The Hot Dog
ホットドッグという言葉はアメリカの野球スタジアムで生まれたものですが、
ソーセージをはさんだパンをhot dogというのはなぜでしょうか？
実は、面白いいきさつがあります。

TRACK22　元祖、ホットドッグは何とよばれていたのでしょうか？

　In its home country, Germany, the “frank furter” was the name for the hot dog.

It came from Frankfurt, a German city.

In the 1860s, people sold frankfurters in the United States for the first time.

But Americans didn’t say “frank furters.”

They said “dachshund sausages.”

A dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body and short legs.

“Dachshund sausage” was a good name for the frankfurter.

TRACK23　ダックスフントソーセージは、どこで売られていましたか？

　Dachshund sausages first became popular in New York.

People sold them at baseball games.

The men with the sausages walked up and donw.

They shouted, “Get your dachshund sausages! Get your hot dachshund sausages here!”

People ate the sausages in buns, a kind of bread.

TRACK24　ホットドッグという言葉の由来は？

　One day, in 1906, a newspaper cartoonist went to a baseball gaem.

He saw the men with the dachshund sausages.

Then he got a good idea for a cartoon.

The next day at the newspaper office he drew a bun with a dachshund in it not a dachshund sausage,

but a real dachshund.

He didn’t know the spelling of “dachshund”.

So under the cartoon he wrote “Get your hot dogs!”

The cartoon was a sensation, and “hot dog” became the new name.

　At a baseball game today, you can see a lot of dog sellers.

They walk up and down.

They shout, “Get your hot dogs here! Get your hot dogs here!”