Hot Dog

[Gabe]

Barbecue sauce is awesome on hot dogs. I also like freshly diced tomatoes and onion on top, with a lightly toasted sesame seed bun. Yummy!

[Elgin Clock]

Grilled Mushrooms & Onions named the Portugese Dog at a local place here called Frankies. Best place to get Hot Dogs ever. ever.

But for this poll, I went with the traditional Ketchup and Relish.

[Schnabel]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

I haven't heard of anyone putting sauerkraut on hot dogs

Must not be a very New England thing to do.

Actually it is more of a German thing to do. I would know since I am part German. Try it sometime, it is REAL good!

Also, sorry to everybody as I did spell the kraut wrong.

[Michelle Celio]

I've always been told it's wrong to put ketchup on hot dogs...

But I do it anyway.

Ketchup, and Sour Kraut for me.

And, any one else like dirty water hot dogs?

[KenWittlief]

When you go to Teds Hotdog stand in buffalo (they have been in business since the 1920's) I always get a footlong with everything on it:

Catsup, Mustard, onions, sliced dill pickles, sweet pickle relish, and their hot sauce, which is sorta like a sweet hot salsa

and you gotta get a chocolate shake to warsh it down!

Fortuantely you dont have to remember all that, you just say "EVERYTHING!"

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Michelle Celio

And, any one else like dirty water hot dogs?

Ok, I'll bite...

What is a dirty water hot dog?

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by Jane

Ok, I'll bite...

What is a dirty water hot dog?

It's another name for a hot dog from a street vendor, mostly in NY. The term comes from the water bath the hot dogs sit in for most of the day and by the end of the day the water is really dirty. Now that I'm talking about them...I really want one.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Michelle Celio

It's another name for a hot dog from a street vendor, mostly in NY. The term comes from the water bath the hot dogs sit in for most of the day and by the end of the day the water is really dirty. Now that I'm talking about them...I really want one.

I have a friend who went to NY this summer and he came back talking about the hot dogs from the street vendors. Said they were awesome.

[Kyle Love]

B&K Coney sauce with cheese UNDER the hot dog. I don't know if B&K is nation-wide, but you can make their coney recipe at home, and I tell ya what, it is THE BEST coney dog sauce of all time. Infact, I just had coney's for dinner.

[Schnabel]

Ok, so I started this forum, but never put in my favorite. I like Louis Coney Island Conies. They are basic with the coney sauce, onions, and mustard. Now I wish i would have put more choices on the poll.

[Vince lau]

hmmm i like sauerkraut,mayo,cheese and bacon bits

[Hiteak]

Hot sauce

[Al Skierkiewicz]

OK, Jane was on the right track with the blackened right off the grill. Although a true Chicago Dog will never put on ketchup, I always do. Sometimes I have to take the ketchup for my fries and add it to the dog myself. Super Dog on the Northwest side will not make a dog with the red stuff.

Mine at home will have ketchup, mustard, dill relish and dried onion flakes for a little extra crunch without the breath. A dog from Foxie's/Dog Den will have Ketchup(when I add it) , Mustard, sweet relish (artificially dyed a strange psychedelic green), a dill slice (long way of course to fit the bun) a few tomato slices, kraut if you ask, celery salt and a few hot sport peppers.

I have had a Nathan's dog in Las Vegas and I have got to say, not much for what they charge. What costs $4 at Nathan's would get you two dogs all the way and fries in Chicago. (In Chicago it is not unusual to have fries included in the price, and some will wrap the fries in with the dog.) In Chicago you have to know what you are ordering since a "polish" is something completely different than a "dog" and will never be confused with an Italian Sausage (w/peppers of course). A Nathan's style, I am sad to say, is served at any hot dog stand with dogs on the menu. A Super Dog however will get you a 1/2lb dog, cooked any way you like and on french bread if you want, with anything on it including chilli and cheese, or kraut. There is nothing like a Super on French.

[MissInformation]

I actually went 8 years without eating hot dogs because we had them so much when I was a kid. And they were almost always served with sauerkraut, which I absolutely hated! No offense to all of you sauerkraut loving FIRSTers out there, but YUCK! Of course, I HAD to eat it, rules of the house, you had to clean your plate, so I would hold my nose and swallow it whole. So yeah, since I associated hot dogs with kraut, I hated them.

I do eat hot dogs now, but only with ketchup and diced Vidalia onions.

Heidi

[Gabe]

In Mexico the street vendors sell hot dogs that are wrapped in a strip of bacon, then cooked. When you bite into it, the bacon tastes great! No ketchup, just fresh diced tomatoes and onions on top.

Great, now I have to find something to munch on...