The history of the sausage goes back to ancient Rome but it’s generally agreed that the American version of the “hot dog” can be traced to German immigrants to New York. They were the first to sell “wieners”, from a pushcart, in the 1860s.
The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, also called the Columbian Exposition, brought thousands of visitors who consumed large quantities of sausage sold by vendors. People liked this food that was easy to eat, convenient, and inexpensive.
One report says a German immigrant sold them, along with milk rolls and sauerkraut, from a pushcart in New York City’s Bowery during the 1860’s. In 1871, Charles Feltman, a German baker opened up the first Coney Island hot dog stand selling 3,684 dachshund sausages in a milk roll during his first year in business.
A wiener means a sausage or hot dog. It shape also advocates for it to be used as a slang for penis. … “That has got to be the most delicious wiener I’ve eaten in my life.” Weiner on the other hand stands as a misspelling of the above word adapted from the German language but makes more sense phonetically in English.