The basic idea behind the hot dog—injecting a variety of minced meats into a pig’s intestine—is common to many cultures, and thus the hot dog has been known by many other names. Frankfurter and wiener, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, both derive from the European cities where they were made: frankfurter from. Frankfurt (a German city whose name literally means ford of the Franks, so named because it marks the place where the Prankish army crossed the Main River in the first century) and wiener from Vienna (an Austrian city whose name literally means white-river fort). In Europe, these sausages were known as Frankfurter wurst and Vienna wurst, but the wurst part—which means sausage—was dropped soon after the introduction of the name to North America. In contrast, the origin of hot dog is more circuitous and perhaps more apocryphal. Apparently, German immigrants to America sometimes called wiener sausages dachshunds, the shape of the sausage somewhat resembling the long body of the dachshund dog. The name became popular at baseball stadiums where vendors shrieked out, “Red hot dachshunds! Red hot dachshunds!” (This cry is also the source of yet another name for the hot dog—the red hot.) These “dachshund” sausages became so popular that a cartoonist—Tad Dorgan, well-known at the time for his doglike caricatures of Germans—decided to ride the wiener-craze by drawing a cartoon of a dachshund dog lying in a large bun. However, after finishing the drawing and moving on to the caption, he realized that he did not know how to spell dachshund and so, with his deadline approaching, he simply changed the vendor’s cry to “Red hot dogs! Red hot dogs!” Dorgan’s cartoon ran in 1906, two years before the next appearance of hot dog in print.