National dishes that aren't from that country: American hotdogs aren't from America

National dishes that aren't from that country: American hotdogs aren't from America

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In fact of the day day day day day.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Doo dooo doo.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
This we expected to day themous national dishes that aren't
that didn't originate in the country that you associate them with. Yeah,
and today we're talking hot dogs, Well the German aren't
they They are German, but they are the national dish
of America. They are American hot dogs, I suppose. So
when you buy them at the carnival, they call them

(00:37):
American hot dogs. Nearly do Are we talking hot dogs?
Isn't in the bun and the bun corn dogs is
what you're we call them hot dogs. Then that's why
we call American hot dogs American hot dogs. Because we
call the sausage on the stick in the batter, we
call them hot dogs as well, though that is supposed
to be corned dog.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
You don't'd rather have one of our hot dogs in
the carnie sauce over American hot dogs.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
If someone said to me right now, I'll bring you,
I'll get you a corn dog dipped in carnie sauce,
I'll pay a one hundred bucks. I love them, so
I said, right now, Oh my god, I just want
one so bad.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yum. It's like I'm right now, But what if someone
shows up in five minutes with one? Please don't, please don't.
I won't expect hundred probably spark up the deep fryer
and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
I would give anything to have one in my hand
like that right now.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Have you ever had the one where they what do
they call them, and they smash all the other stuff
into the batter, like have you ever had that horn dog?
Where their chips like hot hot chips are chopped up
into little bits and they put them in the batter,
And so they put the batter on and then they
like smash it like sprinkles on an ice trim. They
call them like ugly dogs or something. And they've got

(01:55):
a whole lot of different ones rights and it can
be like bacon bits and stuff, and then they batter again.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
And yeah, my heart was like you konder me, you
take it?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
So hot dogs are German, of course, the sausages and
the hot dogs called frankfurtersas traditionally theavena exactly, all right,
so this is the the hot dog is not American,
it's German. But also adding to this, hot dogs, because
I've never known what they're called hot dogs stand by,
let stand by, don't don't get stand by, stand by,
stand by. Guess they've bastardized from three separate German names.

(02:32):
Frankfurter sausages were a bit formal, so when they first
got to America they called them hot dush honds like
the dogs the dogs, except Americans could neither spell nor
pronounce dushound. So then they were just like, let's just
call them hot dogs.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
What about it?

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I know I've never called a thought why they were
called hot dogs?

Speaker 4 (02:51):
But now, but now we call the dushounds sausage dogs exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Hot dog you probably get was a wiener in a
bun from the English word wiener, which is alone were
from German meaning from Vienna.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Referring to Smith, You're a wiener more of a sad boy.
I'm more of a sad boy boy in myself. You're
a wiener. People Wieners what a strange, weird times. It's
trigger So.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
If you as are hot, you aready as a whinner
in a bun. Watch of course, whenna is a loanword
from German meaning a little upset. So that's a loanword
from German meaning from Vienna. We've talked about this before.
Weena Snitzel is Vienna's Schnitzel from Vienna and were German.
It's Vienna's Snitzel. So we say Weenna Snitzel referring to

(03:46):
Vienna sausages or Weenna sausages, and they go full circle.
Because dashounds are now often called sausage dogs, sausage dogs,
or wiener dogs. So when they are so, I mean
you're getting you're getting a too for here the hot
dog is an American, it's German. And when they first
went to America, the hot dog in the barn with

(04:08):
mustard worth sauce worth onions. If you're not getting onions, grub,
grub and get onions was originally called a hot dash
hond