As we enter the dog days of summer, when grills barely have time to cool down between meals and baseball games are pleasant ways to kill an afternoon, I ask you: When is the last time you ate a hot dog? Not an italian sausage or kielbasa. Not a vegan fake-out. A hot dog. A meaty, lips-and-assholes tube steak. A wiener on a bun in yer mouth.
Steamed, with either ketchup and green relish or yellow mustard (and sometimes sauerkraut). I don’t boil them any more, and I usually steam the bun, just to warm it up.
I always keep two packs of five all-beef jumbos in the fridge. I’ll never understand why buns are sold in bags of eight, since this matches no form of hot dog packaging that I’m aware of.
I like chili cheese dogs topped with yellow mustard and chopped onion too, but Chicago style hot dogs with just a few drops of Tabasco are the best! :o
My dad invariably bought this brand of hot dogs, even though he wasn’t Jewish:
Tuesday, with a side of tater tots. There are great hot dog joints all over my neighborhood. I get one at least once a week. I usually go for the canonical “Chicago Style” dog, but will occasionally get a chili-cheese dog.
I’m on a sodium reduced diet and hotdogs aren’t really worth the sacrifice required throughout the rest of the day. As a result it’s been a few years.
HOWEVER…it’s ribfest weekend, they got yummy looking hotdogs, and the lure of the forbidden has overtaken me, I expect to have one before this day is through! Ha!
We have the best hot dogs in the world here, in natural casings. (and, oh joy! there is a reduced sodium version now, though they aren’t as good as the regular.) . We sometimes have Weenie Wednesdays, and hot dogs with chili on top. I like the white coonies myself. But we have them at least once a month. I cook a couple extra so The Mister can heat himself up something for his midnight feed, or lunch the next day.
Nathan’s boiled hot dogs, those floating in hot cloudy water at outdoor hot dog carts, surprising to me that boiled snappy hot dogs could be good. But only Nathan’s brand.