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en.wikipedia.org
Hot dog - Wikipedia
Kosher casings are expensive in ... <strong>hot</strong> <strong>dogs</strong> <strong>are</strong> usually skinless or made with reconstituted collagen casings. "Skinless" <strong>hot</strong> <strong>dogs</strong> use a casing for cooking, but the casing may be a long tube of thin cellulose that is removed between cooking and packaging, a process <strong>invented</strong> in Chicago ...
thehotdog.org
History of the Hot Dog: Everything You Need to Know - TheHotDog.org
... It’s hard to say definitively who invented the hot dog, but credit has gone to <strong>Emil Reichel and Sam Ladany (the co-founders of Vienna Beef) and Johann Georghehner, a German butcher</strong>.
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hot-dog.org
Hot Dog History | NHDSC
Kraig can’t quite swallow that tale and says everyone wants to claim the hot dog bun as their own invention, but the most likely scenario is the practice was handed down by German immigrants and gradually became widespread in American culture.
reddit.com
r/ShitAmericansSay on Reddit: “Because hotdogs are an American thing”
Calling a hot dog American is like calling french fries french, and even then french fries have nothing to do with France, they're actually British. In truth <strong>there is very little food that America actually invented</strong>.
historycooperative.org
Why Are Hot Dogs Called Hot Dogs? The Origin of Hotdogs | History Cooperative
Seemingly involved in any story relating to Western or globalized culture today, the Greeks are actually the first ones to be credited in the history of the hot dog. <strong>They were not the ones who invented the hot dog</strong>.
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mentalfloss.com
The Disputed History of the Hot Dog
In 19th-century Germany, consuming dog meat was not unheard of. This led to rumors about the true contents of the mystery meat tubes German immigrants were selling on street corners. Prejudice against German-Americans, who made up one of the largest immigrant groups in the country in the 19th and early 20th centuries, likely stoked these fears.
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