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08/30/2005: How Could I Resist...
Another review of those Hot Diggity Dog Items: from this article by Charles Leroux (Chicago Tribune) NOMINATED AS ONE OF CHICAGO'S WONDERS: Chicago Hot Dogs :”Not much in this world is perfect.
The Chicago Hot Dog is perfect.
Boiled or steamed, not grilled, it lies regally in a lightly steamed poppy-seed bun and is anointed with: Diced onion
Tomato wedges
Pickle relish the color of Kryptonite
Yellow mustard
A few sport peppers
A dill pickle spear
A shake of celery salt
There's your classic Chicago-style dog, a perfect teaming of tastes and colors and textures.
We don't have to mention, no ketchup! None! Ever! Do we?
Some readers nominated the genre; others, specific local shrines -- Fluky's, Murphy's, Byron's, Gene & Jude's, Superdawg, The Wieners Circle, etc. -- though with 1,800 hot dog stands ensuring that you're never more that about a half mile from heaven, a pilgrimage isn't necessary.
So far this year, there have been 231 mentions of "hot dog" in the pages of the Chicago Tribune. We've reported that Vienna Beef Co. -- dating to two Austro-Hungarian immigrants selling franks at the 1893 World's Fair -- signed a deal with Target to sell Chicago-style dogs in 1,350 Target food courts nationally, a blessing for America.
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7 WONDERS OF CHICAGO
NOMINEES SO FAR
2. Water Tower
3. The "L"
4. Wrigley Field
5. Millennium Park
6. Sears Tower
7. Chicago Hot Dogs
YUM !!!! :-)
Voting take place on September 9th. (Go to this link if you wish to vote).
Karen on 08.30.05 @ 04:47 PM CST
