Coney Island Hot Dogs
I just had myself a treat for lunch. A Michigan Style Coney Island and a couple of beers. I grew up with these things. However I did not know they were a local Detroit thing until I recently did a web search about them.
A Coney Island as they serve at the American Coney Island Restaurants (There were a several of them scattered about Detroit, I do not remember ever being in the original one downtown on Layfette Street however) are a frankfurter on a bun with onions, mustard, catsup, and smoothered in chili (yes I said smothered, they are more of an open faced sandwich rather than finger food like the hot dogs you got at the ball park) with a mess of shedded hashbrowns on the side. Yum!
The one I just had was made with a beef frankfurter. (Weiners are a cheap punny substitute. I remember when weiners came out in the fifties, what they were was 2/3’s of a frank at 90% of the price. People thought they were cheaper, not noticing that a package was 12oz rather than the 16oz of the frankfurters. I am sorry about the digression, back to our regularly scheduled blog). With mustard, catsup (I always think of that as Cat Soup, yuck), and some of my own hot relish (mostly chopped onions and tabasco peppers), and smothered in some left over Cambell’s Chunky Firehouse Chili (Unfortunately I can no longer afford to make my infamous Three Beer Chili). I made up a mess of hashbrowns to go with it, and had a couple of Yuengling Black & Tan’s to go with it.
Best lunch I have had since I moved south.