Good Quality Hot-Dogs

[Horsebox]

Do they actually exist or is the idea simply wishful thinking on my behalf?

I've seen a few people heap praise (and onions, Mustard, Ketchup) on Coops Hot-Dogs on North Cross Road and so am lead to believe that such a gourmet treat may be more than just fiction.

I am having a Superbowl party on Sunday (as some of you may know) and have had a couple of requests for Chilli Dogs - I've no problem making a high quality beef chilli, but am slightly reluctant to slather it all over a limp, anemic-looking product of the abattoir floor.

Your suggestions, please.

[nunheadbelle]

Those frankfurters that usually come in packs of 10, are quite nice. They are firm and flavoursome and go well with lashings of relish, mustard and any kind of dressing. They keep their shape well when taken out of the hot water and onions and don't disintegrate. Hmmm.. I sound like sound kind of hot dog expert. :)

[Jeremy]

13 years ago... Kwik Save, Smithdown Road, Liverpool... can of 6 hot dogs - 19p, 6 bread rolls - 25p. Breakfast, lunch and dinner sorted.

[Keef]

Alas Jeremy that very shop closed down around 2000. Didn't know you'd lived in the pool, I lived near there.

[DaveR]

Look no further...

[Brendan]

There is a German Deli near Borough Market. Just around the corner that the Market Porter is on. Don't know if they sell wienners but I asume they should.

[Jeremy]

Keef Wrote:

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> Alas Jeremy that very shop closed down around

> 2000. Didn't know you'd lived in the pool, I lived

> near there.

Uni days... left in 1998. I assume the students still have Aldi and Lidl, so all is not lost. And Bargain Booze, of course.

[LuvPeckham]

Where is Kennedy's when you need them.... All shut down and turned into Coffee Shops I fear.

[bignumber5]

There's a German sausie stall in borough market - i think they do franks, but their bratwurst are truely to behold.

Other than that, I'm the one man in the whole of london that likes the salmonella-dogs from the vendors in cov.garden. Don't even have to be pissed.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Anybody remember the boiled burgers that were available in the '70s and early '80s? They came in big catering tins and were heated through boiling - usually sold through small sheds in bus stations. They were digusting. Thankfully kebabs and the proper burger chains have killed off such establishments.

Such were the joys of growing up in Cannock in the '70s.

[Brendan]

bignumber5 Wrote:

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> Other than that, I'm the one man in the whole of

> london that likes the salmonella-dogs from the

> vendors in cov.garden. Don't even have to be

> pissed.

Nope me too. Love 'em with load of onions and mustard.

[Keef]

Uni days... left in 1998. I assume the students still have Aldi and Lidl, so all is not lost. And Bargain Booze, of course.

Ah memories, I was there 96 - 01 (stayed on after uni). At one point I lived on Baggot Road the Smithdown end, right opposite the Aldi. Used to be worken regularly by the delivery lorry beeping and telling us ut was reversing!

During summer of '97 I lived just off Allerton Road around the corner from a newly opened Bargain Booze. Me and my mate used to go there daily throughout the summer, great times!

[giggirl]

Good quality hot-dogs - isn't that an oxymoron?

[cate]

I saw some Herta ones at the Co-op in Forest Hill Road. Also think Sainsbury's do similar. You want beef ones if possible. Don't forget the French's mustard - available from Sainsburys.

[jollybaby]

For me when it comes to hotdogs the cheaper the better - I can't get enough of the tinned ones. Pop them in the mike (out of tin of course), 2 slices of white bread and squirt of ketchup . . . . . umm may have to get of the sofa now

[kristymac1]

Ooo Jeremy and Keef I was in the Pool at the same time - was there 92 - 98 living just off Smithdown, then Allerton (by the Blue Coats), then 'settled' in Lark Lane for a few years - happy days........

[HonaloochieB]

I keeep hearing the soundtrack to this thread as, Das Deutchslandlied, The Star Spangled Banner and The Liver Birds.

Actually I think, uber alles it works.

[MrBen]

Coops uses Kosher beef hot dogs for his Northcross Road stall that he has sourced from a butcher in North London - ask him nicely and he might tell you where....

[Horsebox]

Thanks for the replies everyone - I followed Dave R's and Brendan's advice and picked up some franks from the German Deli near Borough.

Big Number 5 and Brendan - jumbo dogs from the street traders? Yikes. A cast-iron stomach is surely required for such folly. I remember many many years ago trying one as a drunken dare. I couldn't finish the first bite and the remainder went straight to the bin.:(

[????]

I had a chili- dog off him at the beginning of my Christmas shopping expedition on the last Saturday before...it was by a long, long, long way the best bit of the day

[Horsebox]

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> I had a chili- dog off

I read this and thought you were about to recall some sort of eating competition...

Last nights chilli-dogs were a big hit with all concerned. they are the future of sporting event eating in this country.

Chilli-dogs, Jugs of Margarita, Cold beers and Superbowl FTW.

[woofmarkthedog]

Grrrr Keep away you humans...........I've lost many a friend to that HOT guy......

GGrrrr Back .....this dog has teeth.....Snap