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King of the Dogs, the Traditional Danish Hot Dog

It'southward all nigh indicate of reference, and mine is a New York City hot dog. My childhood memories are filled with afternoons in the Museum of Natural History, double headers at Shea and strolls through the park with a pretzel and a hot domestic dog. Today, with gourmet food trucks touting niche bites, most New Yorkers wouldn't think twice near spending their midday meal on the once ubiquitous street 'dog. So, when presented with the opportunity to grab lunch at a pølsevogn (sausage cart) during my first trip to Copenhagen, without hesitation I quickly declined. My partner, taken aback past the swift rejection of his childhood favorite, paused. "You oasis't eaten a hot canis familiaris until yous tried i in Denmark," he quipped. Point of reference challenged.

What starts out equally a traditional 'dog quickly takes a turn.

"What'southward that?" Remoulade.

"And that?" Roasted onions.

"Are those more onions?" Yeah.

"Cucumber!"

His response is firm. "Just try it."

To my surprise, the first bite is an explosion of contradiction – sweet and savory, crunchy and soft, warm and cold, roasted and raw. My counter argument, formulated long before I've taken the food in hand, has no leg to stand on. The hot dog is incredible.

The streetside sausage cart

The idea to introduce streetside sausage carts in Kingdom of denmark came about in the early 1900s. After seeing its success in other Scandinavian countries, a Danish kapelmester past the name of Charles Svendsen Stevns sought permission to sell sausages in Copenhagen. The proposal was met with immediate resistance. After multiple rejections, Stevns tried to innovate the breezy dining pick in Denmark's 2nd largest city, Aarhus. Information technology was also declined. In fact, the thought of sausage carts was so disliked that in 1917 a municipal authority in Aarhus wrote, "[it] would exist a sad sight to see people standing on the streets eating sausages." It wasn't until 1921, virtually a decade after Stevns filed his initial petition, that the first white and cherry sausage carts were seen on the streets of Copenhagen. The sausages, costing around 25 Danish øre (cents) was at the time, a luxury meal.

A sausage cart in Frederiksberg.

Although hot dogs are eaten less and less frequently, a local pølsevogn nevertheless holds a identify of amore for most Danes. Be you vegetarian or carnivore, it would be shame to pass through Copenhagen without trying a traditional Danish hot canis familiaris. Here's some help with what to society and how to enjoy.

Types of Danish hot dogs

The classic

Run into no divergence between the "hotdog" and "ristet hotdog?" Await a flake closer. A "hotdog" uses a boiled red sausage (rød wienerpølse). Traditionally vendors painted the sausages blood-red to indicate that the meat was a day old. But the dyed sausages became popular. At 1 point, all hot dog sausages in Denmark were ruby-red regardless of meat quality.

Preparing a ristet hotdog med det hele (a roasted hot canis familiaris with everything).

Today, the choice betwixt the 2 is entirely based on preference. Both are prepared with pork sausages in a warmed bun, lined with sennap (mustard) and ketchup, and topped with remoulade (a mayonnaise-based sauce of French origin), fried and raw onions and tangy agurker (cucumber). For those looking for the full Danish experience, club your hot dog with a Cocio (a Danish chocolate milk drink). Or double downward on the meat with a bacon-wrapped sausage (ristet hotdog i svøb).

Order a Cocio with a classic Danish hot dog. The favorite accompaniment is available cold or hot.

The deconstructed 'canis familiaris

Tired of fried onions tumbling downward your shirt? Then the deconstructed 'dog is definitely for you. Choose the type of sausage and the residuum – i.due east., bread, mustard, ketchup and fried onions, is served separately. The standard sausage options are rød or ristet wienerpølser (the hot dog sausages), rød knækpølse, frankfurter, medister and pølse i svøb (a ristet wienerpølse wrapped in bacon).

Roasted pølser (sausages) at a sausage cart in Frederiksberg.

A rød knækpølse is a thick Bavarian pork sausage, like to a German language knackwurst, dyed red and boiled. A frankfurter is slightly unlike. Compared to its North American cousin, a frankfurter in Kingdom of denmark is slightly thicker and not used in hot dogs. Lastly, a medisterpølse is a type of Scandinavian sausage of minced pork, lard and spices.

There'south no standard manner to eat a deconstructed hot canis familiaris, per se, just the typical approach is to dip the sausage in the condiments, have a bite, practice the same with the breadstuff, and echo.

The meatless option

You lot won't notice this on many pølsevogne boards. A kradser (pronounced "kras-suh") is a traditional Danish hotdog with all the toppings and no sausage. The sausage cart classic will put yous back only a few kroners and is available from any pølsevogn upon request. Munchies has more on a nostalgia journey eating kradser in Copenhagen (in Danish).

The French surprise

Introduced in Denmark in the 1970s, a fransk hot dog is a hollowed baguette, filled with a mayo-based French dressing and stuffed with a ristet wienerpølse. Lining the baguette evenly with sauce is the secret to making the perfect fransk hot dog. In fact, seasoned eaters know a pull a fast one on or ii to forestall the sauce from pooling at the bottom.

A fransk hot dog.

Locating a pølsevogn in Copenhagen

Sausage carts are strategically located around Copenhagen'southward with locations at Rådhuspladsen (Urban center Hall), Nørrebro Runddel, København H (Key Station), Tivoli, Vesterport and Nørreport stations, Kongens Nytorv, Nyhavn and Strøget. Hanegal'due south pølsevogn on Strøget (in front Helligaands Kirke)has not-pork and vegan hot domestic dog options, while John'southward Hotdog Deli in Kødbyen has gourmet and build your own 'dogs.

Surprisingly, an exhaustive map or pølsevogn app has yet to exist created. However, a quick search for "pølsevogn" in any online map volition provide some locations. The Danish food and news site Munchie's also has a photographic list of popular pølsevogne around Copenhagen (with text in Danish), while Visit Copenhagen has a few suggestions in their hot canis familiaris guide. Should you find yourself about to depart with a chip of hot domestic dog remorse, there are a number of Steff'due south Place hot dog kiosks throughout the Copenhagen airport.

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Source: https://www.towhatplace.com/features/traditional-danish-hot-dog/

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