Report: 140-year-old hot dog a hoax

NEW YORK - At nearly 140 years old, this Coney Island hot dog is in pretty good shape. But as the New York Post reports, it was all a big hoax.

CNN and News 12 The Bronx reported this week the hot dog was recently found encased in ice underneath the boardwalk's famous Feltman's Kitchen, a restaurant formerly owned by the inventor of the Coney Island hot dog.

"Coney Island holds a lot of history of Brooklyn and New York, and for them to find a hot dog is just something to add onto it," said Quincy Cook.

"That's unbelieveable, finding hot dogs that are 140 years old. That's crazy. To me, that's crazy," said Antonio Velez.

So crazy that the tale of the old hot dog is actually a "tall tale." The New York Post reported Thursday afternoon that "it turns out that the History Project was just pulling a fast one to get publicity for their exhibition of real artifacts from the Feltman’s site, which they are holding this summer."

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