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 JW> [No] Taco Bell [...] Cal-Mex, Tex-mex [or] real-Mex

 DD> OTOH, you guys get some cuisines that we here in the lower 48 only
 DD> hear about. I could ditch the Cal-Mex for...

 DD> Title: Original Canadian Tourtiere

And some of the regional Newfy dishes, poutine, butter tarts and
Nanaimo bars. Not to mention the soon to be famous Grolar burgers.
[g]

Speaking of regional items...

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     Title: New Jersey Italian Hot Dog
Categories: Sandwiches, Sausage
  Servings: 4

           New Jersey pizza bread
           deep fried natural casing
           all beef hotdogs
           onions
           peppers
           deep fried potatoes (wedges
           or rounds)

One of the most unique hot dogs in the country.

The New Jersey Italian Hot Dog was born in Newark where big loaves
of Pizza Bread, almost like Muffuletta bread but with a hole in the
middle, are made by local Italian bakeries. The bread is cut into
quarters, sliced down the middle, and stuffed with a deep fried hot
dog or two. Then topped with onions and peppers and a giant heap of
deep fried potatoes. 

The soft pizza bread is a perfect vehicle for the ingredients,
holding everything together and soaking up some of the grease. The
sandwich was a lot cleaner than I expected. The dog was gently fried
rather than hammered into oblivion like a "ripper" and the potatoes
were crispy on the outside, soft in the middle, and not greasy at
all. 

Once you've had the real thing, you'll understand what all the fuss
is about. It's really one of the most unique hot dogs in the
country, and has never really gotten popular outside of the small
area of New Jersey where it originated.

The ketchup question is a tough one here. Most hot dog aficionados
are offended by the very idea of ketchup anywhere near a hot dog.
But you see plenty of photos of New Jersey Italian hot dogs
slathered with the red stuff.

They are slightly similar to Chicago's minimalist Depression Dogs
served with hand-cut fries, sort of on the side but also sort of on
the hot dog.

What really makes the New Jersey Italian Hot Dog special are the
unique ingredients, especially the pizza bread. Plenty of pizza
shops sell Italian hot dogs in sub rolls, but really, it's not the
same thing. And the dog absolutely has to be a natural casing local
New Jersey frank: Joe Joe's uses a Best Provisions all-beef dog. The
peppers and onions here were also terrific, thin sliced and soft,
like they had been cooked down slowly for hours (although I think
the standard preparation is a shallow deep-fry). 

The only major variation seems to be in the potato preparation. Some
are cut into wedges resembling Jo Jo Potatoes, while others are
round slices almost as thin as potato chips, with the skin still on.
Joe Joe's were fatter round slices, about half to three-fourths of
an inch thick, perfectly seasoned and something I would be happy to
order on their own. 

The combination of peppers, onions, and potatoes is a fairly common
one in Italian American cooking. Anyone with a Brooklyn-raised
grandmother has probably had it cooked with eggs or as a slight
variation on sausage and peppers. At a backyard barbecue in Jersey
recently I was surprised to see a side dish of slow-cooked peppers
and onions with chunks of potato and cut-up Sabrett hot dogs.

Slightly related are pepper and egg and potato and egg sandwiches
that are common at old-school South Philly luncheonettes,
popularized as a substitute for meat during Lent, although available
with eggs, peppers, onions, potato, and Italian sausage on a hoagie
roll.

The very first New Jersey Italian Hot Dogs are said to have been
served by Jimmy Buff owner James Racioppi's grandmother, who
concocted the sandwiches to serve at her husband's basement card
games. The original Jimmy Buff's restaurant was in Newark, no longer
standing today, but survived by several locations owned by various
family members. There's also Dickie Dees Pizza in Newark, open since
the 1950s, which may be Jersey's oldest standing Italian hot dog
joint.

Posted by Hawk Krall


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