A popular fast food chain doesn't serve the item it's named after - here's why

A much-loved edifice concatenation serves customers a immense scope of accelerated nutrient - including basking dogs, burgers and fries.

But strangely - contempt its sanction - California-based Wienerschnitzel does not successful truth service a wiener schnitzel connected its menus. 

The Austrian-originated German delicacy is traditionally a bladed trim of breaded and fried veal. In caller times, 'weiner' has been adopted arsenic different sanction for hotdogs. 

The unusual communicative of really nan diner - famed for its hotdogs - ne'er planned to service its namesake dates backmost to nan chain's origins successful nan 1950s.

Wienerschnitzel was founded by John Galardi that decade, according to a caller book connected nan chain. 

Galardi was inspired by his clip moving for Glen Bell, nan laminitis of Taco Bell and decided to unfastened his ain business, Drive-Thru Life explains. 

The sanction came astir aft Galardi, who chose hotdogs to beryllium nan staple of his venture, asked Bell and his woman Martha for proposal connected nan name.  

Galardi floated nan thought of John's Hot Dogs aliases Wonderful Hot Dogs but it was Martha who suggested wiener schnitzel aft seeing it successful a cookbook earlier that day. 

'It's sewage wiener successful it, which is different connection for frankfurter,' she reportedly said. 

Galardi initially had reservations, worried that a overseas sanction would beryllium difficult to pronounce.

However, he changed his mind hoping that its characteristic would pique customer's liking and group his marque apart. 

Despite adopting a German name, primitively Der Wienerschnitzel earlier being updated to just Wienerschnitzel, nan paper remained all-American arsenic intended. 

The only objection to this was erstwhile successful 2017 nan concatenation introduced 3 chickenhearted schnitzel sandwiches to its paper to observe 'the nutrient it was named for.'