A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich - Nicole & Josh Create 50 Star Spangled Hot Dogs to Save the USA

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

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Yeah, I put ice in my cereal, so what? That makes no sense. A hot dog is a sandwich. A hot dog is a sandwich. What? Welcome to our podcast, A Hot Dog is a Sandwich, the show we break down the world's biggest food debates. I'm your host Josh Sher.

And I'm your host, Nicole Iniety. And without a lot of pretense, Nicole, this is the event of the year. year that everybody has been waiting for. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. Nicole and Josh make 50 star-spangled hot dogs to save the USA. Yes. Because does it need saving? Depends. Who you ask? And will this save it? Yeah. Yeah. Definitely.

It'll make us unify. It'll, the first word in USA is what? Uh, the first word. United. United. That's right. So this was actually an opinion that a fan sent and said that they should make hot dogs, they being the United States, should make hot dogs for each state, and they should all be akin to what is most popular at that state. So we are taking on that responsibility here, right here, right now, and we're very excited about this. I'm very excited about it.

What about you, Josh? Yeah, in the same way that the European Broadcast Corporation fortified themselves with the infrastructure of the British Broadcast Corporation and created Eurovision after World War II. America tried its own version of Eurovision called the American Song Contest, hosted by Kelly Clarkson and Snoop Dog, and it did not work.

So now the American version of Eurovision is me and Nicole yelling about regional hot dogs. Let's do it. For unity. So we're going to try and get through this quick. So we're going to put 30 seconds on the clock, and we're going to do every state and maybe even some territories.

I want to do territories, too. We'll do territories. They're as much as America as we want them to be. Or as much as they want to be. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like growing up, everyone was like, make Puerto Rico a state, but now that's like bad. I don't know.

Does Miss Puerto Rico, does Miss Puerto Rico, um, perform, represent in Miss, Miss USA? I don't know, but in the American song contest, they did have Puerto Rico and Guam. Okay, there you go. So we're, okay, so we're going to have Puerto Rico and Guam, too. Okay, uh, 30 seconds of the clock, we're going to start, go alphabetical order in three, two, one. Put it on, Alabama. Okay, so Alabama already has a Birmingham special dog, but I say, screw it. It's bologna.

Let's do a hot dog. They have a special kind of sausage called a Conica. A conca? Yeah, they have a... Conica sausage? Conica sausage. Yes. Okay, I think we got to do Alabama white sauce on there.

Alabama white sauce. And then fried green tomatoes. Fried green tomatoes. Alabama white sauce. Or you do like a green tomato relish with crunchy fries on top. Alabama white sauce. Conica sausage. Boom.

Next. Alaska. Okay. Alaska. So Alaska has one called a reindeer dog that like has like reindeer meat, but I say, Fooey! We should do a seafood dog of like crabfish and seafood, and then it should be like a beer-brot situation with onions. I agree with how much tourism they have.

They need to lean into like the deadliest catch, the Alaskan king crab fishery. There needs to be like a king crab salad on top of that. On top of the seafood hot dog? Yeah, and I'd say maybe even sturgeon caviar. This needs to be lux. It needs to get people on those expensive Norwegian cruise liners go to Alaska. Okay, next.

Let's skip America Samoa. We'll come back to it. Arizona. Arizona already has the Sonor. It's perfect. Keep it. You want to keep it? I think we have to keep it.

The Sonoran hot dog. It is a bolio roll that is hollowed out. Then you put in a scoop of beans at the bottom of it. And then it's typically a bacon wrapped hot dog, right? Yes, it is. Yes, it is. With tomato with avocado, with mayonnaise, with mustard, with ketchup. It's everything.

To me, the Sonoran dog from Arizona is the perfect hog dog. We keep it. Well, I'll talk about the Chimichon dog on another day. Chimichanga dog. To Chimichanga dog. Arkansas. So I've been to Arkansas. Have you been to Arkansas?

Yes, once. to compete in their indoor track facility. They got Walmart there. Yeah, they sure do. I don't know enough about Arkansas. They do barbecue. So this is what I have. I have cheese dip,

Tom olives, which are just green tomatoes, mini green tomatoes that are basically turned to olives and Walmart ingredients. That's what I have on my phone. You want a full Walmart dog? Isn't that where the Tyson chicken

processing facility is too? I don't know. You feel like a fried... People from Arkansas write to us about how little we know about Arkansas. California. Okay, so California has the like,

I call them danger dogs. I don't know if that's appropriate, but I call them danger dogs. Yeah, it is what it is. I think they're perfect. The street hot dog, bacon-wrapped hot dog with, it's reminiscent of the Sonora dog. Let's just say fajita veggies. I went to one spot outside of a bar that had like seven different sauces that you could put on it. No way.

I think the L.A. street dog should represent all of California. I think it's perfect. Okay, great. Colorado, so this is my pitch. So you know how like they have that mountain pizza with the braided crust that's really beautiful? Bojo's Pizzeria. So I want to take that. I want to take that braid.

I want to slice it down in the middle. And then I want to do a really hearty stew on top of like an all beef hot dog, like an elk chili. And then top it with some Rocky Mountain oysters. I think we need to save Rocky Mountain oysters for one of the Dakotas. And I think what the Colorado hot dog should be, it should be called the Slopper Dog, like the Slopper Burger, which is a whole cheeseburger sitting in a bowl of green chili. Is that from Colorado? Pueblo.

Yeah, Pueblo. Slopper meets a hot dog. I think it should be a slopper dog. Okay. Do you want to do stew or green chili? Green chili? What's a stew? But green chili?

Green chili is the stew with fork in it. Fine. Connecticut, go. Okay, so I have a great... So this is our Louis lunch, Louis lunch, we started steamed burgers, steamed hot dogs, and then you just take that and you put it on top of a hot buttered lobster roll and throw some clams on there. And then if you really want to get crazy, just coat the bun in some cinnamon sugar and, like, cook it with some apple cider. I think we got to edit out the cinnamon sugar, but I think that's a perfect hot dog.

Why? They're known for their apple cider donuts. Yeah, but lobster roll, hot dog. Lopserol is basically already a hot dog. Shove a hot dog and a lobster roll. That's the Connecticut dog. Okay. Delaware. Easy. Yeah, Scrapple. Scrapple, mustard, grape jelly ketchup.

Done. Okay. Washington, D.C. State? No, definitely not a state. It's a district of Columbia, but they do deserve to be represented here. Wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait. I have to ask you. If it was a compromise. If it was a compromise. Philadelphia used to be the capital. And then they put mumbo sauce on it. It's like they put it on wings there. It's fine. Hear me out. They have a very large Ethiopian population so you could do a mumbo sauce dog.

If you want, well, you said it's because it, you said it was because of the Confederacy and stuff? Yeah, so two hot dogs. So two hot dogs. So a mumbo sauce dog and then also a doroa hot dog. I accept. I accept your conditions. Florida. Florida, I think this has to be Cubano.

Cubano was invented in Tampa. I think you put Swiss cheese, like Cuban mojo de ajo, brazed pork. Yes. And then pickles, Cuban mustard on it. I think it's a great hot dog. Does that mean media noche or does that mean Cubano? Cubano, because I think it would be served in more of like a crust. Rusty Cuban roll.

Well, okay, Georgia. A pork and peach hot dog. Pork and peach. Pretty self-explanatory. Georgia peaches. What do you mean? It's a state fruit. Yeah.

Georgia's known. Yeah, I agree. So a nice little mustardy peachy relish with a nice little pork sausage. I think it'd be golden. I agree with you. I think that's perfect. My only other pitch would be to make it lemon pepper wet. Shout out to, what's the strip up to Lennon?

Magic City. Guam. Guam. Guam, we're going territory. We're skipping the territory. Stories. Okay. Hawaii. Spam. There's a famous dog called a puka dog. A pukkah dog in Hawaii.

Oh, is there? I've never heard of a puca dog. They, like, shove it inside of a roll. It's, like, not fully closed. I think it's in, like, a Hawaiian sweet bun. Okay. Yeah, pukadog. So, do we want to... So then I think you put some sort of, like,

terriaki glazed spam on there, right? I mean, that would make the most sense to me. I think you got to do that. Okay. Idaho. Potato. Potato, potato. What else are you going to do in Idaho? Come on now. You know, you hollow out of potato, you shove a hot dog in there, you fry it, you top it with fried potato sticks.

Idaho is far and away the number one potato producing state in America in case anybody doubted it. I just Googled it because for some reason I thought Washington overtook them. It is not true. Suck it Eastern Washington, Cordillane rules, baby. Okay, so Idaho's potato potato, Illinois, do we mess with the Chicago dog? I don't think you can. I think this is one of those canonical hot dogs. I'm not doing it.

I'm not doing it. We're not messing with Chicago dog. Chicago dog is a state dog of Illinois. I don't know if there's anything else anything else in Illinois that could contend but what do you know about Springfield?

Nothing. Urbana champagne. Oh, honey, nothing. Me neither, Chicago. I don't know anything about Illinois other than Obama was there for a little. Obama was definitely there. Indiana.

Okay, so I asked local Indian and that works here, KG, what they're known for and she said the Hoosier sandwich, which is a breaded pork sandwich. So I say we take that and we just cut it up super fine and put it on top.

of the hot dog. There is another thing. Or we use it as the bun. Horseshoe. Horseshoe dog. You're the horseshoe? No. The horseshoe is an open-faced burger.

It's an Indiana specialty. I think the fried pork ternoling sandwich is another contender. But open-faced hamburger with like a cheese sauce covered in french fries. You want the hot dog to do that? I think just a hot dog covered in french fries and cheese sauce. Are they supposed to be crinkly french fries or is that just the-crinkly? Got to be crinkly. I don't know if it has to be.

So cheese, crinkly french fries and a hot dog on a plate. Yeah. Open-faced hot dog. Whatever you say Okay Iowa Corn So the corn's gonna show up a lot

So I think we have to be A corn dog Oh Right Are you okay Sorry I burped a little bit A corn dog But but sweet corn in the batter

Of the corn Yeah I think like a whole Whole corn corn dog Maybe even like in a corn shaped mold Okay You know what I mean I am willing to meet you halfway Iowa doesn't have that much

Going for it from a culinary You know standpoint so I think I think you have to lean to the corn. Okay, so corn-shaped, corn-filled corn-dog. Yeah. Corn, corn, corn. I think we nailed it. Okay. Kansas. Kansas. I think we have to do Kansas City barbecue. 100%. Kansas City probably has the best

barbecue baked bean culture in America. Take that, Boston. You gave up the crown. But we might have to put Boston baked beans on the thing. I don't know. We'll see when we get there. But for now, I think that's going to be a clam jitter dog. New England is clamped out. Okay, sorry, we're skipping. We're skipping. chopped burnt ends. You put the burnt ends of the burnt ends on there. People make hot dog burnt ends.

So why do we just do hot dog burnt ends? What do you mean? Have you made a hot dog burnt ends? What do you mean? Have you made a hot dog burnt ends? Have you been on the internet before? People are making hot dog burnt ends?

Like they're chopping hot dogs putting in a smoker with barbecue sauce? Yeah. And they're calling it hot dog burnt ends? That's not a burnt end. That's just a chopped up hot dog. No, it's a hot dog burnt end. I guess, yeah, etymologically, but I don't know.

Okay, Kentucky. KFC! You know, my parents only associate Kentucky with KFC. Kentucky Fried Chot Dog. They literally call it. They literally call it Kentucky Fried Chicken. They don't call it KFC. They say the whole name.

So it's only acceptable. Alternate pitch, hot brown. Kentucky Hot Brown. I like the way that the KFC sound to say it again. Kentucky Fried Chot Dog? Or the hot dog brown. We could do that. Hot dog.

I don't like a roasted turkey, Mornay sauce, bacon, and tomatoes. Fine. Hot brown hot dog. Fine. Hot dog, hot brown. Hot brown. The hot dog is good. Louisiana, I mean, hot jambola.

I've had a really good very Louisiana and hot dog. Tell me. I don't know if it's called Dirty Dog or something in New Orleans. But it literally just had like crawfish. It had like a crawfish remalad just on this hot dog with like creole mustard. And it was so, so beautiful. I think you need to nationalize that hot dog. You don't do anything with Bhudan?

Oh, I do love. I do love a Boudan now. I know. I know now. Go down to Lafayette. Get you a Boudan. Hey, babe. You sound like the firefly from Princess Tiana.

Okay, so what do you want to do? You want to keep that one? I think we do crawfish ram a lot. It was such a good hot dog. On a budon. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Maine, lobster.

Lobster. Well, yeah, what do you make a sausage out of the lobster? No. Oh, yeah, yeah. What do they are? They also have steamers up in Maine. What's a steamer? Steamer, the clams.

Big old steamers. Just steamed big old quah hogs. No. Not quahogs are from Massachusetts, I think. Yeah, Maine, you got to go lobster. You just got to go lobster. Got to go lobster. But then how does that differentiate from the Connecticut?

Because this one will have mayonnaise. It'll be cold lobster. Oh. Is Connecticut style hot with butter? Hot butter. And this cold, yeah, yeah, okay. Then they're going to start a Civil War and then America won't be saved. Okay. Maryland, hear me out. The bun is in the shape, it's a crab cake in the shape of a bun.

We're going Baltimore style. And then crushed up Utt's chips on top of like a nice 50-50 situation, half beef, half pork. Well, it could be better. I think my only alternative pitch would be because of the Greek pop. Shout out to Dundalk. Shout out to my boy Stavi Hockeyas. Okay. I think you put like a nice little Greek stew on there.

You do like a like stofado or like cap of ma. Laddle that right on to a hot dog. I think it would be good, but I think your idea is probably better. Okay. Massachusetts. Why do we both have gas? Massachusetts. Okay, baked beans.

Just put the clam chowder on the hot dog. Send it out with some Dunkin. Everybody who buys a Massachusetts dog gets a free Dunkicino. Fine. Fine, fine. So Michigan already has the Kony Dog. I think that the Michigan Kony Dog might be the best hot dog in America. Oh, wow.

That is... You know what I mean? That Kony sauce. I don't know to me. I've never had it before. It's like a super, like, weird, vinegory, fatty, loose chili on top of a Michigan Kony. That might be the perfect. I don't know if there's any other take there.

Okay. Minnesota. You want to do a Tater-Tot hot dish, do you? It's pretty good. Oh, she's getting a little Irish with their Minnesota. an accent there to the tater tot hot dish. It's not my fault. Do you want to put some snecker salad on top of your hot dog over here in Minnesota? I say we do.

We just do a tater tot hot. It's not even a hot dog. It's just a hot dish. Since, for service, I agree with you, Lass. I feel like we're both going insane. It's just a casserole. There's no bun. What do you mean?

You had an open plate of French fries and cheese sauce. Yeah, no, but that's still, the hot dog's in the bun. It's just covered with a bunch of crap. Oh, it is in the bun? Yeah, yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Same as the Pueblo slopper dog. I thought it was loose hot dogs rolling around on the plate.

But what if we do? What if we do? Okay, fine. What if you cook it in a hot dish, but then you serve it in a bar? Oh, so smart. Oh, my God. A cream of whatever in there. Yeah, a cream of whatever.

Scoop it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Get the tater tots in the bun? I'm so sold. Okay, great. Mississippi comeback sauce? Mississippi pot roast. I've always wanted to make a Mississippi pot roast of the mythical kitchen channel.

That's all I want to do. We've never done it, right? No, I've always asked you in, like, different ways. And you've always said, no. It's not like you've come to me in the last three. years is that Josh May, please make a Mississippi. Look at the recipe docs. At any given point, you can come in and make a Mississippi pot rose and we'll figure out a way

to put it on camera. Mississippi Potry. It's got, like, pickled. There's like a packet of Aju, a packet of ranch, and a whole entire jar of those, like, really good peppercini peppers, the yellow ones. Yeah, oh, just braised beef, pepperchinis. Mississippi, what else are they known for? Red Hot Tomollies, I think, in the Mississippi Delta.

Hot tamales, comeback sauce apparently was invented in Mississippi. Okay. So, comeback sauce with Mississippi Potrose. So, dude, that'd be so good. Missouri. don't know anything about Missouri. I'm so sorry. Wait, oh my God. I just realized we did Kansas City style barbecue for Kansas, despite the fact that Kansas City, Missouri is the only Kansas City that people actually recognize in the fact that I lived there for four years. You lived in Kansas City?

Do you not know that? When? How old were you? Seven? I was born Columbia, Maryland. No, like from like zero to like five. I lived in Kansas City, Missouri. Oh my God. I have like one conscious memory of eating falafel. And that's it. And I looked and the spot still open. I don't think we put, I don't think A falafel could be wrecked by Missouri. Okay. So, did I, so Kansas City's in Missouri, not in Kansas? Well, it's both, but like KC. Mo is like the sort of more recognized part of Kansas. So should we take the Kansas City dog?

No, because I think now we focus on St. Louis. St. Louis, Missouri, toasted ravioli. Tosa ravioli. Provelle cheese is also. It should be, it should be like a pasta pizza dog. Yeah, kind of like a maran there. You put some Provelle cheese. Flossage and Italian sausage.

That's great. I'm sold. As long as it prevails on there, I think we're good. Montana. They got a lot of huckleberries. Oh, they have something. So this is something I found on Food Network. It's not verified or anything like that,

but something called Hoot Dogs, which is a defried hot dog, dipped in fry bread dough and fried. And basically, with a little side of huckleberry, like, compote. Yeah, fried bread, Montana, Amosh, and Native Americans. To be fair, I googled the hell out of hoot dogs.

Didn't find much. So this might be fake. Sorry about that. So it's Colorado Mountain-style pizza, but we still honored it. It's not fake. It's not fake. It's not fake. Nebraska. A Runza. It's got to be a Runza hot dog.

Shove it inside a runza. Shove it in a runza. We'll tell them what a runza is if they don't know. A runza is like a long sandwich, I think is the only way to say it. Calzone or a chicken bake. Yeah, it's like a chicken bake with beef, cabbage, and onions. Yeah, there's a fast food chain called Runza. But that's what everybody gets from there.

I remember Tim Walts went there on the campaign trail. He's like, we're here at Runza. There's 80 locations in November. Nebraska, and it's something that only Nebraska seem to recognize. It's basically like a homemade hot pocket. Right. I bet it's delightful. I would love to go to Oranza.

Yeah, just shove a hot dog in there. They also invented the Rubin in... I know. Lincoln or Omaha. I don't know. Somewhere. But Omaha-style pizza. That's where it's at.

Okay. Nevada. They have a lot of Basque people there. So we should put some... Yes, they do. We should put some corned tongue and some oxtails and some lamb. Reno is also home to the World Championship rib cookoff every year, the Reno rib cookoff?

Do you think we should just do, like, a crazy opulent hot dog for Nevada. Got to be. Just put it in Vegas. Okay, fine. So we'll do a Vegas dog. Gold leaf. Gold leaf, caviar, uni, wagu, wugue, bluefin tuna.

Put some endangered species on there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, people at Gordon Ramsey can hand it out. Yeah, hand it out to the F1 drivers during the Vegas Grand Prix. I think that's Nevada at this point. Okay, fine. So no, sorry. Or team up with the Moonlight Bunny Ranch.

Sorry. Stop talking about the Bunny Ranch every time we talk about Nevada. Formative part of my childhood. They just showed it on HBO. I knew you were going to talk. about it. I knew you were going to bring it up again. New Hampshire. I don't know anything about New Hampshire.

Live free or die, or is that Vermont? I don't know. What is New Hampshire have? New Hampshire, I think a lot of libertarians maybe, or is that Vermont? I really don't know. One of them is like... So New Hampshire has like boiled dinners, putteen, clam chlam. I don't... It doesn't have much in terms of like food culture.

Well, they're very small. That's like asking what is, you know, like Bakersfield's food culture. It's like, you know, the same population is probably in Bakersfield as New Hampshire. I had no idea that all the news were just New England until very recently. Did you know that? There's not at all. There's New Mexico.

No, no, no. Like all the news up there. Like, New Jersey, New Hampshire, all that stuff. New Jersey is not New England. No, it's not. No. New York also used to be called New Amsterdam because it was New Netherlands. Oh, really?

Is that what the movie's about? What? Which one? Gangs of New York? New Amsterdam. There's a movie? Yeah. I think she's called Amsterdam.

Oh, is it? New Amsterdam's a vodka. I'm so. That's what it is. God, I miss vodka so much. New Hampshire, I'm so sorry. New Hampshire and New England. I'm sorry. I thought the New England Patriots was like a full, like, where's New England? I was like, oh, it's up there. What is up there? But like it, singular. I didn't know it was a combination of things. Yeah, it's like Rhode Island, Massachusetts. I didn't know until very recently. I'm sweating. So New Hampshire, pass. Sorry. New Jersey, easy. New Jersey has one, doesn't it? Well, so they have the Ripper Dog, which is just a deep fried hot dog. They also have something called an Italian hot dog where you deep fry, I think you deep fried hot dog.

Oh, the pizza dough thing? Yeah, typically, I think sometimes pizza dough, sometimes it might just be a bun. Okay. But you're like slice it open and you put fried potatoes, peppers and onions, hot dog, whatever condiments. Like that is up there with some of the top regional hot dogs. Let's just keep it. 100%. I agree.

New Mexico. We already kind of burnt green chili. That's what I was saying. I didn't want to do that. Do red chili. Chile, Colorado? So, no, do like a green chili cheeseburger. Divorciadas.

Oh my God, Christmas style. Yeah, okay, Christmas style. Christmas style is what they call it. in New Mexico. Oh, really? Which is the green and the red. Well, they don't want to promote divorce. It makes total...

But they want to promote Christmas time. I think that's beautiful. Do it like enchiladas, half green, half red. There's probably more stuff in New Mexico. We're going so quick on this. If we missed very obvious things, I'm so sorry. Fall is the perfect season to invest in yourself.

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Who's they? They say what? In New York. They say Bob's your uncle, Betty's your aunt in New York? I think so. About what? Just to like finalize it. Just to pass the time? You say one hot dog with mustard, Crout and onions. They say,

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Let's see. The Carolina dog is a shared between the two Carolinas. know that? You're calling for Carolina unification here. No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm saying that. Maybe I am. Yeah, I think you can do that. Do you think that's going to create a problem with North

Carolinans and South Carolinians? Do they like each other? Hey, sound off in the comments. If you're from North Carolina and you love your South Carolina brothers, just give them a hug. Yeah, it's chili, slaw and onions. It's common in both North Carolina and South Carolina. So maybe we don't need to come up with new ones for either of them? No, unless South Carolina, we want to go like the Gullagichi route. You know, do like pay homage to... We could go up to Gullaguchi route.

There was a Nickelodeon show about the Gulloguchi's, which is Gulligal Island. Incredible show. Well, that's a fun time. 10 out of 10 show. North Dakota. What about it? Where is it? What's that thing they do in the Dakota's?

Chislik. Oh, I was thinking, well, whenever I was doing my research, I saw there was a lot of German and Russian food, so it was like hot dog pirog. Hot dog pirog. But I like Chislic, which is Turkish. Chislic is Turkish, but I think it's more like Ottoman, so they were probably in the Balkans at the time. because I think Chislik, it's like Shisleek. With a Shishlik. Yeah, I think, but also has commonalities in like Balkan cuisine.

Okay. But then that made it over. It's basically just grilled meats on toothpicks. So Chislic dog. Yeah, but what are you going to do? Grill the hot dogs on toothpicks and put it in the bun. That's weird. No, you put the chislic on top.

I feel like there's got to be beats on it. Oh my God, no. Beats? Like beats. Yeah, like a Russian. Like beat horse radish, like something for a Russian. Okay, I think horse radish and chopped egg, you know? You know, I don't know, North Dakotans, I'm so sorry.

We haven't put testicles on one. I'm waiting for South Dakota to put testicles on it. South Dakota has testicles? Okay. Ohio. So Ohio has its Cincinnati and the Cleveland, but do you want to make a new one? You want a Columbus, a Columbus-style Johnny Marzetti dog? Sure.

Let's do it. So Cleveland, Columbus. So Cleveland, Cincinnati, and now Columbus. Cincinnati has the Kony. Cleveland has the Polish boy, which is a great hot dog, right? Yes, it's very delicious. I've had it before. What is it?

It's like French fries on a brown. rot or a kielbasa. I think it's a brot. It's a fantastic time. No, it's a kilbasa. I'm sorry.

Barbecue sauce. But yeah, no, this, we were putting whole macaroni. We're putting straight macaroni on it. Yeah, I mean, that makes the most sense. Do you want to put some stadium mustard on there? The only reason I know about stadium musters, because I did it a guy that was

from Ohio. And that's the one relic I remember. I think I remember it from the Drew Carey show. Oh. Yeah. Stadium. So should we put it on? Johnny Marzetti, which is just a ground beef, tomato macaroni slop.

Stadium mustard cheese. Done. Onions, if you want. Oklahoma Well, they have the onion burger which is iconic Chicken fried steak

also from Oklahoma Okay I was gonna save chicken fried steak for Wyoming We can do that Okay but I like the idea of an onion burger

But an onion hot dog With some fried okra And black eyed peas Fried okra What? Oklahoma fried okra And black eyed peas Well you don't like that

I don't know Is that Oklahoma When I googled it It was I had the best bowl of Bunbah Hui In my life In Oklahoma City

At Fakhung I say we pay Omage to Fakhong Fine You want to do a put some coagulated pork blood in a whole... You want to do an Oklahoma fubber? I can't even say it.

I feel like people... I feel like people wouldn't like that. I feel like Oklahoma, we gotta pay homage to like the onion and American cheese of an Oklahoma burger. Okay. Create a new product called a smash dog. Smash dog. Just create a hot dog and just smash it onto the griddle

of a bunch of onions. Well, I think what they would do is they would just get the pink slime from the hot dogs uncast. Oh, that's smart. Oh, like a flat. Yeah. Almost like a baloney.

Oh. Yeah, that's fun. You like it? I like that. All right, he approves. All right. Flat hot dog. Flat onion hot dog. Okay.

Next up, Oregon. Oregon has the third most vegans per capita. I say we do a vegan dog. It was the first. Who's beating Oregon? Nevada and California. Really? Yeah, but I didn't want.

Nevada? But I didn't want, yeah, again, at the bunny ranch, they're vegan. That's crazy. Yeah, Oregon, I say we make it a vegan dog. This is coming out of Portland for sure. Some of the weirdest most special food I had was out of. Portland, so I think it makes the most sense. They have a lot of marian berries. They have a lot of mushrooms.

They have walla walla onions. I had the best pimento cheese of my life in Portland. Maybe that's just a personal thing. Forage, ramps, stinging nettles, pickled marion berries. Done. Make it. Done and dusted. Okay. Philly dog. Come on. Philly dogs. I mean, like,

you can get like a pretty normal, the hot dog in Philadelphia, a big Italian culture there. A lot of street hot dogs. I think, though, you play to the Provalone Broccoli Rob Hot dog. I think that'd be wonderful on a hot dog. There's also a big Amish population. There's a lot of fun cured meats.

You could go pay homage to Lancaster County, get some Lebanon baloney. Okay. I say you wrap a hot dog in Lebanon baloney. Okay. I hear you out. Put some provolone broccoli rom on there. On an amoroso roll. On an amoroso roll, I think you should do that. Okay. It's always sunny in.

We have to name it. We have to name this one. Philodogia. You're so smart. You're so smart. You're so on top of it. Rhode Island. Pizza strips at Kalamari. What else is Rhode Island out?

Stuffies. What's in Peatown? What's going on in Providence? I don't know. I don't know anything. What's the stuffies? Is that a stuffed clam? Yes.

You take the stuffies that you put on top of it. You take the stuffies that you... Listen to me. You take the stuffies, the stuffing that is the stuffies. But you just take it all out and then you put it on top like a Grimolata on top of your hot dogs. that's fun I have it so trying to think of like where like immigrants came from and patterns a lot of I think it has the highest Portuguese population oh like mystic pizza I yeah I assume that's yeah I haven't seen that in a long time but they were Portuguese yes incredible so

we do something like a salt cod Portuguese to dominate the salt cut trade you went to a bacalow I think we do a bacalow hot dog I think we just do like a nice salt cod brandad you know on top of that bad boy call it a day you know If it makes you happy. It does make me happy. So we have the Carolina dog for South Carolina, but when I was Googling it, let me tell you, they had something called she crab soup. Yeah, that's the row of a crab. Ro, so literally the girly girls would go into the soup.

I say we just make that into like a nice thick sauce that you put on top of a hot dog. She crab hot dog? Serve it like a French dip. Oh, that's a good idea. I feel like that'd be so incredible. Oh, that's a really good idea. Okay. I'm willing to meet you.

But I feel like we should, there's also barbecue. For Carolinas, both of them are known for a whole hog barbecue, right? Okay, how about this? How about we have a side of Carolina Gold Barbecue sauce and then a side of she, crab, stew? But is that a South Carolina thing, the mustard based, or is that North Carolina? Because one of them is one of them is like West Carolina based, and I'm like, I don't know. There's no Western part of the Carolina is. There's just no state called Western Carolina, but state's borders don't exactly, you know, fully follow culture.

And so one of them does like a ketchup-based barbecue sauce. One of them does a mustard-based barbecue sauce. and then one of them just puts like chilies in vinegar with salt, which I think is actually a very good time. And we have, pork, pork, the whole pig. It's a South Carolina thing, Carolina gold. Oh, perfect, yeah, put it on there. So what is our final South Carolina and hot dog?

Pop pork. Coast law. Uh-huh. Carolina gold barbecue sauce. But what about the she crab soup? I want it. The sided she crab soup, like a shoot, like a shooter. South Dakota, corn and soybeans, mother effort.

Putting commodity crops on here. I mean, well, yeah. South Dakota also does a fair amount of cattle raising. I think this is where we've been waiting to break out the fried testicles. You want to put testes on South Dakota? I want to put testes on South Dakota. We could either listen. We've made a testicle bolognese.

You could do a testicle chili. No, no, I don't like that. No, it should just be fried Rocky Mountain oysters put on top of the hot dog. Okay. Whatever condiments on you want. Make it simple. Okay. Tennessee, Nashville hot chicken dog.

Got to be. Yeah. Got to be right. I mean, Memphis style barbecue is also big, but you're going to get a lot of different barbecue hot dogs if we keep going down that road. Oh, I've been to Memphis. Yeah, man. What, Beale Street?

Beale Street? Yeah. That was called? I'd rather just do the natural hot chicken dog. I think National Hot Chicken Dog. I think that's probably... Not to say I don't love Memphis. I don't know.

Just dip in the grease. Do you fry it first? You just dip in the grease. Yeah, you got to fry it. What do you mean? Try it, dip it in the grease. Yeah. Put little pickles, little onions on it.

On the side. Oh, you put it in between white bread. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. Crisscross apples sauce. I don't know, man. I feel like I beat childhood poverty so I never I'd eat a hot dog and white bread again. Because that's like the ultimate.

No, dude, no, that is like the... You don't like white bread with hot dog? The amount of, like, relish juice that has seeped through that white bread into my hands. That's a relish problem, not a bread problem. Well, sure, but I'm going to want to put wets. I'm going to want to put wets on my hot dog. And no matter what, that comes through. And that is one of my, like, trigger foods.

I can't go back eating hot dogs and white bread. I mean, I will, but... Texas. They have a Texas dog. Chili cheese jalapeno. That's pretty basic. I say we'd do a tax mix. Could you do a Tex-Mex?

Or just a tamalee with a ween in it. Kind of like yisada on there. Or a tamale weenie. Tamale ween? I feel like a Texas hot dog, though. I feel like it's pretty close to what this is saying. I think it would have to be like a foot and a half long. Okay, fine, because everything's in Texas.

You know, nacho cheese. Okay. Chili, like Texas chili. Chili is invented. But can it be in a tamale, please, please, please, please. We can just put it in a tamale. It's a hot dog. No, no, it's a hot dog that is in Masaharina.

steamed, you remove it from the carapace and then you put nacho cheese on it and then, yeah. That feels more difficult than just putting it in Well, Texas is about being difficult sometimes You gotta stand your ground. I'm sure they have stand your ground laws in Texas

But I don't know if this applies to hot dog. Fine, you get a tamalee hot dog. Yay, with nacho cheese. Utah. No drugs, no sex before marriage, no caffeine. No pre-marital. I'm out. Utah fry sauce

No fry sauce is from Don't they do fry sauce in Utah It's just a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup But they call it fry sauce Sounds like every sauce ever 100% but they call it that But no I think that might also be I've had it in Spokane before

So you might go up that corridor No Hear me out You're going to do a crumble cookie With a hot dog in it And then mustard, mayonnaise ketchup relish And it sells out

Alternate pitch Hawaiian Haystacks I don't know what that is. What's you know about Hawaiian haystacks out of Utah? Explain it, explain it. Rice-based dish topped with chicken, gravy, diced pineapple, tomatoes, crunchy Chinese noodles, celery and coconut. But all that on a hot dog, come to Utah.

Or it's just dirty soda. Just a hot dog served in a thing of caffeine-free mountain dew with international delight. But do you think it's fair to Utah to name their hot dog after another state? I mean, they have the second most amount of Mormons for any state, right? Who was the first? Utah, for sure. I'm saying Hawaii. Oh, they do?

I would bet. Are there a lot of Mormons in Hawaii? I've never been. I don't know. I don't know anything about that. Vermont. We could have done funeral potatoes as well. Shout out Utah.

Okay. Vermont. Maple syrup pancake dog. Yeah, got to have maple. Or Ben and Jerry's ice cream pint. No, do one of those, like, sweet. Also, we totally miss, like, certain places have regionally specific actual hot dogs. Like, Rhode Island has that, like, red hot dog?

Yeah. Like a red hot? Yeah, isn't it Rhode Island Red Hot? I think it might be in New Jersey. New Jersey. There's a red hot and a white hot I think is made up to New Jersey.

No, I'm pretty sure Rhode Island has a weird dyed red hot dog that we got to use in there. But yeah, Vermont, get like a sweet hot dog, you know? Mm-hmm. Put, boil it in maple syrup. Pull it out.

Kids love it. No, you don't need to boil it in maple syrup. What are you, a sick of? I don't sit and, like, wet. Like, they have it in dirty water in New York, in Vermont, you get a dirty syrup dog. Oh, my God. I do not agree with that at all.

Whatever. Maple syrup pancake dog, I think, is a good way to sell it. Sorry, Vermont. So I get cheddar cheese, too, maple syrup, cheddar cheese, boom, Vermont cheddar. Great. Virginia. Probably really good. Brunswick stew, dog.

It's old. Brunswick stew, is kind of like, you take all the odds and ends of, like, a barbecue plate. I always thought it was squirrels. Oh, probably is. Isn't Brunswick stew squirrel? I would bet. Is that, that's like, that's not a... I think I've had things at barbecue restaurants called Brunswick Stew.

That is probably not, you know, the original. It's like mock turtle soup once all the turtles were hunted out of existence. Uh-huh. You know, they started making it with like calves brains. Brunswick stew is a tomato-based stew generally involving local beans, vegetables, and originally small gay meats such as squirrel or rabbit, though, today often chicken. An exact origin of the stew is disputed. Okay, so we're looking at Mormon population by state.

But wait, but Meggie, does this do by population, like by percentage of population? No. Okay. Wait, do we have it? Wait, yes. Yeah, can we do percentage of population? So the highest percentage is Utah is 61%. Okay, and then Idaho 23rd or Wyoming.

What percentage of Hawaii is Mormon? This is really important to me. 5.21%. Yeah, it's actually not that high. I think I just know a lot of Mormon Pacific Islanders from California. I see. Yes, that adds up. Virginia.

Washington. So I know that you just went, and they have a great Seattle dog, which is delicious. But I know that you just went there and that you had some bomb-ass terrioki. I did have a lot of bomb-ass terriarchy. A lot of bomb-ass terriaki. So there's a large population that makes terriaki. Correct. So should we do a terriky dog?

I think you do a terriky dog. Terry dog. We do have to shout out the Seattle dog, a hot dog, split in half. I had always heard from people that, like, the Seattle dog's not really a thing. People just kind of said we put cream cheese. It has cream cheese on it, right? Yeah, there's like a lot of places that I walked by. And even if it is a newfangled thing to serve tourists who kind of believe it exists.

Like I have had a lot of like bacon, cream cheese, jalapeno. Yeah. And like, you know, some nice barbecue sauce, sarahua, whatever hot dogs that were like, delicious in Seattle. Right. So I think we stick with that or do a terry dog. Okay. Let's stick with it.

West Virginia, I pass. Okay. So West Virginia has a very, I did my research on this one. West Virginia has a lot of kudzu plant all over. It's actually quite invasive. Oh. And I say we just eat the kudu. We just steam it and we cook it and we broil it and we braze it and we just put it all over the damn hot dog.

Yeah. Eat your way out of an invasive species. Have you seen a picture of Kudzu? No, what does Kuzzi Rook? It is incredible. It takes over the entire, it is an insanely invasive. Oh, that's what that thing's called. Yeah, yeah.

Look at it. You're going to have to eat a lot of hot dogs to get rid of this stuff, man. Well, that's what this is about. This is about helping our fellow states from their problems and their perils. What is the first word of United States of America? United. United. That's right.

Is this making you more or less patriotic? Actually, more. Like, legitimately, the most... Actually, the most patriotic that I am is when I think about local food cultures that have existed for a long time, right? People, like, actually telling their stories of, like, hey, my family has been in, you know, say, Virginia for several hundred years, and this is a dish that goes back to my great grandma. Or, like, Minnesota and hot dish, right? People would be like, my Norwegian great-grandmother has been making Lepsa the same way in Minnesota. and passing it down through the Methodist church cookbooks,

like that genuinely, genuinely makes me patriotic. Good. You know, for people who think that American food culture is only sort of capitalist exports, like McDonald's and Starbucks taking over the entire world. No, there's a lot of cool stuff, and it's easy to roll your eyes at things like frogs-eye salad from Utah or whatever. But that's like genuine culture and Americana and everything has a story.

So this is making me more patriotic. What about you? Wisconsin. Cheese in the dog. Cheese in the hot dog. Cheese on top. Cheese on top. Put cheese on the bun.

Cheese on a bun, you're all right. Beer brought, beer cheese, beer battered cheese curds, boom. Oh, cheese. Beer and cheese, baby, that's what Wisconsin does. And then finally, Wyoming. I was going to do chicken fried steak, maybe some bison. I say you put some bison chili on a chicken fried hot dog. That's Wyoming culture, baby.

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Lechon, yeah, yeah. Okay. What else do you want to put on there? That's it, man. A nice mafongo dog, I'm in. Or a capella-a-mage is something called a tripletta. I don't know what that's true. It's got three.

It was a street food that blew up in Puerto Rico in the last like 15 years. Look it up at three-plata sandwich in Puerto Rico. I think it's just, it's got like grilled like ham, grilled steak, grilled chicken, all in a big-ass sandwich. Lecone pernil ham cube steak. Want to add a hot dog? Call it a quadrapletta. Quadrapleta.

Okay, I'm down. I'm down. Guam. Where are you, Guam? Finidene. Finadene. Finadene with some short ribs on top. Done. What else we got?

American Samoa. Oh, what did I have for American Samoa? They're eating taro. I was going to say suckling pig, and I was going to make a taro bun or a Kahlo bun, which is also a starchy kind of root veg that they use in... I mean, they probably just eat a lot of hot dogs in American Samoa, you know? Yeah. Oh, God, do you have Virgin Islands? Cong Cong C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C. I'm gonna.

Why do? Why do you call it C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C. I don't know. But I went to C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C in it. What else we got? Northern Mariana Islands. I never heard of it. If you're from the Northern Mariana Islands, write in, let us know what you want to see on a hot dog. And if you're from any of these states that, again, we definitely blundered a lot of these things. We probably missed a lot of various athletes of hot thoughts. Oh, say, can you see?

By the dog's early light. Hey. Wow. That was pretty good. I think we did a great job. That was awesome. America. Yeah.

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