Oh! You would be excused if you think that sausage makers use dog meat to make hot dogs. The term dog has been used for sausage since at least 1884 and since 1845, there has been accusation that sausage-makers used dog meat to make sausages. Such accusation would not have arisen if hot dogs are just called frankfurters, or franks for short, after the name of Frankfurt, Germany where sausages in a bun originated. A name matters, and words too, I suppose but now, may I ask: Which sausage would you lick?
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At least you could have said that you 'borrowed' th'licking' picture from my blog:
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Apparently, the name originated in the 1800s, when a large number of German immigrants began to move to the US. With them, they brought lots of sausages, but they also brought long, thin, dachshund dogs. The similarity in shape between the two is what probably prompted someone to dub the sausages "hot dogs" and the name stuck. No one person can be attributed to this, but the name was so popular that for many years, when someone said they wanted a "dog," they were inevitably referring to the frankfurter and not to a puppy.
According to a popular 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.[10] 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.[11][10] In addition, no copy of the apocryphal cartoon has ever been found.[12]
So, I guess Morganlighter version is more logical.
Stassi knows the word "tasty" (Mmmm,I'll give you something tasty now) and when she heard for the first time when I joke with her and said "Mmm, how tasty you are! I'll eat you now!" she looked at me surprized. Than she understood the sense.