"Interesting textureeee.......hurrllllll!"
Posted on 02/25/2010 8:32:23 AM PST by AtlasStalled
A 140-year-old hot dog has been discovered with a contemporaneous receipt encased in ice under one of the old buildings on Coney Island which formerly housed a restaurant operated by Charles Feltman who is credited with inventing the tasty treat.
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“It was all shriveled and nasty! And the hotdog was horrible too!” *customer review of hotdog stand and owner.
I’d like to give her MY hot dog!
Would a street vendor give out a receipt for a hotdog? Sounds like a shaggy dog story.
This has to be a joke. NY can get pretty hot in the summertime. Should we believe that the ice has never melted in 140 years? You can’t believe this and global warming at the same time.
"Interesting textureeee.......hurrllllll!"
left over from a batch that was served to the public last summer
That look could freeze anything.
Network falls for 140-year-old hot dog hoax
Someone should tell CNN that the fire-eaters at Coney Island don’t really eat the fire either.
The TV news channel fell for some old time Coney Island carnival buskering, when it posted a story about the "discovery" of a "140-year-old hot dog" that turned out to be a big hoax.
Officials at the Coney Island History Project had put the "ancient" frank on display, saying that it was unearthed during the demolition of the historic Feltman’s Kitchen, which is the site where the first hot dog was made.
The historians claimed the geriatric snack was preserved because it was frozen in a hunk of ice. They put it up, bun and all, in a sidewalk display with a sign claiming it was the "1st Hot Dog."
It was a great story, and CNN ran with it, along with local cable station News 12. But it turns out that the History Project was just pulling a fast one to get publicity for their exhibition of real artifacts from the Feltman’s site, which they are holding this summer.
"The recent discovery by an amateur archaeologist of the ‘140 Year Old Feltman’s Hot Dog’ encased in ice along with a bun, [and] an original receipt from Feltman’s, ... was a publicity stunt in the grand tradition of Coney Island ballyhoo," said Tricia Vita, spokeswoman for the history project."
She said that the hoax was an example of Coney Island publicity history, and even dedicated it an old time press a gent named Milton Berger, known for P.T. Barnum-like hype.
"Mr. Berger was a veteran of the Damon Runyonesque school of Broadway press agentry and the last of the Ballyhoo Boys," she said in a release. "Before he came to Coney Island in 1952, his fellow publicists always remembered that Milton Berger got a man to sue a barber claiming he had ruined his toupee giving his a haircut, the idea of course being that the toupee was so good, it even fooled the barber.
"In Coney Island, the flamboyant Mr. Berger was a master at estimating attendance.. He was famous for telling the papers there were 2 million on the beach, rain or shine," she said.
Vita said that she was surprised to learn that in the Internet age suckers seem to be born at a rate much faster than every minute.
"I was surprised in the beginning at how many people believed it was true," she said. "But after reading all the buzz about it on Twitter and the Internet, I’m not really that surprised because people want to believe these types of things are true."
CNN has pulled its video with the explanation: “CNN cannot independently verify the validity of this story.”
"Getchyer antique sausage inna bun; a bargain at just 30 coppers, and that's Cuttin Me Own Throat!"
That was my first thought. Tell me HOW a hot dog was in ICE for 140 years? No way...no how. This isn't the Yukon we are talking about...
Seinfeld ping? sign me up...
If CMOT Dibbler sold that sausage, the customer would soon receive AN UNWELCOME VISITOR.
Nothing new about that; Dibbler has very few repeat customers, IIRC.
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encased in ice under one of the old buildings on Coney Island which formerly housed a restaurant operated by Charles Feltman who is credited with inventing the tasty treatGenetic studies done in an Indian newspaper in the 1990s proved that 19th century hot dogs went extinct and contributed nothing to anatomically modern hotdogs. |'D Thanks hennie pennie. |
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