Can it still be called "Hot Dog"

I saw this in an english language Japanese newspaper.

Joining Japan's long list of dubious taste bud ticklers such as raw horseflesh ice cream, mayonnaise pizza toppings and fecund beans are ice-cream hot dogs, the hottest and coolest culinary delight from Osaka that's now melting in mouths from people all over the country, according to Shukan Taishu (12/27).

Ice dogs -- a chunk of vanilla ice cream slapped into a sizzling hot dog roll -- are the brainchild of Rokko Bokujo Arai, a small store located in the Amerika-mura section of Osaka's Minami entertainment district.

Since the store opened in September last year, growing numbers of particularly young gourmands of grossness seem keen on giving their eye teeth for ice dogs.

"We used to be a barbershop," ice dog originator Eiko Arai tells Shukan Taishu. "We've been in business in the same place the whole time since 1968. About 20 years ago, though (Minami) became a young people's place and our barbershop became something of a fish out of water."

Acting on a realization that there was a need to change would eventually give birth to the ice dog.

"We knew we needed to come up with a different line of business," Arai says. "We ran a normal hot dog joint for about a year, before deciding to start using ice cream instead of franks and the ice dog idea was born."

Arai's steaming fried rolls packed with chilled ice cream lightly fried so it develops a skin is still a hot choice even during Osaka's icy winters.

"They're 300 yen each. We sell over 100 ice dogs a day. We fry the surface, so they don't melt too easily," Arai says. "But there are lots of young buyers, so you get couples asking us to split an ice dog between them, or even some who ask that they be cut into threes."

Sisters Yori and Yoshie Harada barked with delight at tucking into their ice dogs.

"Both the outside and the inside have their own sublime tastes," the Yoshie tells Shukan Taishu. "My sister came all the way from Aichi Prefecture just to eat this."

Whatever. I'd rather eat a stick of butter than some of this mess...

"such as raw horseflesh ice cream, mayonnaise pizza toppings and fecund beans and ice-cream hot dogs..."

What you need to do is put the raw horseflesh ice cream and and fecund beans on the pizza and then slather it with mayonnaise... :^)

Well, knowing that Asian breads tend to be on the sweet side, and fried Ice Cream is nothing new - I think this sounds pretty cool (no pun intended)

Doing obscure things to food is the way we get sensational new inventions and different tastes through synergy. I created a Buffalo Dog once that was unreal, it was so good!

I took a Hummel's red hot and dipped it in tempura batter and deep fried it. Then I rolled it in Buffalo sauce and served it on a Sub roll with blue cheese and shaved celery. YUM!!

Hey!! Play with your food!!!!!!!!!!!

ice cream and a hotdog... at the same time??? YUCK! but i guess they have there ways, and we have ours...

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Originally posted by Snowy

ice cream and a hotdog... at the same time??? YUCK! but i guess they have there ways, and we have ours...

Read the description again. It is not ice cream on a hot dog, it is ice cream formed in the shape of a hot dog and deep fried and served on a hot dog bun. Still strange but not as gross as it being a topping.

Well these may not be deep fried but check 'em out any how.
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Seems like the good ol' USA can be counted on for some original ideas, too.