Kevin Nelson, with his dog Guffman and a velociraptor costume behind them ... We then went to the corn maze, because he loves corn mazes. As we were in the maze, I could see that the dinosaur ...

The businessman, civic leader and part-time inventor from Buffalo, N.Y. imagined — and then defined in poetic detail — the all-American corn dog in 1927. He pioneered a brave new wiener world ...