HOT DOGS V. TACOS

pues tacos, pendejo!

oh man

why you break heart all time, i cannot choose.

i guess my choice is hot dogs, cuz i ate them for dinner.

this is like picking which parent you would choose to kill

i mean if the correct answer was both

what kind of question is this even

it's tacos by such a long distance

it was hard to vote for just one, but i went with hot dogs out of hometown pride. eating nathan's franks on the coney island boardwalk = YES.

hot dogs seems more versatile to me; i am american btw

b-b-but KOGI TACOS (i am l.a. hipster btw)

BRAIN TACOS

c'mon tacos are so small, you have to buy like 2-3 of em to match up to one hot dog

i live in the odd northernmost point of EXTREEM tacoland, so i am biased.

xpost
tacos, at least in my part of mexico, are usually eaten by the 2=3s.

tacos lengua mi amor

xp yeah i just find eating 2-3 duplicate food things annoying. unless they're small enough to eat with a fork

another example: i'd rather eat one big burger than 4 cute tiny "buffalo ranch" or whatever mini-burger things at chilis/tgi fridays

i like a god dog but c'mon, tacos in a walk

tacos tbh

hot dogs, but don't make me choose between hot dogs and burritos.

Tacos are delicious and oh so variable. But c'mon--Hot Dogs by miles.

tacos by a mile here

my passport application is currently being processed in chicago so i'm just gonna sit this one out

Could someone Minnesotan FedEx me some Ambassador wieners, MUST TEST THEORY. Waitrose Oscar Meyer stunt double dogs not quite the thing here.

Ambassador wieners versus DADDY DONKEY soft tacos.

definitely not choosing

I'm not choosing either, this is a brazen attempt to have both and NEVER decide.

what is an ambassador wiener, suzy??? should i be changing my plans for lunch

I can't believe this is even a question.

Honestly surprised there are so many hot dog fans.

seriously

The correct answer is tacos.

frankly, i'm stunned at the taco love

tacos are versatile, hot dogs are pig lips and cow tails

you can put anything on a hot dog you can put on a taco and you can't put pig lips and cow tails on a taco. "versatile" HA!

I'M AT THE COMBINATION NATHAN'S AND TACO BELL

if this were expanded to include cased meats in general, i might be tempted to switch my vote, but that's just cause i stan for hot doug's full time

whiney do some field testing

GBX, how close are you to Lunds or Byerly's? Therein you will find your answer, which looks like this:

http://www.wimmersmeats.com/ambimages/2nd.jpg

hot dogs are for babies, tacos are for grown ups

oh i dunno a BLOCK

am currently at a dunn bros that is about 20 yards from the OG Lund's, guess I know what's for lunch!

guys you can totally put pig lips and cow tails in tacos

but they are optional--on hot dogs they are not optional

hot dogs don't have rodents

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/baovarakhii/rats/cinnamon_tacos.jpg

whaaaaaaa??

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3352/3314233705_cbb39be481.jpg

there can be peace in this world

what's "tacos"?

^^^voted hot dog obv

Kerm, it looks like there's snot on your dogco.

GBX, that is about three miles from my mom's (we go to either Jerry's in Edina or the Byerly's with the chandeliers to buy ours, they're closer). I make my mom buy at least two packs whenever I go home for Xmas and wonder why I (temporarily) gain 10lbs over the vacation. My uncle used to buy a whole box of them wholesale to grill for the Izaak Walton League picnic he threw every summer (they lived on Minnehaha Creek and were into conservation).

no, that's shredded lettuce.

no, I'm talking about the phlegm-bomb atop the guac.

i need a doctor

that's green salsa

take three margaritas and call me in the morning

guys you can totally put pig lips and cow tails in tacos

You can put pig salivary glands, cow tongue, and cow brains in tacos, though!

Cow tails are awesome, I don't know what you ppl's problems are.

afaik there is no such thing as hot dogs al pastor, so tacos.

http://www.moocowguy.com/images/web36ctchocctbox600pix.jpg

Hot Dogs because they have their own daily newspaper-

http://www.editorsweblog.org/print_newspapers/FAZ%20front%20page.jpg

literally translated means "Hot Dogs All For Me"

lol brownie

This would be fairer if it were sausages vs. tacos, 'cause I love hot dogs but there are so many different kinds of tacos; various meats, fish, shrimp, crispy, soft, w/pico de gallo or w/green salsa, etc. However if you factored in all sausages and all the various breads and condiments that went with them...

The correct answer would still be tacos.

if this were expanded to include cased meats in general, i might be tempted to switch my vote, but that's just cause i stan for hot doug's full time

― i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:44 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

A great hot dog is better than a great taco, so hot dogs.

hot dogs seems more versatile to me

so wrong it's making my head hurt

A great hot dog is better than a great taco, so hot dogs.

wtf where do you live? that is just insane.

taco=anything wrapped in a tortilla. hot dog=one specific kind of encased meat in one specific kind of bread roll, w/standardized toppings. do people DEEP FRY the hot dog bun ever? no, they do not.

Tacos by a million miles.

First of all...I'm not always so good with the wheat, and tacos are gluten free! Usually.

And I ate at Hot Doug's in Chicago yesterday. It was pretty great, but wasn't as good as the cemita I had at Cemitas Puebla, and that wasn't even a taco, but I reckon if you put the contents of that pastor cemita in a corn tortilla instead of on an awesome crusty sesame bun you'd have a hell of a taco.

seriously u gotta be some kind of boring asshole to pick hot dogs

dan you ever try a taco arabe from there?

yes because surely liking hot dogs more than tacos is an ethical decision.

I picked hot dogs, though i am using a somewhat broad definition i.e. "encased meat in a bun," therefore all of the glories of hot dougs would be included.

seriously u gotta be some kind of boring asshole to pick hot dogs

I am someone who will order a hot dog in a nanosecond and this still seems like the truest thing ever written

do people DEEP FRY the hot dog bun ever? no, they do not.

never been to Glasgow, eh?

LA-style bacon wrapped hot dogs and Chilean-style completos make this really, really hard...but still I have to end up in the taco column. Cuz at the end of the day, a hot dog is still a hot dog & a taco can be something special.

seriously u gotta be some kind of boring asshole to pick hot dogs

It could be my pining away for all things northeast again (see: bagels); and while I haven't had an amazing h-dog in a while, a taco just doesn't bring me to that omega-point of pleasure. There's something about stuffing that last third of a hot dog in your mouth that's uniquely satisfying.

Difficult one except when I think about it I always get Kielbasa from the hot-dog cart. Tacos then because they are good for every meal and so versatile.

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images/239/320994.jpg

^this is a most superior taco stand in austin.

we all know Glasgow doesn't count, john

dan you ever try a taco arabe from there?

No, just the pastor cemita. Being on vacation and hitting some food spots, and yet to hit Hot Dougs, I really didn't want to overdo it. Fact is, we had flown in and due to weather and being re-routed to Grand Rapids, ended up having a 7 hour flight from NY to Chi, so when we arrived friday we were starved and went straight to the Red Apple, polish all you can eat buffet, and the rest of the trip involved walking a difficult line between wanting to pig out midwestern style and wanting to not be totally sick and miserable the entire time!

We had seen Cemitas Puebla on Diners Dives and Drive-ins and it looked like the real deal and it was really great.

the taco is the domain of the cumdad

There's something about stuffing that last third of a hot dog in your mouth that's uniquely satisfying.

― pj, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 15:34 (2 minutes ago)

yeah ok, I can see picking hot dogs if your answer is solely based on an oral fixation.

The thing is, you can do esoteric things to a taco and I'm all "YUM YUM GIMME MORE" but if you even put chili on my hot dog I will punch you in the neck. Stop fucking up my hot dog with bullshit; I only want ketchup, mustard, relish and MAYBE SOMETIMES chopped onion on it.

it's funny you mention "bullshit" on a hotdog, and then have ketchup

the taco is the domain of the cumdad

― (╬ ಠ益ಠ) (cankles), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:39 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i can't tell which way you're voting from this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5JIpT4GkyM

+sport pepper
-ketchup

xpost

And even if I think of hot dog as meaning ANY kind of encased meat topped with anything on any kind of bun, Tacos still win. Now, I REALLY love processed meat, but the purity of a good pork taco, with it's crunchy bits and soft bits and fatty bits and juicy bits and questionable bits, all the textures, is just a wonderful thing.

voted hot dog - a great taco is hard to eff with, but great tacos are tougher to make/find

it's funny you mention "bullshit" on a hotdog, and then have ketchup

I know, that is the only spot where I deviate from hot dog purity.

I think they featured their taco arabe on DD&D, too. Further evidence of the taco's versatility: tacos arabe have a unique taste, and i find myself craving one once a month or so. (usually i get a cemita AND a taco arabe, and don't have to eat for the rest of the day. or weekend)

wtf where do you live? that is just insane.

New Orleans isn't the greatest taco town, but all the C. American laborers after the storm brought in a big influx of taco/pupusa places. I probably eat tacos twice as often as hot dogs, too. The hot dog is just a higher high. What can I say, I'm a mystery meat kinda guy.

for instance, u need some freshly made tortillas for a truly pimpin taco experience; a poppy seed bun is about as fancy as u need 2 get w/a hot dog, and even then it still doesnt really matter as long as u got ur mustard and a frank.

sauerkraut on hot dogs is special tho

but tacos own this completely

Has to be the right mustard though, plain ordinary yellow doesn't, erm, cut the mustard really.

Sorry dudes but British people aren't allowed to have opinions on hot dogs or tacos. We don't come over there and opine about the proper brand of mint jelly to stuff in your pudding for tea.

ketchup and onion is all i need on a dog. anything more and you're overshadowing the meat. i don't know where this no ketchup fatwa came from, but it's highly bullshitty.

went straight to the Red Apple, polish all you can eat buffet

This place isn't that great, but if you are starving, I bet it gets the job done.

i. a vote for tacos is basically a 'i'm gonna move to CANADA!!!!!!!!!!!!' vote. go back to russia, ivan

ii. there is not a goddamn thing wrong with neon yellow mustard. is it ideal? no. but it is mustard and it is pimp as hell.

Sorry dudes but British people aren't allowed to have opinions on hot dogs or tacos.

u can add pizza to this too

ketchup and onion is all i need on a dog
opinion highly suspect

i like a god dog but c'mon, tacos in a walk

― velko, Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:54 AM (8 hours ago)

^^^^^

Even expanding "hot dogs" to include all kinds of sausages on a bun, it would still be tacos.

http://www.playa.info/images/al-pastor.jpg

^does this ever happen after ordering a hot dog? NO IT DOES NOT.

don't know what tacos is sorry

voted hot dog

RE: Red Apple...it hit the spot in a junky polish food way. I've had better kielbasa and stuffed cabbage but it did the job.

ketchup and onion is all i need on a dog. anything more and you're overshadowing the meat. i don't know where this no ketchup fatwa came from, but it's highly bullshitty.

go ahead, argue with dirty harry

I have had people look at me funny for putting mustard on my hot dog while theirs was slathered in chili and cheese; I don't really pay attention to these people.

Sorry dudes but British people aren't allowed to have opinions on hot dogs or tacos. We don't come over there and opine about the proper brand of mint jelly to stuff in your pudding for tea.

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 10:51 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

In your country criticising your comestibles.

you can't put cheese and peanut butter on a taco.

WHO THE FUCK PUTS PEANUT BUTTER ON A HOT DOG

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06162/697385-34.stm

PENNSYLVANIA YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR

In any case, I am with your president in liking the spicy mustard.

I put cheese and ketchup on my hot dogs alla times, if I can get it. Don't rly see the point in eating a dog that is not a cheese or chili & cheese dog. A serious sausage like kielbasa or something, then yes, it haz a taste that is worth tasting. But a standard dog does not.

Also, can't believe anyone wd argue on this one but: best dog ever is blackened over an open flame.

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

http://www.post-gazette.com/images4/20060611tt_Peanut_450.jpg

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06162/697385-34.stm

PENNSYLVANIA YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR

― get money fuck witches (HI DERE), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:04 (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

definitely lives beyond the bottom of the hill.

you can't put cheese and peanut butter on a taco.

good point except yes you can.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/recipes/2009/06/01/thai-tacos/

Both can taste awesome, but only one can taste awesome and still be remotely healthy, ie could feasibly be eaten on a daily basis without evetually ending up with myocardial infarction.

possibly lame reasoning, but there you go. Tacos.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3352/3314233705_cbb39be481.jpg

YOU HAVE BEEN ASSIMILATED

^^No Ketchup

Both can taste awesome, but only one can taste awesome and still be remotely healthy, ie could feasibly be eaten on a daily basis without evetually ending up with myocardial infarction.

possibly lame reasoning, but there you go. Tacos.

― ^ persecutes Christians (will), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:33 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sorry, but if it's a taco and it can be reasonably described as healthy, it is a dogshit taco.

nah, that's not true. tacos w/ spicy black beans or refried beans or whatever are awesome

wrong. fire roasted chicken taco w/cilantro and onions and salsa verde ftw.
xp

Tacos w fish and avocado and radishes and lime.

ugh, imagine a fish hot dog

http://i42.tinypic.com/x1jbf6.jpg

yeah i just find eating 2-3 duplicate food things annoying.

this is why you get 2-3 DIFFERENT tacos. one hot dog wouldn't fill me up and ugh do not want to eat more than that. but i could eat 80 tacos from just one taco place and each could be very noticeably different.

besides being more versatile, tacos are also more credible as actual food. hot dogs are a lovable novelty item for baseball games and family reunions, like the crap beer you drink them with.

uhh "... you drink with them."

if it's not cooked with lard, it's not fit for a taco.

there is not a goddamn thing wrong with neon yellow mustard. is it ideal? no. but it is mustard and it is pimp as hell.

― (╬ ಠ益ಠ) (cankles)

^^^

voted hot dogs though i shore love me a good socal taco. kinda the opposite problem in l.a. w/r/t canks' previous comment. lots of good tacos here, tough to find a decent dog. but i love a hot dog done right more than tacos.

there is not a goddamn thing wrong with neon yellow mustard. is it ideal? no. but it is mustard and it is pimp as hell.

― (╬ ಠ益ಠ) (cankles)

^^^

― ramón gastro (omar little), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i had a good hot dog in l.a. one time! pink's, i guess it's a tourist trap? do you not like that place, omar?

voted very much in character

I have to go with hot dogs because I've never had a good veggie taco. I do, however, eat the veggie version of these Spike's babies every now and then (but with mustard) and they're AMAZING:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3414/3247476205_dd4ee60694.jpg

is this thread just some east coast v west coast bullshit

how is that? I'm east coast and repping tacos. Tacos have gotten good in NYC over the last few years.

btw chicago can reasonably claim to have the best of both

yeah i really miss hot doug's almost every day.

no

did you move? xp to hs

posting today's Hot Doug's specials for the hell of it

Today: June 23, 2009

The Game of the Week
Red Bell Pepper Wild Boar Sausage with Sun-Dried Tomato Mustard and Pistachio Pecorino
$8.00

The Jake Fox (Today's Celebrity Sausage)
The Atomic Bomb Spicy Pork Sausage with Spicy Passion Fruit Mayonnaise and Smoked Gouda Cheese
$7.50

Other Specials
Blue Cheese Pork Sausage with White Peach Puree, Rum-Infused Dried Fruit and Roasted Almonds
$8.00

Spicy Italian Sausage with Pesto Genovese, Roma Tomatoes and Ricotta Salata
$7.50

Cherry Pork Sausage with Cherry-Blackberry Cream Sauce and Sartori Raspberry Cheese
$7.50

Hot Doug's BLT: Bacon Sausage with Avocado Mayonnaise, Cherry Tomatoes and Iceberg Lettuce
$8.00

Spinach and Feta Loukaniko with Skordalia, Kalamata Olives and Feta Cheese
$7.50

Smoked Crayfish and Pork Sausage with Cajun Remoulade and Goat Cheese
$8.50

Bacon and Cheddar Elk Sausage with Goose Island Honker's Ale Mustard and Serendipity Cheese
$8.00

Foie Gras and Sauternes Duck Sausage with Truffle Aioli, Foie Gras Mousse and Sel Gris
$9.00

Taco Pork Sausage with Jalapeno Mayonnaise and Habanero-Jack Cheese
$7.50

Bacon Cheeseburger Pork Sausage with Coca-Cola BBQ Sauce and Colby-Jack Cheese
$7.50

xxp yes

ya i am back in buffalo for a little while, brownie. will keep my eyes peeled for t.o./beast mode sightings at applebee's!

xpost oh god that was just mean, dan!

lol I skimmed over the Taco Pork Sausage until just now!

pink's is a'ight but it's not worth waiting in line for

home of cased meats + largest mexican population outside of east LA = yes

outside of LA is pretty key there

not really

TACOS every day, and twice on Tuesday.

Oh, look! It's Tuesday.

No contest: tacos. But then I'm from Mexico, so obv.

that is one hell of a lineup there at Doug's tho!

Yeah that menu is almost delicious sounding enough to make me want to eat some meat. Wow.

I couldn't go with any of the fancy dogs at dougs yesterday. Went with the basic grilled dog with everything on it, so I could have my proper chicago do, which I forgot is a messy pain in the ass to eat, and a polish dog with kraut and relish. I did not put ketchup on either, as all the signs say, but will secretly fess to being a ketchup on dog fan. With relish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCwrdqGrxBU

from wiki:

# Chicago, Illinois - largest Mexican community outside a border state and second largest in the USA.

so it can reasonably claim to have the best of one and second best of the other

second city once again

That's a lot of qualifiers there.

But yeah, we have tacos in Chicago.

yeah dudes obviously largest number of mexicans equals best tacos duh

chicago is home to the frankfurter diaspora

if you assume that the best tacos are made by mexicans, then yes, more mexicans increases the chances of awesome tacos

I have to go with hot dogs because I've never had a good veggie taco

This is totally weird to me! I kept thinking as I was reading this thread that the reason I immediately chose tacos is because I don't meat. Veggie hot dogs can be decent (when I'm at Hot Doug's, I get a veggie dog with some of the more exotic condiments), but they're always a substitute for the real thing. Whereas you can get a great taco with just beans, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, and avocado.

yeah i've had some great veggie tacos before

and, yeah, a veggie dog is just a slavish imitation of a hot dog, whereas a veggie taco is like all tacos just one more permutation, another color in the rainbow

Not second city. That doesn't include border states. Cities with more Mexicans then chicago:

San Antonio
Los Angeles
Santa Ana
San Diego
El Paso

i didn't know that!

oh well nm

Yeah that menu is almost delicious sounding enough to make me want to eat some meat. Wow.

It's pretty much the only place I have considered making an exception for.

chiles rellanos make awesome veggie tacos fyi

True re veggie tacos, but I was thinking of a taco with TVP in it (or something along those lines) which I've never seen anywhere.

Also the place I get the hot dogs is more about the buns and toppings/condiments than the actual dogs so the veggie ones are honestly really good!

Shit, now I kind of want a real hot dog.

After 16 years though my stomach would probably explode and I might die if I decided to start eating meat again and began with a hot dog.

Also why I haven't.

if you assume that the best tacos are made by mexicans, then yes, more mexicans increases the chances of awesome tacos

― i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no, this is fallacious logic. for example, what if a city only had 1,000 mexicans but they were all experts at making awesome tacos, while another city had 1 million mexicans but they were all shitty taco-makers. also i'm going to go out on a limb here and say that at this point there may be some non-mexicans who are capable of making awesome tacos.

love that the candidates for best taco city thus far are LA and Chicago and not anywhere in, you know, Mexico.

Not second city. That doesn't include border states. Cities with more Mexicans then chicago:

San Antonio
Los Angeles
Santa Ana
San Diego
El Paso

― dan selzer, Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:49 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i thought we banned gabbneb?

can we trade him for u?

no

potato tacos, y'all

Not second city. That doesn't include border states. Cities with more Mexicans then chicago:

San Antonio
Los Angeles
Santa Ana
San Diego
El Paso

Maybe by percentage, but not by sheer numbers. There are more Mexicans in Chicago than the total (Mexican and non-Mexican) population of Santa Ana.

x-post what is this craziness of which you speak?

potato tacos!

potato tacos, y'all
OTM!

Not tacos but my neighborhood is largely south american and I've just discovered what might be one of my new favorite foods - pupusas!

no, this is fallacious logic. for example, what if a city only had 1,000 mexicans but they were all experts at making awesome tacos, while another city had 1 million mexicans but they were all shitty taco-makers. also i'm going to go out on a limb here and say that at this point there may be some non-mexicans who are capable of making awesome tacos.

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:53 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

the main fallacy is assuming that good tacos can only be made by mexicans. this magical city of a 1000 taco geniuses is far more improbable, and a total strawman, c'mon.

like i said, ~if~ your main assumption is that mexicans = tacos, then yes, you actually will increase your chances of getting a good taco by being someplace with more mexicans. like, you know, mexico

for veggie tacos, a good bet is tacos with soyrizo and potatos (i've made one with purple potatoes)

*e

http://www.grubgrade.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/volcano-taco-bell.jpg

you can get an excellent potato taco at loteria grill

I have never had Taco Bell.

yes, i am assuming that mexicans are tacos

taco bell vs. hot dogs would be a pretty fair fight

Taco Bell is terrible but also really really awesome. You do not go there for good tacos; you go there because you have a cancer in your soul and you couldn't be happier about it.

For some reason potato tacos are always expensive (well, comparatively, they're still only like $3).

you go to taco bell b/c you wanna see a taco bell taco slinger fist fighting with a hot dog

it's the food equivalent of the end-of-the-party hideous chick you make out with

Yeah Dan, so I've heard. I don't know why I've never been but I plan to change that one day.

it's the food equivalent of the end-of-the-party hideous chick you make out with

― "jesus on the cross seems like classic homoerotic imagery" (omar little), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:04 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark

lol this is otm

for veggie tacos, a good bet is tacos with soyrizo and potatos (i've made one with purple potatoes)

I had a good veggie burrito along these lines at Pokez in San Diego years ago.

I would never eat at a place named "Pokez".

I'm fucking hungry now and really bizarrely tempted to walk around the block and just screw it all and get a real dog. I won't but I'll be thinking about it for the next 55 mins that's for sure.

how about SHEETZ

in general my rule is "do not end the name of yr restaurant with a 'Z' unless it is in a French word"

MANGEZ

I'm fucking hungry now and really bizarrely tempted to walk around the block and just screw it all and get a real dog.

a real dog?!?

I totally had Taco Bell for lunch today. Everything you all say is true.

it's the food equivalent of the end-of-the-party hideous chick you make out with

Shut up, at least she has some hips to hang on to.

Also, am I allowed to say "Texas" when we're talking about Mexican food? I know I've done it a million times already.

sometimes i end up with taco bell and realize if i was on my game, if i'd just tried harder, i could have ended up with el grande burrito or taco zone instead. but i settled.

http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/old-navy-hot-dog-costume.jpg

http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs33/f/2008/306/6/5/baby_taco_costume_by_rawxy.jpg

I had Taco Bell on Sunday! It was great! And awful! (but mostly great)

a real dog?!?

Dan if I'm gonna stat eating meat again I might as well jump right in, right?

http://www.onasia.com/system/pdn00572-p.jpeg

The key to taco bell is to never have meat. Beans and tortillas may not blow your culinary mind, but there's little likihood that they'll even so much as make you sick. It's beans, you know?

dude

BEANS

Taco baby >>> hot dog baby

i have had some foul experiences with taco bell beans

Hot dog baby is so played

Preserved Dog > Taco Baby > Hot Dog Baby

lol Dan/Brian confusion (altho I was going to make that joke too)

xp: Kenan you are so so wrong, if you don't subject your stomach to Taco Bell's "meat" when you go there you are doing it wrong.

hahaha whoops!

I wonder if the dog on a stick is crispy

this debate should, at this point, be taco bell vs wienerschnitzel

xxp I am paying less, as well

real talk: there is almost never a reason to order anything but taco supremes from Taco Bell

Dan - I'll let you know in a couple hours.

I have never been to a winerschnitzel! Where are they? I could wear my dirndl and order in German and freak them all out.

my girlfriend makes great potato tacos. She roasts the potatos and we add black beans and cabbage and guac and a hundred other things.

And what's with the gabbneb/banning comparison. Can't a guy quote wikipedia without reading it first?

I could wear my dirndl and order in German and freak them all out.

a good approach at Taco Bell, too

There used to be an utterly wretched German restaurant in Harvard Square called Das Wursthaus that did possibly the most toxic, unappetizing wienerschnitzel ever (complete with half-cooked egg on top).

not eating taco bell's meat is like going to the beach and not getting into the water

sometimes i end up with taco bell and realize if i was on my game, if i'd just tried harder, i could have ended up with el grande burrito or taco zone instead. but i settled.

Yeah, there is a good taqueria blocks from my work, but the Taco Bell is in my building, and it's hot outside, and and and yeah. I stand by my decision.

I want to point out that there is also a purveyor of hot dogs in my building, but I CHOSE TACOS. FROM TACO BELL. Instead of hot dogs. DO YOU SEE???

not eating taco bell's meat is like going to the beach and not getting into the water

or like putting on a condom for a handjob

Only crispy dog on a stick I want:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/145441890_efb0383689.jpg

wienerschnitzel is almost exclusively in the SW, the furthest easterly one being in champaign, IL according to their site.

http://www.wienerschnitzel.com/

Probably going to do the dirndl/taco bell thing asap.

I just looked at wienerschnitzel's menu and found that it's sadly lacking in wienerschnitzel!

My dad makes his wienerschnitzel with the fried egg and capers on top but I always asked for it without the egg.

There's a German place near NEMC Jacob Wirth's (I think) but I've never been.

I want some Del Taco tbh

http://www.wienerschnitzel.com/email/images/bogo_chipotle_coupon.jpg

DERlicious!

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

That's really strange on a lot of levels.

mmmmm lookit this wienerschnitzel chili dog!

http://www.hungry-girl.com/sectionimg/1304wchilidog.jpg

like an actual dog took a dump on a hot dog

*I can't believe we got to 200+ posts featuring a statistically significant group of Minnesotans and only now are we dealing with corn dogs.

LOL in London there is Tiroler Hut, which is land of schnitzel and Jagermeister for stag and birthday parties. With lederhosen/accordion old guy bringing the Edelweiss.

Oh no.

Jacob Wirth's

omg so good nuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

xp: Corn dogs are a totally different beast from hot dogs and follow different rules imo.

my girlfriend makes great potato tacos. She roasts the potatos and we add black beans and cabbage and guac and a hundred other things.

potato tacos are heaven. it might be heresy to say this, but there's a vegan restaurant in silver lake that does them brilliantly.

i must remember that i voted for hot dogs.

Not second city. That doesn't include border states. Cities with more Mexicans then chicago:

San Antonio
Los Angeles
Santa Ana
San Diego
El Paso

thing is, chicago has more of a variety of mexicans (ie mexicans from various states/regions within Mexico) than all cities in the American Southwest. Which is why you'll get deliciousness like taco arabe in Chicago in addition to the litany of "standard" tacos.

holy fucking shit, those Wienerschnitzel ads/pics

i like how it says "angus chipotle chili dog" 14 times

I like how it says "buy one horrifying, unappetizing-looking monstrosity and get another one free!"

Please, if my dog crapped that out of its butt I'd take him straight to a vet. After hosing down whatever surface he'd shat upon.

Yeah that's the most unappetizing ad for a food product I've ever seen and that's supposed to be . . . chilli?!

I'm almost ready to say "come back peanut butter hot dog, all is forgiven"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWu-gqoMUn0

thing is, chicago has more of a variety of mexicans (ie mexicans from various states/regions within Mexico) than all cities in the American Southwest. Which is why you'll get deliciousness like taco arabe in Chicago in addition to the litany of "standard" tacos.

See, you all have it completely wrong.

LA/San Diego are IN North (Occupied) Mexico. Fuck a border patrol.

Ergo, the two best taco towns are in Occupied Mexico.

Seriously, Chicago. Do you really - really think you can step to the LA taco? We KNOW you got sausage down - Abe Frohman be the king and all.

Just back away from this "Chicago is King Taco Town" nonsense.

I want to point out that there is also a purveyor of hot dogs in my building, but I CHOSE TACOS. FROM TACO BELL. Instead of hot dogs. DO YOU SEE???

So terribly clearly. Yes.

fwiw, my main assertion wasn't that chicago had the best tacos, just that it rules this thread, in that you can get top-notch tacos and top-notch dogs, probably for less than $3 in either case

i made a girl i work with potato tacos upon her request and at first i was like wtf is wrong with you but they were pretty badass

fwiw, my main assertion wasn't that chicago had the best tacos, just that it rules this thread, in that you can get top-notch tacos and top-notch dogs, probably for less than $3 in either case

Alright. I'll back up. Point taken. Chicagoans can do some eating.

daytime dishwasher at my work has a taco stand she runs at night, her tacos are incredible AND 2 for $3. she keeps trying to make me eat the tripe ones though. i don't like tripe.

Tripa = AWESOME.

Seriously, Chicago. Do you really - really think you can step to the LA taco?

NO! I would never claim that. The LA taco is possibly only second to some Austin, TX aberration of a taco that is full of black beans and spinach and shit that won't give you immediate cancer. But you can also argue that that's not really a taco.

Just back away from this "Chicago is King Taco Town" nonsense.

Didn't say that, but from what I know, Chicago has a greater diversity within its Mexican population and hence a greater diversity within its Mexican cuisine, tacos and beyond.

chicago has excellent tacos but l.a./s.d. have the best. chicago has the best hot dogs, of course. maybe the best pizza.

Also Lengua

xpost

Word. Kenan, I feel we have reached an accord today. Should you ever find yourself in LA, and in need of a taco, please to shoot me a line, and we will get it done.

Hopefully, the Chicagoans will reciprocate.

I would never say that Mexican food in Chicago is anything less than complete bullshit, no matter how many Mexicans live here. I hate it.

!!!

since it came up, Pokez (and sd in general) tacos ftw

Chicago does not have excellent tacos.

i will rep for carney's as an example of a great l.a. dog. they have a nice snappy casing and good spice to their dogs. i think the chili on their chili dogs is a little runny but that's forgivable.

btw dudes mpls has got the best vietnamese and east african food

okay maybe not best, but you know

from what I know, Chicago has a greater diversity within its Mexican population

Let's have some proof of that. (Not saying it couldn't happen.)

since it came up, Pokez (and sd in general) tacos ftw

Indeed.

btw dudes mpls has got the best vietnamese and east african food

See, now you're just trying to start a fight.

vietnamese, I would go New Orleans.

East African, I've had some amazing stuff in DC, but little to compare it to.

l.a. has oaxacan, d.f., yucatecan, mexico city, and all the northern mexico you can shake a stick at.

vietnamese, I would go New Orleans

Dude, just drive south on the 405 and Little Saigon's right there, c'mon now.

xp as does texas!

i still haven't voted in this poll but this is an excellent point

a great taco is hard to eff with, but great tacos are tougher to make/find

[POLL closes: July 04]

^^pollmaker bias

saginaw mi has a pretty decent Bob Evans imo

sorry, strike mexico city, redundant with d.f. :-) (multiple xposts)

i will chili cheese and coleslaw a hot dog but also just mustard and onion it

i will chili cheese and coleslaw a hot dog

MURDERER

guys if you ever come to lexington, ky i will personally show you where to find the most incredible tacos. however i don't know any awesome hotdoggeries here.

sometimes the dog speaks to me, it says 'make me sloppy'j

i guess i'm still not sure how to vote based on a buy vs make bias, i can find better tacos but make better dogs

l.a. has oaxacan, d.f., yucatecan, mexico city, and all the northern mexico you can shake a stick at.

To be fair, you have to look for it in Texas... in Houston, for instance, forget it. You'll get red sauce slapped all over everything whether you like it or not, and fortunately for their businesses, almost everyone likes it. Austin has Austin food -- you get black beans slapped all over everything whether you like it or not. San Antonio is the real Mexican food destination.

^^^^^^

had the best tacos of my life there

i still dream about them

Hot dog - mustard, relish

Polish - deli mustard, grilled onions

Weisswurst or Brat - sauerkraut, deli mustard

Merguez - harissa/mustard, grilled red peppers

xp :)

San Antonio Mexican food was incredibly bad-ass IIRC

Lol regional Mexican food debate

This thread has officially derailed my afternoon. Well done.

first, chicago has the best pizza? C'mon, but we don't need this to turn into a NYC pizza thread.

But I'd like to talk more about NYC Mexican. It's true that for a long time all you had were mission-style imposters, cheap-o joints and other non-authentic stuff, but the last few years has seen an explosion of mexican food, just in time for me to move to Queens. Not to mention Red Hook Huaraches...

i remember nyc mexican food in the 80s - pure fucking garbage

Chicago Tribune

Let's have some proof of that. (Not saying it couldn't happen.)

Hard to find data. This is all I could find in brief research:

CHICAGO — As the Chicago area’s Mexican community has grown, so too has the variety of Mexican fare at the city’s restaurants. Looking at regional dishes on local menus is often a best indicator of where Mexican immigrants hail from. Still, through a Web site operated by the Institute of Mexicans Abroad, we learned that Michoacan, Guerrero, Puebla, Veracruz, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Aguascalientes, the State of Mexico and Oaxaca all contribute a high percentage of their emigrants to Chicago.

^the site that references is in Spanish and not very well laid out.

To more directly address the thread question: hot dogs are fucking nasty, and who cares if you put ketchup of mustard or relish or the precious sweaty dewdrops from the breasts of the Goddess of Pork and Beef Byproducts on it, hot dogs are still just nasty. New York style... some other style... shove it in your hole and then shut it because what just went in there is totally disgusting.

Also, Chicago-style pizza isn't pizza and should be disqualified entirely, thus ending the debate.

^^^^^^^

Real talk.

Also in Chicago, while I didn't get deep-dish pizza, I went to Crust. It was no Motorino.

I would also like to apply for the job of collecting the sweaty dew drops from the breasts of the Goddess of Pork and Beef Byproducts.

you realize that's K-Lo, right

shit...too long for screen name

agghhh goddammit dan

Btw my dad has been making hot dog tacos for like forever.

Cut up hot dog
Fry it up
Put in tortilla

So there's that

the best non-chicago style pizza i've had was still in chicago

Hey maybe we can decide which city has the best pizza by figuring out which has the largest number of Italians, that seems like it would be accurate

After all, everyone knows Italians make the best pizza.

Not true. In my experience, Mexicans make the best pizza.

polish dudes make the best tacos imo

mexicans make the best sushi

fuck we're all Americans, right?

One Nation, under a donut

in reservoir dogs, mr white didn't say, "i'm hungry. let's get a hot dog."

Yeah, I think NYC wins for most Italians.

"wins"

pizza?...now THAT'S a taco!

pittsburgh in top five?

hey nick stfu

other nick

most pizza in nyc made by mexicans.

most food in nyc made by mexicans.

but the best pizza in nyc is still made by a guy named Dominic.

lots of tacos made by ecuadorians though.

if you hate hot dogs, you hate america so gtfo.

I used to live somewhere with very few local food options (thanks, Satmars!) and so I was reduced to ordering ziti from a pizza place run by Mexicans. It was pretty much inedible unless you were actually starving. I mean, the pizza wasn't going to win any awards, either, but terrible ziti is REALLY BAD.

i've lived in texas, california, chicago, and new york, and i prefer great tacos to great hot dogs. hot dogs vs. hamburgers would be a better poll, and harder to pick between.

great thread. wish i could read the whole thing. highlight was someone calling people who prefer tacos a "cumdad".

Laurel, after college I will probably never eat baked ziti again. SCARD 4 LYFE.

I was reduced to ordering ziti from a pizza place run by Mexicans

So amazingly otm. I'd never even dealt with the possibility before I moved to a big city with a lot of hole-in-the-wall food places, but never eat food from a place that serves two kinds of ethnic cuisine. Pizza, for these purposes, counts as ethnic. Do not eat pizza from a place that also serves Mexican food, or Mexican food from a place that also serves Chinese food, or Thai food from a place that also serves pizza, or bagels from a place with Chinese characters on the awning, or tamales from a place that also serves fried chicken, and if you eat pizza from a place that also serves Mexican food and is run by Chinese people, you should be ashamed of yourself for making your parents fly up to visit you in the hospital.

ha there's a new restaurant here - which i haven't been to yet - that is like a burger/bar food place BUT it also has a sushi menu!

i keep looking at their menu and the WTF gets larger and larger font in my head every time.

I've seen a few Thai/sushi combos that seem to be all right.

^common sense. don't piss in the wind either. though I did once get food from an Indian/Italian fusion place just cause it was so wtf and I was curious.
xps

sister goes to combo sushi/tapas place in DEKALB. very brave.

xp It was common sense that I didn't have! You learn.

omg this is on the menu;

katherine's kobe hot dawg
delicate kobe beef topped with zesty banana peppers, onions, tomato and dill pickle. $10.99

this seemed relavent to this thread...that's an expensive hot dog...should i go there and eat it and report back?

there's a place in mpls called Chin DIAN that's a chinese/indian fusion place....

once i ordered a bloody mary at a mexican restaurant and i swear to god it was tequila and chunky salsa

tacos >>> hot dogs

but
burritos >>>>>>>>>>>>>> tacos

but somehow hot dogs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> burritos

IT IS A MOEBIUS STRIP OF FLAVOR

u mad. xp

The Nasty Conundrum, scientists call it

There's also the Rajun Cajun in Chicago, which, as its name suggests, is Indian/Cajun.

(Never been there, though.)

katherine's kobe hot dawg
delicate kobe beef topped with zesty banana peppers, onions, tomato and dill pickle. $10.99

this seemed relavent to this thread...that's an expensive hot dog...should i go there and eat it and report back?

Yeah, please do! I don't know if it counts as a hot dog, but it sounds kind of great.

omg i just flipped the page of the burger/sushi place with the 11 dollar taco and guess what they have? a who taco menu HA! everybody come visit and we'll all go out to eat at this place together.

i meant 11 dollar hot dog

Fancy a New Bacterium?

Re Chin DIAN, why is that a stretch? Because if you combine those two cuisines that's approximately what Burmese food tastes like. There's only one Burmese place of note here in London and it is damned good. I just googled for a Mpls one and surprisingly, no Burmese restaurant there.

See also Uighur lamb skewers highly flavoured with anise/cumin/chili/garlic. Some of China is so near various Stans the food is skewerspilaffstew as a result.

In London: Pizza/Kebab split is not badly offensive to me, besides it is the mobile drunk food of a nation, and I go batshit if there's too much Cantonese on a Viet take-away menu.

Chinese-Indian food is a huge style of food all on it's own and is utterly and totally awesome. Look for the words Tangra or Mirch and you're halfway there.

I mean, some fusion is great. Pastor tacos comes from a doner kebob/schwarma influence for instance.

But trying to please everyone is no good. My area is filled with ethnic eateries that add all kinds of italian and american delights in an effort to please the locals but fail everybody, while the places that stay authentic get the foodie love.

I'm looking at you Amsterdam Cafe with your tacos and pizza and burgers but when I finally went inside discovered a pretty awesome Dominican steam table.

Do not eat pizza from a place that also serves Mexican food

the combination pizza hut and taco bell!!!

SEE?

omg

there's a place called the linkery in san diego which has some epic sausages and dogs:

We change our menu every day and update this online copy when we remember and have time. Here's the menu from 22 June 2009.

WELCOME Monday, June 22, 2009

SOUP & SALAD & BREAD

Heirloom tomato salad 5 Heirloom tomatoes (Valdivia Farms), local olive oil (Rancho Cortes), Sonoma sea salt (vegan)

Semolina bread and local oils 6.5
House baked semolina bread, local avocado oil (Bella Vado), local olive oil (Rancho Cortes), Sonoma sea salt smoked over red oak, unsmoked Sonoma sea salt (vegan)

Green salad 7.5 Mixed greens (La Milpa Organica), market produce, lemon herb vinaigrette (vegan)

Beet salad 8.5
Baby red beets (Sage Organics), red leaf-Mizuna mix and goat cheese (both from Wingshadows Hacienda), lemon juice (Stehly Organics), local olive oil (Rancho Cortes) (vegetarian)

Country-fried pig’s ear chopped salad 9.5
Pig’s ear (Niman Ranch), house cured bacon (Kelly Biensen's farm), house made ranch dressing

Tomato soup 8
Local tomato (Valdivia Farms), mini grilled cheese (Winchester Gouda) (vegetarian)

LINKERY
With your choice of today’s house made links

Starter 8.5
with house made ginger soy mustard, house baked beer bread

Hand roll 10
in a toasted house baked semolina roll, ginger soy mustard

Tacos 12.5
With refried pinquito beans (Righetti Ranch beans) - one link, two tacos

Picnic plate 16.5
Two links with carrot oregano slaw, potato salad (Weiser Farms potatoes), Winchester Gouda cheese, and house baked bread
(Mini-picnic plate with one link is 13.5)

Choucroute 14.5
One link with house made sauerkraut braised in Alsatian Riesling, house cured pork (Kelly Biensen's farm) melted Winchester Gouda, house baked beer bread

Add one link to any plate 5.5

TODAY’S LINKS

*Wisconsin Bratwurst (Vande Rose Farms pork, white pepper, caraway, ginger, milk, poached in beer)

*Chaurice (Vande Rose Farms pork, crushed red pepper, cayenne, onion, Italian parsley, chile powder)

*Seafood (Wild Mexican opah, oysters, smoked tomato, garlic, dill)

*Jerk Chicken (Organic, free-range chicken, onion, garlic, habanero, cinnamon, allspice, thyme)

*Swedish dog Grass-fed beef (Open Space Meats) and pork (Vande Rose Farms) link, house made sauerkraut, vanilla porter blueberry mustard, with organic green salad

i meant to only c&p the dawgs and links at the bottom

^^^Dan reminds me of all the otherwise-Halal places here that do English Breakfast with sad bacon and pale grey sausages, but if you go back at lunchtime they're doing the world's greatest felafels. I still mourn the cafe by my old flat that did this; 2/3 of customers were having felafel or their other perennial fave, chicken escalope in wrap with salad/garlic/chili.

http://us.businessesforsale.com/us/Taco-Bell-AW-Franchise-on-College-Campus-For-Sale.aspx

Houston has better tacos than someone up there is giving credit for. Pastor , chopped onions and cilantro on corn tortillas at Ruchi's Taqueria. cheap and late.

Houston also has more Mexicans than Chicago. Wiki's numbers don't add up.

Also has James Coney Island where you can get a hot dog, I think called Chicago style with pickle and hot peppers. across the street from Ruchi's.

Houston also has more Mexicans than Chicago. Wiki's numbers don't add up.

Per the 2000 census data, Chicago had ~530,000 and Houston had ~527,000. It's entirely possible that Houston's now #2.

(i.e., #2 behind L.A.)

(in tacos)

not counting illegals kind of makes it a moot point, no?

True.

xposts Oh, okay. I was trying to do the Wikipedia math 28% of 2.8 vs. 41% of 2.2 million factoring 400,000 illegals minus unknown similar quantity. Anyway, voted tacos but here at the house we eat both regularly. Meat and chopped veggies in a bread product.

i voted tacos tonight and had 2 steak, 1 carnitas, and 1 chorizo, plus various funky and not so funky salsas and marinated veggies. but all i was thinking while eating was "man I wish this was a hot dog, they're so much more versatile."
full disclosure: if corn dogs are considered hot dogs, I'd have to switch allegiances.

lol at using wiki us census numbers for population of mexicans in us cities.

rip gabbneb

hoos is mexican btw

torta with hot dog in it >>> soft taco >>> hotdog >>> crispy taco

There is no "soft" or "crunchy" taco. There is just taco.

Also:

Houston has better tacos than someone up there is giving credit for. Pastor , chopped onions and cilantro on corn tortillas at Ruchi's Taqueria. cheap and late.

Houston also has more Mexicans than Chicago. Wiki's numbers don't add up.

Also has James Coney Island where you can get a hot dog, I think called Chicago style with pickle and hot peppers. across the street from Ruchi's.

― james k polk, Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Ruchi's is goddamn crucial.

I thought there was no way this thread could go wrong & got so excited to read it but now I can perfectly remember the taste of the Chinese restaurant pizza puff I used to get for lunch 2x weekly freshman year of high school

Anyway obviously if it is that you had to pick one to eat exclusively for the rest of your life then it's tacos but I think my death row meal answer might be different.

Hey maybe we can decide which city has the best pizza by figuring out which has the largest number of Italians, that seems like it would be accurate

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:22 PM

After all, everyone knows Italians make the best pizza.

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:22 PM

can we continue this train of thought? i wanna see n/a get butthurt at the suggestion that japanese know sushi, polish know pierogi, etc

pretty sure SF and Seattle have terrible japanese food

ukrainians know pierogi too!

pfffffffftttttttttdfjadl;fjwaewefaF$#R%#%

i always tried to avoid eating indian food on devon, due to the preponderance of indians that lived there

they wouldnt let mexicans in japan to clean the bathrooms, let alone prepare food

you know that a lot of indian restaurants are run by pakistanis and bangladeshis...

halal

To continue the trend of taking meal advice from this thread, I had a "Mexican Roll" from the sushi place down the block for dinner. It was actually really good - yellow tail, scallions, avocado, cilantro, and some hot sauce.

native american restaurants is the more acceptable term

There's a Chinese restaurant near my work that offers hot dog fried rice. I guess that's what I'll have for
breakfast.

I made veggie tacos tonight - sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, corn, greens, feta:

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs119.snc1/4866_1169536123055_1367529924_441313_4604652_n.jpg

did u get a mexican to help????

succotash!

I would like to eat yr veggie tacos.

i just made tacos too, ha.

even though hot dogs rule

rule DULLSVILLE

oh no you didn't

torta with hot dog in it

Have you seen this? My roomie got a torta cubana a while back and instead of ham it had two hot dogs sliced lengthwise. Really weird but he ate it.

i wouldn't fuck with that

i might vote gyros over both of these but maybe it's because i haven't had a gyro in a while :(

i'd grind that shit up int oa paste and spread it between two other tortas... xp

last gyro i had was really disappointing... really obvious "mystery meat" shit that tastes of preservatives & salt.

i don't remember the last gyro-qua-gyro i had, but my local shawarma place is completely awesome.

shawarma proper is almost always better than "gyro meat"

Real gyro/schwarma is when the meat is stacked up on a spit then cut vertically, but I have a newfound respect for the processed/ground meat then formed into loaf and placed on spit or even just cooked up on the grill since I've made it a habit to visit my local chicken and lamb over rice combo cart, the Vendy-award winning Sammy's Halal.

http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/sammys-halal/

I don't know how the other locations are, but the one on Broadway and 73rd in Jackson Heights is truly serving food of the gods.

this dude philemon has opened shawarma/falafel joints in at least 3 different locations in this city over the past 1 1/2 - 2 years, every place though he remembered me & my crew and made us turkish coffee and hung out with us. the fucking spinning meat sword is unfuckwithable.

you can put anything on a hot dog you can put on a taco

this just made me imagine a "fish hotdog" and I'm not sure how I feel about that

I voted tacos, btw, because -- to me -- hot dogs are an awesome fast/cheap/street/fun food, simple and great, but tacos can both do that and rise to the level of a fine, fine meal.

(NB it's kinda interesting might right now to think that if you made a fine hot dog out of the best and most sophisticated material, it probably wouldn't really be considered a hot dog anymore; I can't really tell if that's just an issue of language or if it says something about the notion/category of a "hot dog.")

i have had a hot dog as a fine, fine meal

I just had oxtails with avocados and it was nuts

this just made me imagine a "fish hotdog" and I'm not sure how I feel about that

ha I went here yesterday and someone linked a picture of a fish stick on a bun

I had some frankfurters on a cold day in the Nachmarkt in Vienna a couple of years ago alongside some tafelspitz. They weren't hot dogs, per se, but they were the best frankfurter sausages I've ever had.

I've had fish sausages before. They did not appeal to me.

xxxxxxxxp
i always tried to avoid eating indian food on devon, due to the preponderance of indians that lived there

where else than devon to get good, cheap indian food?

I've had salmon sausages that were ok, but baja-style fish tacos are one of the perfect foodstuffs.

but baja-style fish tacos are one of the perfect foodstuffs.

OTDinero^^^

where else than devon to get good, cheap indian food?

― the chicano incarnation of benito juarez (primalfixations), Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:55 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

.....

http://i42.tinypic.com/2lxug00.jpg

I'm in East LA

I made soyrizo breakfast tacos for dinner and they tasted like hot garbage. that stuff just overpowers everything

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Dude, the results of this poll are going to be like...earth ending.

Watch out, Chicago. LA is sharpening its tacos.

torta with hot dog in it

Have you seen this?

Yeah, I feel like it's usually called "torta la loca" or something and has a breaded cutlet, some ham or something, avocado, lettuce, tomatoes, crema, queso fresco, jalapenos, and then a split hot dog or two. When you're eating it you don't really sense the hot dog qua hot dog so much, it's just kind of a big disgusting awesomeness that comes at you whole.

Tried to have Chicago Dogs for the supper tonight but just couldn't pull it together. No sport peppers, out of relish, underripe tomato, foolishly decided to toast and then accidentally overtoasted the "wheat" buns. At least I had the all-beef frank and Plochmann's mustard. Still basically a travesty and I feel shame for having eaten them.

also xpost I used to get hotdogs in Tijuana all the time. The dog is bacon-wrapped and served with mayo. Plus onions and all that. Best ever.

you know what made me sad about all the rain we got this week was that it meant that the hotdog vendor wasn't across the street from my store all week. so, that is where my heart is. i wouldn't have been so sad if a taco vendor was forced to stay home. if it was burrito -vs- hot dog i might have had to think twice. mmmm, steak burritos at the mexican place down the street are way yummy. haven't even tried their tacos yet.

although to be honest i am all about the hot dog vendor's hot sausage with peppers and onions. as opposed to his hot dogs. but his hot dogs are good too. very long and crunchy.

crunchy! scott, can you get "saugy" brand dogz in MA? i think they might be a rhode island only thing, but you should look for them if you are ever at a stop & shop in the ocean state.

http://www.saugy.net/

mmmm, i will. pittsfield mass used to have a famous crunchy hot dog place. don't know if it's still there. my dad would drive us there when we were kids.

saugy's have a really good natural casing kind of snap to 'em. i love it. in fact, i wish i had some right now.

http://www.saugy.net/album/images/togetherness_jpg.jpg

yeah, that's what i mean by crunchy. the casing.

voted hot dog because i am half-Chilean and always enjoy something looking roughly like these photos when I'm back in the old country:

http://vivavalparaiso.cl/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/completo-italiano8.jpg

http://c.hileno.com/images/completo.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2299/2176288245_ec0053c05e.jpg?v=0

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

basically

i assumed tacos would win, but i at least hoped for a good fight from the dogz. especially with tomorrow being you know, the fourth and not cinco de mayo.

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i just love america ok

this is the biggest amount of votes ive ever seen

Tacos win only because they vary so much....so they mean so much to so many varied people.

I was thinking it was a surprisingly small number of votes for such a popular thread!

i love tacos, but dogs wuz robbed

tacos = ahmadinejad

hahaha

81-26 tacos is surprising. I was expecting more like 78-29 tacos. In any event GO USA~

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4294/taco028.jpg

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Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today.

We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.

We will be united in our common interests.

Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation.

We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.

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the lopsided nature of the poll reflects the clear superiority of tacos

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everyone's memory of history? -- of, say, knowledge of what happened
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the lopsided nature of the poll reflects the clear superiority of tacos

― velko, Friday, July 3, 2009 9:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Tacos win only because they vary so much....so they mean so much to so many varied people.

― dice in my pockets (csa), Friday, July 3, 2009

true. the hot dog variety revolution is really only just beginning.

ˆˆˆˆˆˆhold the cilantro on these new dogs.

i voted dog

i think the reasoning at the time is i eat more dogs in one sitting than tacos

In Japan, hotdogs are used in bento boxes and are often sliced to resemble an octopus.

In Tuvalu, Hot Dogs are served traditionally on Bournivalian Holidays. They consist on a little wheat bun, a lamb (or goat) sausage and purple coleslaw. They are cooked during a ceremony where the priest, or even the Majestic Goddess, blesses them.

Reigning champ Joey Chestnut beat out six-time titleholder Takeru Kobayashi in Coney Island's annual hot-dog eating contest. He ate 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

Oscar Mayer Dead

let it be known, there will be a weinermobile...or taco cart, or better yet Sammy's Halal at my funeral.

i had tacos for lunch! 1 chicken w/ pipian mole, 1 calabacita. latter was disappointing; wish i'd ordered two of the chicken/mole.

His bologna had a first name. His bologna had a last name. So did he.

let it be known, there will be a weinermobile...or taco cart, or better yet Sammy's Halal at my funeral.

I somehow thought that Selzer was some cool vampire that lived forever.

echando un taco de ojo, hombre

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RR5juNFnPo8/Sklf4fjxk9I/AAAAAAAAAXo/xzcPiunta0E/s400/tacodeojo.jpg

I somehow thought that Selzer was some cool vampire that lived forever.

people actually often think I'm older then I actually am.

dudes i made tempeh tacos last week and they were illllllll

I may do a round of liquor store taco stands today if i get paid a producer check i'm expecting.

gbx come cook at my place, $50/week

Formulating methods of combining the two over here.

Creating one superawesome.

gbx come cook at my place, $50/week

― gucci gone bonkers (roxymuzak), Monday, July 13, 2009 11:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah ok

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3492/3720220229_94b1c62b52_o.jpg

yum! that looks great.

i made tacos last week on my family vacation. we did blue corn hard shells and white corn soft. used refried beans for main filling, lettuce, corn, rice, + a chipotle lime hot sauce that turned out pretty good

Had tacos for lunch yesterday from here, and they do this thing where they put a corn tortilla on the grill, and stick another corn tortilla to the first one USING CHEESE, and then put all the taco stuffins, including more cheese, on top and I was almost bouncing up and down I was so happy to see this happening in front of me.

room/board not included but those look great

what about cost of ingredients

i will steal the ingredients from kroger

steal me some vitamins k?

done and done email me your address

waht does roxy steal?

i think the answer is clear: b complex vitamins

pretty sure kroger doesn't stock tempeh yall

um i dont know what kind of kroger u are shopping at

i still stand by hot dogs but jim's half chilean abominations are makin me wanna vom:

http://c.hileno.com/images/completo.jpg

jesus h christ what IS that

i believe you could call it a 'chile dog'

dude I'd eat like five of those

i lived in chile for a semester. it's called a 'completo' right?

The completo is a type of hot dog eaten in Chile. It is usually served with ingredients such as avocado, diced tomato and mayonnaise. In this form it may be known as an "italiano" (Italian Completo) or Tomate-Palta-Mayo (TPM). With the common addition of sauerkraut, known locally as chucrut, it may be called "classic completo". Ketchup, mustard and Aji chileno are the typical condiments.

bordain went to chile on his show monday night. haven't watched it yet, but I'm thinking there's gonna be some hot dogs like that.

there's a place in Jackson Heights called Xtasis Megahamburger that I think sells various weird south american hamburgers and hot dogs. Walked by the other night and noticed a burger with shrimp on it.

Here's their menu:

http://www.allmenus.com/ny/queens/114598-xtasis-mega-hamburger/menu/

I'm guessing "Perros" means hot dogs.

oh yeah, this place is columbian...

http://www.yelp.com/biz/xtasis-jackson-heights#hrid:_sOIRFHptG_RpeqiNZoyMw

sorry but anyone who eats a mayo hotdog is a revolting savage

^^^^

Bordain did eat or of those things on the show. He was not loving it

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_wienermobile_wreck

pues tacos, pendejo!

― the chicano incarnation of benito juarez (primalfixations), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:57 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

never has a first post been more perfect

sorry but anyone who eats a mayo hotdog is a revolting savage

truth. sorry, chileans.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hot-dog23-2009jul23,1,2946755.story

cancer never tasted so good

bordain went to chile on his show monday night. haven't watched it yet, but I'm thinking there's gonna be some hot dogs like that.

there's a place in Jackson Heights called Xtasis Megahamburger that I think sells various weird south american hamburgers and hot dogs. Walked by the other night and noticed a burger with shrimp on it.

Here's their menu:

http://www.allmenus.com/ny/queens/114598-xtasis-mega-hamburger/menu/

I'm guessing "Perros" means hot dogs.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 13:08 (3 months ago)

A SHRIMPBURGER SOUNDS AMAZINGLY ATTRACTIVE RIGHT NOW. But if it turns out to be like a California goatcheese pizza and weird stuff I'd be bumbed.

daphne's (greek fast food chain) has started selling "street pitas" which are basically like gyros (or falafel or w/e) on a taco made of pita. i like.

I would also like to apply for the job of collecting the sweaty dew drops from the breasts of the Goddess of Pork and Beef Byproducts.

― Two Will Get You Three (B.L.A.M.), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:14 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you realize that's K-Lo, right

― get money fuck witches (HI DERE), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:17 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

holy. fucking. lol.

I actually walked into Xtasis not that long ago and the food terrified me.

eating some serious chorizo tacos right now.

koala dogs

A MONTH of HOT DOGS:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/hot-dog-calendar/package/index.html

amazed that this is even a poll, a pox on you weiner loving communists.