Coney Island Comes to MY House!
I was talking on a message board today about how I'd like to go into the restaurant business, and if I did, I'd open a real Detroit style Coney Island, preferably one just like Uptown Coney Island on Jackson Road in Ann Arbor. Good cheap food, and the best hot dogs ever. Coney dogs, to be specific.
Michigan's most popular hot dog restaurants all contain the words "Coney Island" in the name. The hot dogs are always natural casing beef hot dogs, with a certain kind of chili sauce. Nobody owns the "rights" to Coney Island restaurants. Most of them are individually owned, though I did find one company that franchises. Ann Arbor has 7 or 8 Coney Island restaurants, and they all have different names.
Anyway, the best coney dogs are made with Koegel brand hot dogs from the Koegel Meat Company in Flint, Michigan. A few years back I tried to find a place where I could buy them online but was unable to find anyplace.
But NO MORE! A place called Bud's Mail Shop sells them in partnership with the Koegel Meat Company. Just head over to www.koegelmeats.com and order. It's not inexpensive though. I ordered 3 3 pound packages (24 dogs each, 72 total) and a 4 pound package of classic Flint coney sauce, and the total cost was $89.99 - which included shipping.
But I'm ready to have a serious cookout!
You want mustard and onions on that, don't you? You know you do.
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