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That sounds gnarly. I have been eating vegetarian hot dogs and sausages a lot. A Chicago style hot dog has seven ingredients that I know about on top of a freshly steamed bun. 1) Catsup 2) Mustard 3) celery salt 4) diced onions 5) sliced tomatoes 6) a long dill pickle wedge 7) Vienna sport peppers. Then they put it in a paper lined cardboard trough - for lack of a better word - and fill in all the gaps with squishy french fries. Some people swear there should not be catsup. Some people use something called piccalilly instead of relish. Sometimes Vienna sport peppers are way hotter than usual. If you can find them at all they will either be mild or burn your tonsils off. Then, you eat it and catsup and mustard always get on your shirt and the wind blows your hair in the bun and gnats head straight for it. Know what? On second thought, if you go to Chicago stick with Gino's pizza or Harolds Chicken Shack. If you still want a Chicago hot dog, do NOT eat the fluorescent red meat or the radioactive green relish. Don't say I didn't warn you. 3 words: goats head revenge.