Working Stiffs… thats one of the art collections now at the Queens Museum in NYC through November 14th. Fifty photographs have been selected from the permanent collection of the Queens Museum of Art to articulate what it is to work, cross-culturally and geographically, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. An extensive range of images highlight contemporary [...]
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A Piece Of Hot Dog History To Be Demolished
Contrary to popular belief it was not Nathan Handwerker (a Jewish immigrant from Poland who started Nathan’s Famous) that brought the hot dog to Coney Island, but rather Charles Feltman (1841-1910), a German butcher who is accredited with the idea of selling pork sausages on a warm bun, around 1867. Feltman reportedly sold over 3,000 [...]
Should hotdog packs carry warning labels?
The Cancer Project, a non-profit anti-meat consumer group in Washington, D.C., United States, had filed a class-action suit in New Jersey alleging that hotdogs posed serious health risks. The nonprofit Cancer Project is filing the suit on behalf of John O’Donnell, Ruthann Hilland, and Michele DeScisciolo, who purchased hot dogs made by the companies without [...]
Caesar Ate Hot Dogs?
Most people believe that the hot dog was invented some time in the 1800s. However here is a little known fact that you were not taught in history class; Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar’s cook, Gaius in 64 A.D. accidentally forgot to clean a pig before roasting and discovered the intestines puffed, hot with air. He [...]
