The Coney Dog was to get a nod this weekend at the inaugural Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance conference in Chicago. The topic was "Stuffed: A Journey of Midwest Sausage Traditions."
The Chicago Sun-Times reports led its advance coverage with the "mother-in-law," a south-side-of-Chicago mashup of a corn roll tamale in a hot dog bun, sometimes topped with chili or other condiments. It gives the Chicago dog a run for its money.
We take one issue with the article, and that's where it refers to, "the Coney Dog, a Flint, Mich., creation with roots in the Macedonian community there. Elsewhere, it would be called a chili dog."
We would not source the Coney to Flint, or even Michigan, though Michigan does more with Coneys than anyone else.
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