Corn dogs are incredible. Hot dogs were already good, but a hot dog coated in thick cornmeal batter and deep fried? Mm!
Well, I'm vegetarian so I'll take your word for it! I do love just about anything coated in batter, so perhaps you can tell me a little about these corn dogs.
Sure! They were originally sausages that newly arrived German Texans were having trouble selling. So, they introduced the corn dog, although it didn't have a stick back then.
Are those the ones on a stick which are sold at county fairs? They always look delicious!
Yep, those are the ones! It was actually spelled Korn Dogs, but when baked in corn batter they resembled ears of corn. So the new spelling stuck!
So that's how they got their name - hilarious! Perhaps I could take a veggie hot dog and replicate the taste. What else do you know about them?
of current corn dog vendors claim responsibility for the invention and/or popularization of the corn dog. Carl and Neil Fletcher lay such a claim, having introduced their "Corny Dogs" at the Texas State Fair sometime between 1938 and 1942. The Pronto Pup vendors at the Minnesota State Fair claim to have invented the corn dog in 1941. Cozy Dog Drive-in, in Springfield, Illinois, claims to have been the first to serve corn dogs on sticks, on June 16, 1946. Also in 1946, Dave Barham opened
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