HOT DOG : )

Hot dog is not just a normal mass food but it can also represent the ideas that Americans hold dear and also show what the society and culture are like from their special characters.

In the nineteenth century, there are a lot of Germans who immigrated to the United States with their sausage food culture by selling their wieners, frankfurts and other kind of sausages on city street and public events. The most famous sausage-makers always trained by Germans. By the twentieth century, ethnicity of Us has turned to be the world of hot dogs. German sausage later became Americanize by the reasons. First is that other ethnic group adapted them. Second is the ongoing of modern food.

Jewish is also another immigrants in US between 1880 and 1934. They play a big role in forcing behind the all-beef hot dog. Hot dogs varied in composition but under the reputation of Jewish company and that the all- beef hot dog became standardize in Chicago by 1950s. It based on the idea that kosher is purer than any other kind of food even though most beef hot dogs are not really kosher.

If Jews are the one who made hot dogs then Greeks, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Italians and Maxicans are the one who dressed them. They adapted and created new kind of toppings on classic Chicago hot dog and some other ingredients, or even invented new flavor. The Chicago hot dog is the earlier form of early twentieth century Chicago ethnicity. Similar stories are also happened in other cities. The ‘Coney’ is a hot dog in a bun coated with a meat sauce called chilli, or chilli dog. It is originated from Detroit around 1914. The sauce vary but mostly based on tomato with spice.

Selling hot dog is known as a pennies business. From penny and then add up to higher amount of money which give benefit to both producers and sellers. It might seems to be worthless but who know, this kind of business can help family rose from poverty. For instance, A.E. Munier a former professor of languages at Lake Forest College in Illinois who claimed that he have made S200 a month profit which is S20 more than the payment of college teaching.

Hot dog can also represent the individualism and equality of American thought and it is one of the first food that show the symbol of social unity. Everyone from different classes stand together and eat their city’s singular sausage. It is a kind of industrial food that transformed into something individual.