Gloves?! - The online computery journal thingy of a turtle
Aug. 22nd, 2008
09:13 pm - Gloves?!
Wait a minute, wait a minute, WAAAIT a minute!
OK, you've heard the story about the invention of the hot dog bun, right? Guy at the World's Fair selling hot dogs, and lending his customers gloves so they could hold the hot sausages without burning their hands, but they kept walking off with his gloves, so he bought some rolls from a nearby vendor, sliced them open, and stuck the hot dogs in. I may have some of the details wrong, but you know about that, right?
What I wanna know is... had the STICK not been invented yet? Y'know, as in "[insert name of food]-on-a-stick"?
I thought the waffle cone was true though, as ice cream was a far more recent invention.
This all changed in 1965 when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a hot dog vendor who had been sued for serving hot dogs on sticks, but the plaintiff had not shown that the stick had bark on it, or that there even was a hot dog underneath the corn bread covering.
True story! Really! It is!
So, it's all nepotism, I tells ya! It's a conspiracy to get you to eat hotdogs because of their bunly goodness! Boycott hotdogs! (unless they have Sandwich Spread by Kraft on them. Yummy!)
Wikipedia seems to support a version of the ice cream cone story, but none of the others. I should write in to Snopes about it.