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

You know we talk about cigars and single malts, and god know I love a good beer. But but when you get right down to it one one the finest things in life to me is a really GOOD hotdog, with just enough mustard and onions. We have a place here called the hotdog king that really knows how to make them. So in your opinion who makes the very best redhot dog. Where do I find them and what do you like on them?

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.

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!

Cheap Date JMS? you obviously never saw me put away some dogs! Oh vendor dogs what is it that makes a hotdog from a cart eaten on the side walk such an event but some of the very best dogs I have eaten have come from street vendors. Kaptain you just put Norway on my must visit list! A hotdog and fried onions what could be better than that?

NO SUCH PLACE IN MY AREA LIKE ON A CHICAGO OR NEW YORK STREET CORNER, SO................

DEFROST A PACKAGE OF 'HEBREW NATIONALS' AND PUT TWO ON THE GEORGE FOREMAN GRILL. TAKE TWO REFRIDGERATED BUNS OUT OF THE FRIDGE, OPEN, SPREAD THE THINIST LAYER OF BUTTER ON THE BUN, CLOSE, AND WRAP EACH IN A PAPER TOWEL PLACE IN THE MICRO FOR 20 SECONDS, REMOVE. PEAL A SMALL SWEET ONION AND CHOP, ADD AN EQUALL AMOUNT OF PICKLE RELISH TO THE ONION. LAY IN A LAYER OF THE ONION MIX, PLACE THE DOGS ON THE BUN, DRIZZLE ON SOME BROWN MUSTARD, CRACK OPEN AN ICY COLD COORS. NOW, STEP BACK AND DON'T BOTHER ME

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I'm not a red sox fan by any means, but I do love fenway's food, and their fenway franks. For toppings, I like keeping it simple, spicy brown mustard, thats it.

BTW-if your there, before you go in to get the fenway frank, make sure you stop for a sausage sandwich outside of the park, I think its the sausage king thats the best.

Originally Posted by JMS

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!!

Agree on that - I ate their hotdogs regulary when I was living in Buffalo, NY.