Nadine Beck
Senior Member
español e inglés, Puerto Rico y la EE.UU.
Hi --
At my son's middle school, he is being taught that "hot dog" in SPanish is
"perro caliente." I see that listed as the dictionary definition here, as well.
Have you guys ever heard this used? It sounds completely like English to me, the kind of thing my friends and I would have said in high school as a joke, like "colgating" on a test (worse than failing.) Anyone know any other ways to say hot dog? Maybe it's just such a totally American food that it has an americanized name in SPanish....
Thanks!
--Nadine
At my son's middle school, he is being taught that "hot dog" in SPanish is
"perro caliente." I see that listed as the dictionary definition here, as well.
Have you guys ever heard this used? It sounds completely like English to me, the kind of thing my friends and I would have said in high school as a joke, like "colgating" on a test (worse than failing.) Anyone know any other ways to say hot dog? Maybe it's just such a totally American food that it has an americanized name in SPanish....
Thanks!
--Nadine