![]() Choose from meats (or non-meats) like gourmet turkey franks, beef kababs, Polish sausage, falafel and load it up with traditional toppings like onions, chili and sauerkraut or go for something a little bit different like BBQ shrimp sauce or pico de gallo. Located on the edge of the French Quarter, Dreamy Weenies is another fully-devoted hot dog hawker who specialize in catering to everyone, meaning that one so inclined can score a halal, kosher and even vegan options. While certainly not traditional, I can’t seem to resist their crawfish sausage dog with a decadent order of chili-cheese fries. The most obvious of these wiener eateries being Dat Dog, which has gained so much popularity in the four years since the original opened on Freret Street that it now has three locations in the Crescent City and a possible fourth slated for Baton Rouge. Specifically, here in New Orleans, we experienced a sort of hot dog renaissance a few years ago and suddenly there were several restaurants wholly devoted to frankfurters and sausages in many mouth-watering forms. Sure, we might still indulge in childhood nostalgia and scarf a dog at a baseball game or Fourth of July picnic, but in general our love for the almighty frank waned as our palates grew more sophisticated.īut then, lo and behold, hot dogs actually got better. ![]() Lacking buns, we would wrap them in white bread with mayo and ketchup or roll them into pre-packaged biscuit dough with a slice of American cheese to make “Pigs in a Blanket.” But as we got older, hot dogs seemed to have lost their glamour. ![]() Dreamie weenies mac#Mom would cut up hot dogs and add them to our mac and cheese, canned baked beans or even Chef Boyardee’s SpaghettiOs. ![]() When you’re a kid, hot dogs are pretty much an all-essential staple. ![]()
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