Frankfurter

I would completely understand

I'm from Canada. I know what it is.

In the US frankfurter kind of has two meanings (a wiener or hot dog), and a true frankfurter (sausage).

My first thought would be what we call a hot dog.

I would probably just used a tighter definition (" . . . a frankfurter by itself contains . . . ").

boron said:

Ok, so for some people frankfurter would mean a sausage plus bread, what makes a complete hot dog. I need to describe amount of certain nutrients in selected foods, so I probably need to say a "soft sausage" to be exact.

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If you said 'soft sausage', I wouldn't have any idea whatsoever what you were talking about. Lol!

Yup, hotdog.

Thankyou globalisation.

LOL - for a moment, I was thinking the Rocky Horror show.

Soft sausage to me would mean the crumbly kind that comes in a big roll and you fry it for breakfast.

dirtsider said:

LOL - for a moment, I was thinking the Rocky Horror show.

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give yer head a shake. that's Frank N Furter.

You may have another problem. I would first think hotdog for the word frankfurter, but if you're doing nutritional information, some hotdogs (the ones we eat) are all beef. Others are made from pieces of pork, and etc.. You will need to describe it more fully.

alleycat said:

In the US frankfurter kind of has two meanings (a wiener or hot dog), and a true frankfurter (sausage).

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I've never heard this, but maybe that's what happens in Tenn.

While wiener, hot dog, frankfurter are all recognized all over the USA, usage is usually regional. Most would recognize the term 'red hot' for a hot dog but it's usage is confined mostly to baseball park hot dog vendors.

Wiener (and only wiener) also means penis, so if you said, "He stood there, his wiener in his hand," that would not mean hot dog, red hot or frankfurter.

KTC said:

give yer head a shake. that's Frank N Furter.

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Yeah, I know. Recently saw an ad for Rocky Horror and glancing quickly through the forums first thing in the morning without actually paying attention makes for amusing double takes.

I'd never seen or heard the term 'red hot' before, but then I've never been to a ball park.

alleycat said:

In the US frankfurter kind of has two meanings (a wiener or hot dog), and a true frankfurter (sausage).

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Maybe that's true in Tennessee, but I've lived in the US my whole life, and wherever I've lived, "frankfurter" meant "hot dog" and "sausage" meant "sausage."

I'd go with 'hot dog' if you don't mean the more German, real-sausage versions.

Around here, frankfurter often means the real sausage one, too. My town was still German-speaking very late, so I'm sure it's probably regional.

Hot dog always means the American hot dog one, as far as I'm aware. Beef, chicken, pork or mixed? That's all covered in 'hot dog', I think. It could be nearly anything, lol

If I think hot dog, then I usually think of the whole sandwich. I would think of Frankfurter as the sausage inside the sandwich, which I might refer to as a 'hot dog sausage'. But we warned, I am anything but a sausage expert and I don't particularly like them!

I think of JFK

I would understand it.

That's worse than I thought.

Meh, to Marilyn and me he'll always be a big sausage