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means beef and pork, with a natural casing. Our vendor is Kent Quality Foods in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the frankfurter is manufactured to be grilled. A couple of years ago we also launched an all-beef hot dog, which is also made for us by Kent Quality Foods.
“ Our generational chili recipe must be kept a secret; it’ s our own family recipe that was refined by our uncle, Gus Lolos, in the late 1930s, and there is no other chili sauce like it in the US. We also make our own-recipe coleslaw on a daily basis, which forms a crucial element of our slaw dog.” Indeed, in 2002, the following statement was printed in the New York Times:‘ Southerners have long understood that coleslaw makes a cooling counterpoint to spicy barbeque, and many of them have applied this same approach to hot dogs. The acknowledged king of this particular hill is Nu-Way Weiners in Macon, Georgia.’
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