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Hot Dog is popular. It's not a dog, but a cooked sausage in a long piece of bread. Here are some stories and facts about it from English websites.

HISTORY of Hot Dog

HOT DOG FUN FACTS

The 1600s

A German called Johann Georghehner created the"dachshund"sausage."Dachshund"is a German small long thin dog.

The 1860s

The very first hot dog ﹣the"dachshund"sausage in a roll﹣was sold by Germans in New York.It became popular in the US later.

1871

Charles Feltman,a German,started the first Coney Island hot dog stand.It made hot dogs known to more people.

1893

Chris Von Der Ahe started the American tradition of eating hot dogs at baseball parks,making hot dogs more popular.

1901

A New York cartoonist,Tad Dorgan,saw the red hot "dachshund" sausages sold on streets.He wanted draw picture of it,but he wasn't sure how to spell "dachshund", so he simply wrote" Hot Dog". It is widely believed how Hot Dog had its name.

1949

The first vegetarian hot dogs came out.

World record for eating hot dogs:73 in ten minutes

Hot dogs were one of the first foods eaten on the moon!

About 150 million hot dogs are eaten by Americans each July 4th

About 21 million hot dogs were sold at American baseball parks in 2010.

New Yorkers eat more hot dogs than any other city population in the US.

(1)Americans started the tradition of eating hot dogs at baseball parks in  

A.1871

B.1893

C.1901

D.1949

(2)It's believed that the name"Hot Dog "was created by  

A.Tad Dorgan

B.Charles Feltman

C.Chris Von Der Ahe

D. Johann Georghehner

(3)What can we know about hot dogs from the passage?  

A.New Yorkers like eating hot dogs most in the world.

B.Germans eat about 150 million hot dogs each July 4th

C.A world record says someone ate 73 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

D.About 21 million hot dogs were sold in America in the 1860s.

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