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Well, after posting how well I am doing "in the zone" of the Watchers of Weight, I checked in Mack's chili thread, and emerged with a hardcore craving for one of these tasty treats.
For anyone who has had one, it is not any chili dog. Nope. It is a Michigan hot. Almost a Manwich kind of consistency, but spicier, and better. A taste you remember from childhood, which is when you may have last had one.
We had a place in the Adirondacks where people would drive for ages just for one of these babies.
So...help!
[ May 04, 2005, 06:20 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
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Weird! I googled, looking for a recipe, and found this article, which claims that Michigans started right where I had them in the first place as a kid! Plattsburgh, NY.
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They also call them red hots. Maybe it is like on Friends, when Ross was going to China, and they said oooh, you get to eat Chinese food! And someone said, "Maybe in China, they just call it food."
So maybe in Michigan, they just call them "hots."
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KQ, Thanks. I found a couple more, too. Surprise! They are all different. There is one story that a guy brought the recipe from Michigan, and another that a man from the South brought it to Coney Island, then it made its way to upstate New York. On one of the recipes, it says this:
"Isn't it interesting that Michigans are not known by that name in Mighican? I believe they are only known as Michigans in northern New York (my hometown). "
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That's the thing. I guess they are really regional to upstate New York. I never really knew that, and always wondered why I could never find them in any other place. Man are they good, though! You'd think they would be like chili dogs, but they are so different.
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