Paintings of Franz von Matsch
In the portrayal, there is a little symbolism going on as there is a sausage and a dog (bulldog) is portrayed together. In today’s time, eating dog-meat has been tabooed by the ‘civilized’ society as more and more people are keeping dogs as their pets. They are now in many houses living as family members in modern countries. Surprisingly, until 1845 people of Germany used to eat dog meat. Just like today’s sausages filled with pork, beaf, chicken or all of them together, at that time people would eat dog meat stuffed in sausages. It was a common knack without considering it a bizarre cuisine. Yes, that’s the reason, today we call our sausages ‘hot dogs’. The practice of eating dog-meat diminished around 1845. The […]