HOT DOGS V. TACOS

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.