After we’d discussed the conclusions of this test of Gillie’s recipe, Monica Kass Rogers updated her “Gillie’s Coney Island Chili Dogs” recipe with a small-batch version that she likes. It’s definitely worth trying. Most online recipes and recipes in-print are about as far from Abbott’s original sauce as they can possibly get. They involve ground hot […]
Category: Hot Dogs
Twelve Food-Related Statements That Need To Be Banned
Adam at age 15 with some camp cooking equipment from the 1950s. People in the U.S. today would likely be extremely squeamish about eating food prepared with these. When it comes to food, I don’t really like “top-ten” or “top-one-hundred” or any other kind of similar lists. Those lists are very dependant on the taste […]
Todoroff’s Jackson Coney Sauce, Retail Package
Click on any image for a larger version. While you’ve probably heard of both Flint and Detroit Coneys, the disputes about which one is best, and the decades-long dispute between the Lafayette Coney Island and American Coney Island over which one is the best Detroit coney, you probably have never heard of the third contender […]
Review: Koegel’s Chili Topping
It’s not often I find a Koegel product I haven’t seen before. Having grown up trying all the products they make it’s probably been a good 25 years since doing a double-take in a grocery store when spotting an unfamiliar Koegel item. But that’s exactly what happened yesterday when I spotted these “chubs” of Koegel’s […]
Review: Michigan-Made National Coney Island Hot Dog Chili Sauce
A couple 1.5 lb bricks of National Coney Island’s Hot Dog Chili Sauce with a package of Koegel Viannas. Yesterday Sylvia Rector of the Detroit Free Press published an article promoting the fact that Meijer stores in the midwest are now carrying Hot Dog Chili Sauce from National Coney Island of Roseville, Michigan. Since a […]
Recipe: Authentic-Style Flint Coney Sauce
This and other recipes, along with history and restaurant locations, are available on the Flint Coney Resource Site. For years now I’ve been making my own version of the Flint-style coney sauce. During the summer of 2008 over a period of three months the kids and I sold hot dogs with this sauce, making 72 […]
On Hot Dog ‘Safety’ and Other Weirdness
A package of supposedly “raw” hot dogs. This morning I ate a Ball Park Frank, uncooked, directly out of the package I bought yesterday and licked the juices off my fingers. Obviously, I’m a dead man. Last summer when I ran the beachhouse, serving more hot dogs than I could remember in three months time, […]
The Cavalier, Lynchburg, Virginia
Last Friday the gent I was working with in Lynchburg, Virginia, had heard about the hot dogs I’d had at the Texas Inn the previous evening. I’d told him they weren’t all they were cracked up to be. He felt I needed to have something better. He gave me a couple suggestions, including the possibility […]
The Haunting of the Beachhouse
The harrassment seems to be building. The thing is haunting me. I was in the library. Off-handedly to someone else, but intentionally loud enough so I could hear it, the Luna Pier Librarian laughingly said, “Yeah I went down to the beachhouse to get one of those great Flint hot dogs the other day … […]
Michigan’s Coney Sauces: Beef Heart? Kidneys?? The Realities Await …
Update, September 2, 2018:This post still gets a lot of page views but is quite old. The majority of recipes developed from this earlier information are now available on my Flint Coney Resource Site. Yes, I’m back on the subject of coney sauce again. It’s an obsession. Having made 72 batches of my own recipe […]