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Thanks for the link. I've checked a couple of grocery stores that sell manger hot dogs. Unfortunately, those stores sell 50-50 pork/beef mix. I'm looking for the all beef half smoke. I'll give Manger a call tomorrow and ask if it sells the all beef half smoke.
Definitely not Mangers. On another web site, someone speculated that it may be Sabrett. I can't imagine DC hot dog vendors buying all beef half smokes from a New York-based hot dog maker.
Definitely not Mangers. On another web site, someone speculated that it may be Sabrett. I can't imagine DC hot dog vendors buying all beef half smokes from a New York-based hot dog maker.
A lot of the hot dog vendors I see around the city have a Sabrett sign, so it could be. You can actually order online. And Ben's Chilli Bowl sells Sabretts. Maybe check with them.
The half smokes are a special recipe. I believe they are custom orders. You can't just buy them as a regular person.
At least that's what I heard. Not saying its fact.
I heard that as well. I'm curious as to where hot dog vendors go to place their order.
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Originally Posted by choccity
A lot of the hot dog vendors I see around the city have a Sabrett sign, so it could be. You can actually order online. And Ben's Chilli Bowl sells Sabretts. Maybe check with them.
Sabrett makes a very delicious hot dog. It's available at Giant Food. I'd be very disappointed if DC's famous all beef half smoke hot dog was made in New York.
From what I've read, Ben's Chili Bowl buys half smokes from Mangers, a sausage maker in Baltimore. Sausages have a coarse grind. Hotdogs, otoh, have a fine grind via emulsification. IIRC, the all beef hotdogs that I bought from hotdog street vendors had a fine grind with a spicy aftertaste.
I also read that Briggs, a defunct DC meat packer, created the half smoke. But their half smoke supposedly had a coarser grind. Briggs was bought out by Esskay, which, in turn, was purchased by Smithfield. Esskay Briggs half smokes can be bought at the following link:
You can buy Mangers half smokes at the 3 Geresbecks grocery store locations. Essex, Dundalk and Glen Burnie MD. Or at Mangers in West Baltimore.
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