In Praise of the All-American Mexican Hot Dog

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"The best hot dogs come from Sonora,” the Mexican state immediately to the south. “Everybody knows that.” In Tucson more than 100 vendors, known as hotdogueros, peddle Sonoran-style hot dogs — candy cane-wrapped in bacon, griddled until dog and bacon fuse, garnished with a kitchen sink of taco truck condiments and stuffed into split-top rolls that owe a debt to both Mexican bolillo loaves and grocery store hot dog buns. read more