Seattle Hot Dog Recipe - w/ Bacon Cream Cheese & Chips (2024)

FAQs

What does a Seattle hot dog have on it? ›

While there is some debate as to what exactly constitutes a Seattle dog, the general consensus is a hot dog in a squishy white bun, a squirt of cream cheese and a smattering of grilled onions.

Seattle. The Seattle dog offers a topping twist not found in many places around the country… cream cheese.

The hot dogs are made from different meats, but mostly pork and beef. Grillpølse is the most popular variety. They can be wrapped in bacon (baconpølse) and mixed with cheese (ostepølse), chilli and cheese (ostechili), onion (løkpølse) or other flavours.

Tijuana dogs, also known as Sonoran hot dogs, are a style of classic hot dog in which the beef or pork frank is wrapped in bacon, cooked until crispy, and then piled into a bun with pico de gallo and lime crema with avocado.

Most of us associate cream cheese with a certain mid-Atlantic city—but slather it on a frankfurter and suddenly the all-American food-cart fave becomes a “Seattle Dog.” So, what gives? Former Seattleite Hadley Long is widely credited with starting the craze in the late 1980s, when he sold bagels in Pioneer Square.

After hours of partying, Seattleites—rocking out to local bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains—wanted hot dogs. But Longe “didn't want to be a hot-dog guy.” What he wanted was to be a “bagel man.” The compromise? Sell bagels and cream cheese with a hot dog stuffed inside.

Philadelphia's signature hot dog serving style is affectionately referred to as the Philly Surf & Turf. More formally, the “Combo” style mashes a fried fish cake on top of a hot dog or spicy sausage. It's topped off with brown mustard and a delicately sweet yet tangy regional relish called pepper hash.

Seattle is famous for Starbucks and overall coffee culture, grunge music scene, the Seahawks, the Space Needle, Pike Place Market, headquarters of a lot of the tech industry (including both Amazon and Microsoft), hiking, kayaking, and general outdoors lifestyle (think REI).

It is exactly as expected, essentially the grillpølse mentioned above, but with a slice of bacon twirled all around it. Sometimes the base sausage is one of the others (an ostepølse or a chilipølse for example).

What do Norwegians put on hotdogs? ›

The typical choice would be to have ketchup and mustard, and then choose either one of the others. So for instance order “en pølse i lompe med sprøstekt løk, takk”, a hot dog in lompe with fried onions please, and then you can add the ketchup and mustard at the end.

Since hot dog stands are ubiquitous in Denmark, some people regard røde pølser as one of the national dishes. They are made of the Vienna type and the skin is colored with a traditional red dye (carmine).

This border-culture-born, bodega-served link is famously wrapped in bacon and served with an assortment of toppings including beans, chopped tomato and onion, canned mushrooms, mayonnaise, yellow mustard and avocado puree.

The topping duet of spicy beef chili and sweet cole slaw distinguish the Dixie Dog, a southern specialty that may also sport mustard and chopped raw onions. It's rarely called a Dixie dog in Dixie, where it is known simply as a hot dog with chili and slaw.

Cheesy Classic Jolly Hotdog

Meaty sausage in a soft hotdog bun, topped with a generous serving of tangy special dressing, grated cheese and tomato catsup, with fries and drink.

The official Seattle Mariners hot dog, Fletcher's Seattle Mariner Beef Franks are back! With no fillers — just juicy beef — they're gluten-free and bursting with home run flavor.

Hot dogs with all of the toppings!

This is just that, these hot dogs are topped with caramelised onions, crunchy bacon bits, fried onions, lots of melted cheese and then Ketchup and Mustard. They are my ideal hot dog! I use a good quality beef sausage, but if you wanted to be authentic you could use frankfurts.

Always "dress the dog," not the bun. Condiments should be applied in the following order: wet condiments like mustard and chili are applied first, followed by chunky condiments like relish, onions and sauerkraut, followed by shredded cheese, followed by spices, like celery salt or pepper.

A proper Chicago dog is an all-beef frankfurter (such as Vienna Beef) in a poppy seed bun, topped with yellow mustard, neon-green sweet pickle relish, chopped white onion, tomato slices, a dill pickle spear, pickled sport peppers and celery salt.