Why are hot dogs called hot dogs when they don’t contain any dog meat?

[jamartheg]

[ChrisMaster69]

They were called Dachshund sausages, then became hot dogs

Frankenfurter because of the city

https://www.hot-dog.org/culture/hot-dog-history

[andreasderjuengere]

Because to order a

''bunwithasausageandvegetableswithmustardonit''

would take too long.

[Daniela1982]

Because they resembled a wiener dog. Then they just dropped it to dogs. I'm wondering where the term "franks" came from.

[mandyfire98]

That we know of