Who invented corn dogs

Its also sold in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Around , a German immigrant by the name of Charles Feltman opened the first hot dog stand on Coney Island.

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A man named G. Boyington, of Salem Ore. He impales a 'hot dog' on a stick, dips the 'dog' in the batter, thrusts if for a couple of moments into boiling deep fat, and presto! And it remains hot for 45 minutes or more, hence will probably be seen on many picnics. His was the first Pronto Pup franchise east of the Rockies, according to his son, Gregg.

It was , and Brede had flown to Chicago for a business meeting. Brede, Karnis said, was "the kind of guy who figured anything that works in Chicago should be able to work in the Twin Cities. He didn't even know what he was in line for — he just knew if it was good enough to earn that long a line, it was worth checking out. He skipped his meeting, waiting. Karnis said his father brushed off the offer. He was making good money and was fielding all kinds of half-baked offers from people falling hard for the corn dog.

But Brede was persistent. He flew back to the Twin Cities, went before the state fair board and secured six concession spots. Then he got back on a plane, flew back to Chicago, got back in line and gave Jack Karnis the offer again. Karnis' wife Gladys almost sank the deal, her son said. I've never even heard of it. She was also hesitant to give up the sure thing they had going in Chicago, but Brede offered to match Jack's earnings for the year, and they signed up.

That year was a return to normal for the fair, after being cancelled in due to World War II and in due to polio.

The Karnis family sold , Pronto Pups that first year, and they haven't missed a state fair since. The Karnises didn't give up their Chicago roots, though. Instead, Gregg remembers, they'd make the drive every summer along two-lane highways, 14 hours each way. The interstates had not yet been built.

Gregg, who started working the family business at the fair when he was 12, left Chicago for school in Minnesota when he was 20 — and stayed. He eventually bought out his parents and the Brede family in , taking control of Pronto Pups across the state. Next year will be his 50th working the fair. Some things have changed, he said, but some things never will.

My dad was a dogger on maintaining consistency. In the world, really. Pronto Pups are big in Canada, but not as big as they are in Minnesota. The Memphis area also does a swift business, and the fried dogs are a big favorite at the Kansas State Fair. Those are the sweet spots, said Dave Sulmonetti, Pronto Pup's president. Have you lived under a rock? They have no idea they're living in the birthplace of the corndog — maybe.

Plenty of people in Dallas would be willing to fight them for that honor. If it wasn't George Boyington at the Oregon beach, cursing the rain and frying up the first corn dog, then it might have been the Fletcher brothers, Carl and Neil, on the Texas state fairgrounds in The brothers were actors, according to GG Fletcher, who married into the corn dog dynasty.

They'd seen a baked sausage around Dallas that sparked the idea, and they spent months perfecting the batter in their home kitchen: Not too slippery, not too thick. The final, secret recipe — it's kept locked up these days — hasn't changed much in the 74 years since.

In Texas, the Fletchers' creation is called the Corny Dog. Oprah is reportedly a big fan. She takes hers with mustard. About , are sold every year at the day state fair. Just as they are for the Karnises and the Sulmonettis, corn dogs are a family business for the Fletchers, who are now on their third generation of descendants working the fair stands.

There's batter in their blood. Are any of them right? Skip Fletcher, son of Neil, remembers taste-testing corny dogs for months while they were being perfected, so they can definitely lay claim to the recipe for their corny dogs. Meanwhile, a year earlier in , a small fountain shop in Portland, Oregon, called Pronto Pup was selling its cornmeal battered and deep-fried hot dog on a stick.

George and Vera Boyington, the original owners of the first Pronto Pup, were apparently thrilled when their creation took off and became an American craze. Corn dog history stretches even further back in time, so it seems unlikely. As Ed Waldmire, one of the founders of Cozy Dog Drive-In, tells it, he was in Muskogee, Oklahoma, sometime before when he had the most delicious sandwich at a roadside diner.

It was a hot dog baked inside cornbread. The problem, as he saw it, was that it took too long to prepare. He told his friend Don Strand about it, and Don, whose dad was in the bakery business, got to work coming up with a recipe that would become the modern battered and deep-fried corn dog.

After years of perfecting their recipe, they launched cozy dogs in