Mexicans

Around here a chili dog is known as a Mexican. Anywhere else?
 
Now this "chili" is ground meat that is flavored and has very little sauce. It isn't spicy, at least not by my standards. I always add a a few shakes of Tabasco or some such.
 
You can get these as a Mexican plain or with a hot dog. Always served on a hot dog bun.
 
My 1st experience with this was many years ago late night after having a bit of liquid refreshment. :)

Weird cause the kind of chili that's on a Chili Dog is not something you would find much in Mexico.

Mike, try spicing up a Chili Dog w/ a few nacho sliced pickled jalapenos and some of their juice.

Hmm, Nachos were invented in Mexico. But... just barley.
Joe

Mike
If you got one without the Hot Dog would it be more like a stretched out Sloppy Joe or Loose-Meat-in-Sauce Burger??

Skyline Chili has coneys without the hot dog, just the sauce.

I wonder if the Mayor isn't thinking back to the 40's or 50's,  maybe even 30's, where much of American society was more cloistered and much food was more "white bread" than today.

Back then the midwestern sandwich known as a sloppy joe was sometimes called a "spanish" burger, and the name came, I think, from its relative 'exoticness' factor back in those simpler days.

I didn't realize this until attending a local festival in a very small Wisconsin town, and seeing an obviously old, very used and faded, signboard for a local civic group offering them.  I had to order one, turns out it was just a regular old sloppy joe.

There was a spanish omelet, too, I think,  and maybe some other items that used some types of spicy or spicier ingredients than were common to midwest palates.  Always had tomato.

And we can still find menus today that call a hamburger with lettuce and tomato a "California" burger.  That's from about 1960, but it's still hanging on.

I think of that because of the old Happy Days episodes, where the kids (supposedly in 1960) came back from California and told Al the restaurant owner about them.  Al sighed and shook his head and said, "Lettuce and tomato on a hamburger.  Who would have ever thought."

Michael Hoffman


Skyline Chili has coneys without the hot dog, just the sauce.

yep....generally referred to here in Cincinnati as either a 'chili sandwich' or a 'phoney coney'

A true Mexican Dog is a Sonoran Hot Dog. The Sonoran hot dog may take the phrase "with everything" to new heights. It starts with a hot dog wrapped in bacon. Then you begin piling on the beans, grilled onions, fresh onions, tomatoes, mayonnaise, cream sauce, mustard and jalapeno salsa. Add radishes, cucumbers, whole chilies and even mushrooms, if you want. Source-
NPR Radio show on Mex- American Foods

mayor al


Mike
If you got one without the Hot Dog would it be more like a stretched out Sloppy Joe or Loose-Meat-in-Sauce Burger??

Yes, exactly like that.

One batch of chili I didn't like much was treated to a can of sloppy joe mix. Ended up good I thought. Wasn't chili and wasn't sloppy joe though. Maybe it was sloppy chili??? For sure it wasn't Mexican.
Joe

PapaJoe8


One batch of chili I didn't like much was treated to a can of sloppy joe mix. Ended up good I thought. Wasn't chili and wasn't sloppy joe though. Maybe it was sloppy chili??? For sure it wasn't Mexican.
Joe

You could be arrested by the Chili Police for doing that!

Lol FoodB... the Chili Police banished me years ago.

I think there is a need for an "Outlaw" chili club. The only rule is that there are NO rules. You could still have different categories though.

Here is another one... Breakfast Chili using sausage and bacon. I have made that many times using Jimmy Dean Hot breakfast sausage. I sometimes put a fried egg on top of the bowls of Breakfast Chili. You could also use Chorizo in the chili, put it on a bun w/ a hot dog, and call it ??? Hmm, maybe it needs a fried egg on top?  You could call it a Mexican something maybe? Ahh, A Mexican  Breakfast Chili Dog! But maybe it doesn't need the dog since it has Chorizo?
Joe

PapaJoe8


Lol FoodB... the Chili Police banished me years ago.

I think there is a need for an "Outlaw" chili club. The only rule is that there are NO rules. You could still have different categories though.

Here is another one... Breakfast Chili using sausage and bacon. I have made that many times using Jimmy Dean Hot breakfast sausage. I sometimes put a fried egg on top of the bowls of Breakfast Chili. You could also use Chorizo in the chili, put it on a bun w/ a hot dog, and call it ??? Hmm, maybe it needs a fried egg on top?  You could call it a Mexican something maybe? Ahh, A Mexican  Breakfast Chili Dog! But maybe it doesn't need the dog since it has Chorizo?
Joe

For the Mexican  Breakfast Chili Dog use a Hot Dog, Chorizo Chili Sauce, Hatch Chiles, Refried Beans & Queso Oaxaca! Make it Burrito Style by wrapping it in a Flour Tortilla.

Sounds great to me FoodB!
Joe