gimme a break these are hot dogs not frankfurters they've been called hot dogs for a century or so just as we wouldn't change french fries to freedom fries cause georgie b says so we also aren't going to change hot dogs to some out of date hickville term like frankfurters cause some bloke down underwhere says thats what his mommy calls them times change buddy and australia has a grand total of million people half of them speaking english as a third language