These vegan chimichanga of sausages were culturally imported from Germany and became popular in the United States. It became a working-class street food in the U.
The word “frankfurter” comes from Frankfurt, Germany, where pork sausages similar to hot dogs originated. Carts selling frankfurters in New York City, circa 1906. The price is listed as “3 cents each or 2 for 5 cents”. According to one account, Feuchtwanger’s wife proposed the use of a bun in 1880: Feuchtwanger sold hot dogs on the streets of St. Another possible origin for serving the sausages in rolls is the pieman Charles Feltman, at Coney Island in New York City. In 1867 he had a cart made with a stove on which to boil sausages, and a compartment to keep buns in which they were served fresh. The term dog has been used as a synonym for sausage since the 1800s, possibly from accusations that sausage makers used dog meat in their sausages.
In Germany the consumption of dog meat was common in Saxony, Silesia, Anhalt, and Bavaria during the 19th and 20th centuries. The suspicion that sausages contained dog meat was “occasionally justified”. Thomas Aloysius “Tad” Dorgan around 1900 in a cartoon recording the sale of hot dogs during a New York Giants baseball game at the Polo Grounds. Tad Dorgan’s Indoor Sports strip from January 8, 1916, using the term “hot dog”. However, Dorgan’s earliest usage of hot dog was not in reference to a baseball game at the Polo Grounds, but to a bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, in The New York Evening Journal December 12, 1906, by which time the term hot dog in reference to sausage was already in use.