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These treats used to be called Frankfurters. Sausages in Frankfurt, of course.

I've eaten plenty of sausages in Germany but there is nothing like an American baseball game hot dog. Or anywhere else during the summer. Not a dirty-water hot dog on an NYC street - a grilled one. As with any sausage, never think about the ingredients.

A bit about the history of hot dogs.

Love them? How do you like 'em? I like some mustard.

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Longer than the bun with mustard and relish
sometimes a little onion but not much

#1 Spiro (Link) on 2023-08-10 15:48 (Reply)

Sounds good Spiro.

Usually I am in too big a hurry for that. Just yellow mustard is fine.

And the dawg's need to be made from beef. No poultry. Those are inedible.

#1.1 feeblemind on 2023-08-10 16:06 (Reply)

The kids love the cheap hot dogs but I can't eat chicken (thanks to helping a friend in high school clear out his dad's chicken houses and seeing how horribly nasty chickens are) so it's all beef or beef/pork for me with just yellow mustard.

Speaking of pork, when I was a kid back in the '60's and '70's I'm pretty sure bologna and hot dogs were normally made from pork since chickens weren't yet processed on an industrial scale. Am I wrong about that?

#1.1.1 Jerryskids on 2023-08-10 16:52 (Reply)

re Speaking of pork, when I was a kid back in the '60's and '70's I'm pretty sure bologna and hot dogs were normally made from pork since chickens weren't yet processed on an industrial scale. Am I wrong about that?

That was a long time ago. I think you are mostly correct on the lunch meat/hotdogs. My best recollection is that they started putting poultry in hot dogs in the late 70s. But don't quote me.

It seems like turkey dogs were first as the turkey industry was trying to expand their market beyond Thanksgiving and Christmas. The chicken business then followed.

Kids . . . yeah . . . . I am amazed at some of the things they really like.

#1.1.1.1 feeblemind on 2023-08-10 17:20 (Reply)

It has got to have Mayo.

#2 indyjonesouthere on 2023-08-10 15:54 (Reply)

Don't you find that makes them so slippery they kind of squirt out the back of the bun?

#2.1 Hairless Joe on 2023-08-11 08:09 (Reply)

When I was a kid, hot dogs were sold with good, greasy canned chili on top along with shredded cheese and diced onions. You had to specify no chili if that's the way you liked your hot dog. Fantastic food at Friday Night, Lights Football games when it was a bit chilly outside.

A friend of mine does industrial risk management for an international insurance company when they write policies for factories and food processing places. Some years ago he had to do a survey of a hot dog plant and I asked him if it was yucky seeing hot dogs made. He told me that by the time the product was delivered to the hot dog plant it had already been processed into a semi liquid, not bad smelling stuff in large vats that was further cooked with some more ingredients and then run through a factory line that stuffed the stuff into the casings, all very clean and well organized. Further upstream at the slaughter house I would think it would be more messy and I don't need to know about that part of making hot dogs.

#3 OldTexan on 2023-08-10 16:20 (Reply)

All beef hotdog
+ mustard
+ bacon
+ pickles (not relish)
+ slightly toasted bun

#4 AnotherTime on 2023-08-10 16:36 (Reply)

Boiled hot dog, steamed bun, yellow mustard, and homemade chili are must haves.

#5 SCReader on 2023-08-10 16:41 (Reply)

Mustard OR chili, not mustard AND chili.

#5.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-08-10 21:19 (Reply)

The only hotdogs that I'll eat are made by Vollwerth & Co of Hancock, MI.

#6 Michael R. Kesti on 2023-08-10 16:48 (Reply)

Made by Voldemort & Co. ???

#6.1 Alpha_Omega on 2023-08-10 22:41 (Reply)

We used to have a trip with a 24-hour layover in Frankfurt back in the low/slow days. Bought quite a few sausages from street vendors while [ahem] sightseeing on layover. Never saw, or heard anyone ask for a condiment that I can recall. Those German sausages didn't need a condiment. The vendor usually would include a little chunk of bread if you asked nicely.

#7 BillH on 2023-08-10 17:03 (Reply)

Suddenly I'm hungry for a hot dog for dinner. Toasted bun, finely chopped onion, mustard, maybe a dab of chili. And jalapeños on the side.

#8 RebeccaH on 2023-08-10 17:22 (Reply)

Gwaltney dogs with hot mustard and chopped sweet onions.

#9 Mark Matis on 2023-08-10 18:55 (Reply)

As a son of Milwaukee, one of the great questions was always, "Which Bratwurst is the best?" I'm a Usingers man myself, but Johnsonville and Klements are pretty good too -- always grilled until they just start to split and dressed with a strong mustard and chopped onions. I also had the honor to spend 5 years in Germany courtesy of Uncle Sam and have sampled all manner of wursts from roadside schnell-imbiss 's scattered along the roadways. Weisswurst, rottwurst, currywurst, bratwurst...I found the German varieties to be more finely ground...top 'em with feuer- or scharfer-senf (fire- or sharp-mustard) for the real deal. Dang...ich habe hunger...

#10 pilsnerfan on 2023-08-10 20:00 (Reply)

I did a 5 week TDY with the Berlin Brigade in the early ‘90s. I was introduced to currywurst at the imbiss on the kaserne. I got back to the States and didn’t have another one for about 20 years. I finally moved to a place with a decent selection of German restaurants within driving distance. I’d forgotten how amazing German food is.

#10.1 Chadd Newman on 2023-08-10 20:39 (Reply)

Kosher dogs were always all beef until the cholesterol panic of the late 80. Then we got turkey and chicken.

Here in Israel there is precious little local beef - and mported stuff does not include the miscellaneous bits typically directed to the sausage industry. Cured meats are mostly poultry with the exception of one kibbutz founded by German emigres. There is also one formerly Belgian family that produces the fancy sliced deli meats.

My hot dog: Beef sausage, onion or rye roll, mustard, sauerkraut.

Over time this Noo Yawker has become inured to my outa-town wife putting mayo on deli meats.. but on a frank? That's crossing a line...

#11 Ben David on 2023-08-11 02:39 (Reply)

All beef with yellow mustard. If the dog is a little below prime in quality I like to add some Cholula or Hatch green chiles

#12 Anonymous Mike on 2023-08-11 02:59 (Reply)

Cincinnati style is the way to go with wieners.
The works, kraut, chili, cheese, onions, mustard, go large.
Never read the label or count calories and carbs when having hot dogs.

#13 Deep Thots with Handy Jack on 2023-08-11 04:59 (Reply)

The best is a steamed dog, steamed bun, with cole saw, tomato slice, and hot sauce.

But I like them with almost anything. Even just ketchup.

I don't like the all-beef hot dogs. They have a weird texture and they're too greasy.

#14 jack walter on 2023-08-11 06:52 (Reply)

Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur in Reykjavík, Iceland. Hot dogs made with Icelandic lamb. With fried onions.

#15 Ron Hamel on 2023-08-11 07:05 (Reply)

Grilled (but not beyond recognition) on a toasted bun. Sometimes with sriracha. And I confess I've always liked ketchup on them, even though it's been getting me the side-eye since I was a little kid.

My wife likes them well-cremated with melted American cheese on top. I do not question, I serve.

#16 Hairless Joe on 2023-08-11 08:14 (Reply)

"As with any sausage, never think about the ingredients."

Yeah ... in college I read Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle." I couldn't eat a hot dog for about two years.

But I got over it!

#17 Cleve Watson on 2023-08-11 10:05 (Reply)

I recall, as a kid, loving a hot dog from HoJo's, served on a buttered toasted bun with a little pot of baked beans.

Today, all beef, well-grilled with mustard is preferred.

#18 Poboy on 2023-08-11 12:02 (Reply)

Although beef or pork sausage is required, I order like a Buddhist: Make me one with everything.

#19 Thomas Doubting (Link) on 2023-08-11 17:04 (Reply)

I love the steamed version, with the steamed bun, and a nice glob of Gulden's mustard, a la Fenway Park.

Also enjoy them grilled on a grilled bun. In this case it is yellow mustard and sweet relish.

Over the years I've had a few chili dogs but decided to no longer spoil the chili with a hot dog.

#20 steve walsh on 2023-08-11 22:11 (Reply)

I've eaten plenty of sausages in Germany but there is nothing like an American baseball game hot dog.

Dodger Dogs.

There was once a Charlie Brown strip where Charlie is eating a hot dog.

In the last frame he looks down at his hot dog and says, "A hot dog always tastes better with a ball game in front of it."

A lotta truth in that.

#21 feeblemind on 2023-08-11 23:42 (Reply)

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