European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of can ridicule the hot dog if you you can sneer at Call it tube Steak or give it cutesy names like but it will still rank among the most versatile of after the hot dog can be teamed with baked Beans or plopped on a Bun with equal it can be barbecued As pets and infants Well eaten directly from the try All that with a beef hamburger lets face the hot dog is a feat of food a processed meat Marvel that needs Only a bit of bread and the proper condiments before it qualifies As a full a ballgame May not be a ballgame without a hot but a hot dog is still a hot dog without a if you get my and ditto for Coney i say hot because that what people in new Hampshire called them when i was growing up i assume they still the name was coined by cartoonist Tad Dorgan at the Start of the probably because it was the popular notion at the time that hot dogs were made from dog a second school of holds that hot dogs were so named because they resemble the Dachs Hund the exact etymology is not a hot dog is a wonderful regardless of its if you have not guessed by i love hot i am fanatical about How they Are cooked More with what they Are put Ketchup on a hot dog at my Home and you will never be asked lather a hot dog with Mustard and relish and celery and we can be lifelong the Start of this Frankfurter fetish in from childhood memories of shopping with my shed Roll the cart right up to the Glass meat counter at Wilber Brothers Market and id be there being kid i was Eye level with the whole ten hot Mother would say ten is a great number for buying quantities of hot especially if there hooked together like the kind they sell at the meat Man would reach into the Box and grab a count them off carefully and then photos by Bill Sutherland fold this meat necklace into White waxed the whole bundle would be bound with Butcher i was from cub scout Blue and Gold ban Quets and Little league that some families were not like some mothers bought the other kind of hot the kind id seen myself in the col cuts Section of Wilbers artificially Bright perfectly sized and shaped and not hooked at the they came in not White you didst order them from the meat you plucked them out of a cooler Case with your own and they were usually called frankfurters or not hot these names had an immigrant sound to them i did not a hot dog was an american a Wiener was something else How the illusions of our youth Are shattered As we grow hot like most Good Are As foreign As the statue of German in if Frankfurter Hast tipped you and unlike those questionable dogs in Wilbers cold cuts the germans do not allow indiscriminate use of the a Frankfurter is a specific the Best of the if you the original Frankfurter dates Back to when the German City was chosen As the site of crowning of the German emperors and an of size sausage was grilled for the celebrating this  sausage was such a Success that it became Standard at All important Public stiff Competition Between area butchers to make the most popular sausage led to widespread use of the name Frankfurter Frankfurter brat Wurst but they had no similarity to what we know Dieter sales manager for the Hans Wirth company in Neu one of the four firms allowed to use the Label original Frankfurter on their Only two Are in they were coarse sausages made from chopped it want until the end of the 19th Century that butchers had the ability to make the Fine filling we now in a Frankfurt Butcher opened a shop in Vienna As the austrians Call their capital and the Frankfurter got a the a Berlin court decision in 1929 put an end to the arguments about which butchers could use the Eagle Emblem the sign of genuine Stang Only those butchers in the Frankfurt economic the would be allowed to use the and that Means Only butchers in and the nearby towns of Neu Siren Lingen and German immigrants to America during the last Cen Tury brought the sausage with and the Frankfurter and the Wiener and the hot dog Are now Ameri can Over the Frankfurter is just one of More than different its made from pin smoked pork and other ingredients the producers like to keep the Frankfurter always comes in pairs and contains no Stang said frankfurters should be gently poached not boil them Tod Long and the sausages when that youve ruined some of the taste and All of the aesthetics of eating no self respecting German and especially no Frankfurter will touch a typical Day at the Wirth sausage factory in Neu ill life in Hill ihi1 Iii Mil Frankfurt knows How to put on the dog the Best of the by staff writer Page 14 to stars monday 1986 april 1985 the stars and stripes Page 15