[rollo]

  Being a NY person we like them with mustard and saurkraut or with onions in sauce. Nathans in Coney Island aer some of the best. I know the Chicago dog, any other combos or favorites out there?


charles

[pjchappy]

Every once in awhile, a good beef Kosher dog (Best's; even Costco's beef dogs are very good) with just mustard is great!

[turkey]

  Being a NY person we like them with mustard and saurkraut or with onions in sauce. Nathans in Coney Island aer some of the best. I know the Chicago dog, any other combos or favorites out there?

I like Nathan's too. I usually grab a dog from them when I'm in an airport with a Nathan's.

There's a good list of variations at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog_variations
I'd like to try some of these. (A cheese coney with Cincinnati chili is quite good BTW.)

If you're willing to stretch the definition a bit... a hot dog is a sausage on a bun, and a Polish Boy is also a sausage on a bun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_boy

They're extremely messy and extremely good. The ones at Freddie's are the best IMO.

[turkey]

Another regional favorite. Again, I can get their products in the local grocery store, but I stop in at the restaurant when I'm in Toledo.

You can get the whole setup shipped to you:
http://www.tonypackos.com/hotdog.php

[turkey]

No mention of hot dogs is complete without talking about mustard.

This is my favorite:

http://www.bertmanballparkmustard.com/

[TheChairGuy]

The spices in dogs kill me so I'm off the stuff....but when I quaffed them down, the best to me were always the 'all-dressed' ones common in (Montreal) Quebec, Canada.

Mustard, chopped onion, and sauerkraut. Sometimes fresh coleslaw or chopped cabbage is used instead of sauerkraut. Relish is usually available, too

If you dare, wash it down with some poutine (fries with heavy, cheesy gravy) and then go get an angiogram

John

[mcgsxr]

Poutine deserves its own thread!   

Back on topic, there is a local joint here in Burlington, ON, Canada that has been serving footlongs since the 1920's.  They have around 30 different topping combinations, but my favourite is the Texarkana - chilli and real cheddar.  The Chicago Slider is my 2nd favourite - chopped tomatoes, chopped jalepeno's, and real cheddar.

Easterbrook's is the name of the place, I go there with the kids once a month - real ice cream shakes too!

[turkey]

If you dare, wash it down with some poutine (fries with heavy, cheesy gravy) and then go get an angiogram

I had this when I was a kid and we spent a summer in Maine.

Maybe we need to have another thread about french fry variations?

[ctviggen]

I like all the suggestions above.  Corndogs from an Alton Brown (Good Eats) recipe are also great. 

[turkey]

This is sort of on-topic.

I used to eat beans and franks a lot when I went camping when I was in high school. (I didn't know how to cook many things at that point.)

I get nostalgic for them every once in a while.

Some baked beans with the chunk of pork fat in them, and some sliced up hot dogs. Made over a campfire, that was some of the best stuff I had ever had. (Or at least it seemed that way at the time.)

[nature boy]

Rutt's Hutt - hands down best hot dogs on Earth.  The double dipped cheeseburgers, onion rings, and birch beer are also nothing to sneeze at either.  Gotta have the dogs with mustard and relish. YUMMMMM!

http://www.yelp.com/biz/rutts-hutt-clifton

NB

[pardales]

I like a good Detroit style coney--the sauce is a loose, spicy meat sauce. Second best, a Flint style--the coney sauce is more meaty.

In Michigan they use Koegel's dogs, for the most part. Lafayette Coney Island in downtown Detroit is king. In Flint, Tom Z's is the place.

 

[konut]

Hebrew National, Bertmans BallPark, Diced Onions, end of story, case closed!

[lonewolfny42]

Dirty water dogs.....I like the snap of the natural casing...



Sabrett Natural Casing Frankfurters....
This is the original New York pushcart style frankfurter that are famous for the snap! These are the franks sold by the pushcarts in New York under the famous blue and yellow umbrellas. Ken Oringer, the world famous chef at Clio's in Boston is quoted as saying, "I love hot dogs, especially Sabrett® hot dogs in New York. If I had to eat a last meal, it would probably be a Sabrett® hot dog with mustard and the onion sauce from the hot dog carts".

[Wind Chaser]

I've sort have become a vegetarian, but IMO a hot dog must have a 100% all beef wiener.  Tofu, chicken and pork need not apply.  Apart from the beef and bun, the formula is quite simple.  A leaf from a head of lettuce with a slice of cheddar cheese on the inside, wrapped around the meat.

Absolutely no mustard, mayo, relish, onions or sauerkraut.  We won't even mention Ketchup.

[ctviggen]

I've sort have become a vegetarian, but IMO a hot dog must have a 100% all beef wiener.  Tofu, chicken and pork need not apply.  Apart from the beef and bun, the formula is quite simple.  A leaf from a head of lettuce with a slice of cheddar cheese on the inside, wrapped around the meat.

Absolutely no mustard, mayo, relish, onions or sauerkraut.  We won't even mention Ketchup.

I have to say that that does not sound appetizing at all.  However, I'll keep my mind open and try one the next time I grill up some hot dogs (although I'm contemplating not eating wheat for a few months; not sure what I'll do for a replacement for a bun). 

[mcgsxr]

Dogs tend to be extemely personal food - I have been known to gobble a couple of plain ones!

To each his own!

[jtwrace]

Hebrew National and my newest favorite is Jesse Jones Hot Dogs http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jesse-Jones-Hot-Dogs/117185560338?v=info

[bunnyma357]

For Hot Dogs I believe that less is more - dog, bun & mustard (yellow like French's, nothing fancy). Dogs are also about the environment you're eating them in - boiled Eskay dogs at Memorial stadium in Baltimore during an O's game are my standard. Growing up, ketchup and relish were the condiments my family used, I'd often request that at an Orioles game and get handed a dog with mustard only and a friendly "here ya go". If you or the vendor didn't yell out "hot dog man" right before you bought it, it probably doesn't meet my standards.

One of the issues I have with modern corporate sports venues (i.e. - sports themed shopping malls) is that it is impossible to get good honest ballpark food. I don't want a luxury priced polish sausage, half-smoke or a kosher dog, I want a hot dog. Pretzels seem to have been bastardized as well, 900 variations except that none resembles a pretzel.

Nowadays, I really can't imagine preparing a hot dog any other way than with just mustard.

Jim C

[thunderbrick]

For Hot Dogs I believe that less is more - dog, bun & mustard (yellow like French's, nothing fancy). Dogs are also about the environment you're eating them in - boiled Eskay dogs at Memorial stadium in Baltimore during an O's game are my standard. Growing up, ketchup and relish were the condiments my family used, I'd often request that at an Orioles game and get handed a dog with mustard only and a friendly "here ya go". If you or the vendor didn't yell out "hot dog man" right before you bought it, it probably doesn't meet my standards.

One of the issues I have with modern corporate sports venues (i.e. - sports themed shopping malls) is that it is impossible to get good honest ballpark food. I don't want a luxury priced polish sausage, half-smoke or a kosher dog, I want a hot dog. Pretzels seem to have been bastardized as well, 900 variations except that none resembles a pretzel.

Nowadays, I really can't imagine preparing a hot dog any other way than with just mustard.

Jim C

+1 on Memorial Stadium, the O's, and good hot dogs!        I was back home for a visit last month and it was so sad to see the huge empty lot.
Many memories there!

Of course, who could forget the slogan "Get Your Gas at Pollack Johnies!"?  Great Polish sausage!