I hear you there.  The real credit for the corn dog actually lies with sausage makers, newly arrived in Texas, from Germany.
Ketchup or Mustard? It was introduced to the US by Texas Germans.
Whenever I go to the fair, I have to get a corndog Oh!  It's a sausage on a stick right?  It's covered with a thick cornmeal batter, and then deep fried as far as I know. Yes!  Oh do you happen to know when they were invented? I do!  In 1929 a US patent was granted for a cooking apparatus, and it described corn dogs, and other stick-impaled food. Wow, theyve been around for quite awhile then.  I didnt know that.  I just know that they are good
Newly arrived German Texan sausage-makers, finding resistance to the sausages they used to make, have been credited with introducing the corn dog to the United States, though the serving stick came later.