1) A long sausage in a bun received the name “hot dog” in 1906 as the result of a cartoonist’s poor spelling ability. (2) A sausage vendor, Harry Stevens, sold what he called “dachshund sausages” (named after the short-legged dog) at New York City baseball games. (3) During one of those games, newspaper cartoonist Tad Dorgan was in the audience. (4) He sketched a cartoon of a live dachshund, smeared with mustard and folded into a bun. (5) Not knowing how to spell “dachshund,” however, he settled on “dog,” giving the cartoon the caption “Get your hot dogs!” (6) Once the cartoon was published in newspapers, readers began demanding their own “hot dogs.”
C7. This paragraph mainly
a. defines and illustrates the term “hot dog.”
b. gives the reason small sausages are now called hot dogs.
c. contrasts “dachshund sausage” with “hot dog.”
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