History: Which Came First—The Bun or the Dog?

Although it would be nice to point to one sweeping, cinematic story of how the hot dog came to be, chances are it took shape in many places at once, growing out of a long-lasting love of both the sausage and the bread. Somewhere in the millennia-long history of these two staples, people began putting the two together, and sometime after that an American classic, one that would spread over the entire world within one short century, was born.