Most of them use Hebrew National brand sausages but, sadly, wrapping them in bacon makes them nonkosher. They are really good though. The whole wrapping bacon around a hot dog thing started down in Tijuana and now is common across the US SW and NW Mexico.
When properly cooked the bacon is crispy, extra crispy even, especially if cooked on a flat iron though you have to turn it frequently.
You want the bacon really crispy so buy the cheap thin cut bacon as it will cook faster. Ideally the bacon is extra crispy so you get a contrast in textures as well as flavors between the juicy sausage and the crunchy crisp bacon. It creates a whole new flavor and texture dynamic for the familiar hot dog.
I worked with a 2nd generation Mexican programmer at Nieman Marcus who said that he was told "taco" just meant "sandwich", and burritos, enchiladas, tamales, etc were technically forms of taco, whereas the word "taco" came to mean the thing we know, as they never developed a special word for it. I'm not sure how accurate that is.
One of my favorite menu items at a now-closed hot dog place here was the BLT Dog. It was a bacon-wrapped frankfurter with lettuce and tomato. I miss that place. One of those plus a Mexico Coca-cola made for a great lunch.
Honestly, I think Costco sells the best hotdog in the country. Yes, you have to buy it in a five pound pack and, no, they don't have a natural casing option (which is a minus) but they do have a high quality, excellently spiced, extra large Polish style hotdog for sale at an extremely reasonable price. A close second, but not as high in quality, is the extra spicy natural casing hot dog from Far West Meats. If you want an old style natural casing hot dog and you are west of the Mississippi river then that is the brand to buy.
I lived in Mexico for three years. Most of the stuff we call Mexican food in the states is derived from Sonoran cooking, whereas I lived in Jalisco. Tacos were popular thhere, but like here, considered as something vaguely foreign. I can't think of the word, but there was one that meant sandwich and it wasn't taco. That doesn't mean gturner's colleague was wrong, but what he describes was probably regional and not universal.
It's amazing to me you can find the "best" food you've ever tasted of various types at some of the most unlikely places and the unlikeliest of times. Not long ago on our trip home just prior to my illness and first surgery, Amy and I were going to do some clean up work at my dad's house. We stopped at a convenience store up the road near the Hwg 70/71 Junction to get some gas and a couple of Cokes. We noticed some small pizzas in one of those counter top rotating things that keeps the pizzas (about the size of two slices) warm. They actually looked good so we each got one. Turned out to be to this day the best meat lovers style pizza's that either of us had ever eaten.
A burrito is more of a wrap and a taco is just a variation of a wrap but I have no idea how to classify a tostada or an Indian roti much less a deep fried chimichanga.
Wasn't that, either. No doubt it was a local dialect word, but I know it wasn't taco, because that's what we got from the guy who set up a stand on the corner each night.
Tsk, you guys! Dirty-water dog from a street cart in Manhattan whose umbrella says "Hebrew National" (or "Sabrett," if you're desperate) complete with onions in red sauce: Piling on all that other stuff is like putting pineapple on pizza. Sacrilege!
Putting JUST pineapple on pizza is insane, but putting pineapple and ham, then you've just got a portable form of ham dinner.
Gul, most of the food we call Mexican in the US is norteno, yes, Sonorans are a subset of nortenoes but basically most northern Mexicans are different from southern Mexicans so the becreak down is if they are norteno or not.
Pineapple on pizza is delicious! Also, Hebrew National makes the best hot dogs around. I like a hot dog with hot mustard, onions, a tomato slice, and sauerkraut.
