Best hot dog you have ever tried

[Ramses]

Store bought and made: Hebrew National with white diced onion, Homemade chili and organic cheddar cheese. Bus was toasted and lightly buttered store bought hot dog buns

Chain/shop/hole in the wall Hot Dog: Ive had one in LA and Phili but cant remember the shop names, just remember the lines at the time(I was a teenager at the time).

Ive moved to the Northeast recently(PA specifically) and got a dog at whats is called "the O" in Pittsburgh. Pretty good hot dog with a natural casing like I had back home. They have huge piles of fries with cheese and or gravy too.

Anybody else?

[orleans]

1. i like Teddy's char dogs

they're pretty good. (i hear hot dogs are bad for you. but i smoke, so...)

[Ramses]

2. Never had Teddy's dogs

will have to look that up. I became a vegan in California and gave up meat for a long time but after about a decade started to crave fish and cheese in particular. Then came back some memories of particular cuts of meats and I was off to the races again, although my diet is still mostly fruits and veges.

Just got a hankering after talking with some friends here about burgers and hot dogs.

[orleans]

5. my advice....ah....screw it.

i was gonna say something about not getting too into meat again since you seemed to have broken the habit and are eating more healthy--(i eat terribly btw) but you certainly don't need advice from me on that.

have fun! (fun's important. that's my advice)

[First Speaker]

3. A place called Doogie's, in CT...

...along the Berlin Turnpike. You can get 10", 18", and 24(!)", if you're in a heroic mood...I usually stick to 18, thank you...and can get any variety you want. I like the Boston one, with baked beans... ...

[sir pball]

4. Dirty water dogs in NYC.

Sabrett's dogs, which you can buy in the stores locally but not (AFAIK) nationwide, stewed in nasty-ass blood-warm water for ten hours, on a sad white bread bun, topped with overcooked commercial sauerkraut and nameless whole grain mustard. All for under $2!

Either that, or Walter's in Larchmont.

[OriginalGeek]

6. Until I can get to Chicago to try Hot Doug's

I'll settle for the Chicago Dog at Sonic. It's cheap and tasty. Like me. We have a place here called Hot Dog Heaven and they are pretty good but the people working there are kinda rude. Not the funny, on-purpose rude that's all in good fun. just ass-holyish. And they cost more than Sonic.

For home dogs it's always Hebrew National. Mustard and relish. My favorite way to cook them is to slice them almost in half and slap them on the griddle while toasting the bun with garlic butter on the other half of the griddle. eta~ sauerkraut. Not always but often enough that I shouldn't have forgotten it.

Second favorite is lots of chili and cheese.

[R B Garr]

7. Hot Doug's closed in October!

We were bummed to find that out when planning our trip there last October. That was going to be one of our first stops, too.

Portillo's had good hot dogs. Interestingly, they have a Portillo's in Orange County, CA, which we've tried and liked it. edit: http://www.portillos.com/

I actually really like Costco's, hot dogs from the food stand. They're great!

[OriginalGeek]

10. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

man that sucks.

Costco is good - And you get the dog and a drink for like 3 bucks and it's a biggun.

[easychoice]

13. $1.64 with tax...Store#1 Seattle,hotdog and 16oz. beverage

Costco has it nailed!!!!

[OriginalGeek]

42. Even better!

now I can have 2.

[sakabatou]

8. Cheese... on a Hebrew National?

Yeah, tref it up.

[Ramses]

29. lol. I wasnt thinking about the Jewish angle when I posted

I didnt even occur to me about the separation of dairy and meat under Jewish dietary law. I had to look up the term "tref".

Edited my post, meant dairy and meat.

[sakabatou]

40. Heheheh

[R B Garr]

9. Pink's is famous in the Los Angeles area. Celebrities eat there.

I love it. Always a line. http://www.pinkshollywood.com/


FabDog's was good, too. We saw it on Triple DDD and tried it and liked it.
http://www.fabhotdogs.com/

[Ramses]

27. I used to eat Pink's before I went vegan. and yes the few times I went there was always a large line

[lovemydog]

11. Boardwalk in Santa Monica.

Can't remember the name of the place. It had humongous hot dogs, really thick and juicy, all kinds of varieties.

[pinboy3niner]

15. Big Dean's?

They have a rep for big burgers and hot dogs.


http://blog.ctnews.com/beagleman/2012/09/21/big-deans-beagle-mans-bar-in-santa-monica/
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/mobile/news/story?id=6884124&src=mobile

[lovemydog]

16. I think it was called Tony Maroni's.

But Big Dean's looks great too pinboy3niner! Frankly, I've rarely met a hot dog I didn't like.

[Brother Buzz]

52. Dave Barham started a famous hot dog joint on the Santa Monica beach.

We called it Sustenance on a Stick

[mrmpa]

12. If you go back to the "O"..............

make sure they give you one of the freshest ones off the grill. The longer they're on the grill and the blacker they become, they are horrible, terrible and awful.

Also don't go into the "O" any time after midnight. There have been murders and assaults outside it's door.

BTW, welcome to the "burgh.

[Ramses]

25. Thanks, My friend brought me there around 8pm at night

and it was hopping for a thursday night. Lots of college students in this section of Pgh. They literally had about 45 hot dogs cooking all at once. I guess they do a good business

[mrmpa]

28. yep they do..........

they sell 6 packs so that's also a big part of their profit line. It is mostly college kids, on the weekends visitors to the museum and other sites stop in. Also on the weekend the non-students from the neighborhood and adjoiningg neighborhoods also stop in and that's when trouble begins to brew. The typical student versus townie attitudes.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. Daisy Brand natural casing frankfurters.

Natural Casing Regular 14 oz Package -JANUARY SALE!!
7 Pieces Per Package
Daisy Brand Natural Casing Frankfurters are a long-time Chicago favorite. A perfectly seasoned combination of pork, and beef are stuffed into natural casings, hand linked and fully cooked over hickory smoke.

The result is a delicious and juicy Frankfurter that you'll be amazed by. They are great cooked on the grill, as well as steamed, simmered, or microwaved. try them and experience what a truly great Frankfurter tastes like. Serve it Chicago Style on a poppy seed bun, garnished with mustard, onions, tomato, cucumber, sport peppers, and celery salt. This is not your typical hot dog!

Vienna beef hot dogs are really good - and more widely available.

Can't beat the Char Dog at Wiener Circle. Come for the food and stay for the show

NSFW - for real. Easily offended should not watch. Not so easily offended should not watch. You've been warned:

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[femmocrat]

17. This place is famous in western PA:

http://www.coneyislandjohnstownpa.com/index.html

It's a chili dog topped with tons of chopped onions. The big attraction is watching the owner (I guess?) line them up his arm. LOL

At home, I like these:

[Ramses]

36. Ive recently seen that brand here

Ball park franks. And a brand Im not familiar with Giant Eagle(I think this is the store brand but they were just as expensive)

[femmocrat]

37. Yes, I can only find them at Giant Eagle.

And they are rather expensive! They are good though-- and they are lower in sodium and fat than pork hot dogs.

[LWolf]

18. A generic

god-awful cheap hot dog and bun, cooked on a stick on a campfire after a day's hiking, with yellow mustard.

I'm sure it was the appetite I'd worked up, rather than the dog, that made it seem so good.

One other place...the Munch Box in Chatsworth, CA, a family owned stand where you can get hamburgers and hotdogs and fries covered in their greasy chili and some other stuff.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

19. "Top Dog" in Berkeley was excellent

Dogs, Brats, and Hot Sausages. I say "was" because I understand there was an ownership change and some things have gone downhill.

[NV Whino]

20. Costco all beef hotdog

A buck and a half with a drink. Hard to beat.

[mackerel]

21. There's this place in Vallejo of all places, SAC's, Omgeeeeee amazing dogs!

[shenmue]

22. Nathan's

[Ramses]

26. Ive bought Nathans store brand. They are pretty good too.

[Rhinodawg]

55. You are 100% correct.

[catnhatnh]

23. This place...

Bacon chili-cheese dog: 8/1 Maple Leaf natural casing wrapped in bacon and deep-fried on a Coney Island roll topped with all-meat chili sauce, cheddar cheese, diced onion and brown mustard.

[ND-Dem]

47. that looks like its parked in front of someones house.

[catnhatnh]

50. Gone now...

but was located at Skyhaven Airport in Rochester NH...

[dilby]

24. There is no hot dog but a Chicago dog.

Even the worst Chicago dog is better than the best you name your dog here.

[GoCubsGo]

46. Yep.

Preferably with some nice, greasy, hand-cut fries. And, I love those hot tamales, too.

[Godhumor]

30. Ted's charbroiled here in Buffalo

Great fries and onion rings too. I recently went all in and did the foot long with Mac andcheese, chili, hot sauce, bacon, and onion rings. Messiest thing I have ever eaten but oh so delicious.

Not necessarily a dog but a half smoked at Ben's Chili Bowl in DC is probably the best thing in thies'd food category, period.

[Miles Archer]

31. Home-made Chicago Dog, even though I couldn't get most of the "authentic" ingredients

Made one when I was in Nevada. You can't just walk into a market there and buy Vienna Beef Hot Dogs, poppyseed buns, neon green relish, or sport peppers.

So I did the best I could to come as close to the real thing as I could.

Found out afterwards that Sonic has them, and I tried one, and it was pretty damned good, but I thought my home-made one was better.

[Ramses]

32. Always wanted to try a Chicago dog

there are so many variations of the simple hot dog it boggles the mind.

[Miles Archer]

34. If you didn;t grow up with it as your "norm" (I didn't) you might like it, you might hate it

My hot dogs as a kid came from the Woolworth's lunch counter and a long-gone "railroad car" style diner in Beverly Massachusets called the "Miss Beverly Diner."

From either location, they were served in toasted "top loader" buns (the kind that have toastable exposed bread on the sides rather than crust). I don't remember having anything on them other than mustard. I would get one with a milkshake (often called a "frappe&quot . They would mix it in a huge industrial blender thing and pour you a tall glass, and bring the steel mixing canister to you, which contained enough to fill a SECOND tall glass.

Those...as they say...were the DAYS.

[Ramses]

38. They would mix the hot dog in the blender With the milkshake???

[Miles Archer]

43. FOCUS, people...focus.

[Ramses]

44. The dog came separate; I am from a different time

where you actually had good milkshakes. Joking a bit, but I wish I grew up a little bit earlier.

[d_r]

33. Koegel's

i like the snap of koegel viennas
http://www.koegelmeats.com/products.cgi?Item=viennas

[Kali]

35. a Sonora dog outside the campus of the University

in Hermosillo, Sonora

recipe - http://www.undercovercaterer.com/2014/07/sonora-dogs-recipe/

[Ramses]

39. If the white stuff in mayo. NO WAY

lol

[Kali]

41. it's probably crema

a kind of totally bland preserved whipped cream like stuff, or it may be mayo - either way you can go sin crema - in general you build your own dog from a huge condiment selection. must have pinto beans, fresh tomatos, onions and peppers! dog is wrapped in bacon

[GoCubsGo]

45. That looks like a worthy substitute for a Chicago dog.

It has a lot of the same (or similar) ingredients. Best of all, no ketchup!

[UncleYoder]

48. Five Star Brands

Out of Cleveland, Ohio.
They make a full line of dogs and sausages.

[DinahMoeHum]

49. Walter's Hot Dogs. Just a few miles from my home. . .

. . .right across the road from my high school alma mater.

http://www.waltershotdogs.com/

BUT. . .

When I'm in Connecticut, I also love Super Duper Weenie in the Black Rock section of
Bridgeport, CT

http://www.superduperweenie.com/

[WinkyDink]

51. A Jimmy dog, aka, James on the Delaware, Easton, PA!

[mackerel]

53. SAC's in Vallejo uses Vienna hot dogs which I'm told is a Chicago Dog

Top Dog in Berkeley is ok, they used to be better. Dad's in Stockton isn't bad either.

[R B Garr]

54. How could I forget Dodger Dogs!

They're not just for the ballpark, either. They sell them in the grocery store packaged by Farmer John but labeled, "Dodger Dogs" with the L.A. Dodger's logo.

Excellent! Nothing like a hot dog at the ballpark. And like someone else said upthread, they're in that hot dog water and cook perfectly that way.

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