Hotdog

The or the hot dog (English for hot dog, hot dog also ) is a fast food joint, consisting of a warm cooked sausage and most other ingredients in a soft wheat bun.

History and etymology

The origin of the name hot dog is not known with certainty. It is clear, however, that this form of fast food in the U.S. may have existed before this name was used. So there was in 1871 a snack bar on Coney Iceland, were sold in the Frankfurt or Vienna sausage in bread with sauerkraut.

The American cultural historian Andrew F. Smith points out that German -born butcher had been known in the U.S. for keeping " sausage-shaped dog ", namely dachshund. This fact has promoted certain associations between German sausages and dogs. The cartoonist Tad Dorgan is after a polo match have drawn a cartoon with a barking dog between two buns, with the caption "Hot Dog".

The term hot dog was - but with a different meaning - used in the 1890s by students at the universities of Yale and Princeton as a name for a dandy or a particularly good athlete. Since 1895 Hotdog is occupied as a term for hot dog in bun in the USA.

Since 1916, every year an international hot dog eating contest will take place on U.S. national holiday in New York City.

Preparation

A hot dog consists of a heated cooked sausages in an elongated, generally soft rolls ( wheat), which is usually attenuated or toasted. The hot dog bun is cut and heated for half of the length. After that you put into the hot sausage and garnished it with the sauces ( ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, etc.). In Scandinavia scatters usually fried onions and distributed where appropriate, a few slices of cucumber sour about it. Often even more additions, such as sauerkraut or coleslaw, are added to the rolls.

Variants

In Denmark and partly in Sweden, the hot dog with bright red colored sausages ( Røde Pølser ) is produced and kogt ( scalded ) or risted ( fried) offered - always without mayonnaise. The classic Danish hot dog is topped with fried onions and sour pickled gherkins discs. As sauces ketchup, mustard and mild Danish remoulade be used. In Germany, however, the snack is usually prepared with normal Frankfurt or Vienna sausages, sometimes also with a Frikandel. In France, Austria and Switzerland it takes instead of a bun usually a piece of baguette or a little white bread with crust, in which at one end a hole is drilled. In this, the sausage is inserted and is therefore - contrary to the American variant - entirely covered by the rolls. In Austria, however, other types of sausages (eg, sausage, cheese Krainer ) are used in the hot dog stand instead of frankfurters.

In the U.S., the hot dog is usually cooked on a roller grill. To get the sausage a special barbecue flavor. American hot dogs are special pickles ( cucumber slices ) and Relishes (Sweet Relish, Hot Pepper Relish Corn Relish or ), often with a mild mustard (Yellow Mustard, the most popular hotdog ingredient), less often served with ketchup. Also a set of warm sauerkraut is possible ( Nathan 's Famous in New York). A variant of the U.S. hot dogs is called the Corn Dog. It is (like a sausage in pastry ), often attached to a wooden handle by a sausage in a sheath of corn dough. Furthermore, there are in the U.S., many very different regional variants, for example, with sauerkraut, tomatoes, jalapenos, cheese and even chilli con carne.

The Bosna widespread in Austria is a special hotdog variant in which instead of the Wiener sausage is served in a bread.

In the GDR (especially in East Berlin) was a simplified imitation of the hot dog, the so-called Ketwurst offered.

Known in Denmark, Sweden and especially in Switzerland, the so-called Fransk hot dog is ( to German: " French Hot Dog "). The rolls of a Fransk hot dogs is something roundish shaped as a German rolls and has in the center a depression into which poured the sauce and the sausage are plugged. Also in Denmark, there is a so-called Münster Hotdog, which simply put is there is an after preparation divided into smaller pieces hotdog, which (similar to the British HP sauce) is usually dipped in malt vinegar.

The typical Chilean fast food is the Completo, a hotdog variant which is served with sauerkraut or coleslaw in the bun and eaten with tomato ketchup and mild sweet Chilean mustard. A variant with guacamole is called italiano.

In Brazil, there are several variants. In the state of Bahia, for example, the hot dog is made from poultry meat. Served hot dog with corn, grated Parmesan cheese and a kind of potato chips. The customer usually then adds mayonnaise, ketchup or mustard, possibly also Tabasco sauce.