The owner — that’s me, Michael — was born in Frankfurt am Main. So perhaps the whole sausage business was decided rather early on, even though nobody bothered to ask me at the time.
It began a little earlier.
The story of the hotdog, however, began a little earlier. In the 19th century, German immigrants brought their Frankfurter and Wiener sausages with them to America. Around 1867, German immigrant Charles Feltman came up with the rather practical idea of putting a hot sausage into a long bread roll on Coney Island in New York. That way, people could simply eat it by hand — quick, uncomplicated, and without a plate or cutlery. It was the perfect street food.
How the name stuck.
Even the name Hot Dog probably has German roots. The long sausages were jokingly compared with dachshunds — also long, also German. Somewhere along the way, the word “dog” stuck, and the hot sausage became the Hot Dog. The exact origin of the name is still not entirely clear, but one thing is certain: the story was never boring.
Next stop: Cape Town.
More than 150 years later, the journey continues to Cape Town — and this is where things start to get a little naughtier.
Because at Naughty Hotdog & more, it doesn’t stop with sausage, bread and mustard. The hotdog is nowhere near its limits. Quite the opposite: now imagination gets to run wild — and we have only just begun.
Quite a journey for one cheeky little sausage: from Frankfurt to New York to Cape Town. And you can already imagine just how naughty this hotdog is going to get.Back to Naughty Hotdog