Hot Dog (item)

A Hot Dog is a type of (fast) food, normally consisting of a sausage placed in bun.

The Club Nintendo comic "Sag niemals Holerö!" marked the first appearance of hot dogs in the Mario series. In this story, when an evil alien called Heini pronounced the word "Holerö", all humans would turn into a type of food typical of the country where they live in. Mario spent a holiday in Switzerland, and when he was about to go back to New York, he noticed that the crew of his airline had turned into (animate) hot dogs. They had eyes, legs and a mouth, wore hats and were garnished with mustard.

Hot Dogs also appeared in the Paper Mario series. They were first seen as an item in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. In Glitzville, a hot dog stand sells the item for ten coins. The item heals five HP and five FP. As part of a trouble posted at the Trouble Center, if Mario takes two Hot Dogs and a Mousse Cake to Bub-ulber in Petalburg, the Bub-ulb will give the plumber a useful Dried Bouquet.

The only other known form of Hot Dog was the Southern Fried Egg Dog of Tastiness, a Hot Dog made with an egg from a "southern island", probably either Lavalava Island or Yoshi's Island. The Yoshi Egg Hoggle planned to make this Hot Dog out of, though, didn't cooperate (eventually bursting into the Yoshi Kid), resulting in no Southern Fried Egg Dogs of Tastiness being sold.

The Hot Dog later appeared in Super Paper Mario as a recipe. Dyllis can mix a Power Steak and a Fresh Veggie to create a Hot Dog (though how she is able to make a pork tube out of a slab of steak is a complete mystery). It restores 20 HP and cures Poison.