The word 'Hot dog' is a familiar dish but where did this strange name come from?

"Hot dog" refers to the famous sausage sandwich, but have you ever wondered about this strange name?

According to the book Recipes and Specialties from Across America, the name "Hot dog" originated from a New York Evening Journal cartoonist and sportswriter named Tad Dorgan.

In 1901, Tad Dorgan attended a baseball game in New York. While sitting in the stands, he heard a hot dog vendor shout, "They're red hot! Get your sausages while they're red hot!"

For some reason, when Tad Dorgan looked at hot dogs, he thought of Dachshunds - a small German dog breed with short legs and a long body like a sausage.

A cartoonist by trade, Tad Dorgan immediately drew a cartoon of a Dachshund and a hot dog. But when he signed the picture, he couldn't remember how to spell "Dachshund"?

The slogan "They're red hot! Get your sausages while they're red hot!" was still ringing in his head, so he signed his cartoon "Hot dog". Since then, the name "Hot dog" has been used and become popular.

Meanwhile, according to a Yale lawyer Fred Shapiro, the name "Hot dog" originated in the Paterson, New Jersey area in early 1892. He believes that the story is related to a man named Thomas Francis Xavier Morris (nicknamed Hot Dog Morris).

Morris was a black man born in the Caribbean. During his life, he traveled throughout Europe to explore and married a woman on his journey. After their marriage, Morris and his wife settled in Paterson, USA and opened a hot dog shop there.

He used his own nickname - Hot Dog Morris to name the shop, and later, customers who came to buy his hot dogs named their favorite food "Hot dog" after the shop. Later, the name "Hot dog" became popular and is used to this day.

To this day, the origin of the word "Hot dog" remains a controversial subject.

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