Hot Dog

Here's how I do my favorite hot dog! Maybe one of you can come up with a good name for it.

First, cut the hot dog in half length-wise.
Put a small slice of cheese between two haves.
Wrap the hotdog with a slice of bacon and push a toothpick through one end to hold the bacon in place.
Fry in pan with just a few drops of cooking oil until bacon is done, turning hot dog occasionally so it does not burn.
Put a small bead of A1 steak sauce on top side of hotdog just a minute or so before removing from pan.
Put on bun with small amount of dijon mustard and enjoy!

Give it a try and let me know what you think! If you like your hot dogs done this way, you might want to prepare a bunch to cook on the grill for your next outing. Your kids or guests will love them.

I usually like my hotdogs fairly simple. I saute a couple of chopped onion slices in a frying pan, then cut my hotdogs in half lengthwise and throw them in the pan with the onions.

When the hotdogs is "fried", I put it and the onions on a bun, squirt a little mustard on it and enjoy.

A pretty simple way to do "hotdogs", but I love them this way.

Arizona: Sometimes referred to as a "Perro Caliente", it is commonly served on a warm, flour tortilla with salsa, refried beans and rice.

Tucson, Arizona: The Sonoran hot dog, found in Tucson and in neighboring Sonora, Mexico, is a hot dog grilled over an open flame, wrapped in Mesquite-smoked bacon, topped with freshly-chopped tomatoes, onions, shredded yellow cheese and a tomatillo salsa, ketchup and mayonnaise, and served on a bolillo.

Los Angeles: The most famous hot dogs in Los Angeles come from Pink's Hot Dogs, which is known for its celebrity customers and chili dogs in a wide number of varieties.

Local chain Tommy's also has chili-dogs alongside its much better-known chili hamburgers, and another local chain The Hat, which specializes in pastrami, has them also. Chili used in Los Angeles varies widely, from the pasty, flourly California mud used at Tommy's and The Hat, to the better-tasting and better-balanced topping at Pink's, to the savory, spicy, meal-in-itself cup of chilli at Fatburger, and on to the mildly spicy, yet insubstantial glaze-like chili-sauce used at the large Wienerschnitzel chain.

Other notable chains that specialize in hot dogs in Los Angeles include Hot Dog On A Stick, which serves a preparation similar to a corn dog, but with a non-corn breading and Wienerschnitzel, a chain that bills itself as "The World's Largest Hot Dog Chain." The world-famous Farmer John Dodger Dog sold at Dodger Stadium is eaten more than any other ballpark hot dog in the world. Legend has it that the foot-longs are secretly grilled in beer.

Unlicensed street vendors in Los Angeles also serve a popular bacon-wrapped hot dog with grilled onions, jalapeño or bell peppers and salsa as condiments.

Recently, Chicago-area hot dog chain Portillo's marked its expansion into the Southern California market with a restaurant opening in Buena Park (suburb of Los Angeles located in adjacent Orange County, in the vicinity of Knott's Berry Farm amusement park), adding the classic Chicago-style hot dog and Maxwell Street polish to the numerous varieties of hot dogs available for local consumption.

Many of us are veterans or have sons and daughters who are veterans. The magnet pictured here makes a great gift for anyone who has served in our armed forces and can be placed anywhere on your vehicle, refrigerator, etc. You can order one or save by ordering bags of ten or one hundred.

Many VFWs or Legions order our bags of one hundred to hand out to their members!

We also offer this design on shirts, hats, cups and more. Why not order some today. Show your pride in our veterans.

You can check them out or order them by clicking this link!

Do you have a friend or ralative who will be coming home from Iraq shortly? When I was in the service we enjoyed letting everyone know that we'd be going home and were "short-timers".

These Short-Timer t-shirts and buttons make great gifts for your favorite soldier.

Connecticut: Connecticut has long been regarded for its wealth of hotdog restaurants. Many are family owned "drive in's" that look more at home in the 1950's. Swanky Frank's of Norwalk is famous for their "split" hotdogs.

Rawley's of Fairfield is best known for their dual cooked dogs. The hotdog is first dropped into a deep fryer before finishing up on a grill. This is also the favorite place of such prominent Connecticut residents as Paul Newman and Martha Stewart.

The list goes on and on, Super Duper Weenie of Fairfield, Merrit Canteen of Bridgeport, Danny's of Stratford, Paul's of Milford, Blackie's of Cheshire, Frankie's in Waterbury and other locations, and Turk's of West Haven. Frequent condiments include the brown mustard, sauerkraut, chopped onions, bacon, sweet pickle relish, and ketchup.

Washington, D.C.: A half-smoke is a type of hot dog found in the greater Washington, D.C. region. A half-smoke is slightly larger than than a regular hot dog, spicier and with more coarsely ground meat. It may be made of beef, pork or a combination of the two, and is served on a hot dog bun.

Georgia: Georgia, especially the southern portion of the state, has a variation called the scrambled dog (or dawg, as it is colloquially known). Originating in Columbus, Georgia, it is a cheap, usually red-skinned hot dog, served on a toasted white bun and topped with mustard and spicy chili. This particular chili contains beans and has large chunks of diced raw onion mixed directly into the prepared sauce before being spooned onto the dog. The Scrambled dog in its traditional configuration was invented at now-defunct cigar store and newspaper stand run by Firm Roberts on Columbus' Broadway beginning in 1908. The most famous purveyor of the dog today is the city's Dinglewood Pharmacy, there it is topped with ketchup, mustard, chili with beans, onions, sliced dill pickles, and oyster crackers. Scrambled Dog purists do not put cheese in any form on the dog.

While the recipe is relatively consistent on a city-by-city basis, each town has a unique opinion on the propriety of the presence or absence of American cheese on the hot dog. Typically a scrambled dog meal is regarded as incomplete unless accompanied by a Coca-Cola (which originated in Georgia).

Tin Sign Mike's Drive In 5 Cent Hot Dogs ***Sale***

The rusted metal signs are reproduced to look like "the old timers"!! Each sign is hand distressed with rusty edges to achieve an aged look and feel! Approx. measures 13" x 12".

Chicago: A Chicago-style hot dog is a steamed Vienna Beef or Dave Berg hot dog topped with sliced/diced/wedged tomatoes, both a dill pickle spear and sweet pickle relish, yellow mustard directly on the sausage, finished with celery salt, and served on a steamed poppy seed bun. Pickled hot peppers ("sport peppers") and chopped or grilled onions are optional. Chicago-style never includes ketchup, though some vendors offer small packets of the condiment for those wanting to add it. Although outside Chicago this style of hot dog is universally associated with the city, equally popular within Chicago is a "Maxwell Street Polish" sausage, usually served on a plain bun with fried or grilled onions and mustard.

Kansas City: sauerkraut and melted Swiss cheese.

Maine: The most popular variety of hot dog in Maine is one made with natural casing. The casing is colored red, and are commonly referred to as red dogs. There is also a small chain of restaurants known as "Flo's Hotdogs" in southern Maine along Route 1. Their specialty is a steamed hot dog served with mayonnaise, a homemade sweet onion relish, and celery salt.

Boston: Often served steamed as opposed to grilled; the Fenway Frank is a fixture for Red Sox fans, and there are several other local brands such as Pearl that are used quite frequently. Hot dogs in the Boston area are associated with Boston baked beans, though this is probably not unique to the region. Ketchup, mustard, relish, picalilli, and chopped onions are the most common toppings.

Massachusetts: Hot dogs in Northeastern Massachusetts are most often boiled and served with mustard and sweet relish with or without a bun. when they are served with a bun, often a top-loaded bun with no crusts on the side is used. These are sold as "Frankfurt rolls", and may be fried with butter before serving. Hot dogs are served most frequently with baked beans. Many people from this area also serve a sweet dish called brown bread with their hot dogs. Prepared with or without raisins, brown bread is steamed-molasses based, much like English puddings. Brown bread is steamed in a can or jar, and is cut so that there are round slices. This may be eaten with butter or margarine. Some New Englanders will serve the dog either on the plate to be cut or cooked in with the beans.

Art Poster Print - Hot Dogs - Artist: Catherine Jones - Poster Size: 8 X 10 inches $11.96

.style3 { font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;} .style5 {font-size: 18px} .style6 {color: #0033FF} "Hot Dogs" by Catherine Jones High quality art poster. DirectForSale sells over 300,000 different art posters. Browse our store and shop for all your Art posters with DirectForSale. This Hot DogsPoster is made with High Quality Poster paper and is made for years of enjoyment. * Poster Size: 8 X 10 inches. * Primary poster color=brick red. * Secondary poster color=Sage Green. Note: This item is not available for express shipping.

Methuen, Massachusetts: Hot dogs in Methuen and neighboring Lawrence are usually boiled, and served with fried onion mixed with melted American cheese. They are served in a top-loaded bun with no crusts on the side. The generous serving of onion and cheese mix is tossed on top of the hot dog. The hot dog is either topped with mustard or left as is. Occasionally garlic is mixed in with the fried onions.

Detroit, Michigan: In the metropolitan Detroit area, a chili dog is called a Coney Island and is very specific as to the ingredients: a hot dog made from pork with casing, all-meat, beanless chili, diced yellow onion, and yellow mustard.

New Jersey: In the case of New Jersey's potato dog, diced and stewed potatoes are combined with brown mustard and served on spicy brand hot dog. A variant on this (particularly in the Trenton area) is also known as the "Italian hot dog", which features all of the above ingredients, with grilled onions and peppers, and served on a long, crusty roll. The most common brands of spicy hot dogs used are Sabrett's or Best's, both of which are NJ companies.

Several restaurants, such as Clifton's Rutt's Hut, (Levine 2005) serve hot dogs deep-fried in oil. You can get them three ways: an in and outer (just barely kissed by the oil), the ripper (cooked until the skins burst), and the cremator (really well done).

Other places like John's Texas Weiners in Newark grill their hot dogs. Texas weiners or more well known in New Jersey as a hot dog "All the Way" are either grilled or deep fried hot dogs served with spicy brown mustard, chopped onions and a meat sauce similar to chili. This chili sauce is an adaptation of an old Greek style spaghetti sauce with cinnamon added which gives it a unique flavor.

A traditional Italian-style (a.k.a. Newark-style) hot dog, as served in Jimmy Buff's and Dickie Dee's or Tommy's Italian Sausage and Hot Dogs in Elizabeth (Levine 2005) are made by cutting a round "pizza bread" in half (for a double) or into quarters (for a single) and cutting a pocket into it and spreading the inside with mustard. A deep-fried dog (or two if it's a double) is stuffed down into the pocket, topped with fried (or sauteed) onions and peppers, and then topped off with crisp-fried potato chunks.

New York City: The natural-casing all-beef hot dogs served at Katz's Delicatessen, Gray's Papaya, Papaya King, Papaya Dog and any Sabrett cart are all made by Sabrett's parent company, Marathon Enterprises of East Rutherford, New Jersey (Levine 2005). Nathan's hot dogs, which are all-beef and come in both natural-casing and skinless, were also made by Marathon until several years ago (Levine 2005). Local kosher brands-which are not permitted natural casings-include Hebrew National, Empire National (Levine 2005), and Best's. The usual condiments are mustard and sauerkraut, with optional sweet onions in a tomato based sauce, usually made by Sabrett. Hot dogs are available on almost every street corner, as well as at delicatessens, at stands that also serve tropical juice drinks such as Papaya King and Gray's Papaya, and at one of the most famous hot dog restaurants in the world, Nathan's Famous in Brooklyn's Coney Island. New York street vendors generally store their unsold dogs in warm-water baths, giving rise to the semi-affectionate moniker "dirty water dog."

Red Hots and White Hots are the two most popular local variations. While Red Hots are "normal" hot dogs, White Hots are plumper. These unique dogs are similar to German bockwurst and were first made by Zweigle's of Rochester. These are often served in a natural casing similar to a sausage. These white hot dogs are sometimes known as coneys. They are also known in the Syracuse area where Heid's of Liverpool is one of the oldest hot dog restaurants in the nation, opened in 1886. Heid's allows only mustard as a topping for their flat-grilled sausages. Products from Syracuse manufacturer Hofmann's Sausage Company are the local favorites in Central New York, with enough customer loyalty to severely hurt Heid's business when a dispute with Hofmann prompted the Heid's franchise to switch to a Buffalo supplier for several years.

Unlike Zweigle's white hots, Hoffman's white "snappys" use veal as well as pork. There is also a Red Hot variant served throughout the Adirondacks produced by Glazier Packing Company of Potsdam, that is cased in a red-dyed natural sheep casing. A "Glazier" is typically offered on a menu as an alternative to a regular hot dog, usually for a small additional charge. "Michigans" are hot dogs with a meaty sauce - more like "Sloppy Joe" than chili (no chili-oregano-cumin). The Michigan is served in a buttered-grilled Frankfurt loaf (bun with no crust on the sides).

Tin Sign - Hot Dogs & Beer $22.86

Tin Sign - "Hot Dogs & Beer" - A special price on a weathered-look tin sign, rolled edges for safe handling and appearance. Measures 10" x 16" and is a heavy guage metal. Sign says "Hot Dogs & Beer - On tap bottles".

North Carolina: North Carolina hot dogs are served with chili and cole slaw, mustard, and onions. Most vendors use cole slaw, but some places use a tomato-based variation called BBQ slaw, which may be a western North Carolina variant. This style is called all the way. Carolina Packers, a small company in Johnston County produces locally-famous skinless red-hot dogs.

Cincinnati: A cheese coney is a hot dog topped with Cincinnati chili, mustard, diced onion, and shredded mild cheddar cheese.
Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania: Two common variants are prevalent in the Allentown, Bethlehem, & Easton metro area. The Valley chili dog (more prevalent in the western part of the region) is a grilled dog served on a steamed roll with chili 'meat sauce,' mustard, and onions, as popularized by Yocco's, and to a lesser extent by Potts'. The second version is a shallow fried dog served on a steamed roll with mustard, chopped white onion, and a dill pickle spear. This style is more prevalent in the eastern part of the Lehigh Valley and served by Rich's, Potts' and Jimmy's. They are also served in neighboring Phillipsburg, New Jersey, at Toby's Cup and another Jimmy's location.

Rhode Island: New York System Hot Wieners are a unique RI treat and aside from the name, have precious little to do with New York. The wiener is cut from a long sausage, several feet long and thus the NY System wiener has no rounded ends. The wiener "chef" dresses the wieners by lining them up his bare arm to add dollops of meat sauce, chopped onion, mustard and the essential celery salt. Recommended are the Original New York System on Smith Street in Providence, Olneyville NY System in Providence, and Wien-O-Rama in Cranston, RI. Unrelated to NY System, a popular natural casing hot dog in RI for grilling at home is Saugy's.

Jackson, Michigan: Jackson is known for its famous Coney Island-style hot dogs. Originating with arguably The Jackson Coney Island or The Virginia Lunch, both located on Michigan Avenue in the early 1910s, the Coney Island hotdog has been a Jackson mainstay. Coney Island hot dogs typically contain "everything", or meat sauce, mustard, and chopped onions. Unlike neighboring Detroit Coney Island hot dogs, Jackson sauce more closely resembles crumbled ground beef than the more traditional chili con carne, runny sauces of Detroit.

25 Hot Beef Polish Sausages $49.95

Three new exclusive family favorites. These precooked sausages in all-natural casings are delicious grilled or pan sauted, and great in gumbo, jambalaya or with pasta. Each 5 lb. box includes five 1 lb. packages of sausages. Choose from (top to bottom) Hot Beef Polish Sausages Pork Italian Sausages Turkey Bratwurst Sausages .

Central Virginia: Most places serve grilled or lightly deep-fried hot dogs. Footlongs are usually preferred. The quality of the sausage can vary from "all-meat franks" to all-beef products. "All the way" or "everything" can vary slightly, but the root condiments are universally yellow mustard, chili, and onions. The chili is a thin and often from a can. Some restaurants will offer cole slaw at an extra charge, while others include cole slaw as the fourth condiment. Although sweet relish is usually available, as is ketchup, these are neither automatically added nor generally requested.

Seattle, Washington: Seattle-style hot dogs are known for the liberal use of cream cheese and onions, usually on a grilled/toasted bun, often with kraut. Other variations include some combination of ketchup, mustard, relish, and mayo. Many establishments offer the option of a salmon dog, as well as a meatless frank (so called "veggie dogs" for their vegetarian customers.

Central West Virginia: Hot dogs are usually served with a beanless chili con carne sauce (simply called chili) and sweet cole slaw or with some combination of the chili sauce, slaw, mustard, chopped onions, and/or ketchup. It is considered to be a business faux paus for a restaurant or hot dog stand to charge extra for any toppings. When a dog is served with chili but without a wiener, it is locally called a 'chili dog,' much to the confusion of non-residents. Hot dogs are an obligatory item on the menu of locally owned restaurants in the region.

Huntington, West Virginia: Hot dogs in Huntington are usually served by default with sauce (essentially a chili sauce). Each of the town's several hot dog stands feature a slightly different variation of sauce (ranging from a pinto bean-based paste to a thick pile of well-seasoned ground beef) that inspires fierce loyalty among residents. Hot dogs with sauce are often ordered with cole slaw, mustard, onions, cheese sauce, and/or ketchup. While most vendors do not charge an additional fee for sauce, many will charge a nominal fee for slaw, onions, and cheese.

A Montreal hot dog has sausages and buns are that are either steamed or grilled. An "all-dressed" hot dog comes with deli mustard, relish (a sweet cucumber pickle), coleslaw and shredded raw onions.

A Michigan hot dog is a hot dog with spaghetti sauce on a steamed bun.

A Tijuana Bacon Dog or "danger dog" is the slang phrase used to describe a hot dog cooked with bacon wrapped around it.

A "Regio" (Re-Hee-Oh)hot dog with a large size sausage on a regular bun, the sausage is filled with cheese and bacon is wrapped around it, served with the buyers choice of many fresh toppings: fresh onions and tomato, mushrooms, jalapeños and fried onions.

A "jocho" pronounced "hocho" is a hotdog offered on street karts outside of nightclubs in Mexico. Served grilled and covered with melted oaxaca cheese , pico de gallo , ketchup , mustard and bacon.

A cachorro quente (pronounced ka-SHO-hoo KEN-chee, which literally means a dog that is hot)in Brazil, is typically eaten in buns with ketchup and mustard, but further covered in many regions with assorted fixings such as marinara sauce, various kinds of cheese including parmesan, requeijão, catupiry, cheddar, etc.), corn niblets, canned peas, mashed potatoes, shoestring potatoes, quail eggs, among others.

A Danish hot dog, traditionally features a long, thin bright-red sausage, similar to a foot-long hot dog in the USA. Ketchup, mustard and remoulade sauce is followed by a sprinkling of either raw or toasted onion, and a layer of cucumber salad, marinated in a sweet vinegar sauce.

If you enjoyed this site, please help support us by shopping through our sponsor links!

While we have built this site in an attempt to bring "hot dog" related imformation, pictures and suppliers together, a lot of the imformation found here comes from Wikipedia! It is recommended that you visit Wikipedia for more imformation on hot dogs.

All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Many of us are veterans or have sons and daughters who are veterans. The button pictured here makes a great gift for anyone who has served in our armed forces and can be placed anywhere on your vehicle, refrigerator, etc. You can order one or save by ordering bags of ten or one hundred. Many VFWs or Legions order our bags of one hundred to hand out to their members! We also offer this design on shirts, hats, magnets, cups and more. Why not order some today. Show your pride in our veterans.

Click on this link to view all of our veteran items!