Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 19:24:37 -0400

From: "Barry A. Popik" Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: Hot Dogs (WRONG AGAIN!!); Big Banana



HOT DOGS



No, I couldn't escape the summer without this. No way.

There it was today on AOL. An Associated Press story from Donna de la

Cruz, "America's Hot Dogs Immortalized." Two New Jersey filmmakers are doing

a documentary called FOOTLONG. No one, of course, contacted me.

The AP--and you know they check their facts and double check 'em--story

continues in part:



(...) The dog itself was first introduced to America at the 1904 World's

Fair in St. Louis, though it went by a different name. That changed in 1906,

so the story goes, when cartoonist Tad Dorgan saw vendors at a baseball game

selling the slim sausages and calling out "Get your red hot dachsund

sandwiches!" Dorgan, sketching a wiener with mustard, couldn't spell

dachsund. Hot dog it became. (...)



Yes, it truly has been summer now.

WHERE'S MY REMAINING HALF GALLON OF "DEATH BY CHOCOLATE"?



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