How food gets its name

Many people think the sandwich came from England in the eighteenth century. others say sandwiches are an American invention. The truth is this type of food has been with us for thousands of years. It is only its name that is not very old.
A British nobleman named John Montagn, the Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), loved to play cards and didn't like to stop his game for meals. When he was hungry, he asked his servant to bring him a piece of meat between two slices of bread, this way he didn't have to use fork and knife, and his hands stayed clean. he gave the sandwich its name, and this way of eating soon became popular in Europe.
Long before then, however, the ancient Romans enjoyed eating meat between two slices of bread. For centuries, people in the Middle East have stuffed barbecued lamb and other tasty things into pita, a type of flat bread with a pocket. A long time before the spaniards arrived in the New World in  the sixteenth century, Mexicans had their own version of the sandwich, thin, round tortillas filled with beans, eggs, and cheese, and then rolled up.
What country do you think of when you hear the word hot dog and hambuger? The United Sates? These kinds of sandwiches are very popular in the U.S., but they were not born there.
The hot dog also came from Germany. During the Middle Ages, European sausage makers developed local recipes and named their sausages after their cities. In 1852, the butcher of Frankfurt, also called the dachshund sausage because it looked like the pet dog of one of butcher. When the frankfurter traveled to America, both its named went with it. Vendor sold it at baseball games, shouting "Get your red-hot dachshund sausage!" A cartoonist named Tad Dragon drew one for his newspaper in 1906. He couldn't spell the world dachshund, so he wrote hot dog instead. This name quickly replaced the others