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At the same time, notes Riley, the sausage that would become known as the hot dog came to U.S. shores by way of the Germans and Austrians, which is why we call them âfrankfurtersâ like Frankfurt, Germany, or âwieners,â named after Vienna, Austria.
However, historians have been unable to find this cartoon, despite Dorgan's enormous body of work and his popularity. Kraig, and other culinary historians, point to college magazines where the word hot dog began appearing in the 1890s. The term was current at Yale in the fall of 1894, when dog wagons sold hot dogs at the dorms. The name was a sarcastic comment on the provenance of the meat.