Hot Dogs

Acelyne O'Brien takes us on a cold war segway to the origin of hot dogs. The word 'hot dog' was sometimes used interchangeably with frankforter weener, which is actually german terms. By the 18 sixties, 18 seventis german immigrants are selling hot dogs in chicago. They became standard fare at baseball parks about 93 years ago when they were introduced by saint louise columbian exposition. And now America will eat 150 million hot dogs on july fourth - that's eight hundreda 18 hot dogs every second.