I don't think "hot dog" naturally sounds tasty to native English speakers, either. Like, I think if you could somehow find an adult native English speaker who d

I don't think "hot dog" naturally sounds tasty to native English speakers, either. Like, I think if you could somehow find an adult native English speaker who didn't already know what a hot dog is, and told them you'd invented a new meat food product and planned to name it "hot dog", they'd be like "WTF, ew, no, gross". I think we just usually learn it early enough that we don't tend to think much about what the words mean individually. More like it's one word that just means the meat product, or same product on a bun.