I have a silly question to ask (although I don't really think it silly).
why are hotdogs named hotdogs???
I thought may be during the war between cowboys and red indians one of them ran out of food and had to eat their dogs cuz they couldn't leave the battle field, and so they cooked them hot and cut them like sausages so they wouldn't feel disgusted or guilty and they lasted longer and won and from that day forward hotdogs are called hotdogs in that memory, but it's just my wild imagination
any of you have a clue???

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oh common, I know some of you could think of at least one question that they can't answer, also I would really really really like to know why do you think hotdogs are called hotdogs....

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From Wikipedia:

The term "dog" has been used as a synonym for sausage since at least 1884 and accusations that sausage makers used dog meat date to at least 1845.[12]

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.[12] 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.[12][13] In addition, no copy of the apocryphal cartoon has ever been found.[14]

The earliest usage of "hot dog" in clear reference to sausage found by Barry Popik appeared in the 28 September 1893 edition of The Knoxville Journal.[13]

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."[13]

Two guys immigrate to America from Italy. On their first day
off the boat they are wandering around New York City seeing
the sights. As lunch time approaches they decide they are
hungry. They then come up to a street vendor selling hot dogs.

One says to the other in a shocked tone, "My God. Do they eat
dogs in America?"

"I don't know!" says the other, equally appalled.

"Well," says the first, "we're going to be Americans, so we must
do as they do."

They approach the vendor bravely. "Two hot dogs, please."

The vendor hands them their food in a pair of paper sacks. The
two immigrants sit on a park bench to eat their lunch. One looks
inside his sack, hesitates and turns to his partner and says, "Uh,
which part of the dog did you get?"

Wiki is always the answer!
I've never done that question to myself, but once you read it you start wondering too
Wonderful joke Villa, it made crack up in laughters!

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thanx sooooooo soooo much steve, I was really curious to know
also nice one villa

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