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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
well, where did that weird name come from in english then ??? it's just as weird, whatever the language !
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My understanding is that that type of sausage was called a "little dog" (dachshund) sausage or frankfurter by the Germans, because it resembled a dog of the dachshund breed.
Along about the time that someone (exactly who, we will never know) got the idea to stick a dachshund frankfurter into a bun, they stopped calling them dachshund frankfurters, and just called the sausage a frankfurter and the frankfurter in a bun became a "hotdog."
However .... if you really wanted to get insanely technical, I suppose you would call a hotdog a "dachshund frankfurter sandwich." But, as mentioned, the English (and especially the Americans) are ever so into brevity. Soul of wit and all that .... wot, wot??