Best Regional Style of Hot Dog? (rates, America, state, place)
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This is a message board in which all discussion considering all angles related to the topic are welcomed. Everyone here is contributing their opinion and being civil. I fail to see what's so ridiculous about that.
Yeah, I think that a "Seattle style" hot dog should contain something unique to Seattle. Sue me.
There are absolutely regional differences in hot dogs.
In Chicago, when you say "hot dog" to people, they immediately think of the same thing: poppy-seed bun, mustard, tomatoes, onions, pickle spear, sport peppers, celery salt, neon-green relish. The hot dog itself is always beef and almost always Vienna Beef brand. How many people on, say, the West Coast even know what sport peppers are? How many know what celery salt is? How about Vienna Beef? You see these everywhere. Outside of the Chicago area, it's very difficult to find this preparation, but when you do, it's always advertised as Chicago style. Shake Shack sells it as a "Shack-cago dog."
But I grew up in New York, and when I think of a hot dog, I think mustard and sauerkraut (though, to answer the original question in this thread, Chicago-style beats all as far as I'm concerned). Onion sauce, generally made by Sabrett, is also acceptable. You can find other preparations of hot dog in New York, but they're not really New York hot dogs.
In Rhode Island, they're called hot wieners, they're small, they're made with some combination of veal and pork, and they're topped with celery salt (there it is again!), mustard, onions and a meat sauce. Eating more than one at a time is more common than elsewhere.
Not every region has a trademark hot dog, but some do. What's so hard to accept about that?
I have never seen a bacon wrapped hotdog in the style I described upthread outside of the Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco areas (though I believe it originated in Mexico).
That Sonoran dog seemed pretty darn unique and regional as well.
I love how the internet is such a cesspool of negativity and know-it-alls. It's a freaking hot dog thread and people are arguing vehemently about whether regional variations exist. Come on.
This is a message board in which all discussion considering all angles related to the topic are welcomed. Everyone here is contributing their opinion and being civil. I fail to see what's so ridiculous about that.
Yeah, I think that a "Seattle style" hot dog should contain something unique to Seattle. Sue me.
All you've done is try to scold the OP and derail a thread everyone else is enjoying. In a civil tone? Maybe. But you haven't added anything to the conversation, either. Nor have you addressed the people who disagree with you.
I tend to agree. Also, any regional food needs to be easily, immediately identifiable with the region. I had never heard of a "Seattle style" hot dog before a few months ago....the "KC style" strikes me as something that you see, or at least see close variants of using different cheese, all over the country.....and NY doesn't really have a "style" of hotdog, just a plethora of vendors that sell regular hotdogs.
Chicago gets a pass. But besides that, there aren't any regional varieties of hotdog.
So because you hadn't heard of them they don't exist?
If any region is going to claim a style of hot dog, it should contain ingredients or preparation methods that are truly unique to said region. Seattle style sounds tasty, but it's also just a random combination of ingredients anyone could have concocted in their kitchen before it was even given a title.
Supposedly it's a unique combination that has been popular in Seattle since the 1980s and is prolific throughout Seattle but hard to find anywhere else. Also, if you have ever have a Seattle style hot dog from a vendor in Seattle you'd see there's definitely an art to making it.
This is a message board in which all discussion considering all angles related to the topic are welcomed. Everyone here is contributing their opinion and being civil. I fail to see what's so ridiculous about that.
Yeah, I think that a "Seattle style" hot dog should contain something unique to Seattle. Sue me.
How are the ingredients in a Chicago dog unique to Chicago? A regional variation means a style/combination that was invented in, is popular in, and is easy to get in a certain region. These all fit the bill.
those things I've been eating all these years that I called hot dogs are apparently something else
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