This is topic Michigan Hots: a call for a recipe(or, as people in Michigan might call them: "hots" in forum Books, Films, Food and Culture at Hatrack River Forum.
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 ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
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.
It looks to me like the article is saying that the guy brought it back from Michigan.
Two recipes: Slightly different, both atrecipezaar.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
Wait. I've lived in michigan all my life and neverheard of one of these things.
Ni!
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
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."
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Is one of those recipes what you're looking for?
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
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). "
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I've lived in Michigan all my life too, and have never heard of such a thing.
I'll have to ask my mom or grandpa, they've been here way longer.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
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.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Heh. I used to amuse my roommate (by which I mean amuse myself) by sharing little nuggets of linguistic knowledge like:
"Hey Abby.... you know what the French call French onion soup?"
"No. What?"
"Onion soup."
"You know what the French call French bread?"
"Um.... let me guess. Br...."
"Bread!"
"You know what the French call French fries?"
"Fries?"
"Nope. Chips."
"Really?"
"No, not really. They call them fries. You know what the French call French kissing?"
At this point she's exasperated. "No, I don't know. Enlighten me."
"What? You expect me to know? I don't learn my French in Place Pigalle, sicko!"