hot dogs
As with most sausages, hot dogs must be in a casing to be cooked. Casing is made from the small intestines of sheep. The products are known as "natural casing" hot dogs or frankfurters.[17] These hot dogs have firmer texture and a "snap" that releases juices and flavor when the product is bitten.[17]
Kosher casings are expensive in commercial quantities in the US, so kosher hot dogs are usually skinless or made with reconstituted collagen casings.[17]
Skinless hot dogs
"Skinless" hot dogs must use a casing in the cooking process when the product is manufactured, but the casing is usually a long tube of thin cellulose that is removed between cooking and packaging. Skinless hot dogs vary in the texture of the product surface but have a softer "bite" than natural casing hot dogs. Skinless hot dogs are more uniform in shape and size than natural casing hot dogs and less expensive.
Final preparation
For a list of regional differences in hot dog preparation and condiments, see Hot dog variations.
Hot dogs may be grilled, steamed, boiled, barbecued, pan fried, deep fried, broiled, or microwaved.[18] While hot dogs are cooked before packaging, they should not be eaten cold from the package. Hot dogs and their packaging fluid are sometimes contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, which causes listeriosis, a serious foodborne illness.[19]
Health effects
An American Institute for Cancer Research report found that consuming one 50-gram serving of processed meat — about one hot dog — every day increases risk of colorectal cancer by 20 percent.[20][21] The Cancer Project group filed a class-action lawsuit demanding warning labels on packages and at sporting events.[22] Hot dogs are high in fat and salt and have preservatives sodium nitrate and nitrite, believed to cause cancer.[23] According to the AICR, the average risk of colorectal cancer is 5.8 percent, but 7 percent when a hot dog is consumed daily over years.[23]
Hot dogs in the United States
Hot dog restaurants
Restaurants may have hot dogs on children's menu that are not on the regular menu. Hot dog stands and trucks sell hot dogs at street and highway locations. At convenience stores hot dogs are kept heated on rotating grills. Wandering hot dog vendors sell in baseball parks. Some parks have signature hot dogs, such as Fenway Franks at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts and Dodger Dogs at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California. The Fenway signature is that the hot dog is boiled and grilled Fenway-style, and then served on a New England-style bun, covered with mustard and relish. Often during Red Sox games, vendors traverse the stadium selling the hot dogs plain, giving customers the choice of adding the condiments.[citation needed]
The World's Longest Hot Dog created was 60 m (196.85 ft), and rested within a 60.3 m bun. The hot dog was prepared by Shizuoka Meat Producers for the All-Japan Bread Association, which baked the bun and coordinated the event, including official measurement for the world record. The hot dog and bun were the center of a media event in celebration of the Association's 50th anniversary on August 4, 2006, at the Akasaka Prince Hotel, Tokyo, Japan.
7-Eleven sells the most grilled hot dogs in North America, 100 million yearly.[24][25]
See also
Notes
- ^ Harper, Douglas. "frankfurter". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ^ Harper, Douglas. "wiener". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ^ Schmidt 2003:241
- ^ Immerso 2002:23
- ^ Sterngass 2001:239
- ^ "History of the Hot Dog" page of ePopcorn.com.
- ^ Hot Dog History
- ^ McCullough 2000:240
- ^ a b Jakle & Sculle 1999:163–164
- ^ McCollough 2006:Frankfurter, she wrote: Hot dog shrouded in mystery
- ^ www.harrystevens.co.uk
- ^ a b Immerso 2002:131
- ^ a b c Wilton 2004:58–59
- ^ a b c Popik 2004:"Hot Dog (Polo Grounds myth & original monograph)"
- ^ "Hot Dog". Snopes. July 13, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
- ^ http://www.hot-dog.org/pr/052505.htm
- ^ a b c Levine 2005:It's All in How the Dog Is Served
- ^ Hot Dogs, Get Your Hot Dogs: all about hot dogs, wieners, franks and sausages
- ^ Health Canada: Listeria and food safety
- ^ AICR Statement: Hot Dogs and Cancer Risk, American Institute for Cancer Research, July 22, 2009.
- ^ Attack ad targets hot dogs as cancer risk, Canadian Broadcasting Company, August 27, 2008.
- ^ Hot dog cancer-warning labels sought in lawsuit: Healthy Cleveland, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, August 29, 2009.
- ^ a b New Attack Ad Targets Hot Dogs, Citing Dubious Cancer Risk, Fox News, August 26, 2008.
- ^ 7-Eleven News Room: Fun Facts and Trivia.
- ^ Hot Dog Heaven at 7-Eleven
References
- Immerso, Michael (2002), Coney Island: The People's Playground, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, ISBN 0813531381
- Jakle, John A.; Sculle, Keith A. (1999), Fast Food, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0-8018-6109-8
- Levine, Ed (2005-05-25), "It's All in How the Dog Is Served", The New York Times
- McCollough, J. Brady (2006-04-02), "Frankfurter, she wrote: Hot dog shrouded in mystery", The Kansas City Star
- McCullough, Edo (2000) [1957]. Good Old Coney Island: A Sentimental Journey into the Past. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 0823219976.
- Popik, Barry (2004-07-15). "Hot Dog (Polo Grounds myth & original monograph)". The Big Apple. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
- Schmidt, Gretchen (2003), German Pride: 101 Reasons to Be Proud You're German, New York: Citadel Press, ISBN 0806524812
- Sterngass, Jon (2001), First Resorts: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport & Coney Island, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0801865867
- Wilton, David (2004), Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195172841
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