Hot dog omelet - trailer trash food or great American dish....or both?

[old mark]

I like them.....


mark

[texanwitch]

1. Depends on the hot dog.

A better all beef brand would be Ok.

When I was poor for a few years paying off bills I learned how to cook well on the cheap side.

[Chan790]

2. I was in a Mexican take-out the other day.

One of the meat options on the menu was chopped hot-dog. Hot dog burrito, hot dog taco, hot dog nacho, hot dog enchillada, hot dog tamales. So I inquired in my good Spanish about the hot dogs. Apparently my fellow gringos love them...the Mexicans and Salvadorians that make up most of the clientele wouldn't eat that if they were free. If I weren't a vegetarian, I'd still be with them on that point.

[Jokerman]

3. I thought my mom invented hot dog omelets.

I never liked eggs and she used to try all sorts of ways to get me to eat them. The hot dog omelet was one of her more successful ploys.

Up until I read your post I had never come across anyone outside of my family who had even heard of such a thing.

[old mark]

5. My mom made them - Her mom made them in the depression when

times were tough and it was hard to feed a family of 6 on a railroader's pay...
Good hotdogs and good, fresh eggs make all the difference.


mark

[Dr Morbius]

4. Financial necessity generates creativity in the kitchen.

Never did do the hot dog omelets, but growing up, my family did make penny pancakes.

Huh?

When you slice hot dogs in thin slices and mix them with pancake batter, they look rather like darkly colored pennies after you fry the pancakes. Especially if you use the ten-to-a-pound hot dogs as opposed to the jumbo dogs. It ain't bad.

[IcyPeas]

6. I prefer Dorito omelets.

[hobbit709]

7. A lot of times when I was a kid

My mother fed us fried bologna with scrambled egg on the side. It was what she could afford to buy.

[carlyhippy]

14. my mom used to fry bologna and also sometimes split weenies in half and fried them ha

I always wondered if it was a southern type dish or was it known all over..that was back when bologna, hot dogs and spam were actually the least meats, bologna is expensive now IMHO

[Dr Morbius]

20. Bologna is still one of the cheapest cold cuts.

Bologna of the better brands isn't cheap, but nothing is. There are off-brand bolognas that cost about a buck a pound; they're pretty bad but don't taste bad at all after you fry it.

Fried bologna kicks ass. I buy the thick slices; you get about ten slices to the pound or roughly five good sandwiches. Even working in the cost of sliced cheese, mayonnaise and bread, it's still under $.50 a sandwich.

Medical note: bologna and hot dogs are ridiculously high in nitrates and sodium. Everyone knows it's not healthy food. However, potassium fights high sodium in the body, so here's a thought: for every time one will eat bologna or hot dogs, it's a good idea to include a banana or some orange juice in one's diet, as these items are very high in potassium. And bananas, at least, are pretty cheap. Very good nutritional bang for the buck.

[TZ]

8. Sounds yucky.

We had our share of financial issues growing up..but it was never that bad..This coming from someone who enjoys a good hot dog and always have...This sounds like much too much though...

[TreasonousBastard]

9. A variation on a great German dish-- the Bauernomelette...

which was probably a favorite of the German version of trailer trash.

At any rate, I used to eat in a small restaurant owned by Rommel's personal chef, and one of his signature dishes was the Bauernomelette-- eggs, potatoes, sausages, and other good stuff. Like many Germans his age, Pops never talked about the war, but I got the impression this was one of Rommel's favorites.

One of mine, too.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. Now I'm hungry ...

I used to eat in a little gasthaus owned by an older (compared to 20yo US soldiers) lady who we called "mom". She served that dish, and another like it with noodles instead of potatos, and a third with dumplings instead of potatos, whatever she felt like making that day. All three were great, with a liter (or so) of beer to wash it down.

:hi:

[TreasonousBastard]

25. Dumplings! My God-- How good is that.

[surrealAmerican]

10. This would depend on whether you put ketchup on them.

[old mark]

21. This is America-you can do anything you want! It's the Law! nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. Beanee Wienies?

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Hot dog omelets?
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My folks were literally Depression babies, so we saw a LOT
of pretty tasty cost-cutting dishes.
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Fried balogna as a SIDE dish to scrambled eggs.
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Pancake dinners.
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Western omelets (I HATED Western omelets -- if only they had
put a LITTLE cheese in them, I probably wouldn't have taken
so long to appreciate and experiment with omelet-making).
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Cabbage-based soups (m-m-m-m-m).
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One of MiddleFingerMomDad's culinary talents was throwing
together a BIG DELICIOUS stockpot of soup with whatever
happened to be in the kitchen.
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A Depression baby to the very end -- he died at the age of
80, STILL wrapping his arms protectively around his plate
so "the other kids" wouldn't steal his food.
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And ketchup on a hot dog.
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I just don't understand THAT problem -- prefer them with
mustard in addition... but like them just with ketchup,
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[Lilith Velkor]

19. Beans n' wieners with scrambled eggs on the side sounds good.

If that makes me trailer trash, then I don't want to be Boo Gee.

[Gormy Cuss]

12. If you like it, who gives a hoot?

I've never had hot dogs in a omelet, probably wouldn't like it since I'm not keen on meat with eggs.

[XemaSab]

13. I don't eat hot dogs

but that sounds wierdly good.

And yes, it sounds like poverty food.

When I was little we had eggs, rice, and mushrooms towards the end of the month. For dinner. With toast. :9

[carlyhippy]

15. my husband still does the hot dog omelette aha

but he calls it eggs with weenies....I am not a real fan, i take mine wihtout the weenies

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. Chickenpeckers.

[elana i am]

17. nasty! that's ALL it is!

[Burma Jones]

18. Never thought of that.....my favorite poor house meal was.....

A Can of Tuna with Rice and Whatever vegetables I could find for free. or near free


It was even better when I scorched the rice.......

[WillParkinson]

22. My dad made me one when I was a kid...

My mom was in the hospital and it was all he had in the house to cook up.

[lunatica]

24. Everyone needs a little protein with their hot dogs

[Old Troop]

26. Never had one, but why not? Hot dogs enhance everything.