Let's Make a Hot Dog [NSFChicagoans, Health Nuts, Animal Lovers]
Otacon asked for it, so here it is.
Hot dogs are a Venerable Lifestyle, having intertwined itself with baseball and City Life from an early age. Of course, some think their city or region makes hot dogs better than anyone else, which I guess is a crown you'd want to go for. King of Processed Tubes of Meat Paste is hardly my idea of a good time, but then, hey, what do I know? I'm from Arizona.
Some say that hot dogs made their baseball debut for the New York Baseball Giants at second base, a late inning substitution. Now I'm no history dork, but I'll buy that. Hot dogs really didn't take off, though, until the 1906 World Fair when some entrepreneur ran out of forks and starting serving hot dogs in rolled up waffles. Personally I think that's disgusting, but that's the Midwest for you.
Since hot dogs are so Important, some cities have developed variations to fit their own unique plates. New York's are of course the best, featuring mustard and sauerkraut, but this little town called Chicago also has a hot dog that they just won't shut up about. I guess they also slather mustard on it with tomatoes and other crap but if I wanted to eat a salad then I'd just go to Souper Salad or something.
According to Wikipedia, Arizona already has a hot dog style and it goes something like this: The Sonoran hot dog, found in Tucson, Metro Phoenix, and in neighboring Sonora, Mexico, is a hot dog grilled in a processor or on a griddle, wrapped in Mesquite-smoked bacon, topped with freshly-chopped tomatoes, onions, shredded yellow or cotijo cheese, tomatillo salsa or red chili sauce, pinto beans, mayonnaise, ketchup and/or mustard, and served on bread. Often served with a fresh-roasted chili.
I mean, yeah, that sounds pretty good. I bet we could improve upon it. Maybe make one that doesn't have 50 ingredients and mayonnaise.
What would you put on your hot dog? What says Phoenix to you?
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I’d start with that Sonoran dog, but limit the ingredients. Lightly the bun so it doesn’t get all bogged down. Then I’d put down a bed of chunky salsa, put the hot dog on top, some pinto beans, some tomatillo salsa and a dash of Lucas acidito chili powder. Maybe I’d switch out the hot dog bun for a torta roll.
Mmm, this sounds good, I’mma need to experiment.
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Pillage our neighbor
I would steal a little something from our neighbor to the east, New Mexico. Green Chiles. Not the kind of chile you go to a “cook off” to eat, bringing your own wooden spoon that you widdled from an even larger wooden spoon. But the kind grown famously in Hatch, NM. Which, is just as close to AZ as to northern New Mexico where I believe it is against the law to not include it in every dish.
Red chiles would work too. Or the famous Christmas style mixing the green and the red together. Anyway, speaking as a baseball franchise, we have more claim to “southwestern” fare than anyone else, so I don’t feel it against the rules to expand our borders in this most noble of hot dog creating quests.
by Counsellmember on Feb 13, 2010 11:01 AM EST reply actions
Green chiles
yeah that would be awesome.
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Feb 13, 2010 12:01 PM EST reply actions
More appropriate
to call it a desert tortoise burger anyway.
+5 for tastiness. ;)
by Counsellmember on Feb 13, 2010 1:19 PM EST up reply actions
I go for simplicity
It’s easy to enter overkill with the garnishes – I think it’s important to remember that the hot-dog itself should be the focus. Hence, I would keep things simple: cook the brat in Four Peaks ale, then place on a bun with simply some queso below it and jalapeno mustard on top. NomNomNom…
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The...
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I've never heard of a famous Phoenix hot dog.
-Some crazy Cubs fan
by Reynolds rapper on Feb 13, 2010 7:45 PM EST reply actions
All of those sound awesome. Seriously though, have you tried a Sonoran Dog? They are amazing delicious. I usually only get them from El Guero Canelo, but there are probably dozens of ‘roach coaches’ around Tucson selling them. Heck, even the ‘finer’ places are catching on.
The closest
I’ve come is a dog I had down in Yuma once that had salsa, mayonnaise, and avocado on it.
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When your palate is of the non discerning variety it's an easy call.
Quantity trumps quality.
These came with a lot of…something on them.


Whatever it was, it filled the hole.

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by victor frankenstein on Feb 15, 2010 11:13 AM EST reply actions
As I recall...
…
…ehh, I don’t recall.
I do remember that the first two dogs (and the first two drinks) we had were the third and fourth served to us due to, uh, the food tray crashing on the launching pad.
Never mind my failed impromptu structural analysis, those drinks were heavy.
Thing should have been reinforced with tiny titanium rods.
That counterman’s face as he watched the sodas cascade over the edge was the picture of disgust.
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by victor frankenstein on Feb 15, 2010 5:14 PM EST reply actions
Jim's version
sounds good actually. Being that I am Mexican, I’m a little bored with the Sonoran hot dog. I love it but I’m bored of it.
But...but
no one’s ever heard of Sonoran dogs, or so a Hot Dog Expert has told me. So how can it be overplayed?
In seriousness, though, how many restaurants are serving this in Phoenix? I haven’t noticed it, but then I’m probably too busy ordering other things to notice.
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Heh
Yeah, not sure about Phx. The hot dog stands in Tucson are all over the place. I probably drive by about 5 of them between home and work. I know Zin Burger was selling something like it also. I wonder if anyone will be selling them at Spring Training down here. Oh well, one can always hit up In N Out prior.
I drove past one stand at about Grant and Campbell the other day (I could be way off, I think that was the intersection). I thought about this thread, but south Tucson isnt the place I want to be pulling over to get a hotdog….
Nice strikeout!
Um, Grant and Campbell is not south Tucson (if that is what you mean). And actually there are probably a few places in south Tucson that have killer hot dogs. (Of course I say that and yet never go there.)
I was about to say...
Grant and Campbell?
South Tucson?
What?
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Feb 19, 2010 11:11 PM EST up reply actions
I live on the NW side near Cortaro and Silverbell.
it takes me half an hour to drive to and it is very much south of me.
Nice strikeout!
It's a mile north of UA
Why not an area you want to pull over in?
(My views might be slightly skewed…I take SunTran pretty much everywhere I go, so places seem less sketch…it’s a matter of perspective)
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Feb 20, 2010 11:59 AM EST up reply actions
I think
we’re avoiding the real problem right now.
There are killer HOT DOGS
IN
TUCSON
D:
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Dammit, soco
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"I've never heard of a famous Phoenix hot-dog"
I'm thinking
It’s a remake?
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by Jim McLennan on Feb 20, 2010 9:27 PM EST up reply actions
I prefer homage
Which is from the French for “I’m gonna make some slight changes so I don’t have to pay to acquire the rights.”
"I've never heard of a famous Phoenix hot-dog"
Or it's from the Tarantinoesque for
“I’m far too wasted on coke to come up with any original ideas, so I’m just going to lift ideas from all the (far superior) movies I saw when I was working in a video store and not sucking on Uma Thurman’s toes.”
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by Jim McLennan on Feb 21, 2010 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
I'm beginning
to think you don’t like Tarantino.
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Phoenix style dawgs ...
our weiners are much bigger than yours….our weiners can walk right thru the door.
It's Dracula as I approach the bottle.
Man vs. Food
Have any of you guys n ga’s ever seen this show? You want some hotdog ideas, watch that show. Adam Richman goes to places around the country and gorges on all sorts of foods…he was even filmed at Lindy’s on 4th…
"AUGIE AUGIE AUGIE...OY OY OY!"

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