I believe hamburgers was a sandwich from Hamburg, Germany. Hot Dogs I'm not to sure.

Hamburger was named after a man like sandwich was. Don't know about hot dog.

Depends on where you get your hotdogs...

The Hamburger is properly attributed to Hamburg, Germany, but the word's origin is not as direct as it seems. What we now know as the hamburger was originally called "Hamburg-style steak", and was served at high-class restaurants in the 19th and early 20th centuries. During World War I, this type of preparation was renamed "Salisbury steak" to divorce it from its German origins. However, by that time, the patty and the bun had been united, and the modern hamburger was born. --- As for hot dog, one of the generally accepted origins of the name comes from a 1902 New York Giants game in which vendors were selling hot dogs with the slogan "Get your Red Hot Dachshund Sausages!" Cartoonist T.A. "Tad" Dorgan, who worked for the New York Evening Journal, facing an imminent deadline, drew a cartoon of one such vendor. Unfortunately, he couldn't spell dachshund, so he changed it to "hot dog". However, this story has been disproven. Dorgan did not work for the New York Evening Journal at that time, and the alleged cartoon has never been located. A more likely origin tale takes the term's coinage back to the 1890's, where sausage vendors set up carts outside the dorms of major eastern universities. These carts became known as "dog wagons" due to the questionable contents of the sausages of the time. A poem from the October 5, 1895 Yale Record reads: ECHOES FROM THE LUNCH WAGON "'Tis dogs' delight to bark and bite," Thus does the adage run. But I delight to bite the dog When placed inside a bun. Articles from other Ivy League school newspapers of the time indicate that the term was known well before the turn of the 20th century.

The origin of the word Hamburger comes from Hamburg and was called the Hamburg steak.The first time it was coined Hamburger was in England around 1884.Th origin of hot dogs originated in Frankfurt and are called Frankfurters.In the US in the 1860-s to the 1880's they were simply called dogs,for some butchers used dog meat in them. The first printed word hot dog was used in Knoxville about 1893.In the first Popeye cartoons there was a British guy called Wimpy,that was constantly eating burgers but had no money.His famous line is "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.