A Hot Dog We Missed: The Colombian Hot Dog
In honor of the hot dog's holiest day, July 4, we gave you a regional rundown of hot dog styles. But, gasp, we missed one: The Colombian Hot Dog, "an odd, semitropical wiener sandwich whose toppings include ham and pineapple," according to L.A. Weekly writer Jonathan Gold.
Found regularly in Miami, the sweet-sour dog also lives in Queens at "sandwich stands" under the elevated 7-line tracks, according to Gold. To clarify, Serious Eats overlord Ed Levine wrote about these three years ago, and they're from Los Chuzos y Algo Mas (Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights). But Gold is more focused on the Los Angeles version found at a Colombian-owned yogurt shop called Tutti Frutti: "a Hebrew National hot dog tucked with ham and mozzarella cheese into a bun with raw onion, spackled with crushed pineapple, sprinkled with crushed potato chips and finished with a three-squeeze-bottle lattice of catsup, mustard and mayonnaise."
Wowee. Anything "spackled" with crushed pineapple gets our attention. 950 East Colorado Boulevard, No. 105, Pasadena CA; (map); 626-793-3662; tuttifruttila.com [via Eater LA]
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3 Comments:
The place to get these in Queens is La Perrada de Chalo. They have insane styles like the "Iraqui." Just about all of them contain crushed potato chips and mayonnaise, though.
Krista at 4:48PM on 07/17/08
sorry, this sounds pretty disgusting ... but hey, whatever floats your boat.
pooch at 11:28AM on 07/25/08
btw - a real colombian hot dog in colombia is made minus the ham, mozzarella & pineapple..... so just the hot dog, squirts of mayo, ketchup and relish & a sprinkling of crushed potato chips.....
this is their version of the awful pizza with pineapple. which shouldn't even be called pizza.
pooch at 4:24PM on 07/25/08