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1 The Hot Dog Is Bull
But Not to the Hungry
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A Great Roadside Industry Had Its Origin In
The Bull Fights of Old Spain
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By \\\ O. SAl'NDEKS.
Why is a hot dog?
ihe answer is bull, plain bull.)
At every ball park, amuse-1
I nient park and bathing beach;!
at fair grounds, farmer's meets
and church bazar; on untold ;
thousands of lunch counters,
I street stands and roadside'
stands venders are crving Hot'
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Dogs, the dogs are sizzling on!
! hot plates and Americans are'
I eating them by the millions, j
I eat them myself, my wife oats|
I 'em and my kids beg for them; the
Hot Dog has taken such a firm hold
j upon,the imagination and appetites
j of us Americans that I got a huneh
lit was about time for some of us'
j to look into the pedigree of this;
' animal that has within recent years I
established himself as the friend
of hungry humans and taken rank
as an industry along with tobacco,1
benzine and movies. And so I went
on the trail of the Hot Dog the.
other day. determined to chase him
to his kennel and establish his an-i
' cestrv.
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To iKvtrin with, then* just Hint no
such allium I. Hot Do;: isn't (log
at nil. Sonic rough-nook boor and
sandwich vendor at Coney Island
years ago gave him the name and
the name stuck. Vendors who have
] made millions out of the animal,
and packing concerns who manu
facture him by the mile have tried
their da rudest to tabu the name, but
it's too late. Hot dog has gripi>eil j
the American imagination and it is
here to stay. And why not? Pers
onally I prefer llot Dog to Hot Bull
any day in the week, or for Sunday
wayside fare. And Hot Dog is plain
' bull: it aint much else but.
| The Hot Dog originated in
Bologna. Spain. He was originally
plain Bologna sausage. Hermans I
lM>rrowod the bologna formula from
the Spaniards, put if up in sheep (
gut casings and it became a Frank
furter in Frankfort and a Weenie
in Vienna. Only when it hit Coney,
Island al?>ut fifty years ago did it i
! l?eenme Fb?t Dog.
It 1'sed to Be Bull
Tin* Spanish hull fisht < raze was
responsible for the holosna and Its (
lively offspring. It took n lot of;
perfectly good hulls to api?ease the
Mood lust of the hull fisht fans. j
Many masnificieut annuals were;
slain in the old arenas in a day. It
was a shame to waste the heef. hut |
until the holosna was invented no
one hut a hungry peasant would eat
hull heef. Itull meat is dark, course,
toucher than tousb and has an odor ,
' of its own that would make uu
onion set up and walk out of the
pantry or drive a limhitrsor cheese
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iii disgust from the ice box. if he
were not absolutely essential to the
l>orpetuatiou of the herd, stockmen !
wouldn't tolerate him at all. Hut j
he is indispensable in his peculiar j
field and is tolerated until lie |
reaches an age of respectability.
When he reaches that age of sanity I
and respectability in which the)
female of the species have no lively j
interest, he?well, he becomes Hot
Dog.
All the histories 1 get hold of fail
to record the name of the gentlemen
in Bologna who first hauled a slain j
bull out of the arena and chopped]
him up Into sausage. But he must!
have made a darn good job of it. I
am told that the formula hasn't
varied in any important particular
within the memory of the oldest
living sausage makers. The hull
meat is steamed and honed and
chopped and ground until its tough
fibres are reduced to pulp and its
IH'culiar aroma thoroughly dissipat
ed. It is mixed with jiork scraps,
of which immense quantities accu
mulate in the shaping and trim
ming of the ]>opular commercial
forms of ham, shoulder and bacon.
To give shai?e to his hams, bacon,
shoulders ami jsirk loins, the pack
er gets a lot of small pieces of fat
and lean?mostly fat?from every
part of the hog. These pork pieces
mixed with the hull meat, in pro
IKirtions of forty pounds of |>ork to
sixty pounds of hull, plus salt and
spices, make Hot l>og.
The meat when processed and
seasoned and mixed is run into
casings, twisted into links, hung on
racks, cooked in live steam, smoked
over hickory smoke, given a shower j
hath and are ready for the trade.
You didn't know your Hot Dog had j
a shower bath Just lieforo he left j
home, did you? I didn't either until
1 watched him through the whole
process of his generation in a metro
politan factory the other day and
saw him come clean through the,
whole works. Yes, he came through
clean. I ate a Hot Dog from that i
factory at Coney Island that night.
And I looked for a Hot Dog from
that particular factory because not I
all Hot Dogs are made by honest
packers in carefully inspected pack
ing houses. Thousands of little
butchers and packers all over the)
land have borrowed the Hot Dog
formula and employ it in the pro-,
duet ion of a nondescript commodity
in which some of them work off
scraps, blood clots, pork rinds audi
all of the accumulations of unsalable
odds and ends in their business. A
careless or dishonest butcher can
disguise a lot of awful stuff in the
processing and spiciug of a Frank
furter sausage. Knowing as much
about Hot Dog as I now know the
vendor who cries Hot I'uppy to me
has got to show me the name of a
reliable paeker 011 the original pack
age. Taken tip from me and see
thou doesr likewise.
It is a great industry in America
today, this Hot Dog business. And.
strange to say. it is the extent of
the industry ami not the formula
of the sausage tlia; is shrouded in
mystery. Any big paeker will let
you go through liis works and see
with your own eyes pretty much
everything that is to be seen and
known about the manufacture of a
Hot Dog, except liis spicing formula :
but the chances arc he won't tell
you how many pounds of Dogs lie
makes.
The Biggest Hot I?og Manii
This concealment of the volume
of the business extends rijjht down
to the hi;; purveyors. The greatest
Hot Dog stand in the world is at
Coney island. The Feltman hroth
ers have l?uilt up a five a ere restau
rant around a Hot Dog Stand; a
restaurant seating N.0O0 people in
all its ramifications. The Felt mans
will show you inside one of their
iee boxes twenty feet wide, thirty
feet long and nine feet high, filled
only with festoons of Hot Dogs and
tell you that there are 15.000 to
25.000 pounds of Dogs in the box.
Duly they won't eall them Dogs and
they won't like you any more if you
say it.
The Feltman boys will admit that
they employ thirty men in making
and serving Hot Dogs only, say
nothing of ten clerks to eheek the
Dogs and rolls of bread as they
come to the store room, go from the
store room to the hot plates and
service counters, and from the serv
ice counters to the waiters. They
will admit that they buy Hot Dogs
by the ton and sell them by tho
mile. But they won't tell you how
ntauy.
One lug statistical fact leaked out
last year during the World Series
in New York when Harry Stevens,
refreshment concessionaire at the
Dole Grounds let slip that the
[ crowds on the occasion of a great
double header ate 50.000 Hot Dogs
iu a siugle day.
The old adage that if you give
a dog a bad came you might as well
i kill him doesu't apply to bull. Hot
I Dog has established itself in the
| social, dietetic .and economic life of
[America in spite of its name. The
j name doesu't affect it at all. Oil a
1 tonr of more than a hundred miles
! ig ' " o ''".i'ev*'i 1 h~
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FOR LACK OF 15
CUP WAS LOST
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But 53 Farmerfolk From Pas
quotank Ranked Third at j
Raleigh. Learned Much
?
"I?" we had had a little more
cooperation in this county,j
enough say to have got 15 niorej
people to make the trip, we I
would have won the prize last
week for the largest attendance
of any county in the state at
the North Carolina farmers'
and farm womens convention."!
?So says County Agricultural
Agent G. w. Falls, who feels high-!
lj gratified that Pasquotank Conn-'
t.v's first attempt ot attend a state)
farm convention, would stand third
among all the counties in the state
at a meeting of J ..TOO of the best
farmers in the state. It is now
planned to make these trips an an
nual affair.
"The biggest tiling we learned nt
Raleigh was that Pasquotank Coun
ty tins the rest of the state heat
all hollow, when it comes to real
farm advantages," says Mr. Falls.
"One thing that was stressed,
which is badly needed here is or
ganization." he continued. "Our
farmers standing in need of the
spirit of unity and cooperation into
which they are gradually growing.
The growing of better livestock, the
importance of ixiultry raising, and a
i?<?re exact, study of plant diseases
were also stressed at the meeting."
Forty-seven farmers, four farm
women, two girls and one Iw?y made
the trip |?y automobile from Pas
quotank. The party left here 011
Monday morning at S:M0 a. m. go
ing via Kdcnton. Windsor. Tarboro.
Rocky Mount. Spring Hope, ami nr
j rhing in Kalcigli at seven p. in. On
this r. ute they left the soybean
1 belt, a lid passed thru the peanut,
and tobacco hells, and ran into the
heavy cotton section.
The party returned home by way
of R.ick.v Mount, Halifax. Wcldoii.
| Jacksonville. MurfreeslH.ro, Wintoii.
and (iatcsville.
J Those in the party from Pasqiio
i tank, were James Hritc. It G
jPundy. c. p. j?(.ksoJ)t wjison
j Sivlls. ]>. w. Cartwrigbt. Mr. and
-Mrs. p. \v Morgan. Set it Morgan,
| C. R. ifarrell, Paul Ives, Oscar
i Pritcliard It. s. (Tiaiqtell, K.
| Pritcliard. Walter Klddiek. all of
Mt. lleriiion township: W. T. Wil
liams- Of New kind : w. F. Jennings,
j lobn Hail. Frank Brothers and M.
j W. Samlets of \ixonton: Mr. and
-Mrs. c. p. Pritcliard. .\atban
Caroon. Mrs. p. </. i)ilvis. p. f.
i Pritcliard John ('berry, H. J. Wood,
| W ill Pritcliard of Providence: W.
W. .Small. Gaston small. Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Eves, Mr. yj,.s ]{
C. I.owrv. Ethel Mae Eowr.v. J. p.
Kves, Edward Eves, Wi I ma Eves.
Henry Markliam. F. p. Markliam
Sr., Mrs. and Mrs. William Meads,
luimadgc Markliam, Mr. ami Mrs.
John llerry. Mis. Jesse Wilson, of
Salem, and from Elizabeth t'itv, A.
K. Cohooii and G. \\\ Fulls.
the oilier diiy 1 observed hundreds
| of roadside hot (Joy: stands doing n
' flourishing business. Some called
them "Frankfurters," some called
j them "IJoast Franks." some called
I them "Hot Weenies" and one stand
| proclaimed from a screaming sign
i "A Loaf of it read and a Hunk of
! .Meat for a Dime." but the stand
that was doing the land office busi
ness on the whole route not only
had out the biggest signs "Hot Dog."
but had its signs illustrated with
! life size sizzling hounds, l'ncknrds
? and Fierce-Arrows mingled with
I flivvers in the roadside congestion
j at that shameless Hot Dog vendor's.
! It is the chunk of meat and the
loaf of bread for a dime that makes
the Hot Dog a favorite with Ameri
can poeketbooks, in a land where
poeketbooks have more considera
tion than stomachs. The Hot Dog
satisfies the appetite of millions
who must have a bite between meals
and it satisfies the pocket book, it
is, after all, a darn sight tastier
and more wholesome than a lot of
the bum food, badly cooked and
sloppily served by untidy waiters
'n thousands of small eating houses
j with big names and outrageous
prices.
And flic lint Irinds tlious
! nitils of eager vendors because our
I woods, our backyards and our alleys
are full of folks whose life ambition
is to go in business for themselves
and whose greatest hobby is
monkeying with a frying pan. On
a capital of a few dollars they may
realize their commercial ambition
and enjoy their hobby at one and
the same time.
Ami the profits are visible and
gratifying. Your vendor can count
j his profits as he splits his rolls,
I inserts the sizzling (logs and passes
you the mustard, ltoil oue cent,
Hot Hog three cents, gas, mustard
and overhead another cent; total
five cents, sale price ten cents, pro
fit five cents. And always mi! i.fiod
customers. Hot Hog is a business,
an unique business maybe, but. a
considerable business at that. And
that's no bull.
WOOL WASTL-O: fn any quantity,
!'.urjre or small; top market prices,
Ul>ot cash. W. C. OLOvKR. Uliz
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CITY AND COUNTY TO
GET TOGETHER HERE.
Some Trouble in Financing Bridge
Across Knobbs Creek, Com
missioners Refuse Funds
While the County Commissioners |
refused to appropriate the $12,000
requested by the Highway Coin
luission for replacing the old bridge
011 Knobhs Creek at the end of
Pennsylvania Avenue, the City
Council Monday night unanimously
endorsed the bridge.
The facts are, there nre several
industries across Knobhs Creek,
having a payroll of probably half
a million dollars annually. These
I industries serve farmers. They
j were established while the county
maintained a bridge to their plants.
They now contend that the county
has no right to abandon the bridge.
Inasmuch as the city benefits by
the bridge, and because the indus
I tries across Knobhs Creek have been
taken in the City School zone, and
are paying taxes for the schools, it
I looks like a matter on which the
i city and county will eventually get
together. The city has a surplus in
its treasury, the Auditors say, and
this could be used. To abandon the
bridge, would be a black eye on the
town's attitude toward industries,
business men say.
WANTS MORE DOPE FROM |.
THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON
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(A Communication.)
Editor THE INDEPENDENT:
Please request this favor of the
Auditor of Washington County Mr.
| W. J. Jackson, Jr., through your
columns.
Dear Auditor:
Would yon please he so kind as j
to furnish nie as well as the Tax ;
I Payers of Washington County with |
| the information you have on hand i
relative to the deal the Board of
j Education had with the Internation-1
ill Harvester Co., of Charlotte. N..
It'., with reference to the school i
1 trucks purchased from this concern.
; I understand there was a difference
! in the amount of the voucher issued j
j and the draft, held by the United I
i Commercial Bank. As a tax payer:
j of Washington County I am entitled
I to this information and 1 would ap-j
, predate your publishing these facts |
through the columns of the lude- j
i pendent in its next issue.
Very truly yours.
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that cats can see in the dark; that snakes fascinate their prey; that
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