They make 'em 0.5 m long in Hamburg, Germany---well, at least as sausages. Quoting "m.f.moon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The local Mexican-Americans here in Orange County call them 'salchichas'. > m moon > > ------ Original Message ------ > Received: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:36:22 PM PDT > From: Jon Saxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:34663] Re: OT: hot dog > > Pierre Abbat wrote: > > >On Sunday 25 September 2005 18:34, Carleton MacDonald wrote: > > > > > >>Two more I've seen. The first is French and the second is Quebec. > >> > >>Coke Light = Coke Diète > >>Hot dog = chien chaud > >> > >> > > > >Hot dogs were originally called dachshund sausages, but someone didn't know > >how to spell "dachshund" and just called it a dog. "Chien chaud" sounds very > > >silly. > > > >phma > > > > > Perhaps, but no more so than "perro caliente" that I heard in Costa Rica. > > > > > Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Editor, "Metric Today" U.S. Metric Association, Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two cardinal sins, from which all the others spring: impatience and laziness." ---Franz Kafka
