It amuses me that coleslaw and chili have been talked about over the past couple of days and just now hotdogs are being mentioned with both being common toppings for it. Both are almost always at their worst at that time so I guess it should not be a surprise.
If you're going to make chili, use cheap cuts of beef and cut them to down to roughly 1/2" cubes or so. Remember, chili isn't some sort of fru-fru haute cuisine. It's food for cowboys out herding cattle based on what scraps the guy manning the chuckwagon can put together.
Lou: Is Spike's Junkyard Dogs still around? That was and remains the best fancy hotdog place I've ever been to.
EDIT: Crif Dogs in Brooklyn is a close second.
Yes and no. The location on Thayer Street is long gone, sadly. It's been gone for a few years now. The location at the Providence Place Mall food court has also been gone for a year. I think the one on Branch Ave. in Providence is still open, but I haven't gone that way in a while.
Oddly enough, there is one just a couple blocks away from the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. I'd often go there Thursday night before Anime Boston to get some late night dinner.
If I liked coleslaw, that wouldn't be a bad idea. I put sauerkraut on them along with onions.
There is a Japanese hot dog stand in Seattle that serves them with all kinds of asian type fixings that makes it takes delicious. I see no problem with coleslaw.
You know what goes on a hot dog? Fuckin' mustard. Maybe some pushcart onions. Sauerkraut is acceptable, as is meat sauce. Ketchup is only acceptable on shitty-ass Ballpark hot dogs.
Lou: Is Spike's Junkyard Dogs still around? That was and remains the best fancy hotdog place I've ever been to.
EDIT: Crif Dogs in Brooklyn is a close second.
Yes and no. The location on Thayer Street is long gone, sadly. It's been gone for a few years now. The location at the Providence Place Mall food court has also been gone for a year. I think the one on Branch Ave. in Providence is still open, but I haven't gone that way in a while.
Oddly enough, there is one just a couple blocks away from the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. I'd often go there Thursday night before Anime Boston to get some late night dinner.
There's also one in the (half-dead) Emerald Square Mall.
I've never heard of that before but it sounds disgusting.
It's delicious. A little celery salt, some onions, and some mustard are all a good hot dog needs.
Stop trying to justify your terrible dialect. Using multiple modal words in a sentence? Who the fuck does that? "Used to could" is the most egregious abuse of language since Gatsby.
We do that to frustrate and confuse northerners we don't like.
Again, why would you ruin anything by putting it on a hot dog? At least have the decency to spring for a sausage with grilled peppers and onions.
Hot dogs are both delicious and a type of sausage.
Anyone ever tried to make a chicken-fried hot dog? Think I'll try that out this weekend. Beef sausage, fried chicken batter, bacon fat gravy. Will report on its deliciousness.
Ideal hot dog toppings are entirely dependent on what type of hot dog you have. A few examples:
Zweigle's Red hot: Yellow mustard, dill pickle relish and diced onions Hebrew national All beef frank: Brown mustard Oscar Meyer Wiener: Remove from bun, throw directly into garbage and go think about what you've done.
Wait, what if you fried up a breakfast sausage and put it on a hotdog bun-shaped biscuit and topped it with sausage gravy?
I will be trying that this weekend. Thank you for the inspiration.
They're a crappy kind of sausage. Italian sausages and chorizo are infinitely better.
Depends on the hot dog. Some are of better quality than others. Yeah, your average ballpark hot dog is crap, but a good, 100% whole beef hot dog holds up nicely to sausages of a similar style, such as brats and such. It's not exactly fair to compare a heavily spiced sausage such as Italian sausage or chorizo to a minimally spiced sausage like a hot dog.
That said, I really could go for a linguiça dog right now.
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Who would ruin good anything by putting it on a hot dog
That slop wuld'nt keep mah horses nourished, let alone mah family o' 12. Ya cook like some kinda dang high falootin princess.
EDIT: Crif Dogs in Brooklyn is a close second.
" 'at slop'udn't keep m'horses fed. Let alone m'family'a twelve. Y'cook li' some kin'a fukkin cityslikkin' princess."
(I feel like I'm transcribing a conversation from one of my family reunions.)
Oddly enough, there is one just a couple blocks away from the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. I'd often go there Thursday night before Anime Boston to get some late night dinner.
There is a Japanese hot dog stand in Seattle that serves them with all kinds of asian type fixings that makes it takes delicious. I see no problem with coleslaw.
You know what goes on a hot dog? Fuckin' mustard. Maybe some pushcart onions. Sauerkraut is acceptable, as is meat sauce. Ketchup is only acceptable on shitty-ass Ballpark hot dogs.
Barbarians.
Also, I agree with Andrew that Cincinnati chili is an embarrassment to the name.
Zweigle's Red hot: Yellow mustard, dill pickle relish and diced onions
Hebrew national All beef frank: Brown mustard
Oscar Meyer Wiener: Remove from bun, throw directly into garbage and go think about what you've done.
I will be trying that this weekend. Thank you for the inspiration.
That said, I really could go for a linguiça dog right now.