世界節(jié)假日博覽 第130期:全國熱狗日

In the USA, July is National Hot Dog Month. The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council decided that National Hot Dog Day would be around July 23rd every year. In fact, Hot Dog Day is celebrated outside of the USA too. There are celebrations in Canada, Great Britain and Germany. The main activity on this day is to eat hot dogs, but there are other activities and events. The event with the highest profile is the annual Hot Dog Lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. More than 1,000 Washington officials celebrate the hot dog at the lunch. The Hot Dog Council provides information about hot dogs and how to eat them. They even provide advice on hot dog eating etiquette. There is a lot more to eating hot dogs than most people think.

在美國，7月是全國熱狗月。全國熱狗和香腸委員會決定將每年的“全國熱狗日”放在7月23號左右舉行。事實上，美國以外的國家也會慶祝。加英德三國也會慶祝。這天的最主要活動就是品嘗熱狗，但還會舉行其它活動。最引人矚目的活動要數(shù)華盛頓國會山的年度熱狗午宴。超一千名華盛頓官員將慶祝熱狗日。全國熱狗委員會提供了有關熱狗，以及如何品嘗的信息。甚至還提供了食用禮節(jié)的建議。關于食用熱狗的信息遠比人們想象的要多。


The German city of Frankfurt is said to be the birthplace of the sausage used in hot dogs – the frankfurter. In 1987, the city celebrated the 500th birthday of the hot dog. The Austrian city Vienna disputes this. Officials there say their Wiener sausages existed many years before frankfurters. North Europeans brought sausages of all kinds to America. The name “hot dog” was first used in 1901 in New York at the New York Polo Grounds. A food seller started selling dachshund sausages in bread rolls. He shouted to people to get them while they were hot. A sports cartoonist didn’t know how to spell “dachshund” and so called them “hot dogs” in a newspaper cartoon the next day. The name has stuck for over a century.

德國城市法蘭克福據(jù)說是香腸發(fā)源地，即法蘭克福香腸。1987年，該城慶祝熱狗誕生500周年紀念。奧地利城市維也納對此表示質疑。當?shù)毓賳T稱維也納香腸在法蘭克福香腸之前就已誕生，要早于法蘭克福好幾年。北歐人將各種香腸傳入美國。1901年，“hot dog”一詞首先在紐約Polo Grounds球場使用。一位商家開始銷售面包卷香腸。他向人們叫賣熱噴噴的香腸。一名體育漫畫家不知如何拼寫“dachshund”：而在第二天的漫畫報紙上，他把這種香腸稱之為“hot dogs”。并持續(xù)了一個多世紀。