Where's the BEST hotdog from?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

I'm a New Yorker so I've had plenty - the one at Nathan's at Coney Island on my last birthday was memorable but I think the best I've had is at Papaya King on 86th st.



How about you - where are the best dogs found?

[tk2kewl]

1. I say any Nathan's hot dog.

Although having one at Coney Island definitely adds to the experience.

The only dogs I buy for BBQing are Nathan's.

[Roon]

2. 7-11

They got some good dogs! I also like the kosher brand that you can get at the grocery store.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. Hebrew National

[Roon]

47. Yeah!!

I couldn't think of the name, thanks!

[Katina]

54. Hebrew Nationals cooked at any NY Kosher Deli

crisp grilled and served on a roll with mustard and cole slaw! HEAVEN! :9

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

56. Cole slaw eh?

I must try that. I love a warm pastrami with cole slaw and russian dressing - I must try it on a dog.

[Katina]

65. you won't be sorry!

my SO turned me on to it.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

76. I'm doing it

thanks

:thumbsup:

[wildhorses]

4. at the baseball stadium--outside afternoon game

and my team wins:bounce:

[dolo amber]

91. This is the correct answer

Hotdogs grow exponentially tastier based on their proximity to baseball. :thumbsup:

[ohiosmith]

5. :

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

7. Where's that?

[northzax]

11. LA-

o-v-e-r-r-a-t-e-d.

and speaking of overrated, but perhaps the best drunk food ever:

[Initech]

21. Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

Sure, there's quite a few items on their menu that could easily kill you, but you'd be hard pressed to find a better chili dog than the ones they serve at Pink's.

[Shakespeare]

26. That is the correct answer. n/t

[datasuspect]

6. was the best place in chicago

jim's original on maxwell/halsted

grilled onions and yellow mustard. celery salt my ass!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. What is this "celery salt" of which you speak?

[datasuspect]

9. the chicago "tourist" dog

with salad on it and celery salt.

blech.

[never cry wolf]

18. Jim's original is still there

well, not there but relocated in the neighborhood at 1250 Union St. My son goes to UIC and lives in a dorm apartment at Maxwell and Halsted and loves the Maxwell St. polish.

http://www.jimsoriginal.com/default.htm

[LSK]

23. there was this place near UIC called Karms that I used to go to

Kick ass dogs there. Not sure if they still exist.

Hmmm, maybe I will go to Portillos for lunch now... :9

[datasuspect]

48. it's not the same

i just miss the old jewtown.

[slj0101]

10. The Original Hot Dog Shop in Pittsburgh, PA.

Their hot dogs are amazing, but the fries...


this is a small:


Sadly, I learned that the main location closed last year. :(

[datasuspect]

13. ma-fuck-a-rone!

that's a beeg fries

[slj0101]

16. I ate a medium once while loaded.

For a week, my large intestine was like a Slip & Slide.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. weeeeeeeee

[cloudbase]

99. Another vote for

the DIRTY "O"

[never cry wolf]

12. Superdawg

Not really sure they are the best in Chicago but they have the best building anyway.

http://www.superdawg.com/

[Kali]

14. Estilo Sonora!

● The bun. Sonoran hot dogs call for a bigger bun than the standard American hot dog holder. In addition to being larger, the bread itself is more substantial - think of the texture and heft of a Parker House roll. They are sold whole, not sliced.
El Güero Canelo gets its buns from Alejandro's; several other local Mexican bakeries also produce the special rolls.
Another difference appears when the cook slices the Sonoran-style bun. Instead of slicing most of the way through, the cook cuts on one side, forming a pocket in a bun, rather than two bun halves held together by a flap. This helps keep all the ingredients safely ensconced in the bun, not dripping down your shirt.
Then the buns go into a steamer until serving time.

● The dog. El Güero Canelo uses plain ol' John Morrell all-beef franks that come eight to a 1-pound package. Each of the dogs is wrapped - and "wrapped" means swaddled end-to-end - in slices of bacon. Contreras says he has one worker who spends most of his time just wrapping dogs. Hundreds of the encased franks rest in plastic tubs in the restaurant cooler.
When a customer orders a dog, the cook places the wrapped wiener on a hot grill, turning it frequently, for about four minutes. The bacon largely melts away, but leaves a lot of flavor, particularly at El Güero Canelo, where the dogs cook in pans that hold them snuggled in sizzling bacon grease.

● Assembling. Using tongs, Contreras places a cooked wiener inside the pocket of a warm bun. The bun goes in a paper holder. Then come the goodies, in order: a tablespoon of plain whole (not refried) pinto beans, a tablespoon of grilled onions, then - and Contreras deftly scoops all these things with ordinary kitchen tongs - a grilled hot yellow pepper goes on the side. He adds a tablespoon of fresh chopped onions and about 2 tablespoons of chopped tomatoes. He puts down the tongs, and turns to squeeze bottles. From them, he lays down multiple lines of jalapeño sauce (a secret recipe made by puréeing three kinds of peppers in a blender), mayonnaise and mustard.

more at http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/related/27060.php

[MonkeyFunk]

15. Omaha Steaks

makes a kick-ass dog.

[jobycom]

17. Dog Almighty, in Austin. For me, anyway. They serve veggie chili dogs.

[Sequoia]

19. Hotdogs, Armour hotdogs...what kind of of kids like Armour hotdogs?

Not really, but it's a catchy tune.

[youthere]

22. The Flying Weenie-Cedar Rapids, Iowa

No, that's not a slur on Bush and Air Force 1..It's a hot dog stand in downtown Cedar Rapids. The owner has a pilot's license and flies to Chicago a couple times a week. He brings back Vienna Beef hot dogs and serves them up Chicago Style with hand cut fries on the side. They also have killer gyros there and Italian Beef sandwiches.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

28. what the hell is an "Italian Beef sandwich"?

?

[youthere]

34. Marinated slow-roasted and thin sliced seasoned beef on Italian bread..

I have no clue if they are truly "Italian" and I can't really even prove they are actually beef..but they sure taste good.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

37. with cheese?

[youthere]

41. I believe you can get cheese on them..

but I'm pretty sure you have to ask for it. Usually its just served warm on the bread with lots of juice. I know you can get grilled peppers and onions on them..I just have always eaten it with just the meat though.
Ah jeez, now I'm starving for one and I'm trying to give up meat.Crap.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

42. Hmm - I'm just thinking of philly cheese steaks. I'm hungry now too.

Crap.

[youthere]

44. They are similar to a philly steak sandwich, or a French dip...

just with italian spices I suppose. They are juicy and beefy and sooooo yummy.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

45. Sounds awesome

*drool*

[bullwinkle428]

78. Awesome!! I'm not far from CR at all...I'll make it a point to stop

there for lunch the next time I'm in town in the near future...

[BOSSHOG]

24. LUCKY DOG - Stand at the Corner of Bourbon and Orleans

with the toppings of you choice. Best if washed down with a Draft Beer.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

29. New Orleans?

[BOSSHOG]

49. Yes, The Hot Dog Stands

start creaping out around the french quarter about noon. You can find them well after midnight. The Dogs are very tasty but they are the perfect ingredient for heartburn. I don't want to know what they are made of; but damn they taste good. The poor man's haute cuisine if you don't have a jacket to get into Gallatoie's

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

53. I spent a month there in 93 but I was in a hippy phase and didn't eat the dogs

I will when I visit next - which wil be soon

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. Enough of this midwest crap - hotdogs need NY filth to taste good

and that's a fact

[BOSSHOG]

102. Thats part of the Charm of a Lucky Dog

With the grit and grime and trash of Bourbon Street about, the smell of urine and puke wafting in the air, served from a cart which hasn't been washed since the 50's by an old man one step away from homelessness who hasn't shaved in a week, with a hint of alcohol on his breath; and young men just a few feet away tempting tourist gals from Omaha to show him their breasts for a few beads. Incredibly charming.

[trackfan]

27. The cart on the WB Burbank Studio lot is good.

The ones at Santa Anita are good.
Pinks are good. Dodger Dogs are good. Hebrew National are good.
(I generally like hot dogs, as you might guess).

Right now in LA, though, no one is making a large, thick-skinned, spicy, tasty hot dog, like the ones many shops used to make about 20 years ago.

[RandomKoolzip]

30. Huey's or Hot Doug's, here in sunny Chicago.

Scarfing one of Huey's hot dogs is like biting a swath of God's carpet.


Chicago-style dogs are honestly the best goddamn thing you can ever fucking eat.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

31. Incorrect - NY dogs are the shit's tits

and I can prove it

[RandomKoolzip]

32. NY's hot dogs can go suck a fuck on the Dan Ryan.

I'd rather eat at the Olive Garden than choke down an "authentic" NY hot dog. And I'm right.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

33. Next time you're in town I'm taking you to the original Papaya King

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya_King

[RandomKoolzip]

35. That sounds like one of those weird maeuvers....

giving someone a "Jelly Doughnut" or an "Angry Pirate."

"Dude, I totlally took this chick to the original Papaya King last night! There was lube everywhere!"

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

36. I didn't say I was taking you to Dirty Sanchez's

But you will eat the King

[sir_captain]

38. I prefer Gray's just cause it's cheaper

but Papaya King is the original to be sure.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

46. Gray's is good but it's all the way on the west side

So I rarely make it there

[sir_captain]

66. Yeah, I guess it does kind of depend on where you live

all of the papaya spinoffs are really good, though.

The cheapest was the dearly departed Mike's Papaya at 110th and Broadway. Many moons ago when I was in high school, 2 dogs and a drink were $1.50 there.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

72. What's your favorite deli?

I kept meaning to go to 2nd ave till it closed so I'm making a point of hitting up every great deli in the city.

[sir_captain]

82. That's a tough one now

2nd Avenue was definitely my favorite by a lot.

I'm not a big fan of Katz's. I guess I'd go with Sarge's--it's not as well known, but I think it has the best corned beef sandwich around now that 2nd avenue is no more. Plus it's open 24 hours and is a bit cheaper than Carnegie and Stage and so on.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

86. I enjoy Katz's for it's pastrami

Sarge's is the only of the top ones I haven't hit yet. I do feel gutted (as the brits say) for missing out on 2nd ave after years and years of saying I'll stop in one day.

:cry:

[sir_captain]

88. I've heard some vague rumors

that it might reopen in another location, but it'd never be the same. Honestly, it wasn't the same after the proprietor was murdered. It was a real NY institution, though, that's for sure; also by far the best matzohball soup around. Sigh. Oh, and the chocolate babka was to die for.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

92. I will always remember the poster there asking for clues to the murder

I guess I sort of figured it would never be what it was.

As to your point I found this: http://www.nysun.com/article/46093?access=346299

[sir_captain]

93. Let's hope it happens!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

96. See you there

:hi:

[sir_captain]

97. Absolutely.

I'd be there on opening day. :toast:

[mainegreen]

39. Rule 1: If it's not rocket red and doesn't 'snap', you bought the wrong dog.

[Gormy Cuss]

79. You Mainiac.

:rofl:

[mainegreen]

81. I am what I am!

:D

[SteppingRazor]

40. Offhand, I'd say it's somewhere in Chicago...

Chicago dogs being the best dogs of all :9

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

43. Well since the folks who settled in Chicago came froom NY I'm sure they are

:D

[SteppingRazor]

52. The Chicago dog and the NY dog are completely different animals, though...

the NY dog has saurkraut and pickled hot peppers.

The Chicago dog has tomato wedges, both a dill pickle spear and sweet pickle relish, yellow mustard, and celery salt — and never, ever ketchup.

So, the two are vastly different styles.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

57. Well we agree on no ketchup ever, but - I've never even heard of pickled

hot peppers. Ususally just mustard or onions or kraut.

[SteppingRazor]

62. You know ... the red bits that are in with the onions.

Those are pickled peppers. A lot of the street vendors have'em. Last time I was in the city (I may like Chicago's dogs, but I like the City's everything else), I know I got one with them. Just outside of Central Park.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

67. Must be because I never have onions.

Street vendors of "dirty water dogs" are not the best example of a great NY dog. If you run across a store that specializes in dogs it's light years above the street vendors.

[SteppingRazor]

69. I'll make a point of hitting up the Papaya King next time I get up there n/t

[GenDem]

50. Rochester, NY -- Zweigle's

My favorite product is the large pop open hot dogs - with half white, half red hots. Fabulous on the grill!!!!

[Katina]

64. you pick that over Nick Tahoes?

[GenDem]

74. I'm pretty sure that they use Zweigle hot dogs

I don't go to Nick Tahoe's very often -- I do like them, though. We usually buy our own wienie's and pop them on the grill.

[RedStateShame]

51. Not from pig anus.....oh, you meant geographically.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

55. I prefer the pig's uvula be used.

[seemunkee]

58. Worcester MA

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

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

60. I like worcester - I have family there.

I must stop by

[kwassa]

59. Hotdogs are good????????

Didn't know that!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

63. Not as good as a good as blood sausage but good indeed.

[kwassa]

70. ah .... chorizo and egg burritos .....

Nothing like blood sausage.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

71. nummers

:thumbsup:

[XNASA]

61. YOU'RE a hotdog.

And a weiner.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

68. YOU'RE a .... something realy bad

and stupid

:P

[sakabatou]

73. Unfortunately

Most hotdogs are non-kosher, so...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

75. Hebrew National and Sabretts are and most NY vendors cook them

but I don't know how strictly Kosher their preparations are.

[sir_captain]

85. There was a NY Times article a few years ago

I don't remember exactly when. In any case, it revealed that pretty much every hot dog vendor in the city--all the papayas, the ball parks, the street vendors, almost all use the exact same hot dog. I guess it's all in the way they cook them. They definitely use a real cow intestinal casing for the snap.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

95. Yep Sabretts

Snappy and yummy

[sakabatou]

89. We have no hotdog venders.... no wait

COSTCO'S!

[Crankie Avalon]

77. The papaya drink is AWESOME, there...

...I'll buy a quart of it and gulp it all right down in one sitting...you know, the size where it comes in the plastic bucket/cup.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

80. Hell yes I do

My wife considers it crack cocaine

[bullwinkle428]

83. I have to give a shout-out to Ted's Hot Dogs in western New York...

Charcoal-grilled goodness on a bun!! I have to have my Ted's every time I go home to visit my family...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

87. Charcoal - sounds divine

If it does what it does to pizza then that must be a tasty dog

[bullwinkle428]

94. They've got the charcoal pits going (with lots of ventilation, of course)

inside each location where they cook the dog right in front of you as you're in line. I've never been in any of the locations where there wasn't a decent line of people waiting for their dogs! They get their dogs from a local supplier, and offer a beef-dog alternative for those keeping Kosher, or if they're just not into pork products...

ETA: link http://www.tedsonline.com/

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

98. Now that's my kind of place

I'll make a point of going when I can

[JackBeck]

84. Yocco's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yocco's_Hot_Dogs

[Tektonik]

90. Pink's in LA or Dodger's stadium, n/t

[leftofthedial]

100. Chicago

any of about 200 places in Chicago are the best dogs on earth.

then comes Milwaukee.

then everyplace else.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

101. wrong

so very wrong