i can never decide between a chili corn dog and a cheesy hot dog.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A corn dog (also spelled corndog) is a sausage (usually a hot dog) on a stick that has been coated in a thick layer of cornmeal batter and deep fried. 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. A US patent filed in 1927, granted in 1929, for a \"Combined Dipping, Cooking, and Article Holding Apparatus,\" describes corn dogs, among other fried food impaled on a stick; it reads in part: In \"300 Years of Kitchen Collectibles\", author Linda Campbell Franklin states that a \"Krusty Korn Dog\" baker machine appeared in the 1929 Albert Pick-L. Barth wholesale catalog of hotel and restaurant supplies. The 'korn dogs' were baked in a corn batter and resembled ears of corn when cooked. A number of current corn dog vendors claim responsibility for the invention and/or popularization of the corn dog. Carl and Neil Fletcher lay such a claim, having introduced their \"Corny Dogs\" at the Texas State Fair sometime between 1938 and 1942. The Pronto Pup vendors at the Minnesota State Fair claim to have invented the corn dog in 1941. Cozy Dog Drive-in, in Springfield, Illinois, claims to have been the first to serve corn dogs on sticks, on June 16, 1946.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Corn dogs are incredible. Hot dogs were already good, but a hot dog coated in thick cornmeal batter and deep fried? Mm!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Well, I'm vegetarian so I'll take your word for it! I do love just about anything coated in batter, so perhaps you can tell me a little about these corn dogs."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Sure! They were originally sausages that newly arrived German Texans were having trouble selling. So, they introduced the corn dog, although it didn't have a stick back then."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Are those the ones on a stick which are sold at county fairs? They always look delicious!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yep, those are the ones! It was actually spelled Korn Dogs, but when baked in corn batter they resembled ears of corn. So the new spelling stuck!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So that's how they got their name - hilarious! Perhaps I could take a veggie hot dog and replicate the taste. What else do you know about them?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Plenty of folks around have tried to lay their claim on who actually invented these corn dogs, from Carl and Neil Fletcher in Texas to the Pronto Pup vendors in Minnesota. Better get on that veggie recipe fast!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I could become a corn dog millionaire, lol! I'll vote for the Minnesotans inventing them - no particular reason, but a friend of mine is from there."}]