“It dates back to a German practice of eating dogs. Just sayin’”
I believe that is what we would call an “Old Wives Tale.”
I had googled earlier and learned they are called hotdogs because the Germans favorite dog was Daushounds (weiner dogs, that is what we call them.) :-) Anyway because the sausage/weiner/frankfurt is long and slender like a Daushound that is why they called them hotdogs. They looked like their dogs.
Now who can trust anything that is said on Google anymore though.
I agree!
Although some in Europe who were starving during the war may have had to-who knows?