I think it is just the Polish Boy. But when I buy a Polish Boy from a vendor cart in Cleveland it is just a Polish sausage on a bun with Stadium mustard. The “Famous” Polish Boy also has french fries in the sandwich and barbeque sauce and coleslaw. Disgusting. I wouldn’t even look at one let alone try it.
My favorite drive in near Oberlin, Ohio has sauerkraut and chili dogs and both combined which is called a Hillbilly Dog. That’s not bad. As they said in Pulp Fiction, “No, that seems excessive. But that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen”.
If regional hot dogs count as a “local food”, the Seattle Dog is a thing. It’s pretty good too.
For the most part it’s just adding cream cheese to a hot dog, though typically the bun is toasted rather than steamed, which is also a bit distinctive. Other than that you can add plenty of other toppings, but the cream cheese is the defining touch. I like banana peppers as well on mine. (Pickled jalapenos are a pretty classic topping, but I can’t handle anything that spicy anymore, banana peppers are as spicy as I can get without risking my health.)
I’ve never had that but that sounds delicious. Those sound like the kind of toppings you’d have on takoyaki (which I absolutely love).
Yes. He was a guy from Ohio trying to sell bagels in Pioneer Square (where I worked for years by the way) in Seattle, and included only vegetarian toppings from his cart, but people wanted meat. So he said fine, and took a traditional cream cheese bagel and put a hotdog on it. And folks loved it, apparently. So when that became a hit, he transitioned to getting bagel-like buns and making hotdogs with them. That caught on and evolved into what is now a Seattle dog.
The carts are all over Vancouver (always my first meal there). Apparently, there is also a cart on Santa Monica Pier. I looked for it a few years ago but it wasn’t there that day.