Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2019-03-17 4:00 p.m., cshenk wrote:
> > Dave Smith wrote:
> >
>
> > > It's amazing living on a rock in the middle of the Pacific leads
> > > him to assume that people on the mainland weinershnitzel with
> > > weiners. Maybe there are some people with the IQ and ignorance
> > > of a Hawaiian who don't know the difference. Maybe there is a
> > > difference in regional pronunciation. Around here hot dogs are
> > > wienrs with a W, but Weinerschnitzel starts with a V sound.
> >
> > I'm not up on cooking it but Weinerschnitzel is veal. A sort of
> > breaded type right? Pounded flat.
> >
>
> Sheldon says the real deal is not pounded, though every recipe I have
> seen calls for pounding. At any rate, it was about the pronunciation,
> saying it as a V for the schnitzel and as a W for the hot dog wiener.
> And FWIW, in German, Vienna is Wien.

Either way, it's silly. Apparently if you goggle mainland you get some
hot dog place and think we all think that flat pounded and breaded
(known as chicken fried steak here) is a sausage hot dog.