British PM Cameron Mocked for Eating Hot Dog with Fork and Knife

[Mayerling]

I'm a red-state jingo, and I'll sometimes use a knife and fork, especially if I'm having something messy like a chili dog with onions and cheese. There's nothing wrong with wanting your food to end in your mouth, instead of on the ground.

Ginger and Mr. Cameron are perfectly right. Everyone tends to forget that two items of modern "fast food" history were created at American World's Fairs (the 1893 World Columbian Exposition for "hot dogs" and the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair for ice cream cones) by sheer accident. The hot dogs were sausages that you were given a mitt to hold with originally, but people were absent-mindedly walking off with the mitts. The entrepreneur saw a baker nearby and bought roles to make sausage sandwiches, which were renamed frankfurters - they became "hot dogs" in an anti-German piece of nonsense that swept the U.S. in World War I, when we did not have German music played at concert halls, and sauerkraut was renamed "liberty cabbage" (and schnausers were renamed "liberty dogs"). The ice cream cone had a similar beginning at the St. Louis World's Fair when the seller their was running out of cheap plates to serve his ice cream scoops on, and saw a waffle seller nearby and got some waffles that he turned cone shape for his ice cream. Only difference was that the "ice cream cone" never had it's name changed for stupid super-patriotism.

[Ginger]

I'm a red-state jingo, and I'll sometimes use a knife and fork, especially if I'm having something messy like a chili dog with onions and cheese. There's nothing wrong with wanting your food to end in your mouth, instead of on the ground.

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