<P> The term dog has been used as a synonym for sausage since the 1800s, with one thought being that it came from accusations that sausage makers used dog meat, starting in at least 1845 . In the early 20th century, consumption of dog meat in Germany was common . The suspicion that sausages contained dog meat was "occasionally justified". </P> <P> An early use of hot dog in reference to sausage - meat appears in the Evansville (Indiana) Daily Courier (September 14, 1884): "even the innocent' wienerworst' man will be barred from dispensing hot dog on the street corner". It was used to mean a sausage in casing in the Paterson (New Jersey) Daily Press (31 December, 1892): "the' hot dog' was quickly inserted in a gash in a roll". Subsequent uses include the New Brunswick (New Jersey) Daily Times (May 20, 1893), the New York World (May 26, 1893), and the Knoxville (Tennessee) Journal (September 28, 1893). </P> <P> According to a myth, the use of the complete phrase hot dog in reference to sausage was coined by the newspaper cartoonist Thomas Aloysius "Tad" Dorgan around 1900 in a cartoon recording the sale of hot dogs during a New York Giants baseball game at the Polo Grounds . However, Dorgan's earliest usage of hot dog was not in reference to a baseball game at the Polo Grounds, but to a bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, in The New York Evening Journal December 12, 1906, by which time the term hot dog in reference to sausage was already in use . In addition, no copy of the apocryphal cartoon has ever been found . </P> <P> Common hot dog ingredients include: </P>

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