Posted on 03/08/2021 8:18:56 AM PST by mylife
LAS VEGAS – A little-known food pilgrimage unfolds every day far from the fine dining of The Strip.
At the end of this pilgrimage is a delicious relic of Old Vegas: The cheap hot dog.
Steamed in Budweiser until red and plump, stuck in a fresh, soft bun and topped with your favorite fixings or served plain, these Vienna Beef dogs cost $1.25.
In Las Vegas, few things are sacred. The hot dog cart inside South Point Hotel and Casino is one of them.
A Las Vegas staple is born Every Monday-Friday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and on weekends from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., gambling patrons or hungry locals visit the cart near the sportsbook.
It’s worked this way for four decades, with few changes along the way.
South Point owner Michael Gaughan started selling hot dogs in 1979, when he opened Barbary Coast. He wanted a place where players could grab a quick, easy – and cheap – bite between games.
The first hot dog brand the cart sold was Hebrew National. But as legend goes, there was a taste test involving two guys with the same initials – Vegas bookmaker Jimmy Vaccaro and North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano.
After a 4-1 vote, a new brand landed in the steamer: Chicago-style Vienna Beef.
Back then, they cost 75 cents. Today the dogs are a dollar and a quarter.
When the price went up in 2011, the reaction revealed just how holy this hot dog cart is.
“It’s like a sacred Buddha,” said South Point General Manager Ryan Growney.
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Nah. You haven’t lived to you’ve had a good old NYC dirt water dog.
No thanks.
No I didn’t forget. Vegas is a blight on the ugly Mojave.
Aw, ya sissy! :-)
I love a good steak house.
I love a good steak house.
Last of the big tippers? LOL!
My relative used to make an AWESOME sauce for use on hotdogs, beef, ribs, chicken. Was made fro sweet Vidalia onions, and some other stuff, can’t remember now. I think it had tomatoes It, as i couldn’t eat it because of ulcers any longer. It really did work very well on all those ts mentioned. It was a bit like barbecue sauce, but a hit sweet, very nice mellow onion flavor, and some spices that really worked well together
Lol they have no sense of adv e nature 🙃 those dogs build good immune systems
Yup. Puts hair on your chest.
If anyone ever goes out to Maine, stop in at flo’s hotdogs in Kittery I think it is. Wow. Awesome hotdogs. Famous world over. Get them with mayonnaise, her famous sauce, and a little celery Salt. Don’t ask for ketchup though. You can actually buy their sauce online. It’s really good, but does have some fish sauce in it I beleive, so beware for folks allergic to fish. I like my relatives hotdogs sauce better 5hough. Tried to get them to open hotdogs shop like flo’s but they don’t want to. I bet it would be bigger than flo’s if they did
You lost me at “Budweiser”.
CC
Hairy chested ny women agree 😆
Good to know. Can I sear them first and drop them into a crockpot of beer on low, or would that pop them.
Got a family reunion thing coming up in July and looking for good ideas for simple but excessively tasty ideas.
Keep them on low, you should be OK.
I got that line from the first “Thin Man’’ movie. After Nick disposes of a bad guy who invaded their bedroom Nora say’s “I wasn’t afraid Nick. I knew you’d take him’’.
To which actor Nat Pendelton playing a police detective says “Now there’s a girl with hair on her chest!’’.
Thank you. Hub’s family are all Wisconsin natives so brats are always on the menu.
we came down now because we had free rooms and some food credits and we are usually down here with several thousand basketball fans....
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