Hot Dog, It’s July

by Sue Pais

As patriotic as apple pie and reminiscent as hot summer nights of yesteryear, hot dogs are a reminder of warm July evenings, full tummies, chasing fireflies after dark, carnivals, ball games, and special summer events. How sweet it was. And thanks to a continuation of traditional summer foods like specialty dogs and warm apple pie, how sweet it still is.

It’s the little things that can pack the most punch. Let’s celebrate such American simplicities… they’re often the very bites that make up the Good Life.

A must for the summer. If you don’t grab yours from Syracuse’s Pat’s Chicago Dogs, make your own with yellow mustard, relish, chopped onion, tomato slices, sport peppers, a pickle spear, and a dash of celery salt— all atop a frank nestled in a poppyseed bun.

INDIANAPOLIS DOG

This style of frank is smothered in all-beef chili, raw red onions, yellow mustard, and shredded cheddar.

KANSAS CITY DOG

This hot dog comes topped with melted Swiss cheese and sauerkraut tucked into a sesame-seed bun. Atlanta natives order their franks “dragged through the garden”— in other words, topped with coleslaw.

NEW YORK DOG

This hot dog, an ode to the franks sold from the sidewalk cart of yesteryear, is adorned with little more than brown mustard and onions stewed in tomato paste.

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