National Geographic‘s Hot Dog History full of Bologna

This July Walt Disney owned magazine company National Geographic will be publishing a false biased account of the history of the American hot dog. The article will be primarily referencing pseudo-intellectual hot dog author Bruce Craig, a Chicago resident with limited basic knowledge of hot dog history. Often focusing on Chicago as being the prime focus.

In his very short book Hot Dog a Global History Craig dismisses the state of New Jersey which is widely known as the capital of hot dogs as “a state with identity problems.” He also said that only New Jersey’s Rutt’s Hutt is popular in that state. It wasn’t until Craig met true hot dog expert Jersey resident John Fox that he understood how prominent the hot dog is in that state.

Craig fails to focus on the world’s first hot dog restaurant Feltman’s of Coney Island and instead focuses on Chicago’s Vienna Sausages which debuted nearly thirty years after Charles Feltman first placed a Frankfurter sausage in a bun. That’s correct. The hot dog was born in Brooklyn, NY and didn’t become popular in Chicago until decades later.

A journalist based in Spain named Braden Phillips will be writing the article for National Geographic based on Bruce Craig’s false narrative.

It’s well documented that the hot dog was invented at Coney Island, NY in 1867 as a Frankfurt sausage on an elongated bun. Chicagoeans ripped off the New York concept of a hot dog by debuting their version at the 1893 Columbian Exposition using the bland Vienna sausage instead on a bun.

Bruce Craig’s version of hot dog history is worthy of a Disney animated fantasy.