The state credits Harry M. Stevens of Niles (pop. 21,128) as being the first person to think of wrapping up a frankfurter in a piece of bread-later a roll-and calling it a hot dog. It is said he coined the name after seeing a caricature of a frankfurter made to look like a dachshund in the New York Daily Times in 1900.
Harry M. Stevens Credited for Creation of the Hot Dog
on February 29, 2004
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