ON KALAKAUA AT BEACHWALK IZZY'S IN WAIKIKI PHONE 923-7424 MENU PLATE LUNCHES Chile Rice & 2 Wieners $1.25 Stew & Rice $1.50 Sausage & Rice $1.25 IZZY's MINI MEALS Chili & Rice .65 Chile .80 Stew & Rice .85 Stew 1.00 DRINKS Coca Cola Sprite Root Beer Polynesian Punch Juice du Jour 20/30/40 Milk 30/40/50 Coffee & Tea .20 Ralph Nader Special $2.50 The "Eat All You Dare" Hot Dog Almost a Foot Long .80 "Izzy" Dog .50 Chile Dog .60 Cheese Dog .60 Coney Island Dog .70 Vegetarian Dog .50 Kosher Dog .70 Polish Garlic Sausage .95 Knackwurst .95 Cheesecake .60 The Hot Dog has the reputation of being totally American, but under close examination, we find that the combination of bread and sausage is the American innovation. The sausage dates back nine centuries before the birth of Christ when Homer's "The Odyssey" made mention of meat-filled links. Roman "suppers" around 64 AD made use of the "egg and mushroom" type of sausage. It was not until the Renaissance that each particular geographic area of Europe developed its own reputation for its sausage. In "Hot Dog" story, the sausage of Frankfort, Germany was the forerunner of today's frankfurter. It was a Barvarian name Antoine Feuchtwanger, who introduced the hot "frank" to St Louis in the 1880's. At this time the frank was still unbunned and the "hot frank" was sold with a small cotton glove to prevent the customer from burning his fingers. As early as 1871 the crowds of Coney Island were impressed with the "Red Hot" wiener. Still unbunned the "Red Hot" was vended during the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Then, as most sources agree, burning occured during the St Louis Exposition of 1904 when customers who used the cotton gloves to protect their fingers from the heat and grease continued to walk away with the gloves. Needless to say, this caused severe financial loss to the sausage vendor. As the story goes, the vendor went to his brother, a baker and requested his brother to make some long buns in the shape of the "Red Hot" wiener. The brother agreed... the idea caught on and spread. Spread it did... The man who was most responsible for the red hot gaining popularity in America was Harry M Stevens. As concessionaire at the Polo grounds in New York City, Stevens had his vendors on cold days yell "Red Hots... Red Hots" to those in the stands. The name "Hot Dog" did not come about until 1920 when a sport cartoonist named T.A. "TAD" Dorgan heard a vendor at a football game shout "Get your Red Hot Dachshund sausage here..." Dorgan who at earlier times had thought up "23 Skiddoo" and the song "Yes, We have no bananas" returned home and drew a cartoon characterizing the "Red Hot" as an elongated bun containing a dog. When asked later why not "Hot Dachshund"? Tad replied he could not spell dachshund. As for the world-wide partner to the Hot Dog - Sauerkraut. The name is German but the Chinese ate it back in the Third Century before Christ. Emperor Shik Hwang ordered fermented cabbage to be added to the rice diet of the laborers completing the Great Wall of China. It was the Tatars who overran China several thousands years later and carried kraut to Europe. Sauerkraut is not only good to eat but is a valuable source of vitamin C and "gas". It was Captain James Cook who in 1768 took sauerkraut around the world to ward off scurvy. Also, it is interesting to note for his last adventuresome trip the Captain requisitioned sausages and 19,337 pounds of "saurkraut" for H.M.S Resolution's sister ship "the Discovery". It was this third and final voyage when he discovered the Hawaiian Islands and was killed at Kealakekua Bay on the Big island on 14 Feb 1779. In more recent days "Hot Dog" has become an ejaculation expressive of surprise or approval. And at IZZY's we have Hot Dogs to surprise your approval... our regular dog where "you-add" mustard ketchup, mayonnaise, relish, onions, sauerkraut, and even horseradish.. we have cheese and chile dogs for those who like... our specialties - Polish garlic sausage & knackwurst, sliced on a "bigger bun" with mustard and sauerkraut are a gourmet treat... Oh, lest we forget our non-meat vegetarian Hot Dog... smaller than the regular hot dog but when covered with lots of relish and onions, one would never know it is made of grain sorghum. Whatever, IZZY will make you a good deal on a Hot Dog.