I'm not so much about all the toppings. I want a good DOG. More sausage-like. I've looked for years and they're hard to find. So I am going to look into making my own - but hot dogs and emulsified sausages look a lot harder to get right to me than regular sausage. So I'm going to need to step up my game in finding the right equipment for that. Probably need a really really solid food processor to get it right. One day, I will...
I'm so with you on the toppings comment. Some of those have so many toppings that the dog just gets lost, or the ratios are so off that you may as well not even include it. The brat or dog need to be the main attraction.
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First, the link doesn't take me to a story listing 27 brands of hot dogs. It is 27 pictures of 27 ways to serve a hot dog. As hot dogs are categorized as a form of sausage, my choice of sausage to serve in a hot dog bun is any of the Johnsonville sausages with my current favorite for its better health benefits (lower fat and calories) is the Johnsonville Turkey Cheddar Sausage. And my topping of choice is a gourmet mustard like Grey's. YMMV!
Here in Milwaukee, WI we have the Usinger’s Sausage company. For those who don’t know about them, it’s a family run company now moving into the fifth generation of leadership. It’s regional in scope but they have a online store too.
Personally, I think everything they make is terrific and I love their “Old World Style” hot dogs. In fact, I had two with horseradish mustard for breakfast today. Yum. The breakfast of champions. 😊
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I’m fond of Vienna Brand Hot Dogs. I can get them here, but super expensive. So it’s a treat! I can’t do the grocery store stuff anymore (OM, Ballpark, etc). I’ve tried random brands (nitrate free…. Yeah yeah yeah I know about celery blah blah blah). But I can never remember which I liked best! 🤦🏼♀️🤣
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One of the photos shows a kolache. I think wars have been fought in central Texas over whether a kolache is a hot dog or not. (It isn't. It is a kolache.)
As y’all know, I am of Polish-Lithuanian descent from the SW side of Chicago. My grandma would always have these yummy cookies on hand. Either baked them herself or from her favorite bakery (name escapes me).
This is what I grew up on.
The crust is almost like a pie crust. Actually, it is rolled out as such, cut, filled
Michael_in_TX as kids, we would take little smokies and wrap them in crescent roll dough (from the can, of course) and bake off. Dipped in copious amounts of mustard! It was a treat for us.
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