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In its home country of Germany, the hot dog was called frankfurter. It was named after Frankfurt, a German city. Frankfurters were first sold in the United States in the 1860s. Americans called frankfurters dachshund sausages. A dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body and short legs. "Dachshund sausage" seemed like a good name for the frankfurter. Dachshund sausages first became popular in New York, especially at baseball games. At games they were sold by men who kept them warm in hot- water tanks. As the men walked up and down the rows of people, they yelled, "Get your dachshund sausages! Get your dachshund sausages!" People got the sausages on special bread called One day in 1906, a newspaper cartoonist named Tad Dorgan went to baseball game. When he saw the men with the dachshund sausages, he got an idea for a cartoon. The next day at the newspaper office, he drew a bun with a dachshund inside-not a dachshund sausage, but a dachshund. Dorgan didn't know how to spell dachshund. Under the cartoon, he wrote, "Get your hot dogs!" Questions: 2. ****
1.Where was the name "frankfurter" come from?
2.What did Americans call frankfurters?
3.What is a dachshund?
4.Where in New York, were dachshund sausages first sold?
5.Who drew the cartoon- a bun with a dachshund inside?
In its home country of Germany, the hot dog was called frankfurter. It was named after Frankfurt, a German city. Frankfurters were first sold in the United States in the 1860s. Americans called frankfurters dachshund sausages. A dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body and short legs. "Dachshund sausage" seemed like a good name for the frankfurter. Dachshund sausages first became popular in New York, especially at baseball games. At games they were sold by men who kept them warm in hot- water tanks. As the men walked up and down the rows of people, they yelled, "Get your dachshund sausages! Get your dachshund sausages!" People got the sausages on special bread called One day in 1906, a newspaper cartoonist named Tad Dorgan went to baseball game. When he saw the men with the dachshund sausages, he got an idea for a cartoon. The next day at the newspaper office, he drew a bun with a dachshund inside-not a dachshund sausage, but a dachshund. Dorgan didn't know how to spell dachshund. Under the cartoon, he wrote, "Get your hot dogs!" Questions: 2. ****
1.Where was the name "frankfurter" come from?
2.What did Americans call frankfurters?
3.What is a dachshund?
4.Where in New York, were dachshund sausages first sold?
5.Who drew the cartoon- a bun with a dachshund inside?
Jawaban: 1. Germany
2. Sausages
3. A dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body
and short legs.
4. Baseball games
5. A newspaper cartoonist named Tad Dorgan
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