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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

    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 to draw a 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.

    HOT DOG FUN FACTS

    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. (1) Americans started the tradition of eating hot dogs at baseball parks in ___________.
      A . 1871 B . 1893 C . 1901 D . 1949
    2. (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. (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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