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Everyone is so anxious to tell you about all the different toppings like mustard or chili or sauerkrout that are necessary to make a "good" hot dog. I'm in my 70s and can tell you that there IS a generation gap!! Back in the 40s wieners tasted good WITHOUT all that junk. Maybe a little spritz of mustard, but that would be all. The wieners tasted different than they do today. About 20 years ago we had an immigrant German sausage-maker come to town and he made them like they used to taste. Unfortunately, he went out of business.n Doesn't someone have a source of wieners that taste that good without all the stuff on top?????
Lower sodium, in casing, with ketchup & onions & mustard on a nice bun. I like them boiled, steamed, grilled....Hot Dogs are great. Some chili on them....plain....but I don't do the Chicago Dogs, only because I don't care for some of the toppings. That's just me!
I buy those cheap 3-pound packs of Polish, that look like biggish hot dogs. (Mostly mechanically-separated chicken, but who cares.) About 25c per 3-oz dog. Put one in the frying pan with a little water to heat it through, then when the pan dries, roll it back and forth in the hot skillet until it starts to blacken. Wrap a slice of decent bread around it, with ketchup. (I spike my bottle of ketchup heavily with tabasco.)
Good enough, quick, cheap, easy. Plenty of salt, grease, and nitrates to satisfy.
Alternatively, sometimes I split one, put it in a sandwich with leafy lettuce, mayo, brown mustard.
Re the hot dog itself, one lower in fat/grease/etc can make a diff, but generally speaking, a hot dog is a hot dog. All this fuss about Nathans or Hebrews or whatever is IMO severely overblown. And I disagree that hot dogs were much better on avg years ago than now. If anything they might've been worse.
A hot dog is mostly about what's on it. That said, I can eat them plain, loaded, or anything in between. A good chili dog is probably my fav though.
Last evening I cooked two jumbo sized dogs in a pot of sauerkraut* and served them with yellow mustard and the kraut and stewed tomatoes (no bread). It was delicious
*sauerkraut - one 14.5 oz can Libby's Crispy Sauerkraut + 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
For me, Hebrew National Jumbo, grilled, grilled bun, ketchup, mustard, and chopped raw onion. YUM!
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