Getting Creative with Hot Dogs
By Angel
@Angelee_27 (3460)
United States
September 15, 2015 6:40pm CST
What I love about a hot dog is you can kind of 'dress it up or dress it down'. It's something that you can get really creative with if you want to, instead of just slapping on some ketchup!
Typically, people around here like toppings like ketchup, mustard, slaw, chili, and relish. I consider those toppings to be common for hot dogs. What I like to do is get really creative and use toppings that you wouldn't necessarily think about putting on a hot dog.
Ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, and spicy mustard makes for a great 'Cuban' dog!
If you love a Reuben sandwich, try topping your hot dog with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Thousand Island dressing.
For a Vietnamese style hot dog, you could try some spicy mayo, sliced cucumber, shredded carrot, and fresh mint leaves.
...and my ultimate favorite hot dog is topped with barbecue sauce, Cheddar cheese, and crumbled bacon! Yum!
How do you like your hot dogs?
Typically, people around here like toppings like ketchup, mustard, slaw, chili, and relish. I consider those toppings to be common for hot dogs. What I like to do is get really creative and use toppings that you wouldn't necessarily think about putting on a hot dog.
Ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, and spicy mustard makes for a great 'Cuban' dog!
If you love a Reuben sandwich, try topping your hot dog with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Thousand Island dressing.
For a Vietnamese style hot dog, you could try some spicy mayo, sliced cucumber, shredded carrot, and fresh mint leaves.
...and my ultimate favorite hot dog is topped with barbecue sauce, Cheddar cheese, and crumbled bacon! Yum!
How do you like your hot dogs?13 people like this
14 responses
@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
16 Sep 15
Ive never had anything more exotic than a chili dog.
I am liking that last one you mentioned...bacon yumm!!!
That reminds me tho, I must get some hot dogs..havent had any in yonks.
I tend not to eat them with buns haha just plain.
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@GardenGerty (158309)
• United States
16 Sep 15
A lot of times we skip the buns as well.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
16 Sep 15
@GardenGerty I love the buns too much and would eat the whole bag haha
@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
16 Sep 15
@Raelove Aw thanks Rachel, wot a great meal. I shall remember that..sounds like something my son would love.
@TexanTornado (5573)
• United States
16 Sep 15
Ok, when it comes to hotdogs, I lack the creativity big time. I stick with the common and yet even cut that down. I eat mine with only mayonnaise and dill relish on mine.
I eat mine with only mayonnaise and dill relish on mine.1 person likes this
@Angelee_27 (3460)
• United States
16 Sep 15
I absolutely LOVE mayonnaise on my hot dogs. As a matter of fact, I've eaten hot dogs with nothing but mayonnaise on it plenty of times.
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@Angelee_27 (3460)
• United States
16 Sep 15
@Ceerios Oh yum, cheese filled AND wrapped with bacon!? That sounds amazing. I need to try that.
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
16 Sep 15
@Angelee_27 Oven at 400 (F) and 15 minutes ought to do it.
@shaggin (71696)
• United States
16 Sep 15
I stopped eating meat when I was 7. That was the last time I ate hot dogs. I always just ate them with ketchup or my mom would cut them open put some cheese slices in the middle and wrap them in crescent rolls and bake them. They were so yummy. She called them pigs in a blanket. My ex told me how his father would cut slices in one end of hot dogs and cook them in water in the microwave and put them on his plate with the slices spread out to look like an octopus.
@GardenGerty (158309)
• United States
16 Sep 15
@shaggin83 my sister in law made octopus hot dogs and served them in blue spaghetti.
@Angelee_27 (3460)
• United States
16 Sep 15
Do you eat vegetarian hot dogs? I've never tried one, but heard that the good quality ones were pretty good.
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@capirani (2789)
• United States
11 Apr
Some of those toppings sound good. I do love a kraut dog, but without the dressing. I don't like Thousand Island Dressing. A long time ago when I was still a child, my mom found this hot dog article in a magazine. You get hamburger buns instead of hotdog buns and you place them face down on a cookie sheet to brown them a bit. Then you turn them over, and you place a hotdog that you have sliced almost all the way through from the sides so that you can make it into a circle shape. You put that on the bottom bun and add all kinds of fun toppings. You stick the cookie sheet back into the oven to get the hotdogs and toppings cooked through. Then you pull them out and top with the top of your bun that you saved out after browning. Your toppings would be good done that way.
@allknowing (130948)
• India
16 Sep 15
Butter with mustard would be my choice with anything else added.
@Angelee_27 (3460)
• United States
16 Sep 15
Never heard of butter on hot dogs before... interesting!
@allknowing (130948)
• India
16 Sep 15
@Angelee_27 I have always eaten hotdogs with this kind of butter. and sometimes mayonnaise but mustard would be a must.
@GardenGerty (158309)
• United States
16 Sep 15
Tomorrow at lunch we will have ours with chili and cheese and onions, on cornbread.
@much2say (54103)
• Los Angeles, California
16 Sep 15
I can literally hot dogs in any way - even plain! If not ketchup, mustard, and some onions, we will do chili dogs with onions and a little mustard. Oh, but I love mustard and sauerkraut dogs too. As a kid I used to love ketchup with relish!!
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
16 Sep 15
I like it just plainly cooked with some little cooking oil , at the oven toaster . They are so juicy and yummy . 
@Novelangel (394)
• United States
16 Sep 15
Any way that I can get them. I've loved hot dogs since I was a kid. 
I'll put virtually any topping on them as well until my bun looks like a total mess and I can't eat it without a full-body bib. 
I'll put virtually any topping on them as well until my bun looks like a total mess and I can't eat it without a full-body bib. 
@fufurinha (11930)
• Portugal
16 Sep 15
Well: bread, sausage, sauces (ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard), chopped onion, ham and sometimes some lettuce. I don't eat with cheese (I don't like it)
@foxii2000 (32)
• Midland, Michigan
16 Sep 15
My kiddo eats them cold right out of the fridge, but they have to be CHEESE filled!!!! I don't know if he'd be open to fancier ones.
