History of frankfurter sausage

Most sausages sold as frankfurters in America are made of a mixture of pork and beef, unlike the original frankfurters which consist only of pork.

Sausage making invented as a means of preserving meat and goes back as far as recorded history and many present day sausages are named for their place of origin.

The frankfurter originated to the fifteenth century in Frankfurt, Germany and Germans immigrants brought the technology to the USA.

It was said that frankfurter was developed there in 1484 5 years before Columbus set sail for America. 

Another history mentioned that frankfurter was created in the late 17th century by Johann Georg Lehner of Coburg who took his creation to the old Imperial capital, Frankfurt.

When Frankfurter sausages were introduced internationally at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1883, they were such a success that producers from Frankfurt wanted to prevent culinary plagiarism.

In 1929 a court in Berlin decided that only sausages made in the Frankfurt are could legitimately be labeled Frankfurt Würstchen or Frankfurter sausages.

Needless to say, populations, cities were formed and sausage kitchens started along with them. They duplicated the homemaker’s recipes on a commercial basis.
History of frankfurter sausage