Posted on 04/05/2022 12:55:27 PM PDT by mylife
Hot dogs, rightfully, loom large in the American imagination. And just as our nation houses a breathtaking spread of regional pizza styles, America’s many, many different hot dogs inspire continual creativity and spark passionate arguments.
Each regional variation on a hot dog is a reflection of the community that loves it. Every last one deserves a spot in our hearts and our digestive tract, so let’s dive into a compendium of these United States of Hot Dogs. Ready?
One quick thing before we get started: You’re not going to see Dodger Dogs or Fenway Franks on this list. That’s on purpose. If a dog is only available in one place, that’s a house special, not a regional style. Instead, we tried to find hot dog varieties that are associated with the wider place they come from, not just a particular restaurant. Got it? Okay. Let’s proceed.
Carolina Dog (aka Slaw Dog) Chicago Dog Cincinnati/Skyline Chili Dogs Coney Dogs Half Smoke/D.C. DogHot Wiener Italian Dog Kansas City Dog/Reuben Dogs L.A. Dogs Maine Red Snapper Mini Hot Dogs New York Style (aka Dirty Water Dog) Philly Combo Polish Boy Puerto Rican, aka Boricua Dog Puka Dog Ripper Scrambled Dog Seattle Dogs Sonoran Dog Texas Tommy Texas Wiener Reindeer Dog
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Born and raised here. It’s Salens or Wardies. Anything else is sub par to me. Just had a birthday party for our youngest. Had to bring Salens or I’d have whatever thrown at me lol.
Teds I get them with mustard and their cheese sauce. Yum!
That doesn’t look like a guardian on that mustard I am triggered beyond belief.
Saurkraut and freakin’ Jal-Lap-Enos
No Dearborn Dogs? Husband always trys to bring them home when we visit our daughter. Has been hard to find lately. She will look for them. Got a batch in February, which Dad guards with his life.
The current one doesn’t appear to have a mascot on it at all.
The best dog has a natural skin and is grilled so when you bite into it the skin crackle pops.
The worst dogs are what I call Chernobyl dogs, the ones thats are bright fluorescent red and cost about 75 cents per pack. So artificial and toxic you’ll die of some weird radiation like sickness within 2 weeks.
Steubenville Ohio
Pittsburgh
Now there’s a coupla wurst destinations.
Ring bologna.. oh my
looks wonderful!!
The Varsity in Atlanta has been serving slaw dogs, among others, since 1928. Not sure how Slaw Dogs are from “Carolina.”
So America tastes like lips and ***holes? :)
fried Ring bologna.. oh my indeed...
nothing. It absolutely belongs on a hotdog. Just can’t stand ketchup on fries.
Maybe you’re a poutine man...
Hahahahahaha...myself, I am an absolute purist, I love the steamed, thick-skinned dogs on a steamed roll with yellow mustard.
Although I do like them occasionally with chili on them.
The soda place next to the theater in Boone NC where I went to school had great hot dogs. The owner was sick so you had to walk by to see if it was open. Red dogs in a pan of water on the griddle. He’d toast the bun while he rolled the dog around on the griddle. Chili, slaw, mustard and onions. I think I only found it open twicet (Appalachian pronouncement).
I like the sausage/würst on a tortilla, with cheese, yellow mustard, kraut, dill plank, A few capers maybe, fried, raw or carmelized onions
I like my würst boiled hard, then charred.
Roll it up... make sure you have a generously sized tortilla, sizzle it to infuse.... veggies perhaps, it all yours.
I like their dogs...almost enough to make me drive through New Jersey!
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