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Date: 7/29/2020
Its exact origins are shrouded in the mists of history.
We don’t know just how the hot dog evolved, but all we know is the German immigrants who brought their version of the sausage to the United States in the middle and late 19th centuries created one of the first fast food and the unofficial meal of summer.
Originally, frankfurters were sold to be held in your hand and eaten until someone decided to put them in a bun. Apparently some hot dogs came with a white glove to wear while eating the naked sausage.
Historians believe that it was either at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, in Chicago or the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis that buns were first used.
Who gave the name “hot dog” to describe the German sausage is also unclear, but it was being used by the turn of the 20th Century.
That bun became the delivery system for a dizzying array of condiments. A 2019 survey saw the top two toppings were mustard at 33 percent and ketchup at 30 percent.
On July 22 the country celebrated National Hot Dog Day, a date that slipped by hungryReminder Publishing news staff. We knew it needed to be acknowledged so we fanned out to try to visit some great purveyors of dogs in our area.
Standard disclaimer: yes, we may have missed your favorite hot dog place. There is only so much time and so many dogs out there.