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You’ll often hear that the name “hot dog” comes from a cartoon drawn by T.A. Dorgan during a New York Giants baseball game at the Polo Grounds around 1902-1906 (date varies depending on who’s telling the story). At this game, he supposedly observed a vendor, Harry Stevens, selling “hot dachshund sausages”. Dorgan, being inspired by this, drew a dachshund in a hot dog bun, but didn’t know how to spell dachshund, so just wrote “hot dog”.

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Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog
http://www.snopes.com/language/storie…
http://www.takeourword.com/Issue049.html
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?t…
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?y…
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Histor…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NCI…