The hot dog was not invented by Nathans of Coney Island. It was invented around 1870 by a Coney Island restaurant owner named Chalrles Feltman, who was a German immigrant. Nathan Handwerker worked for him and, with encouragement from legendary performers Jimmy Durante and Eddie Cantor, started his own business in 1916, charging only a nickel for a hot dog. Feltman's were a dime. Feltman's closed many years go. According to my late father-in-law,, their hot dogs were better than Nathan's.

One thing that is totally foreign to Brooklyn, and New York, is putting cheese with hot dogs. It's unheard of here, probably because mixing dairy and meat is against the Jewish religion. I've never seen hot dogs with cheese in Brooklyn or NYC. I'm not ever Jewish, and it sounds gross, lol.
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