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The US isn't the only country trying to limit who can come in. The Brit's are tightening restrictions on who can get a visa, too, and it's really putting a squeeze on their favorite take out meal.

Chicken tikka masala is generally prepared by South Asian immigrants. Unfortunately, that's exactly who the new visa restrictions are hitting: low skilled, non English proficient immigrants from outside the European Union. It's similar to some of the problems here in the U.S. No one wants these jobs except the people who can't get in legally. One estimate is that there are 20, 000 unfilled jobs in the Indian restaurant business.

The jobs were meant to go to all the Eastern European immigrants who are now part of the E.U. Can you imagine someone from Lithuania making your favorite curry? Yeah, neither can a lot of Brittons. Some have suggested easing the restrictions for Immigrants headed for a cooking job. I can't answer that. But if the British people want to keep on enjoying their chicken tikka masala, they're going to need to do something soon.

Perhaps with an eye towards ballpark munchies and the upcoming grilling season, someone asked Yahoo! how hot dogs got their name. They directed the questioner over to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council which has come up with a (semi) definitive answer, since no one really seems to know the exact origin. One thing is clear: it's an American name, even if the sausages themselves were German.

Apparently, the name originated in the 1800s, when a large number of German immigrants began to move to the US. With them, they brought lots of sausages, but they also brought long, thin, dachshund dogs. The similarity in  shape between the two is what probably prompted someone to dub the sausages "hot dogs" and the name stuck. No one person can be attributed to this, but the name was so popular that for many years, when someone said they wanted a "dog," they were inevitably referring to the frankfurter and not to a puppy.

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