White Hot

UPSTATE NEW YORKERS KNOW ABOUT THE WAR OF THE HOTS BETWEEN Rochester and Buffalo: one city takes their hots red, the other white, and there is no compromise between the two. The “white” wieners of the White Hots are made with uncured pork and veal, a derivative of the “white and porkys” enjoyed by the large German community that immigrated to upstate New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Like the original Chicago Dog, these hots came out of Depression-era thrift: butche