Heidi Knapp Rinella has written a story for the Las Vegas Review-Journal about the regional variations on the hot dog that have taken root in Las Vegas (principally the Chicago dog and New York’s dirty water dogs).  Most interesting to us, however, is the list and descriptions, at the end of the story, of regional favorites around the country.  We tend to think of hot dogs as more of an Eastern thing, but this list has a definite Western-U.S. emphasis.  Is the Pittsburgh Dog for real, or a figment of someone's imagination?  It's described as “a foot-and-a-half-long on a hoagie bun with tomato, coleslaw, lettuce and provolone.”  Sounds great, but we’ve never heard of it (which doesn't mean it doesn't exist, of course).  The Seattle Dog, with cream cheese?  We’ll have more to say about that when we do our Roadfood.com review of Biker Jim’s and his caulking gun in Denver.

That’s a Cincinnati Coney in the buffetbuster picture above, from the Roadfood.com review of Camp Washington Chili Parlor.