Is there anything that says summer has arrived more than a hot dog? We don’t think so. And while the American cookout staple doesn’t usually require a recipe, we think this new book devoted to the humble sausage offers so much more than meets the eye.
The book goes well beyond usual suspects like a Chicago-style hot dog in its 50 recipes, exploring both lesser-known American variations (like the Baltimore Dog, which includes bologna, sweet pickle relish, brown mustard, and onions) and global takes on the humble sausages (Montreal Steamies, anyone?). The book is worth purchasing for its yellow mustard-squiggle bookmark alone.
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
After completing 7 years of silence a Buddhist monk gets a weekend pass to New York City and 2 $10 bills to spend.
The monk walks up to a hot dog vendor and says: “Make me one with everything.”
After a brief chuckle, the vendor loads up a dog and passes it to the monk who hands over a $10 bill, and takes a large chomp of his loaded dog.
Savouring the flavours the monk turns to the Vendor and asks “Where’s my change?” “Ah,” replies the hot dog vendor, “Change comes from within.”
I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore ‘way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled…They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.
H. L. Mencken
NY Times – The Wirecutter – The Best Ketchup
New York Times – Amelia Nierenberg – Inflation Hit Iceland Hard. Even Its Beloved Hot Dogs.
Phil has a question:
How can the Prime Minister of Iceland tell us Canadians not to put pineapple on pizza when he allows ketchup on hot dogs on Iceland.
Time – Lauryn Higgins – Which Is Worse for You: A Hot Dog or a Hamburger?
Mashed – Kristina Manente – The Untold Truth Of IKEA’s Vegan Hot Dog
Southern Living – Josh Miller – Alabama Hot Dogs
Phil has a question:
Who the fuck puts mayonnaise on a Hot Dog.
The classic Chicago hot dog has mustard, neon-green relish, raw onions, a full pickle spear, tomatoes, a little bit of celery salt and a poppy seed bun; sport peppers are optional. Historians link the Chicago version to the Depression, when people could get a full meal from a hot dog and toppings.
Huff Post – Elisa Shoenberger – Don’t Even Think About Putting Ketchup On A Hot Dog
Phil has a question:
If you put tomatoes on a classic Chicago hot dog, can you put a spiced tomato smoothie on.
Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.
John Glenn
A good mustard should have heat. It should quickly rise up through the nose, bring a tear to the eye and then as rapidly, dissipate, opening all the senses to the full flavours on the plate.”
Mephasnifanis
Phil has a question:
Is it Okay to put ketchup on an IKEA Veggie Dog.
Phil has a question:
What the … is Italian Poutine.
Ontario Pork – Hot Italian Sausage on a Bun
Phil M. Stockmen