I don’t know how often you go to games anymore, but the quality, she has declined. Still probably the best dogs in baseball, but not what they once were. I blame the McCourts.
Alright. I vow that my next hot dog(s) shall be ketchup-free. In the name of science, I will see what effect this has on me.
This man speaks the truth. As a Chicagoan, I may also add some hot (sport) peppers to that, and perhaps a dash of celery salt if there’s some around. But mustard, relish, and onions makes one beautiful hot dog.
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Oh, the heathens serve hot dogs and chili dogs in them, too.
Ronald, are you a MA guy as well?
Yes, at least I grew up in Worcester, Mass.
I’ve seen that before. The technical term for it is a folded piece of FUCKING TOAST!!!
You are absolutely correct! 
I am trying to figure out how one can say that the New England Style hot dog bun is not the one true bun, seeing as how it comes from where the whole god damned country started!! My people were sitting on Plymouth Rock eating hot dogs in buns properly buttered and browned on both sides while the rest of the country was full of Indians deciding where to put the casinos.
The King! The King has no clothes on!*
Thank you for that comment, this “top split” first link that everyone keeps referring to just looks like toast to me!
… there is the top-split Hot Dog or Sandwich Roll. The industrial side split buns are standard, but to bring a modern example… Imagine the divergent Sandwich artistry and corporate standard at Subway. Several years ago the technique for cutting a sandwich at subway was a “V” top split. Now all of the sandwich artistes I run across only make them with a side cut. I think they made a bad corporate decision there… probably based on speed of service. The top split was much better for the saucy sandwiches that I like.
Absolutely correct! The ketchup goes on the bun, immediately next to the hot dog. Putting it on the dog itself like in the commercials always struck me as slightly wrong somehow.
That said, when I use ketchup, it’s usually something like a 1:3 or 1:4 mix with mustard, for use on fries and chowhall hamburgers.
Well, there are baloney rolls. Slices of baloney rolled up with a line of Catsup down the center. Or, if you’re really pretentious, they are known as bologna on hand sandwiches.
I sometimes like to split a couple of hot dogs in quarters and fry them up with butter. I serve as a sandwich between wonder toast with mustard and miracle whip. Maybe some cheese.
I like mouseturd and catshit.
No, we can’t. You’ll get my ketchup when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. 
Growing up in California, I only knew hot dogs in side-split buns. Then I was stationed in Rhode Island for a few years and came to know the splendor of the top-split bun, buttered and grilled.
Since moving away from New England, I have only seen top-split buns a few times. Whenever I do see them, I buy them.
There’s nothing wrong with a burger on plain bread, either. There was a restaurant I used to eat at in Newport (actually, it may have been Middletown) that served a beefburger club sandwich that I loved. The usual club sandwich three-slices of toast format with a very thin hamburger patty, lettuce, tomato & bacon. I think the place was called the Colonial Grill. They made an excellent hot dog too (in a top-split bun, of course).
Another thing I miss from Rhode Island – Drake’s Sunny Doodles.
I’m pretty sure you can still request the v-split at Subway. Whether you can find an employee that has been trained in the v-split these days is another matter, however.
We use both side- and top-cut buns on the phun house. I prefer side-cut for a dog with any topping other than mustard, as there is just no room in the top-cut roll for “fixins”… however, the little phun-guys only use catsup on their dogs, making the top-cut easier (for me) to prepare and place,and (for them) to pick up, put down with no risk of dog-rollage.
Oh you can request them to cut the sandwich in the classic manner that does not cause food to shoot out of the sides of the bread, but you’d have to find someone who had worked at Subway for the last 10 years in order to get it, which isn’t going to happen. Either you get a high school aged kid who wasn’t even alive when the still did that or a clueless Indian franchisee who refuses to cooperate.
Yep.
That can be arranged.
Around here you can get both at any good greasy spoon. Side split are for when you want a steamed hot dog (un steamé). Top split are for when you want a toasted hot dog (un toasté). (Sometimes just the bun is toasted, sometimes hot dog is put on the grill.)
From Michigan, lived in Oregon a couple years, travelled through most of the contiguous 48, never heard of a top-split bun before today that I can recall.
