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A Hot Dog We Missed: The Colombian Hot Dog

Posted by Erin Zimmer, July 17, 2008

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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