Thread: one of the finest things in life HOTDOGS!!!!!!!

Boy, your a cheap date!


There is a place in Tempe Az. called Ted's and they make the best hotdogs! In fact hotdogs is all they make, and there is always a line!!

This is a reat topic. For me since I left Chicagoland I have thought many times to go back for a Portillo Dog. Heaven on a Homemade Bun.

Originally Posted by Don

This is a reat topic. For me since I left Chicagoland I have thought many times to go back for a Portillo Dog. Heaven on a Homemade Bun.

Don,
You're making my mouth water...I too am a native Chicagoan and have yet to find a hot dog anywhere that compares with almost any hot dog from home. My absolute favorite dogs were from Nick's hot dog stand on Belmont ave...sadly it has been closed for about 20 years. Excellent second place finishers include Wolfys, Superdog, Garden-on-a-bun, and Irving's. A dog crawl in Chicago is as enjoyable as a pub crawl in most places. Truthfully, it's hard to find a bad hot dog in Chicago as the place would go out of business immediately.

Ok, enough reminising. The traditionalist in me would say the the perfect hot dog is steamed, on a steamed poppy seed bun, with yellow mustard and onion (pickle relish optional); finished with a very light dusting of celery salt. Many other condiments may be added depending on taste. The only thing that is completely forbidden is ketchup. Only hot dog heathens would put ketchup on a dog.

Just my opinion (however informed and well reasoned; not to mention, based on copious research),

Ed

eine would be a little nontraditonal It is a frank with sauce and cheese from Summerfields in Chester OH. This is a large ring size frank split in half deepfried put on a hogie bun and covered with sauce (chilie) and a couple of slices of american. all with a tea or a Pabst Blue Ribbon depending on the time of day.

Don

EVERYTHING tastes better deep fried!! its a southern tradition! and It apparently works in Ohio as well.

Hebrew National Hot Dogs are my favorite. Exactly opposite of ballparks, they actually shrivel when you cook them, which I think locks in all the great flava

I like em with Golden's Spicy Brown Mustard and some Sourkraut.

I'll also have them with some chopped raw onions, mustard, and chili once in a while. Damn, now I'm hungry!

Kaptain_zero, you're right about the scarcity of good hot dogs and places to buy them in Norway nowadays. They've become a staple at gas stations, where they're usually sad things which have spent at least 3 hours wrinkling on a low-temp grill.

However, in my home town of Moss (just a tad south of Drøbak, in fact), they have a tradition which I believe started at the stadium. They serve the dogs wrapped in a sweet waffle. I have tried this, and was hard pressed to choose between mustard & ketchup on one side, and strawberry jam on the other! (I think I ended up with the jam, and to my surprise, it wasn't bad at all!)

Drøbak, Norway ca 1970, down by the harbor/ferry. 2 locally made European style hotdogs (steamed, never grilled) in a white bun with Russian Shrimp salad on top (salad was a concoction of mayonnaise, peas, diced carrot and loads of fresh cooked peel and eat style shrimp).

Further up the street, same 2 euro wieners, same bun but this time buried in crisp fried onions, a mild sweet Norwegian mustard, ketchup and a Norwegian, potato based flat bread (think soft tortilla) called lompe wrapped over top of hot dog to keep the onions and condiments in place..... <sigh>.

Now, head over to the farmers market place, now empty after the Saturday sales... a lone hot dog cart in the middle, old gent, gray hair, semi retired wearing the traditional white coat and hat of the hot dog vendor. Here you get the one and only *local* choice... Same steamed locally made euro style weiner, wrapped in a lompe with Norwegian style mustard, no other condiments of any kind available... take it or leave it. The old gent always left with an empty cart but his money pouch was full. Those my friends, were the good old days.

A 25 minute drive would result in entirely different cuisine. Here, the bun was never cut open but instead impaled onto an electrically heated prong... just slightly larger than a normal hot dog. Dogs were grilled here and once the inside of the bun was toasted, they would squirt your chosen condiments into the bun and then shove the hot dog in after it, forcing the condiments up the side of the dog... About 20 miles in another direction and they would just look at you if you asked for a hot dog... sign says hamburgers... ok, order 2 hamburgers and 1 french fries... you get a rectangular cardboard container of fries with 2 beef patties placed on top, no buns!

By the time I left Norway in 1978 there was only a single American style hamburger joint which was called "Bigshot Hamburgers". Today, it's the usual McD, BK etc. and I suspect all the old places are long gone.... and they call it progress.

Thanks for triggering a trip down memory lane....


Christian

Oh yes always steamed

There's a chain with local branches (dunno if it's a local chain or not) called Sneaky Pete's. I've never been there, but some people I know love it. Some say it's the worst hotdog they've ever had.

All I know is that the last thing I was from some guy names 'Sneaky Pete' is a hotdog!