Favorite Hotdog Toppings

I think I'm going to have to have a hot dog or two for lunch.

No bun. Rhubarb/raspberry chutney as a dip? or straight yellow mustard?

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Mustard, relish, chopped onions.

[Pardon me, would you have any cheap yellow mustard?]

French's is the best.

Plain old cheap yellow mustard and Heinz catsup (or ketchup, whichever). What I REALLY like, though, isn't exactly a topping, per se. Decades ago I used to frequent a third-run movie theater in Albany, Georgia, which, in addition to the popcorn machine, had a corn dog frying machine. They'd pop a few with the raw cornmeal coating into the thing and in a couple minutes it'd deep-fry them to taste. Now that was heaven. My local supermarket occasionally stocks packages of 16 frozen so-called corn dogs. But they're soggy, and the coating sucks, and IT JUST AIN'T THE SAME, DAMMIT.

Best Mustard for sammich or dog is RAYES Ginger hot mustard.

Speaking of which, does anyone have a good recipe for the cornmeal coating for do-it-yourself corn dogs? And what about favorite hot dogs, themselves, as opposed to toppings? Lots of people in Boston swear by Fenway Franks, but I think they're horribly bland. Any tasty faves?

Hebrew National

They're seven to a package because G-d rested on the seventh day.

Or, something like that.

Eek, I don't eat beef. But turkey or tofu frank-like items get the Gulden's treatment, and the bun should be toasted with a light spray of olive oil. Verra nice.

Our hot dogs generally arrive 6 or 12 to a package - buns, 8 to a package

I haven't had a good corndog in years, MJack. Welcome to A2K.

Mustard.

spicy BBQ sauteed onions (a la a guy named James Brown in Athens, GA) if I can find it. If not: spicy mustard. And of course the dog is a soy version.

Is nothing sacred???

and instead of a bun you can eat it wrapped in lettuce!

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I dunno, define sacred.

Hah! I used to go to a third rate movie theater in Miami, mostly for the Polish sausage.

Thanks, Jes. Too bad God couldn't have rested when they were packaging the buns - at a suitable reduction in price, of course.

Of course, George. Those are the ones that answer to a higher authority.

I go for the kraft yellow mustard myself. Now, while in Germany, they had a brand called Meistersenf. Great stuff, even if it did come in a toothpaste tube. Walter tells me that was a mittleschaff senf, but they don't make it anymore.

Plochtman's (I'm not sure if they're national or just New England) makes, or used to make (I'm not sure if they're still in business and my local supermarket is shut now so I can't go and check ) a stone-ground mustard (that's the kind where you can still see the little seeds, isn't it?) with horseradish, which made it extra zippy (they used to just have the one formula, but then they started making a bunch of different kinds of mustard and I couldn't tell which, if any, still had the horseradish). It was a very nice mustard. Try it if it, and they, exist where you are. I think I remember seeing some other company's smooth (non-seedy) mustard with horseradish in the bulging shelves that used to just hold French's and Gulden's, but I didnn't try it, but the horseradish gives it a whole different effect.

Plochtman's is alive and well in New Mexico. I tried someone else's mustard with horseradish. Kind of liked it sometimes, but never went back for more. For what it's worth, Plochtman's yellow mustard sells at a discount to French's.

Hey, with a moniker like that, I'm surprised you don't like them with cheese.