Hot Dogs

[SeaCat]

Oh those amazing Hot Dogs. A skin casing filled with the unmentionables from the slaughter house floor. Everything ground up with salt and other spices before being cased. Just the flavor and the look of them are warning signs but oh how good they can taste.

You can eat them raw. You can boil them and steam them. Roast them over an open fire, wrap them in leftover foil and set them on the side of the fire until their skins split. You can nuke them and you can grill them. Hell any way you an think of cooking them you can do it and they'll still taste good. (I prefer steamed but what the hell.)

How do you like them served? With Catsup and Mustard? Hot Sauce, BBQ Sauce? Onions, Pickles, Relish, Chili, SaurKraut or Mayo? (Yep seen that.) Or maybe combos or all of the above?

Now they come in different sizes and fillings. I have seen Chicken and Turket. There's the Beef Franks and even a Veggie Frank. They come in the normal size, the Bun Sized and the Jumbo. They even come in the Foot Long.

Oh what an amazing thing the Hot Dog is if you think about it.

Cat

Oh and I had Steamed Dogs tonight with Onion, BBQ Sauce and a dash of Hot Sauce. Tasty.

 

[Miss_Pixie]

I prefer to not eat them lol. I watched and Uncle make them once...

 

[Stella_Omega]

I thought I was the only person that ever ate raw hot dogs!

I hide when I do that...

 

[R. Richard]

Let me gently correct you. The proper name for the gourmet delight is 'tube steak.'

The locals, where I live, eat a lot of tube steak, usually served with chili and mustard. The 'real gourmets' (legends in their own minds) insist upon Nathan's Famous as the basic ingredient.

 

[djserani]

I thought I was the only person that ever ate raw hot dogs!

I hide when I do that...

My kids would eat them by the entire package if I let them.

(Here's my nerdiness showing
When I saw this thread, the first thing I thought of was the quote from the Teen Titans episode.

Robin: "It's got to be better than that documentary on hot dogs that Starfire made us watch."
Starfire: "I had no idea Earth people ate so many pigs...and insects!"

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I always disliked hot dogs. There were many sausages I loved but your basic American hot dog did nothing for me. Still doesn't. Then, as a young enlisted bear, the Army decided I needed to go to Frankfurt am Main, Germany. I wondered around the local part of the city our kaserne (post) was in tasting beer, and everything else German I could tuck into. Finally, in one little gasthaus I read on the menu originalishe frankfurterwurst! Hooray, I was about to find out what a frankfurter was supposed to taste like. Turns out, the USA does a perfect version of the originalishe frankfurterwurst. It tasted just like a hot dog. I was soooooooooo disappointed . . .


Kielbassa, on the other paw, is totally unsafe in my presence.

 

[Kat73]

Chili cheese or catsup, dijon, mayo, sauerkraut, onion and relish(like a salad on top!). The bigger the better. I especially love Cotco hot dogs. They must put crack in them! LOL

Brats too, with grilled onions and sauerkraut. Mmmm.

 

[SeaCat]

I always disliked hot dogs. There were many sausages I loved but your basic American hot dog did nothing for me. Still doesn't. Then, as a young enlisted bear, the Army decided I needed to go to Frankfurt am Main, Germany. I wondered around the local part of the city our kaserne (post) was in tasting beer, and everything else German I could tuck into. Finally, in one little gasthaus I read on the menu originalishe frankfurterwurst! Hooray, I was about to find out what a frankfurter was supposed to taste like. Turns out, the USA does a perfect version of the originalishe frankfurterwurst. It tasted just like a hot dog. I was soooooooooo disappointed . . .


Kielbassa, on the other paw, is totally unsafe in my presence.

Kielbassa is okay.

Chourice is great, as is Anduillie.

Real Bratwurst, well just don't get between me and them. You'll lose body parts.

On the other hand I'm a bit of a throwback. Give me the food our parents had to eat to survive and I'll enjoy them just as well. Hot Dogs, Spam, Bully Beef, Horse Meat, it's all good. (Then again I am a Carnivore and at the top of the food chain.)

Have you ever had a dog smothered in Onions, Kraut and Chili Sauce? Sounds disgusting but oh is it good. (It does have one unfortunate social side effect. Two of these and you'll produce enough Methane to power half your state for a week.)

Cat

 

[voluptuary_manque]

In Augsburg, Bavaria I once happened up on a metzgerai that served what they called a 'Thuringer bratwurst'. I have no idea what was in it but if you ever get a chance to go there and taste them . . .


and wash them down with Kuehlbach! The best beer in the world . . .

 

[sadangel]

Let me gently correct you. The proper name for the gourmet delight is 'tube steak.'

The locals, where I live, eat a lot of tube steak, usually served with chili and mustard. The 'real gourmets' (legends in their own minds) insist upon Nathan's Famous as the basic ingredient.

Where I come from, "tube steak" has a VERY different connotation!

 

[OzoneRed]

You can eat them raw...

I thought I was the only person that ever ate raw hot dogs!

When I was a kid, Mom would never let us eat raw hot dogs. It was raw meat, infested with every germ known to science. Was she wrong, or have hot dog preparation methods changed in the last 50 years?

One of the big treats of childhood was Piggies in Blankets: hot dogs wrapped in dough, and baked until golden brown.

 

[oggbashan]

The ingredients for German frankfurters are strictly controlled by their equivalent of the FDA. They would never accept the inferior imitations sold by some UK and US vendors, just as they refuse to accept that the British "sausage" is a valid sausage.

Og

 

[driphoney]

Nothing weirder or more delicious than a bona fide Chicago dog. *swoon*

http://www.chicagosbest.biz/rootmedia/ChicagoHotdog.jpg​

And I'm not even from Chicago!

 

[CharleyH]

Oh those amazing Hot Dogs. A skin casing filled with the unmentionables from the slaughter house floor. Everything ground up with salt and other spices before being cased. Just the flavor and the look of them are warning signs but oh how good they can taste.

You can eat them raw. You can boil them and steam them. Roast them over an open fire, wrap them in leftover foil and set them on the side of the fire until their skins split. You can nuke them and you can grill them. Hell any way you an think of cooking them you can do it and they'll still taste good. (I prefer steamed but what the hell.)

How do you like them served? With Catsup and Mustard? Hot Sauce, BBQ Sauce? Onions, Pickles, Relish, Chili, SaurKraut or Mayo? (Yep seen that.) Or maybe combos or all of the above?

Now they come in different sizes and fillings. I have seen Chicken and Turket. There's the Beef Franks and even a Veggie Frank. They come in the normal size, the Bun Sized and the Jumbo. They even come in the Foot Long.

Oh what an amazing thing the Hot Dog is if you think about it.

Cat

Oh and I had Steamed Dogs tonight with Onion, BBQ Sauce and a dash of Hot Sauce. Tasty.

All I know is that when you're drunk in NYC at 5am, all you can get is a hotdog with mustard or ketchup. I Prefer Toronto and Montreal at 5am, where you can get a hot dog or hot Italian or Polish sausage with all the fixings (meaning dijon mustard, mayo, onions, relish, saurkraut, sweet corn and anything else you could want). Mmm nothing beats 5am on a Saturday morning in Canada.

PS: DAMN YOU SEACAT! Now I've got an incredible craving for street meat!

 

[mynameisben]

My favorite is Bagel Dogs. Or even better, Bagel Dogs with cream cheese. I like to take the dog and thrust it through the center of the bagel a few times and then suck the cream cheese off the hot dog tip. I don't know why.

 

[djserani]

My favorite is Bagel Dogs. Or even better, Bagel Dogs with cream cheese. I like to take the dog and thrust it through the center of the bagel a few times and then suck the cream cheese off the hot dog tip. I don't know why.

ROFL!

 

[CharleyH]

My favorite is Bagel Dogs. Or even better, Bagel Dogs with cream cheese. I like to take the dog and thrust it through the center of the bagel a few times and then suck the cream cheese off the hot dog tip. I don't know why.

LOL

 

[nwnnguy]

http://moneysavingmom.com/images/old/6a00e552792fa2883301156fb010a0970c-pi.jpg

kosher hotdogs = better hotdogs

 

[R. Richard]

All I know is that when you're drunk in NYC at 5am, all you can get is a hotdog with mustard or ketchup. I Prefer Toronto and Montreal at 5am, where you can get a hot dog or hot Italian or Polish sausage with all the fixings (meaning dijon mustard, mayo, onions, relish, saurkraut, sweet corn and anything else you could want). Mmm nothing beats 5am on a Saturday morning in Canada.

Try:
Yaffa Cafe
97 St. Marks Pl.
(Ave. A & 1st Ave.)
East Village
24/7