Tribal People Try Hot Dogs

A hot dog is a thin cooked sausage in a split soft roll with mustard, ketchup, onions or relish. It came to America with German immigrants and stuck to baseball, street carts and summer.

The texture is the story: smooth, bouncy, uniform, nothing like meat cut from a bone. People who grew up with tandoori chicken and mutton curry find it hard to place what animal they are eating, and they say so.

There is no sausage tradition in the village, so the nearest thing is a seekh kebab in a bun — same shape, completely different bite. Beef or chicken hot dogs are used in the videos.

If you cook it: Warm the sausage gently; boiling splits it. Toast the roll.