Serious Eats: New York
What's Better Than A New York Hot Dog?
On the New Yorker's Cartoon Lounge, Matthew Diffee first agrees with a friend's assessment of the New York frank—"There's not a lot of things in the world that are better than a New York sidewalk hot dog"—but then goes on to list, oh, around 527 things he actually finds superior.
Okay, we'll concede "literacy," "Western medicine," and "homemade peach cobbler." But "soup in a bread bowl"? "A subscription to Texas Monthly"? A petting zoo? Come on—give the sidewalk dog some respect.