For our Euro friends:



How's everyone feeling?



Gotta go. Vroom!

Man Eats 49 Hot Dogs in 12 Mins.

For the fifth straight year, Takeru Kobayashi captured the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest Monday, gobbling a nauseating 49 dogs in 12 minutes.

Grilled hot dogs tonight!

Yippee!





Baby, You Can Drive My Car!

Only God knows what hot dogs are really made of

no wonder you americans are agressive sacks full of gross yellow fat!

Have some choucroute, el Stencho!

Yum, yum, yum!

Ah, choucroute, argg! one of my favorite, among with cassoulet and couscous,a nd many others! with some famous french wines! but choucroute is a winter dish. I prefer eating crêtois during summer, ok?!

Thank God the Hot Dog thread is still alive. I had brats tonight.

Thank God the Hot Dog thread is still alive. I had brats tonight.

Oooooohhhhhh.

Bratwurst.

You have those real good upper Midwest ones.

Food of the gods.

You DIE SOON, collabro_sLyme!!!

Heart blow up, you puke and you DIE, yankee pigfucker!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Have another fat laden hotdog....with cheeze and mayo!!!

Every time this thread pops up I end up running to the Sonic. It must be that Pavlov thingie.

Yes nancy, in your case, I can see your point.

Maybe not the sham meal and maybe not the conditioned salivation reflex, but the DOG part for damn sure!!!

If you decide you want an esophageal shunt....I'll be glad to cut your throat!!! For FREE!!!

If you have a hot dog with sauerkraut and ketchup your eating from all the major food groups. And they taste good, too.

New York's dogs tops? Chicagoans steamed


It's enough to make you choke on your sport pepper.

New York has been deemed the city with the best hot dogs by a new poll from the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, edging out Chicago by a mere 2 percentage points.

Chicago hot dog aficionados dismissed the results and, just as quickly, put on their game face.

"They don't know good from the crap they've been served. That's all. And you can put that in the New York Times," said Maurie Berman, owner of Superdawg on the Northwest Side.

"Ow," said Howard Eirinberg, president of Vienna Beef. "We would challenge any New York hot dog to a taste-off anywhere, anytime."

The nationwide poll was conducted through random phone interviews with 900 people.

Twenty-eight percent of respondents backed New York, while 26 percent said they preferred Chicago. Dallas, Los Angeles and Denver rounded out the list.

"I have real sympathies because I happen to be from Chicago," said Janet Riley, spokeswoman for the Washington, D.C.-based council, which conducted the poll because July is National Hot Dog Month. "I know how seriously Chicagoans take their hot dogs."

Ketchup?


A Chicago-style hot dog, as anyone who considers himself a Chicagoan would know, is an all-beef dog in a steamed poppyseed bun, topped with mustard, neon green relish, chopped onion, tomato slices, a pickle spear, sport peppers and celery salt.

A New York-style hot dog varies depending on who's making it but generally includes mustard and sauerkraut in a plain bun. Onions, relish and -- horror of horrors -- ketchup are typical add-ons.

"This is where franks grew up," said Kevin Albinder, manager of Katz's Delicatessen on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where hot dogs sell for $2.60.

"I don't know how a hot dog with ketchup could win any sort of taste competition," sniffed Eirinberg at Vienna Beef.

Chicagoans might be consoled to know the Windy City ranks above New York when it comes to the nation's top hot dog-eating stadiums.

According to National Hot Dog and Sausage Council statistics, Wrigley Field ranks third, behind L.A.'s Dodger Stadium and Denver's Coors Field, in hot dog consumption. Yankee Stadium is fourth, and U.S. Cellular Field ranks 10th.

Tout le monde s'en fout mais je suis végétarien, next topic ?

And they're good for plugging holes in dikes, too.

I luuuuv hot dogs!

Let's eat!

The Frankfurter Man Cometh.

hows come I never posted on this thread

kats on the first page got me drooling

hey ctc you can get em shipped if ya get a hankerin. you can order them by the pound online and you can still send a salami to your boy in da army .
www.delivery.com . . .


HOT DOGS, Ar-mour HOT DOGS
What kind of kids love Ar-mour HOT DOGS?
Big kids, lit-tle kids, kids who climb on rocks
fat kids, skin-ny kids, ev-en kids with chicken pox
love HOT DOGS, Ar-mour HOT DOGS
The dogs kids love to bite!

Oh, my favorite thread!

Oh, my favorite thread!

Yes, Nancy2, it keeps on ticking. Despite the objections of the hot dog haters.

Time to warm up the grill!

Yes, Nancy2, it keeps on ticking. Despite the objections of the hot dog haters.

Protesting hot dogs is unAmerican.

johna:

Nope. Boudin is American.

No, boudin is very French. It goes way back to long before the French were expelled from l'Acadie and settled in Louisiana. The famous Boudin Bakery in San Francisco has the same name but that's a coincidence. I think Cajun boudin might be different from traditional boudin, though. I think you use rice and perhaps no blood? Whereas the French boudin is mostly pork and seasoned blood...no rice.

johna:

In Toronto, Canada hotdogs are the only kind of street food allowed by law . The law sets extremely high (almost unachievable) requirements for street-food vendors, with an exception for "pre-cooked meat products in the form of wieners or similar products to be served on a bun". That results in a greater competition amoung vendors and excellent quality of the hotdogs in the city.

I never heard of this before but I've been to Toronto and I've eaten their street hotdogs. They were all very good. And now that you mention it, it was the only type of street food I saw. It's been a while since I've been there though. And considering Toronto's changing demographics, I'd be very surprised if they didn't allow Chinese food vendors on the street as well.

And OldLyme, I think choucroute refers just to sauerkraut, not the sausages (or links). What you had in your picture was a traditional Alsacian choucroute garnie (all dressed) which is a huge pile of sauerkraut covered with sausages, ham knuckle, smothered in goose fat. If you can survive it, it's supposed to be really good.

I think choucroute refers just to sauerkraut, not the sausages (or links). What you had in your picture was a traditional Alsacian choucroute garnie (all dressed) which is a huge pile of sauerkraut covered with sausages, ham knuckle, smothered in goose fat. If you can survive it, it's supposed to be really good.

Mmmmm. I'm there.

Perhaps with an American side of succotash?