Looks mighty tasty!
I wonder too if the hot dog chains might consider something like the choucroute garnie:
Huh. The picture doesn’t look the same, but it’s very similar in spirit to a Polish dish called bigos. My parents would make it with hot dogs, sausages, bacon, ham, pork shoulder – whatever porky bits were left over in the freezer. The Polish version looks a bit more stewy than what is in your photo, but the idea of sauerkraut + pork products is there:
How are you supposed to eat something that thick? I can only imagine deconstructing it first.
I remember my family going to a LUMS in the suburbs of Washington DC back in the late 60’s when I was a kid. They had hot dogs steamed in beer.
I think that thing was featured on The Food Network. Either Triple-D or Man vs Food.
There was a Dog N Suds in my childhood home town. It was a drive-in specializing in Coney dogs and root beer. At one point there were 650 Dog N Suds locations across 38 states, but now there are only 15 left, according to wikipedia. I should visit one of the remaining locations before they vanish entirely.
In my city a hotdog stand opened but after just under two years it closed. I adored the hotdogs, the food was GREAT, but it was mismanaged and went under.
Mmm, dirty-water dogs.
We have a hot dog place that’s been famous for decades, called ‘Heid’s’. Their hotdogs are Hoffman brand, natural casing hot dogs and coonies (a white sausage). A double, with a carton of chocolate milk, brings everybody to their yard. Grilled on an old fashioned black grill in peanut oil, with Heid’s mustard, dee-licious. Lately there has been a kerfuffle with people complaining about the restaurant (getting too expensive with too many other items) and complaints about the hot dogs themselves. Too small, or taste ‘different’. Heid’s swears that nothing has changed, and Hoffmans swears nothing has changed with them, either. (but I’ve noticed in the past different batches sometimes have different tastes. The sausages are sold in grocery stores, too.) some are deliciously spicey, and some seem to have that piggy ‘oink’ to them. I wouldn’t be surprised if the difference was due, of course, to supply issues, to covid f’ing things up. Hoffmans might have been using meat from ABC company but is forced to use meat from the XYZ company due to shortages or transportation issues.
It never should have been there. AIUI, in German, a compound noun such as wienerschnitzel takes the gender of the last noun. Schnitzel is neuter, so it should have always been Das Wienerschnitzel.
So a high-end hot dog restaurant could be called “Yuppie Chow?”
ETA: TIL that Hot Dog On a Stick does NOT, in fact, have an outlet in every mall food court in the country.
That’s a disappointing thing to learn.
I looked at Yelp for Little Rock. I may seek out ScoopDog.
Lea-Lea’s Gourmet Dogs - advertises up scale dogs and daquiris.
The Original ScoopDog - sells a variety of dogs and fresh frozen custard. Their building looks like a converted Baskin Robbins.
We did have a Food Truck that parked downtown at lunch and relied on the office workers. It sold upscale burgers, hot dogs, and 
. I’m not sure they survived after work at home became the norm.
I hope the Food trucks come back after life gets back to normal. I used to stop at several and they usually had good food.
Or as we affectionately referred to ours, “Arf n Barf.” Good stuff! Wasn’t the slogan “Doggone good food”?
I was at Big Lots one day and found bottles of the root beer…sugar free, no less. But I think they changed the recipe.
IIRC there was a program on food network where they explored some of the different preparations. Deep fried? Take it from a chef with plenty o’ junk in the trunk…
See also New Jersey “ripper” dogs.
Here in Chicago, while I’ve never seen derp fried dogs, throwing a Polish into the deep fryer is not unusual .
There’s a hotdog food truck around here that hits breweries. They do “Chicago Dogs” as well as chili dogs, cheese dogs, etc.
ETA: they’re my first/only exposure to Chicago dogs.
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Maybe some franchises didn’t get the message, because I have called them Der forever, and I never even heard of them until 1985. I can’t imagine that I’d both make it up, and use the wrong article. 
A&W was a thing in New York State at least through the 80s — I remember the ads well: “A&W Root Beer has that frosty mug tayeeeeest…”
My wife grew up in Malaysia in the 1990s, where A&W was considered a “treat place.”
Sounds like you have alpha-gal syndrome, in which case you can’t eat pork hot dogs either.
For stuff like burgers and chicken and pizza, outlets order bulk ingredients and then use them to make their own differentiated product.
For hot dogs, the hot dog is the differentiated product. So as a hot-dog retailer, unless you own the meat-packing plant, your product is no different from any other hot dog in the region. That means you’re forced to compete on cost, which leaves giants like Costco that can sell cheap dogs and protect their margins in other ways.
We do have local hot-dog chains where I live. I like hot dogs, and I find theirs to be exceptionally good. But the world’s best hotdog is sort of like the world’s best bass player. You need a specific and obsessive interest in it to appreciate any sort of worthwhile distinction.