The Danish Hot Dog

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    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Haute Dogs

By Russell van Kraayenburg

Published 2014

  • About

DENMARK SURE DOES LOVE HOT DOGS AND HAS FOR A LONG TIME. IN FACT, pølsevogns (translates as “hot dog carts”) have been making the rounds since the early 20th century. Although Danes may be more obsessed with hot dogs than Americans are, their dogs are a little different from ours. The sausage, or rød pølse (Danish for “red sausage”), is much longer and redder (thanks to the addition of carmine, a food coloring) than a typical frankfurter, and the meat of the matter is f