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Am I alone? I feel like these geographic location specialty hot dogs exist on the internet but I don't think I have ever seen a 'genuine' one.

Like in my totally made up example, some weird hotdog was once sold at some tiny Cincinnati restaurant for a few summers in the 70s and were mentioned in a 1992 newspaper article about that restaurant owner's retirement. That article was discovered in 2015 by Buffalo Wild Wings, which coincidentally doesn't have a Cincinnati branch, and starts marketing a 'Cincinnati Dog' with coleslaw and Swiss cheese, even though the original restaurant used Gouda A few year later, the Cincinnati airport sells t-shirts with "Cincinnati Dog Fan" showing Swiss cheese and coleslaw on a hotdog and the Cincinnati Mayor casually tells the press that he's always eaten them like that.

Do any of you have a genuine hot dog (or other food) tradition that is more than an internet meme?

I live in Kansas City and barbecue, but specifically "burnt ends" are very popular and most local barbecue places offer them as an option. They are the ends of the brisket that get overdone in the smoker.

Ten years ago there was a cart selling Sonoron hot dogs down the block from me. I'd never heard of a Sonoron hot dog before. It was amazing. And then the cart disappeared and I've never had a 2nd Sonoron hot dog. I think about it all the time. FML

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@urlnotfound Well Vienna Beef is a Chicago company which makes hot dogs, and they're the brand used in most if not all of the "famous" Chicago hot dog stands (Wolfie's, Poochie's, and Mustard's Last Stand are good examples in the general region of where I lived in Chicago). Each of them may have a couple of slight variations in their traditional Chicago dog but by and large they look like the picture above.

They're real and they're delicious

That Sonoran dog sounds wonderful.

The Chicago dog is very much a thing and have eaten many of them while in Chicago. That said, I do get the feeling a lot of these are more myth than fact. The Seattle Dog seems to be one of those...I can't say I've ever been anywhere that actually offers it on the menu. Not that it doesn't exist, I just haven't ever seen it.

@urlnotfound don’t say that shit too close to chicago, son

@homerj the seattle dog is a food cart thing, check the hot dog carts outside the Capitol Hill bars and music venues if you want one. They’re good. I used to have them all the time before I came down with celiac

@zeitgeist I don't make it to the bars much these days but do still try to get to concerts often enough. I haven't seen a hot dog cart at any but will keep an eye out for them!

Chicago (Vienna) dogs are fine, but I will go to my grave believing that the best street dogs in North America are in Toronto.

(I haven't been to Milwaukee. Their dogs are supposedly a whole thing there.)

But burnt ends are the absolute bomb, and I'd trust @jer's opinion on this stuff anyways.

@urlnotfound Burnt Ends are sold at most BBQ joints, we used to line up at 10:30 at a place in Salt Lake for lunch in the pre-pandemic times so we could be sure to get them before they sold out.

Also you can get a Chicago Dog in a bunch of places, though how 'authentic' it really is without a Vienna Beef is debated.

@urlnotfound There are definitely distinct regional styles of pizza, though as the world becomes increasingly homogenous you can find most of them outside of their original locales. Portland has no real style of its own but we have everything from Neapolitan to Detroit-style to NY-style to New Haven-style and everything in between here now. (No St. Louis-style Provel-topped pizza, though, at least not as of January 2023.)

@WikiAdam I had pizza at "Escape from New York" in Portland years ago and it was amazing. I haven't found it's equal here in KC.

@chauffi I totally believe you about "Burnt Ends" but I hadn't heard of them before I got here and who has the best ones is some matter of debate and pride here.

@urlnotfound My favorite pizza joint in the San Francisco was Escape from New York! They were next to the Red Vic and you could bribe the counter clerk to let you through with a slice or two.

I miss my youth.

When I worked in downtown Buffalo in the early 80’s I’d occasionally eat lunch at the Anchor Bar, famous for trademarking the famous chicken wings. I lived in an apartment complex in Tonawanda, just north of Buffalo called Raintree Island. The Raintree Island Inn was a restaurant/bar just across the street from the complex that sold nickel chicken wings (that’s 5 cents a wing!). My friends and I would sometimes order two hundred wings or more at a sitting.