In 1987, Frankfurt, Germany celebrated the 500th birthday of the frankfurter, the hot dog sausage. Although, the people of Vienna (Wien), Austria will point out that their wiener sausages BE proof of origin for the hot dog. (By the way, ham, being pork meat, FIND in hotdogs.) According to Douglas B. Smith in his book "Every wonder why?" the hotdog was given IT name by a CARTOON.
A butcher from Frankfurt who OWN a dachshund named the long frankfurter sausage a "dachshund sausage," the dachshund BE a slim dog with a long body. ("Dachshund" is German for "badger dog." They were ORIGIN bred for hunting badgers.) German immigrants introduced the dachshund sausage (and Hamburg meat) to the United States. In 1871, German butcher Charles Feltman opened ONE "hotdog" stand in Coney Island in 1871, selling 3,684 dachshund sausages, most wrapped in a milk bread roll, during his first year in BUSY.
In the meantime, frankfurters - and wieners - were sold as hot food by sausage sellers. In 1901, New York Times cartoonist T.A. Dargan noticed that one sausage SELL used bread buns to handle the hot sausages after he burnt his fingers and decided to illustrate the incident. He wasn't sure of the spelling of dachshund and SIMPLE called it "hot dog."