Right too. And the French didn't invent the Croissant, we did !

and here in the states they are "Hot Dogs"
why, I have no idea?
...sausages/wieners, not pastries of course

geojanes wrote:Yeah, it's a terrible name, no way to mitigate it. Good friend of my growing up had the last name Fagg. Now that's a tough name to go through high school with.

One of my younger brothers went to high school with an Indian guy named Dicshet Patel. I believe he changed his name on his 18th birthday to....George.

Faxmonkey wrote:That is correct Danivon. Btw in Vienna (Wien) we call the sausages Frankfurter :P for those interested in obscure details of Austrian/German cultural interaction :D.

It's Frankfurter in the UK too. Does anyone actually call them 'weiners' other than as an allusion to the male member?

What, you didn't grow up with the Oscar Meyer Wiener song? Probably heard it at least once a day through the 1970s and into the 80s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNddW2xmZp8

Mr. Weiner, a Democrat, came to the conclusion that he could no longer serve after having long discussions with his wife, Huma Abedin, when she returned home on Tuesday

I'm sure he was looking forward to that conversation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/nyregion/anthony-d-weiner-tells-friends-he-will-resign.html?hp

Perhaps it wasn't a true love marriage anyway ... cheating (of a sort) in year 1 of your marriage while your wife is pregnant is not usually a good indicator of a golden wedding anniversary on the horizon.