Last month, Cincinnati Style, with chili, mustard and cheddar, with a three way spaghetti (chili and cheddar).
I think the SDMB has decided that hot dogs have to be on buns. If so, then a long damn time, 3+ years most likely.
But I cook wieners all the time, put mustard and relish on them and eat them. within the last month
I try to watch my sodium intake so haven’t had one since I got out of the hospital in April '17. I liked Nathan’s and another brand I’m blanking on. The cheap ones are awful.
I had chili dogs from Sonic a few months ago because my cousin worked there and I got them for free. They weren’t too bad. But she quit and moved back to Ohio, so I guess no more hot dogs for a while, since I hate hot dogs normally.
Yesterday. I might go a long time between them (maybe years?) but this summer it’s the daily staple. Doesn’t heat up the whole house to cook, get a different brand every time to compare and contrast. Make a ton of sides to go with them.
I eat them like a kid. Cut up and with ketchup. I can’t easily eat them in a bun, but I do like them when I can open wide enough. I don’t like mustard and I REALLY don’t like sauerkraut or chili.
This week actually. I was hungry, in a hurry, and it was late so I didn’t want a large meal. I eat hot dogs about twice a year. I think I’ve had my quota for 2018.
2 weeks ago. At a golf course at the turn. If I start around 10-11 am I’ll need something after 9 holes. Usually a Spam musabi but a dog if the snack shack is out.
I recently wondered why they’re called hot dogs, and was amused to discover that it relates to 19th-century accusations of sausage vendors selling products made from actual dog meat.
The Detroit metro area is loaded with Coney Island restaurants. That’s not a brand, it’s a type - sort of a greasy-spoon diner, but they always feature, among other things, Coney Island hot dogs (AKA a Coney, as in “gimme two Coneys to go”): a hot dog on a bun, smothered with chili, onions, and mustard. They’re popular in part because they can be prepped quickly, as long as there’s a bin of preheated hot dogs and a tank of chili handy. They’re also damn tasty; had a couple just a few weeks ago.
Ann Arbor also has Ray’s Red Hots, which sells hot dogs dressed up in all manner of condiments. Coney dogs, Chicago dogs, and beyond. Good stuff, though not particularly good for you; I ate there a few months ago, and it’ll probably be at least a few more months before I go back.
Yesterday.
Anyone who’s interested in hot dogs should watch A Hot Dog Program by Rick Sebak.
I think I’d have my Chicago credentials taken away from me if I didn’t eat a hot dog at least once a month. I had one a couple days ago, as well as a “Reaper” (extra spicy hot dog) from 7-Eleven during a road trip. I dress it with mustard, onions, relish, sport peppers, and a pickle spear (which I eat separately). The hot dog places I like to frequent here in Chicago tend not to do the poppy seed bun and tomato thing, but I’ll do a so-called Chicago style dog if I’m at Portillo’s or something.
Grilled up some burgers and dogs twice in the past two weeks on our new deck. We’re using it a lot this summer.
One more comment: A French-Asian bakery opened here a couple years ago. They have all kinds of teas, drinks, and pastries and breads you can buy to take home or pick yourself, pay, and eat in the little shop. I don’t know what kind of ‘Asian’ it’s supposed to be - maybe Korean? - but I notice every time, there are a couple-three items with sliced hot dogs in then. Like a braided Danish with hot dogs in it.
I haven’t had a real hot dog since I learned how they were made as an impressionable kid around 1987. I became a vegetarian a few years after that. I have had my share of soy dogs over the past couple decades. They’re … adequate.
Within the last 12 months, simply because in the Chicago suburbs, there aren’t many good hot dog places. There is a Portillo’s within a mile, but I cave and get the beef/snausage combo. And BTDubs, I always put ketchup on it.
About an hour ago. Plain dog on a wheat bun. I eat at least one every week.
I usually have a couple of hot dogs for lunch every Saturday - either bagel dogs, sausage roll style (wrapped in Pillsbury Crescent dough and baked like Pigs on a Blanket), or “beenie weenie” (with Bush’s baked beans).
The strangest place I have had a hot dog: from a street vendor’s cart…in Cambridge, England.
Has anyone yet mentioned Lucky Dogs?
In New Orleans there are street vendors with carts who sell Lucky Dogs. They are a part of the NOLA experience. We always get one at 2 am for some reason, and they are soooo good. They are foot longs with many topping options. The vendors tend to be struggling to rejoin society, we always tip well.
One year we were at The Erin Rose until 2ish. My gf needed help walking back to the room. In the lobby of our hotel, the desk dude looked like he wanted to intervene when he saw my half carrying/half dragging a seemingly unconscious woman onto the elevator.
We got to the room and she recovered just enough to request a Lucky Dog. I went back out and got her dog. When I returned she was out cold. I’ll never forget the appearance of that hotdog the next morning. It looked like a relic unearthed by archeologists.
About a week ago. My favorite iterations are either a Polish boy with sauerkraut and brown mustard, or a pig in a blanket (hot dog baked in a crescent roll with cheese, and ketchup). Yes, I have lowbrow food tastes.
Oh, and the best hot dogs on the planet, as all right-thinking people know, are at the Hot Dog Shoppe in East Liverpool, Ohio. Delectable meat, soft warm bun, and the cheese sauce is to die for. Cheap and delicious: Goodbye East Liverpool!