Brevity by Dan Thompson for August 19, 2011

Yes it was

Someone should of been smart enough to invent the bun first.

The thought had come to Mr. Bun a few years before that, but he just didn’t have the dough.

It was taking him a long time to raise it, until investors saw the newfangled “hot dog”.

Then they quit saying his idea was half baked, and gave him what he kneaded.

Didn’t Dirty Harry have something to say about people who put ketchup on hot dogs? I don’t think it was flattering.

That’s about right, actually. I think the fact was that gloves were supplied to each consumer. Read about it in some sort of History For Kids sort of stories. They named real names and places. (Mormons featured a lot in those volumes, for some reason.)

KETCHUP????!!!!!!!!!! As a Chicagoan, I must object most stringently. Ketchup on a hot dog is aesthetically, morally, intellectually, theologically, socially, politically, racially, chemically, biologically, and historically wrong.

Package of five hot dogs: 4 get mustard, 1 gets ketchup, just for diversity’s sake.

Susan: I never sausage a load of puns at one time.

Plastic ketchup containers at that time???

I was very pleased to see: SPPLRRTT spelled correctly, as it so rarely is.

I wonder if the Earl of Sandwich had similar difficulties, early on?

Salsaaaaaaaaaaaaa, jollypeños; THEN you have your Happy Hot Dog!!!!

Once in Frankfurt I ordered a frankfurter (naturally) from a street kiosk. On a small plate I recieved a saugage, a roll, and a dab of mustard, all separate. I later had the same experience ordering a wiener in Vienna (AKA Wien). It seems it required good old American know-how to put the sausage, roll, and mustard all together.

Thanks to all who appreciate a hot dog served with a pun, and thanks to those who brought their own.

Meanwhile, I’m with Bailey. What goes on my hot dog stays on my hotdog, let no man (or woman) cleave them asunder.

Ketchup!!!! Or Catsup!!!Lots of it — gotta be Heinz.

And chopped onions, and if available, chili (as in chili con carne, not chili peppers)

A little relish, even fresh tomato — but no yellow stuff.

@No 6 — in spite of my addiction to English cryptic crosswords, I was unfamiliar with the phrase “He’s mustard” — never heard it on our side of the pond.

But I googled it == it seems to have 2 meanings, and be somewhat restricted to Northern England.

So thanks for today’s language lesson!

Otto — I’ve read that too, but also that the hot dog had already been invented elsewhere, as well.

One problem with tracing food history is that we don’t know what sort of sausage was meant at any point in history.

One man’s “hot dog” is another man’s…. OMG I can’t finish that sentence.

I was NOT going where you think!

Cracking up and ….blushing.