Chicago (Onions, relish, sport peppers, mustard, diced/wedged tomatoes, pickle spear, celery salt)

or

Coney (Chili sauce, onions, mustard)

My apologies if I got any ingredients wrong.

chili sauce on hot dog is like maple syrup on rice.

Historically, I would eat a hotdog prepared in one of three ways...

Nothing on it but ketchup
or
Nothing but ketchup and cheese
or
Nothing but chili and cheese.


I would not eat a hotdog prepared in either of the ways you have listed. So I will vote "other"

I doubt I'll win friends with this one in a largely Chicago forum, but it all begins and ends with Nathan's. http://www.nathansfamous.com/nathans/

scott wrote:Historically, I would eat a hotdog prepared in one of three ways...

Nothing on it but ketchup
or
Nothing but ketchup and cheese
or
Nothing but chili and cheese.


I would not eat a hotdog prepared in either of the ways you have listed. So I will vote "other"

My jaw literally dropped. Literally like it actually did. Literally. Literally. OMG! You have only eaten hot dogs that were obviously meant to punish real hot dog lovers as they burn in hell for some of the most heinous crimes imaginable.

You must correct this. Celery salt will show you the way, you poor, poor suffering bastard.

I have not eaten a hot dog since I read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle in 6th or 7th grade.

Yet I eat sausage with no problem.

I don't try to understand it.

Johnny 13 wrote:Celery salt will show you the way, you poor, poor suffering bastard.

I couldn't agree with this more. I don't know what else to say about it.

Chili-cheese is basically a variation on the Coney. I can take a can of Hormel, some Velveeta, and a footlong Oscar Meyer and get a pretty close result. No thanks.

The bottom line is that the "pickle spear with hot dog" invention is up there with peanut butter and chocolate or meat between two slices of bread. I get mine without onions or relish, so I call it a "Joliet Dog", since it's not quite Chicago and some people would probably like to see a relish/onion-free eater Chicago dog in jail (I also prefer Best's Kosher over Vienna). Celery salt is absolutely the icing on the cake.

Tree wrote:
Chili-cheese is basically a variation on the Coney. I can take a can of Hormel, some Velveeta, and a footlong Oscar Meyer and get a pretty close result. No thanks.

Well, that just sounds disgusting.

I was born and raised on the Detroit style Coney. Natural casing dog, spicy chili w/ no beans, raw diced onion and yellow mustard. Delicious.

I make it a point to go to my old Coney place everytime I go home and keep Coney chili in the freezer when I need my fix.

Coney Dog, you are not crap.

Lemuel Gulliver wrote:I doubt I'll win friends with this one in a largely Chicago forum, but it all begins and ends with Nathan's. http://www.nathansfamous.com/nathans/

There's an incredible amount of amazing food in New York City. Nathan's ain't in that group. Nathan's is middle of the road.

Vistors to NY: if you are making a point to eat at Nathan's, your priorities are goofy. If you happen to walk by a Nathan's while going to ride the Cyclone or see the Cyclones, OK, otherwise, you've got better things to eat out here.

chicago....





and coney. mm... why should you have to pick?