re: #217 darthstar

So it doesn’t taste like a crappy chili-dog?

“wiener” is german for ‘Viennese’, i.e., from Vienna

it’s one of my pet peeves that americans have come to think that “weiner” means a hot dog

this came about when they started to import “wiener wurst”, which means ‘viennese sausages’, and even though it’s ‘wurst’ that means sausage, americans decided it was the other word

a ‘wienerschnitzel’ is a viennese cutlet - ‘schnit’ is to cut, see? - not a hot dog