July is officially Hot Dog Month and the adopted German Sausage is as American as Apple Pie and Baseball these days. In doing research of who invented the hot dog my conclusion is that the forking truth is that nobody forking knows who invented the hot dog. Most likely it was someone of German Decent. Only according to FoodNetwork Magazine and no where else that I can find they claim the inventor of the hot dog was a German Immigrant named Charles Dachshund.

According to multiple sources including Wikipedia, at one time some people called hot dogs dachshund sausages and some but not all sites some say that “dog” might have been ground  in…”WOOF”……Dam Dog Gone it!…EEK…(a forking eeeeeek and YUK from me)

Sometime latter dachshund sausages became hot dogs because a vender selling them couldn’t spell dachshund for their sign. (Forking cool I can’t spell doxie either) The little sausages were hot from the spices as they originally were spicy and also hot in temperature from the boiling hot water they were heated up in and were soon called hot dogs. (or you can forking spell it hotdog both spellings are correct)

Hot Dogs, Frankfurters or Wieners are seasoned pre-cooked sausages. Frankfurters tend to be more seasoned and are usually beef. Wieners tend to taste more bland than hot dogs or frankfurters and are usually made with pork.

Not all but many hot dogs are stuffed into a natural casing made from sheep’s small intestine and those are the hot dogs with snap. Not all but many hot dogs are made skinless these days.

Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog’s aren’t the original hot dog but were credited to being invented in 1916 by a Polish Immigrant Nathan Handwerker.  Some sources say Handwerker’s Wife Ida actually invented the recipe..?   On the Nathan’s Website they claim a bunch of drop naming celebrities and famous people like Al Capone, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Durante and Cary Grant were regular customers. Some of them were singing waiters from where Natan Handwerker worked before he started his restaurant, at a German Hot Dog Place before he started his business……  Some say he copied their style but sold the hot dogs at half the price with many lookalike doctors and nurses eating the hot dogs to make them seem like a wholesome food. They also say President Franklin Delano Roosevelt served Nathan’s Famous hot dogs to King and the Queen of England in 1939 and much more yada yada yada……go forking read it…..if you care too…..who the fork knows..if it’s all really true…..It’s ancient history at this point.

The Forking Truth is that’s Nathan’s holds an annual 4th of July Hot Dog eating contest. The first winner was Jason Schechter who ate 14 hot dogs in three and a half minutes in 1972. His prize was a certificate for 40 hot dogs. Things have changed a bunch since then.

The 2015 hot dog eating champion was Matt Stonie who ate 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes and won $10,000.00 Dethroning the official record breaking champion Joey Chestnut who officially ate 69 hot dogs in 2013 in 10 minutes but only did 60 in 2015 and it was not enough to beat Matt Stonie since he forking ate 62 dogs.

Not sure what the trend will be for the future of hot dogs. According to the 2015 Hot Dog and Sausage Council in Washington DC they indicate the kosher hot dog sales are growing at TWICE the rate  as any other dog in other categories. The kosher dogs are more expensive and are made with higher quality cuts of meat with all ingredients listed processed in a kosher way.

Sadly Sara Lee that purchased the “BEST” brand kosher hot dogs somewhere around 2009 discontinued the very delicious scrumptious “Best” (brand) Kosher Hot Dogs that were possibly the best commercial hot dogs in all the land.

The “Best” Brand hot dogs always made a profit for Sara Lee but it wasn’t high enough  to suite them at that time. I can tell you those where my favorite by very far and personally  it’s hard for me to eat a hot dog now. When you ate one of them “Best Dogs”  hotdogs from the Costco Grill and or market and also from your home grill it was the beefiest juiciest and tastiest hot dog you ever had. I know it was the best commercial hot dog I ever had.

I won’t tell tell you what toppings I liked….Just add your own.

Hot Dogs Frankfurters and Wieners Oh My……. they are something you might relish!

The Forking Truth