Why Is It Called a Hot Dog? (It's Not What You Think)

In Frankfurt they call it a wiener. In Vienna they call it a frankfurter. In America we named it after a dog, and almost everything you've heard about why is wrong. The famous cartoon that supposedly named the hot dog has never been found. Here's why, and where the name really came from, plus the pie wagon that became the biggest restaurant in the world, a hot dog handed to a king, a contest that started with a made-up story, and twelve hot dogs from Chicago to Seoul.

Chapters

1. 0:00 Why is it called a hot dog?
2. 0:42 Frankfurt: the original
3. 1:22 Vienna and the wiener
4. 1:59 Crossing to America
5. 2:32 Coney Island: Feltman and Nathan's
6. 3:29 Chicago, 1893
7. 4:09 Who put it in a bun?
8. 4:33 The ballpark
9. 4:52 Where the name came from
10. 5:35 Factory food
11. 6:34 A hot dog for the King, 1939
12. 7:02 The Fourth of July contest
13. 7:45 Hot dogs around the world
14. 9:48 Quick facts
15. 10:27 The cartoon nobody ever found
16. 11:28 Every recipe, step by step