When I was a kid we used to get hot dogs with a tough casing. It was knotted at both ends and you really had to bite through it. There would be an audible snap. I particularly remember one kind that was short, fat, and white in colour.
I haven’t encountered a sausage with snap in years. What happened to them? Was the casing a kind that was abandoned because of some health reason, government policy, or industrial change?
They’re still available. That’s what I buy. Ask the butcher at your market.
They taste better, and are worth the extra trouble, imo.
Peace,
mangeorge
I read how that for some reason we New Englanders are the only people who like the snap, so this is the only place where they’re plentiful. The article might have been in The Hartford Courant but I couldn’t find it in their archives.
New Englanders?
Try Milwaukee, the most German city in the U.S. You can get your wieners and sausages as snappy as they come there, especially those made by Usinger’s.
Got that right, Walloon! Fritz Usinger is my neighbor. Lovely aromas emanate from his barbeque grill!
I get my snappy hot dogs from Ralph’s (the supermarket). Their house label, called “Private Selection”, hot dogs have a snap and just enough zing to their flavour. Although they come in one-pound packages, I usually buy the three-pound size (about 15 dogs) and freeze them.
Any hotdog with a natural casing (intestinal lining for the sqeamish) will snap in your mouth. Good brands include:
-Hebrew national
-KAYEM
-Nathans
-Maple Leaf
Major brands of hotdogs use gelatine casings, that do not snap!
I just picked some up at the store. Raley’s.
Evergood, old fashioned.
I have a feeling that acsenray wasn’t actually looking for some, but just curious as to what became of them.
Peace,
mangeorge
I just want to say that Nathan’s hot dogs rule. That is all.
Here ya go, Amp. Get yerself a coupon, and enter a eating contest. 
I remember eating them at Coney Island. Heaven, it was. I don’t think the ones in the super market are quite the same. Atmosphere, I guess. ILNY.
Peace,
mangeorge
With all this discussion (and having just seen a Food Network show on ballark food), my mouth is definitely watering for some snappy dogs now. Does anyone know what might be available in the Washington, D.C., area?
Nothing beats a Sabrett hot dog, except what they use at Gray’s Papaya in NYC. I think those are Sabretts, however.