How the heck did corn dogs come about? Who got that brilliant idea? It just fascinates me that someone thought they were necessary.
Corndogs are amazing, sausage on a stick covered in a layer of cornmeal batter and deep fried. Something so amazing could only have been invented in the US
"Only in the US" is right, with our obesity rate. Is there a fun fact I may not know about them?
There is actually a big dispute over who actually gets credit for inventing the corndog, apparently there a big corndog war in the 1930s-40s for who get the full credit.
That sounds.. kind of amazing. a corndog war. I love how you put that. There has to be more fun facts, right?
National Corndog Day
National Corndog Day is a celebration concerning basketball, the corn dog (A corn dog is usually a hot dog sausage coated in a thick layer of cornmeal batter), Tater Tots, and American beer that occurs in March of every year on the first Saturday of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
History.
National Corndog Day was inaugurated in 1992 in Corvallis, Oregon by Brady Sahnow and Henry Otley. The first celebration was informal and involved only corndogs and basketball. In subsequent years
Corn dog
A corn dog (also spelled corndog) is a sausage (usually a hot dog) on a stick that has been coated in a thick layer of cornmeal batter and deep fried. It originated in the United States and is commonly found in American cuisine.
History.
Newly arrived German Texan sausage-makers, finding resistance to the sausages they used to make, have been credited with introducing the corn dog to the United States, though the serving stick came later. A US patent filed in 1927