Antoine Feuchtwanger, who was a Bavarian sausage peddler, is usually given credit for having invented the first hot dog. His creation first appeared in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States in 1883.
Sausages were Mr. Feuchtwanger' s specialty. They were so hot that Antoine used to let his customers borrow white gloves while they were eating his sausages. Without the gloves, they were too hot to touch. However, many of his customers often forgot to return the gloves and walked away with them, and with them went Antoine's profits.
So, Antoine got the idea of putting the sausages into buns made of bread to avoid using and losing the gloves. Besides that, the people could eat the buns, so Antoine could even raise the price for this newly‑invented food item. That's how the very first hot dog was made. It is certain that his new idea was popular, because many hot dogs have been eaten since then.
A cartoonist in New York whose name was Ted Dorgan is generally believed to have been the first person to invent the term "hot dogs". He used this name for Antoine's new invention. Dorgan used hot dogs as his cartoon characters and even gave them spoken lines of conversation. Now "hot dog" is a term familiar to people all over the world.