Best city for hot dogs?
 

I am tired of you fancy pants people talking about expensive food. <BR><BR>Where can I get the best hot dogs?

How about Frankfurter, Germany?

Here is the age-old debate. New York or Chicago. I am on the fence.

You can't beat New York street vendors.. best hot dogs in the world! I think it has something to do with the greasy water they sit in all day. But they are definitely very tasty. And they have to be Sabretts.

Viktualenmarkt in Munich...great brat on a roll with hot mustard and a good beer!<BR><BR>US

Definitely Chicago. At Wrigley Field, sitting in the Bleachers watching a Cubs game. There isn't anything better. The hot dog itself will cost you $5, but it's worth it!!!

beilieve it or not in Buffalo, NY - Ted's . They are sahlen's hotdogs and amazing!!!

Well they call them "sausage" in Europe but they are like double size hot dogs. I've had fantastic ones in Paris, and also in Vevey & Montreux, Switzerland.

The market that surrounds the cathedral in Friburg, Germany daily. Ask for a wurst (vurst). You won't be sorry!

Oops, make that Freiburg.

The best hot dog I've ever had was at Sam's Club, your town USA.

Either Bremen, Germany; long thin sausages (with that wonderful spicy mustard thats so hard to find in the U.S.) that pop when you bite down, or the huge greasy Polish sausages in soft seeded rolls that you can order smothered with sauerkraut at beautiful PacBell Park in San Francisco. Go Giants! Barry, Barry! (For un-San Franciscans, I"m referring to our local star outfielder, home-run maven Barry Bonds.)

EXCUSE ME. This is a Europe forum. Unless I'm mistaken - Chicago, New York, Buffalo and Sam's Club aren't in Europe.

I just don't know what to do. Here we have this unbelievably important, life altering question about how people are going to find THE BEST HOTDOGS, and you people post on the wrong forum. Shame! Shame on you all! Apparently you don't realize how important it is that your answers MUST refer to "Europe." This is serious business folks. There are RULES and EXPECTATIONS. I expect you to CONFORM and OBEY. Just because you were once an English colony does not give you the right to compare your hotdogs to Europe's. U-ROW-PEE-UHN hotdogs do not equal U-ESS hotdogs. Fools! All of you. Remedial students at best. I hereby exile you to the U.S. forum. Once you have improved your geography and reading comprehension skills send an email to "xxx" and we MIGHT consider your application to once more post again on this forum. For now, be gone!

ROTFLMAO!! Thank, Oscar!! You're a peach, oops I mean, Wiener of a guy!!!

Dodger dogs.

My favorite sausage, definitely not a hot dog, would be a German sausage called pinkelwurst. Eaten w/grunkohl (kale)and sugared kartoffeln, (potatoes coated in sugar and fried in butter i.e.carmelized - aah!) Kostlich.<BR>Very funny, Oscar. But what is ROTFLMAO?

Deutsche Frau, it is online-ese for <BR>rolling/on/the/floor/laughing/my/ass/off<BR><BR>Your pinkelwurst(w/kale&potatoes) sounds like something I must try - we have a big GermanFest in my California town every year (it's coming up) so I will have one, or two.

New Haven. And I ain't saying where. <BR><BR>I had a sausage in Heidelberg one time that made me think I'd died and gone to Heaven.

Pinkelwurst is one of those very unusual, odd things... <BR>Ever notice how small the world is? How hard it is to find something unique, regardless of how far you travel from home? You go on a trip, and all you want is to buy an item you can't find at home... Well, truth is, you can (almost always?!) find it all at home. It may be more expensive, even hard to find, but it is there if you can take the time to search a little. As Disney said, "It's a Small World..." Pinkelwurst is one of the very few things left that is very hard to find. I don't know if it is because it is a "country" sausage, or because it is seasonal (fall/winter,) but this is an item that you are not likely to run into at a German Festival. This is something you will need to special order at a German Market / Deli, and even they might have no idea what you're looking for. This is something that is from a different place and time. If you can find a Deli that carries "Saag's" foods you are in luck. "Saag's" is one of the only companies I know of that makes Pinkel. I'd love to know what kind of response you get at a fair in California when telling people you are looking for pinkelwurst. Where in California is the fair? I'm actually in NoCal...

It's in Hayward on Sept. 15 (Centennial Hall) and Saag (from neighboring San Leandro) is one of the major sponsors.<BR><BR>

So, it really IS small world after all! I will be in Greece from 9/6 through 9/23. I will, however, tell my brother (also Mark) about the Fest. (I live in Marin, he's in San Mateo) Thank you!

Without doubt the best "hot dog", hausgemacht (homemade) grumpelwurst, is to be had on a sunny March day at an outdoor table in front of Hotel Wetterhorn at the end of the road south from Grindelwald in the shadow of the Eiger nordwand washed down with a Rugenbrau or two, or now that I think about it, three, after skiing down from Oberjoch while waiting for the bus back to town. The waitress will carefully show you how to hold the bread over the grumpelwurst as you cut into it so that the bread, rather than the tablecloth or your partner, will absorb the lovely spurt of tasty melted fat that issues forth.

The best hot dog you get in Peking.

Big Al refers, I think, to the Yankee Doodle, where the hot-dog assembly involves bacon, cheese, and butter.

.<BR>Deutsche Frau, "ROTFLMAO" is acronym for "rolling on the floor laughing my ass off".<BR>

Hands Down The dirty water dogs in NYC

We have move around quite a bit but my 2 favorite areas are Chicago (a Chicago hotdog with mustard, pickles, peppers, tomatoes all beef hot dog on a seasame roll. Portillo's is a great place in Chicago for these but there are many other smaller local places. <BR><BR>I know you did not say chili dogs but I must vote for Cincinnati chile dogs The chains I can think of are Skyline and also Gold Star. They are small hotdogs with a very sweet chili sause (some people say it is made with a little chocolate) covered with Cheese, mustard and onions.<BR><BR>Hot dogs are a great regional food item and every area I travel to has different and distinct styles of preparing them.

Best hot dogs are from a Lucky Dog street venders' cart in New Orleans. Also had a great hot dot in Bern, but I'm not sure if it was the special bun it was served on that made that one so good.

DF, the Santa Clara County Fair is being held this weekend at the San Jose Fairgrounds. www.thefair.com

Are chien chauds safe to eat?

Hoffmann's hot dogs in Syracuse NY. Now sauerkraut, Toronto can't remember the vendors name, kosher, sold in the ball park.

The bleacher seats at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York. When you hear the guy or girl walking through the aisles yelling "HOT DAWG HEEAH!!", you pounce on it. Make sure there's lots-a mustard, relish, and ketchup on that sucker. <BR><BR>So - considering you've paid for a cheap seat, a low-price meal, and are probably getting an earful of the cheapest cheap-shots heckling you'll find anywhere, you should be in 7th heaven...

Gotta go with SF on this one!

I had 3 incredible sausage experiences:<BR>1. A hot dog stand in Salzburg (I know it by sight not by name)<BR>2. A hot dog stand in Frankfurt in the main shopping area (if you have been there, you know which one!)<BR>3. Pfalzer Weinstube in Munich.

Clifton, NJ<BR><BR>Rutts Hut.....YUMMY!!!!!!

Dog gone it! You guys are dogging me round but you are hot!<BR>Best hotdogs(gag!) are at Fenway Park.

Jill - There is also a Ted's hot dogs in Tempe, AZ. Same owners. Great dogs and wursts.<BR><BR>In Vienna, (Austria - not Virginia), I had some great Weiners (Wein = Vienna) in a small cafe.<BR><BR>However, I think the best hot dogs can be purchased at the German Sausage Company in Phoenix. Even my wife and son, who don't really care for hot dogs, think they are terrific.

Just outside the train station in Vienna.<BR><BR>It is a little cart where they take the bread, "impale" it in a hot spike and leave it there for a minute or two, then they put in a very good sausage and some dijon...

Little cafe in Munich---kids demanded a "hot dog" and we all loved whatever type of wurst it was. For those of you in Northern California, do you know about Dittmer's on San Antonio in Palo Alto. They make all there own sausages and get awards constantly. Lots of German speaking clients come from all over the bay area. Also great ham, bacon, bologna etc. Dittmer is from Germany---never asked from which part.