I used to live near a place called “Hot Diggity Dog.” They made amazing hot dogs and introduced me to the Chicago style dog. As a bonus, they had pretty fantastic fries. Unfortunately, they had pretty incompetent management and eventually closed.
I only learned they were closed after moving away and, on a subsequent road trip, insisting on a deviation from the planned trip to go to this restaurant that no longer existed. That was a blow to both my ego and morale.
Since then, I have yet to find a reliable supplier of good hot dogs and now I live in a rural area where I plan to stay, so I probably never will. Gas station dogs are decent, but don’t really compare - even the pretty great Wawa dogs. I’ll never understand why quality hot dogs aren’t something that are offered everywhere. Burger King had decent ones for a while but discontinued them. Even though they seem like they’d be perfect fast food fare, I’ve never heard of other big fast food restaurants offering them.
If you learn how to make them yourself, you’ll never be without.
The hard part is finding a bakery that can make you a decent bun, and convincing them to make them in small enough quantities that you can buy them. You could of course learn to make your own buns, But that’s a whole other level.
You can buy uncured frozen hot dogs online and get them shipped If you want something special. But honestly, for the most part, Nathan’s, Sabrent or Hebrew National should come out pretty nice.
Most of the condiments are easy enough to find in Walmart. You need to steam the dogs, bamboo steamer baskets are pretty cheap.
“If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you.”
–Costco founder Jim Sinegal to CEO Craig Jelinek
Except at mine there are a billion people in line and after you pay for your hot dog you have to wait in another line to pick it up even though the hot dogs are DIRECTLY BEHIND the person you just gave your money to. The cash wrap workflow was designed by a three-legged donkey. Actually that’s not fair to donkeys. Donkeys are great.
I just have a self-serve kiosk at mine. Scan the Costco card, punch in my order, wait for number to be called. Really fast even when it’s packed.
Weird. I was there a few weeks ago and ordered/got my food within like 6 minutes tops. And it was a very busy day there. Could barely even get a parking spot.
Costco Japan isn’t much better.
Once I got a chicken bucket and was told to wait for them to finish cooking. When they did put a bucket out the lady said it was for someone else before me. No one came for it. She put a second bucket out and it was also for someone else and no one came for that one either.
Finally, my bucket was ready and I took it, leaving two rapidly-cooling buckets of chicken sitting there with no owner.
huh?
I’m guessing, it’s a parody. There’s a couple which has been posting pictures like this to the internet, but it’s normally some amazing scenery from where they’ve travelled to. It’s always the woman in the center of the shot, dragging her partner along who’s taking the photo. I’m guessing, it’s trying to say that a hotdog stand is an amazing place to travel to…
Wow that’s an old photo. They still have the combo pizza. Memories
The background character steals the show for me
Give the pretty girl a damned hotdog, man!
“Hey, can you give us TWO churros? It’s our anniversary.”
Why does it look like she has claws?
AI
Pretty sure this one is photoshop
Hot Dog
