HOT DOGS V. TACOS

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