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[edit] Article assessment

Hello I just rated this article for WikiProject Food and drink. I gave it a low rating as this article needs to be improved. On the gastronomical scale, corn dogs are not that high and they are not culturally significant to American Cuisine, so I gave it a low importance rating.

What you can do bring it up to "B" standard:

  • Please unify the references using a singular, standard format.
  • Please add more references to the History and Preparation sections.
  • The Holiday section is trivia, which is discouraged under the Manual of Style. Either remove it or incorporate it into the main text of the article.
  • Remove all red Wiki-links.

Good luck!

--Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 09:36, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Age

I was on vacation in Seattle a couple of weeks ago. Tour guides at the Space Needle claim that the corn dog was introduced at the 1962 World's Fair. Obviously if it actually dates to the '40s and Texas, they're wrong ... but where did this idea come from? --FOo 23:42, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I think the key word is "introduce" which is not the same as invented. --Gbleem 23:01, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Maize vs. corn

Changed maize to corn, because using maize in the article is horribly pretentious.--drew1718 23:10, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The corn article explains that the word "corn" is vary vague. --Gbleem 23:01, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Oh, come on! who calls it maize in this context... There is a reason it is a CORN dog... chris 20:48, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Many people outside of the U.S. would not know what we mean when we say corn. They would think it was covered in wheat or oats. --Gbleem 07:51, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Gbleem is right, I wasn't thinking globally. --drew1718 06:01, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Interesting, where is corn thought to be wheat or oats? --Commander Keane 15:47, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
Try to read the corn article... 84.139.104.75 11:34, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
Problem with that being, many people inside the US have never heard it called anything but 'corn', and thus will not associate the word 'Maize' with it, without further reading or an explanation. Hardly anyone in the US uses the word 'maize'. Thus there's no good term to use. If you use 'corn' you'll probably confuse or mislead people in some countries, if you use 'maize', you'll confuse a lot of people in the US. Lose-lose. Bah. -Graptor 66.161.202.55 17:05, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canadians and 'pogos'

I'm a Canadian, and although I've heard of the brand name Pogo... I've never heard corndogs called pogos (generically). Everyone I know calls them corndogs. I've only lived in Alberta and BC however. Is this a wholly eastern Canadian thing?

Some of the american vs. canadian stuff is more regional from what I read on the internet. I live in Kansas City. The coasts seem to forget we exist. I read somewhere that ConAgra makes pogos but they don't have a page on their web site. I sent a message to them.--Gbleem 07:03, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I emailed ConAgra and asked them about their Pogo web site. Here is the response:

December 15, 2005

Dear Jeff,

Thank you for contacting us.

You are correct. There is not a POGO website. We regret any inconvenience this may cause.

We appreciate you taking the time to contact us.

ConAgra Foods Consumer Affairs

050827718A

--Gbleem 06:35, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

::I will Be bold and delete this line. Try the Urban Dictionary link if you want to see what urbanites think pogo might mean. I do this out of deference to the respectability of the city of Pogon, Myanmar. Also, I question the veracity of this: "In eastern areas of the United States, corn dogs may also be known as Golden Paradises, usually a feminine variation of the word." What is a "feminine variation" of Golden Paradise? The reference to Urban Dictionary doesn't convince. This dictionary accepts obscenities and obscene definitions from anonymous contributors, which allows obscene definitions to be attached to otherwise respectable words arbitrarily.--12.72.150.104 18:45, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Contrary to User Gbleem, here in Quebec, Canada no one knows what a Corndog is other than by its other name, POGO. I took me watching an American TV show with an actor holding a corndog and calling it a corndog to figure out what a corndog was. To me it had always been a POGO and to all the people I had ever known also. Even more to the French in Québec it is nothing else but a POGO and the stick on which it it served is branded with the word POGO. With Respect to the article also, it is in error, it isn't rarely served outside the US because it is a kid favorite. It is served in almost every burger and hot-dog joint there is here in Quebec, entire freezers are filled with POGOs at the supermarket with variations, such as Croissant breading instead of cornbread. And I've seen restaurant who serve it with an upscale pub-grub style, such as with beer batter. The article needs to be revised.--DAVE ID (talk) 16:12, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hotdog On a Stick

Isn't this similar? [1] --Marc NL 13:45, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Be bold my man, be bold. Yes, it's the same thing. They seem to be using all-turkey hot dogs. Exciting. --Mgreenbe 14:41, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

I think its important to point out that New Zealand Hotdogs are not corn dogs, while New Zealand hotdog consists of a battered saussage on a stick the batter differs a lot, and is thin and crispy, finding a actual corndog here in NZ is like trying to find a needle in a haystack 203.79.69.40 01:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

I worked for the National Corndog Council and we considered any hot dog dipped in batter is considered a corn dog, regardless of the stick. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.59.40.195 (talk) 22:41, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The important point

The real question is, are they tasty? They certainly look promisingly unhealthy. Anybody eaten one and able to testify? Palmiro | Talk 20:15, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
The batter can vary. Sometimes it has a lot of sugar or corn syrup in it. They are best when made fresh. I like mine with mustard.--Gbleem 07:07, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
While they were popular in my Indiana hometown, I managed to avoid them. Good question. --Mgreenbe 16:43, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

I like them with mustard. Also, a shout out to Gbleem, the man show'd me the Wiki way through corn dogs. --drew1718 12:22, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

As with anything fried, they can be pretty good. My Dad hates them...as poorly made ones can have a tendancy to be rather tasteless. The good ones are pretty good. And some good mustard can really, really help even the crummy, tasteless ones. -Graptor 66.161.202.55 17:05, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I'd agree that they're pretty damn good, although quality varies. Any freshly fried ones are heaven, but the pre-frozen ones aren't bad as long as you bake them. Microwaving cheap ones tends to "delaminate" the batter from the dog, which is bad. I grew up on them in Indiana, but they're actually very hard to find in New York City, probably because of the sub-par freezer sections in NYC's grocery stores. Jkonrath 16:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

The genuine POGO® brand from ConAgra in Canada is absolutely to die for when prepared in a toaster oven. Crispy outside, soft inside. --Jtgibson 22:37, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Fletchers Corny Dogs at the Texas State Fair are probably the best corn dog that GOD has permitted man to make... Glennerd@sstx

there's no doubt that their quite good i've been known to each a box of them every once and a while danieljackson

[edit] Corn Dog Recipe

While I think it's perfectly well and good that people want to share how to make these staples of my diet, I think that sort of thing belongs more in Wikimedia Commons -- specifically their recipes section.

I'd do it myself, but, uh... lazy. You know how it is. ;-) --Jtgibson 22:15, 27 October 2006 (UTC)


I gotta disagree it belongs in wikipedia just as much as it does Wikimedia Commons put the recipe in both no harm comes from it only more information is shared.danieljackson

[edit] Louisiana State University

I think this information that keeps being added linking the corn dog to a university is pointless. If a bunch of southerners want to call each other corn dogs I suggest they keep it at the family reunions. I do not see how this adds to a page about corn dogs in the least.

[edit] Corn Dog 7

Does anyone remember corn dog 7? I loved that place, they had enormous corn dogs. Zeos386sx 23:06, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Corn dog is a hot dog-type sandwich

How is a corn dog in any way a sandwich? If there is no explanation as to why corn dogs are hot dog-type sandwiches, or of what a hot dog-type sandwich is to begin with, I will remove the section lacking a citation a create a new one. --Dans1120 17:49, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Naming

" In Europe, they are known as 'toasty dogs'. Its competition are croissant dogs." - I've never heard of either of these, and nor has my partner (I'm English, she's French). Googling for 'toasty dog' only gives North American examples. Googling for 'croissant dog' returns nothing relevant. 81.86.161.42 15:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I googled and got the same results as you, so i removed that sentence from the article. Foobaz·o< 17:11, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cornbrats merger

I added material, content, and cites form the old 'Cornbrats article, which was merged into this one, and is now redirected here. Bearian (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)