Saturday, November 29, 2025

About This Blog

There's an "About" page on the right, but I thought I'd make a post that describes what this blog is all about in case you didn't read it.

I'm a big fan of hot dogs and meat based toppings. I grew up in an area of New Jersey that had a bunch of Texas Weiner locations. A Texas Weiner is a greek based chili sauce (if you're in Northern New Jersey it's more like normal chili).. you usually get the dogs topped with mustard, onions, and meat sauce. Something similar to a Coney or a Cincinnati Style chili or maybe even Rochester Garbage Plate sauce, some of which has notes of cinnamon and other spices in them.

Originally I started keeping a list of places online you could buy meat sauces and get them shipped to you, but then I started to add other (mostly unique) hot dog toppings.

I purchase all the items myself. Some companies have offered free items (which I appreciate the offer), but I never take them. I provide my honest review on what I think of the product, good or bad. If there is just a picture of the item, that means I have not reviewed it yet. I've been starting to write that in the post. If I can get the ingredient list I also include it.

On the bottom right hand side of the page is a "Product Purchase Links" section. These are links to where I've found you can purchase products I put on the blog. It's a chore to always keep up with the links to make sure they are still working, but I do it from time to time. So, if the link doesn't work then Google is your friend.

I was originally removing blog posts of items no longer sold, but I lost a few posts that way, so I decided to keep them up now and just remove the purchase links.

What started off as 64 blog posts has grown into over 200 at the moment!

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Coney Island Station


 

This is a small (3) chain of restaurants in Wisconsin that ships their dogs. This comes as a kit containing 12 dogs, buns, mustard, onions, and chili sauce. If you happen to live in certain states around Wisconsin the shipping is much cheaper.

Friday, November 21, 2025

Angry Tomato Salsa - Italian Olive

 


I know toppings on hot dogs can be subjective. This is technically a salsa, but I thought it was so good  (and unique (and good on a hot dog)) that it was worth a mention here.

This is one of the best salsas I've ever tried. Tastes really fresh. Great tomato and oregano flavor. Great olive flavor, but not overly olive. Good amount of heat, but not too hot. There's vinegar in here, but it blends in nicely with all the other ingredients.. it's not that mouth puckering vinegar you find in some things with vinegar. I would definitely buy this again.

Ingredients: tomatoes (tomatoes, tomato juice, salt, calcium chloride, citric acid), green chile peppers (green chiles, water, salt, citric acid), jalapeno peppers, onions, green olives (olives, water, sea salt), vinegar, black olives (olives, water, sea salt), cilantro, garlic salt, garlic, basil, oregano.