McDonald’s has hotdogs and bratwurst every once in a long while, usually during football season. Probably a Wisconsin thing.
ETA: They are the nasty pre-cooked kind.
Some highly paid marketing guy, who in his worst nightmares at a top tier MBA program never imagined that this would be his career, did a study and concluded that it wouldn’t be profitable enough.
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Somebody above beat me to Wienerschnitzell which are all over Texas. I have never been to one-the concept is gross to me.
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Hot dogs are gross?
If you’ve ever seen the fast-food hot dogs on the rollers where they’ve been on there for days or weeks before selling, you wouldn’t ask that question.
Apu sells dogs that are years outta date, Homer likes 'em
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They always bothered my advisor (A Real German Professor, from Germany, who looked and acted like what you think a German Professor ought to), who complained that you couldn’t actually get “Weiner Schnitzel” at one… all the served was Americanized sausages.
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Could’ve been worse for him. It used to be called DER Wienerschnitzel.
At der happy Wie-ner-schnitzel!
Yum, yum!
Hot dogs!
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Hot dogs are gross?
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If I remember correctly, Wienerschnitzell was advertising an entree, which consisted of a hotdog and French fries wrapped up in a tortilla.
The whole package sounded gross to me, YMMV.
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…a hotdog and French fries wrapped up in a tortilla…
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That actually sounds pretty good. 
Maybe with some chili, or salsa…
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There’s a place in Rochdale, Lancs. that sells Cumberland sausage on a half baguette every market day.
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How frequent are market days?
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I wouldn’t be too surprised if they came back on the menu at some point (or if individual franchises kept them). Of all the food lines carried by Hardee’s, hot dogs were the least space-, labor-, or time-intensive. (Biscuits and chicken were the most laborious, and the original version of the roast beef took hours to cook.) It really involved nothing more than having a couple of packages of hot dogs and buns on hand, a minute’s labor prepping a dozen dogs in the morning, and 30 seconds or so in the microwave whenever an order came through.
I can’t wait until someone starts a thread about roast beef sandwiches; 15 years later, and I still rant about how Hardee’s f’ed those up.
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So Hardee’s doesn’t sell roast beef anymore? Christ, that was the only thing I would order from them. They really went down the crapper when they merged with Carl’s Jr.
7-Eleven and Orange Julius do it.
SoCal also has Jody Maroni’s, though I couldn’t tell you if they’re any good. Their phrase “Sausage Kingdom” makes me snicker too hard.
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Nathan’s hot dogs are all beef.
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I love Nathan’s hot dogs. I would not even think of eating a hot dog that was not all beef. Those pork/chicken/turkey dogs that other’s sell are disgusting IMHO.
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Nathan’s hot dogs are all beef.
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Well never mind, then. 
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7-Eleven and Orange Julius do it.
SoCal also has Jody Maroni’s, though I couldn’t tell you if they’re any good. Their phrase “Sausage Kingdom” makes me snicker too hard.
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If you are in LA, Original Tommy’s is a chain with excellent chili dogs.
Okay, maybe it doesn’t really count as “fast food” per se, but you still find hot dogs for sale at many movie theaters. Why? My guess is, they take less supervision than burgers or other typical fast food fare; you put 'em in the little carousel or roller and forget about 'em, leaving the concession employees free to sell 15 cents worth of popcorn for $4.75.
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How frequent are market days?
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Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
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Somebody above beat me to Wienerschnitzell which are all over Texas. I have never been to one-the concept is gross to me.
I actually ate part of a Sonic hotdog, I had a coupon. It was nauseating to me, but my dog liked it. 
It’s true in Germany you can get excellent sausages on good bread all over, but my wife claims the chain Wienerwald is quite bad.
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I haven’t been to one in years, but what sucks about Wienerschnitzel is that it is a place that specializes in hotdogs, but their hotdogs seem to be the lowest quality crap you can buy at a the grocery store and cook in the micro for 30 seconds- nothing special. If they had high quality dogs, sausages, or brats that were grilled I might stop for one.
The footlong Sonic chili cheese dogs are served in a big paper boat like thing and have to be eaten with a fork. They are good in a nasty kinda way- you feel guilty ordering it, it looks nasty, and you feel a little bad afterwards, but it sure tastes good.
garygnu writes:
> That actually sounds pretty good. Maybe with some chili, or salsa…
This is starting to sound like the “pizza crepe taco pancake chili bag” from the Saturday Night Live parody advertisement a few years ago.
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I haven’t been to one in years, but what sucks about Wienerschnitzel is that it is a place that specializes in hotdogs, but their hotdogs seem to be the lowest quality crap you can buy at a the grocery store and cook in the micro for 30 seconds- nothing special. If they had high quality dogs, sausages, or brats that were grilled I might stop for one.
The footlong Sonic chili cheese dogs are served in a big paper boat like thing and have to be eaten with a fork. They are good in a nasty kinda way- you feel guilty ordering it, it looks nasty, and you feel a little bad afterwards, but it sure tastes good.
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You can order regular or “all beef” that are better. The chili-dogs are the thing for me there. They have a “Chicago” dog but the one at Taste of Chicago in Burbank is way better.
Carl Karcher started out with hot dogs, and until a decade or two ago, some Carl’s Jr. locations had a “Hot Dog Bar”. The one in Glendale Galleria comes to mind. Carl’s lost a lot of appeal when they changed the fries about 20 years ago from fresh to frozen.
You should come to the UK, search out a branch of Wimpy’s, and order a Bender in a Bun with Cheese.
Truly a double-entendre laden offering.