HOT DOGS V. TACOS

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.