What is your favorite and least favorite hot dog

I agree grilled, or skewered on a stick held over the fire with one hand, and a cold beer held in the other hand (away from the fire).
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Then add Sauerkraut, mustard on a sourdough bun.

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Over fire is always best.
Found this. Surprised at the rankings.
All the Best,
Jeff

Yea idk if I would put Kirkland’s at the top. They are good but that seems extreme.

Just gonna drop this here:

Tucson’s ONE contribution to the world culinary scene. There are many variations, but as near as I’ve been able to tell, El Guero Canelo is the original - or close enough to it. I’m prone to trying the myriad corner-vendors who do have their own spin on it.

Terrible for my waistline, though.

What does everyone prefer for condiments? I really like a spicy coleslaw, but if I don’t have that I go for a combination of brown mustard, chopped onions, sweet pickle relish and El Yucateco Black Label habanero sauce.

Bakalars Old Fashion Natural Casing for a favorite and preferred.

Absolutely detest any ā€œturkeyā€ dog, regardless of branding. Cannot eat Oscar Meyer anymore either, they are just NOT, nope, can’t do it.

Depends on my mood and what I gots.

Mustard (brown or yellow). Katchup. Mustard’n’relish. Cheese. Onions. ā€œGarbage-dogā€. Plain.

Might have a hotdog roll, or just bread, or nothing at all (spear with a fork, dip in whatever for each bite). Might be toasted or untoasted.

So… no real ā€œfavoritesā€, just opportunistic eating.

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Best topping for me is Hormel chili with or without beans and of course hot sauce.

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Mostly just mustard and onions. Yellow, mostly but brown if I have some good stuff here.
Occasionally cheddar cheese. I like a good red chili (no beans), but usually only when I am out someplace.
Oh and if I have them, a good kosher dill spear for a change of pace.

Glop a can of chili into a small pot, mince up 1-2 jalapenos and poink them into it, then gloosh some sriracha into it. Give it some time to burble away so everything mixes together.

With sour-cream it’s decent chili all on its lonesome, but without, when it’s nice and burny, it makes a great chilidog.

Dunno why the chili with beans has ā€œchunkyā€ globs of meat, whereas the no-beans chili is pureed smooth like dogfood.

Speaking of mustard, I’d buy this stuff by the bucket if I could.

Regular brown is reeeeeally good, and the coarse grain is amazing, too.

Not quite sure which I like better, but I usually buy like 3-4 jars at a time, just in case.

I’ll have to check that out. I love good brown mustard, especially coarse ground. The really good stuff, I could eat by the spoonful by itself.

Yeh, it’s quite nice. I used to be a Gulden’s Boy, but discovered Kosciusko when I was going all-out with Polish food, as in wonderfully garlicky kielbasa, cheese/cabbage’n’shroom/etc. pierogi, etc.

Wasn’t a fan of coarse-grain in general, as the ones I had were just gritty/sandy, but the… husks?.. from the mustard seeds were nicely incorporated and soft. You could tell they were there, but it’s not like someone just dumped in a handful of raw hard seeds.

So while I reeeeally liked the regular brown, I tried one jar of the coarse-grain and loved it. Still do. I’ll get both kinds just change it up, but still prefer the coarse-grain.

Went through quite a bit of it when I was going nuts with chicanery platters. Club crackers, Cabot cheese-bricks, thick-cut pepperoni, and of course the Kosciusko. Oh, and raw onion, how could I forget? Vidalia or sweet if possible, but even regular yellow pinchy onion if you soak it long enough in water to get out all the poison.

Oh, and potato roll, thick pile of liverwurst, a slab of vidalia, optional slab of tomato, and either plain, mayo, or mustard. The coarse-grain goes pretty well with that, too. And everything’s round on top of round on top of round. You could taste the symmetry. None of that round-on-square crap…

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I bought some…Amazon has it.

I’ve tried these during my recent trip to Sweden and been thoroughly impressed by their resemblance to a regular pork or chicken saussie on all fronts. Meatless stuff I can get around these parts is mostly overpriced full vegan stuff, Scandinavian countries seem to cater much more to people who don’t mind egg and dairy and the difference is night and day. Same goes for fast food places and restaurants, those we’ve visited offered meatless options of equal value and generally no extra cost.

These are my favorite, not sure what my least favorite is, probably just the boring stuff.
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They do, but kinda pricey. My local supermarket has both kinds, which really surprised the shiite out of me.

Dunno what markets you got around you, but if you poke around, you might find it for like half of what amazon’s hitting you for.

Like $6 for 9 ounces… What kind of price do you get?

Maybe 3 and change? Been a while, got 2 and 2, still got some.

ā€œGroceriesā€ tend to be more, probably because they figure in shipping.

Lightlife Smart Dogs are good for meat free but usually it is Hebrew National for me.

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