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.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― which button do I push to kick your ass? (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― nabisco, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.")
― nabisco, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i have had a hot dog as a fine, fine meal
― "jesus on the cross seems like classic homoerotic imagery" (omar little), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I just had oxtails with avocados and it was nuts
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
ha I went here yesterday and someone linked a picture of a fish stick on a bun
― get money fuck witches (HI DERE), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxxxxxxpi 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?
― the chicano incarnation of benito juarez (primalfixations), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I've had salmon sausages that were ok, but baja-style fish tacos are one of the perfect foodstuffs.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
but baja-style fish tacos are one of the perfect foodstuffs.
OTDinero^^^
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
― the chicano incarnation of benito juarez (primalfixations), Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:55 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark
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― i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i42.tinypic.com/2lxug00.jpg
― (╬ ಠ益ಠ) (cankles), Thursday, 25 June 2009 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm in East LA
― admrl, Thursday, 25 June 2009 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I made soyrizo breakfast tacos for dinner and they tasted like hot garbage. that stuff just overpowers everything
― A B C, Thursday, 25 June 2009 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 2 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Dude, the results of this poll are going to be like...earth ending.
Watch out, Chicago. LA is sharpening its tacos.
― Two Will Get You Three (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 2 July 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 3 July 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Insane Clown Ventures, LLC (iiiijjjj), Friday, 3 July 2009 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Insane Clown Ventures, LLC (iiiijjjj), Friday, 3 July 2009 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 3 July 2009 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 3 July 2009 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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/
― ian, Friday, 3 July 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 3 July 2009 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― ian, Friday, 3 July 2009 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.saugy.net/album/images/togetherness_jpg.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 3 July 2009 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Friday, 3 July 2009 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 3 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
basically
― the same (tremendoid), Friday, 3 July 2009 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― ian, Friday, 3 July 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
thats-racist.gif
― a Gioconda kinda dirty look (kenan), Friday, 3 July 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i just love america ok
― ian, Friday, 3 July 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
this is the biggest amount of votes ive ever seen
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Friday, 3 July 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Tacos win only because they vary so much....so they mean so much to so many varied people.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Friday, 3 July 2009 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I was thinking it was a surprisingly small number of votes for such a popular thread!
― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Saturday, 4 July 2009 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i love tacos, but dogs wuz robbed
― mollie sugban (get bent), Saturday, 4 July 2009 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
tacos = ahmadinejad
― mollie sugban (get bent), Saturday, 4 July 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha
― iatee, Saturday, 4 July 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Insane Clown Ventures, LLC (iiiijjjj), Saturday, 4 July 2009 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind.
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.
And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:
"We will not go quietly into the night!
We will not vanish without a fight!
We're going to live on!
We're going to survive!"
Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Saturday, 4 July 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
the lopsided nature of the poll reflects the clear superiority of tacos
― velko, Saturday, 4 July 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Think of it: how many wars today could be prevented if we could wipeeveryone's memory of history? -- of, say, knowledge of what happened more than 50 years ago.
― carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Saturday, 4 July 2009 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
― velko, Friday, July 3, 2009 9:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
― a poppy seed NAGL (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 4 July 2009 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
― dice in my pockets (csa), Friday, July 3, 2009
true. the hot dog variety revolution is really only just beginning.
― pollster grifter (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Saturday, 4 July 2009 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link
ˆˆˆˆˆˆhold the cilantro on these new dogs.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Saturday, 4 July 2009 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i voted dog
― guitar hero sparklehorse (nickalicious), Saturday, 4 July 2009 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the reasoning at the time is i eat more dogs in one sitting than tacos
― guitar hero sparklehorse (nickalicious), Saturday, 4 July 2009 05:54 (fourteen years ago) link
In Japan, hotdogs are used in bento boxes and are often sliced to resemble an octopus.
― Dr. Johnson (askance johnson), Saturday, 4 July 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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.