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    • Difficulty

      Easy

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Haute Dogs

By Russell van Kraayenburg

Published 2014

  • About

THE PICKLES, TOMATOES, CELERY SALT, NEON-GREEN RELISH, AND OTHER vegetables common to the modern Chicago Dog were introduced a few decades after the Depression (and the original Depression Dog). So how did this modern vegetable-laden version come to be? Some claim it was the work of Vienna Beef and its marketing department (some Depression Dog purists even go as far as to claim that Vienna Beef added pickles to the Chicago Dog to drive up pickle sales after the company purchased a pi