The seattle dog always seemed like such a terrible idea at 2am after a night of drinking but fuckin' hell they were as amazing coming back up as they were going down
The person who made this list never went to Denmark, the hotdogs over there are bright red and served with the bun, the toppings and a Tuborg on the side. Or it's a national in-joke and something they only serve obnoxious Swedes ordering "to røde og en grøn" ("two reds and one green") at 4 am outside Copenhagen central station.
It's not that I doubted? It's that I figured such a creation couldn't have emerged fully grown from the head of Zeus. So I checked my go-to "I know fuckall about the South" reference Garden & Gun, which has exactly one hot dog recipe which notably (1) is two recipes (2) neither of which have hot dogs in them, despite (3) the food stylist's insistence and (4) is pinned on Appalachia, not Georgia anyway. Apropos of nothing, The Sterling Drive-In has seven yelp reviews, perhaps because Welch is a hamlet of under 3,000 people that could possibly be construed as being on the road between Lexington and Roanoke if you wanted to get there very slowly. Having failed utterly I decided to google "Georgia 'hot dog'" which did in fact generate ample photographic evidence that such a creation has been made multiple times, albeit none that it has been eaten. Apparently the blame rests at the feet of the Dinglewood Pharmacy in Columbus, GA.and the Sterling Drive-In in Welch, West Virginia, makes a deep-fried sub with chicken salad, cranberry sauce, and bacon as its filling. Really.
Yeah. Fuck Columbus. The Varsity is a disgusting Georgia institution and they just serve gross chilli dogs and slaw dogs. That's not the one and only. There's one in dawsonville and a sad one behind a mall in Marietta that I'm not sure is even in business among others
i was in a dive bar in japan in the summer and i ordered 2 beer and a "pop dog", thinking that it would be a hot dog as per the chalk drawing on the wall-menu, but when i got it it was fried spam/ham with hot sauce and melted cheese that could have been mozzarella, and it came on a bed of tinfoil it was one of the greatest things i've ever eaten at a restaurant and i'm pretty sure it's a hot dog
I've never heard of a Seattle dog, but it looks pretty goddam good. I have a huge bone to pick with this list though, because there's nothing called a "Michigan" dog. It's a Detroit dog, more commonly referred to around here as a "coney". Never in my life have I ever heard one called a Michigan.
To be fair, the Seattle "kielbasa and cream cheese with grilled onions" that was prominent from 1996 to 2005 or so was never called anything but a "hot dog." The sriracha/cabbage iteration, which I saw for the first time out clubbing like eight months ago, was also called a "hot dog." I don't believe they mean "this is a Michigan dog" they mean "this is how Michigan thinks a proper hot dog is served." Yes, I have regional pride that Seattle's regional hot dog is not a fucking hot dog. I think I was there when it started; there were these Serbian/Croatian/Armenian/Russian/Turkish vendors who decided drunk people would probably pay a couple bucks for a "hot dog" rather than careening up 99 to Beth's so they'd start grilling onions. I'm not convinced it started with kielbasa, it might have been sujuk initially. Either way you'd smell it and go "this is a terrible idea" and then you'd buy two and by the time you decided you needed a third the line was too long. At that point pretty much every vendor knew that fuck hot dogs, this is what was selling.