Lou_C
Scout Team
- Joined
- Mar 15, 2013
- Messages
- 455
- Like
- 1,063
Thought you guys might enjoy this...one of your town's entities significantly increased my quality of life last weekend.
I am an FSU alum, living in Atlanta, but originally from Buffalo. Atlanta's been very good for me, but I've always missed the food of course. That said, you can do much worse in the south than Atlanta (try Charlotte for instance). There's some places to get some good wings, there's some pizza places that won't make your stomach turn. Not as good as the real thing, but you can get by.
But the one thorn in my side since I left WNY 18 years ago has been...hot dogs. Getting a good, natural casing hot dog down here has been impossible. I can buy Boar's Head natural dog in a supermarket deli...blech. They were disgusting. And like $9/lb. I'd seriously rather buy a Ballpark frank.
If you look hard enough, you can find a couple NYC dogs in some supermarkets, specifically a Nathans natural casing, and a Sabrett's natural casing. I understand some people worship those dogs...but they aren't for me. I really didn't care for the Sabrett's at all, and while the Nathan's was edible, it was only just so. I would have it over an Oscar Meyer, but more often would choose none at all. In some ways it was the most maddening, because it was just good enough to remind you how lacking it was.
So for the last 18 years, once a year when we visit the in-laws back home, I buy some dogs to bring on the plane, and when they're gone, they're gone.
So last weekend, I'm jonesing for some char-grilled dogs, and so I go into the local Publix to get some Nathans. And what do I see? Hofmann's Red Hots...and White Hots!
I had given up hope of ever finding a decent red hot in Atlanta...a white hot? I was ready to do a dance right in the supermarket. When I said my heart soared, that is NOT an exageration.
Now being a Buffalo kid, Sahlen's is my dog. I'll buy a Sahlen's at any opportunity. It is still my favorite. But a Hofmann's hot dog is totally legit. When I read online and see people arguing about Sahlen's vs. Wardynski vs. Hoffmans, it makes me want to break down and cry. It makes me feel like a kid in famine-struck Africa would feel reading about American's arguing Lexus vs. Infiniti.
Yes, I am not kidding when I say my life is significantly better by having access to a legitimate red hot and white hot after all these years. And I have some Syracuse folks to thank for it.
I am an FSU alum, living in Atlanta, but originally from Buffalo. Atlanta's been very good for me, but I've always missed the food of course. That said, you can do much worse in the south than Atlanta (try Charlotte for instance). There's some places to get some good wings, there's some pizza places that won't make your stomach turn. Not as good as the real thing, but you can get by.
But the one thorn in my side since I left WNY 18 years ago has been...hot dogs. Getting a good, natural casing hot dog down here has been impossible. I can buy Boar's Head natural dog in a supermarket deli...blech. They were disgusting. And like $9/lb. I'd seriously rather buy a Ballpark frank.
If you look hard enough, you can find a couple NYC dogs in some supermarkets, specifically a Nathans natural casing, and a Sabrett's natural casing. I understand some people worship those dogs...but they aren't for me. I really didn't care for the Sabrett's at all, and while the Nathan's was edible, it was only just so. I would have it over an Oscar Meyer, but more often would choose none at all. In some ways it was the most maddening, because it was just good enough to remind you how lacking it was.
So for the last 18 years, once a year when we visit the in-laws back home, I buy some dogs to bring on the plane, and when they're gone, they're gone.
So last weekend, I'm jonesing for some char-grilled dogs, and so I go into the local Publix to get some Nathans. And what do I see? Hofmann's Red Hots...and White Hots!
I had given up hope of ever finding a decent red hot in Atlanta...a white hot? I was ready to do a dance right in the supermarket. When I said my heart soared, that is NOT an exageration.
Now being a Buffalo kid, Sahlen's is my dog. I'll buy a Sahlen's at any opportunity. It is still my favorite. But a Hofmann's hot dog is totally legit. When I read online and see people arguing about Sahlen's vs. Wardynski vs. Hoffmans, it makes me want to break down and cry. It makes me feel like a kid in famine-struck Africa would feel reading about American's arguing Lexus vs. Infiniti.
Yes, I am not kidding when I say my life is significantly better by having access to a legitimate red hot and white hot after all these years. And I have some Syracuse folks to thank for it.
Now I'm hungry for Hoffmann's and they are not to be found in Houston (at least in the sticks, where I live).
