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toc =Origin of the word "Hot Dog"= According to myth the use of the word "hot dog" was coined by Thomas Aloysius, but the first recorded use of hot dog was in 1893, in the Knoxville Journal. The author was describing the sellers: " //It was so cool last night that the appearance of overcoats was common, and stoves and grates were again brought into comfortable use. Even the weinerwurst men began preparing to get the "hot dogs" ready for sale Saturday night.//"

=Background= To keep potential customers interested and reassured. he paid surgeons to be photographed eating the hot dogs, in a day where food regulation was poor. Commercials like these must have worked, because in it's glory days, legendary figures such as @Al Capone, Eddie Cantor, Jimmie Durante, and Cary Grant were regular customers. However, it really gained it's first international exposure when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt served Nathan's Famous hotdogs to the //King// and //Queen// in 1939. Can you imagine? Later, Roosevelt had Nathan's hotdogs sent to Yalta when he met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Years later, Nelson Rockefeller, the then governor of New York, stated that, "No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hotdog at Nathan's Famous." As it happens, many politicians, show-business personalities, and sports celebrities are often seen and photographed munching on one of Nathan's Famous frankfurters, and can be heard singing its praises. A trip to Nathan's was the focus of a Seinfeld created by comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
 * Original Nathans Famous Frankfurters** was founded in 1916 by Nathan Handwerker, an immigrant from Poland. Before the creation of Nathan's, he used to work for Charles Feltman, a German immigrant selling hot dogs. He was incited by his customers to go into business against his boss, who was selling the hot dogs for 10 cents. So the restaurant we know and love today actually started out as a small hotdog stand in (go figure) Coney Island, New York, where they were sold for only a nickel!. They then made enough money to buy the building that now still houses the famous restaurant. The original hotdog started out being made according to a recipe developed by his wife, Ida.



=﻿Currently=
 * More recently, the ex-mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani declared Nathan's the "World's best hot dog." Shortly after that, Nathan Handwerker was named to the city's top 100- joining the ranks of Joe Namath, Irving Berlin, @Andrew Carnegie, Joe DiMaggio, and others.

Already rocking the world with its secret spice recipe hot dogs, it now sells hamburgers, seafood, chicken, and cheesesteaks. Their hot dog, though, is what retains all the glory since 1914.

Fun Fact: In his final last will and testament, actor Walter Mathau requested Nathan's hotdogs to be served at his funeral- they were!Last year there were over 360 million Nathan's Famous Hotdogs sold! There are hotdog-eating contests held annually an the New York location on July 4th, where some contestants hold world records for eating different foods, including hotdogs, of course. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYXMcceKvTs) Today, Nathan's is sold and enjoyed in all 50 states and sold at over 20,000 food service and retail outlets. Our field reporters (Drew and Alex) even managed to get one of the ONFF fans to give us HIS take on these legendary hotdogs. “They have the best fries. They are amazing. Their hot dogs are unreal!” –Brandon T. Herman (1995-present) Best. Amazing. Unreal. Well there you have it, folks. If want a hotdog, you're wasting your money if it's not spent at... || ||

=Bibliography= Nathan's Famous Frankfurters. //Original Nathan's Famous Frankfurters//. Nathan's Famous Frankfurters. Web. 27 Jan. 2011. @http://nathansfamous.com/PageFetch/.

NY Times. "Handwerker of Nathan's Famous Dies - Turned His Coney Island Hot Dogs Into Food Sought Worldwide $300 Opened a Stand Royalty and Beauty - Article - NYTimes.com." //The New York Times Editorials and Opinion - The New York Times//. 25 Mar. 1974. Web. 27 Jan. 2011. @http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0915FA355E1A7493C7AB1788D85F408785F9.

"Hot Dog." // Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia //. Web. 16 Feb. 2011. <@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog>.