I’m cooking hotdogs at my house for about five friends. I can’t cook pork. I have vegetarian hotdogs for myself and a couple other people, but even as a vegetarian myself I can’t exactly say they’re delicious. So I was wondering what your all’s opinions are on turkey hotdogs? Have you ever eaten them? Do you like them? What goes good with hotdogs?
Personally I hate stuff made with turkey like turkey hotdogs, turkey bacon, etc. Turkey is best roasted and served in the treaditional manner IMHO.
You don’t have to have pork hotdogs. There are lots of brands of all-beef hotdogs available. Different people have different tastes as to what goes with hotdogs, but offering a selection of common condiments will usually suffice: mustard, ketchup, relish, chopped onions.
I like peanut butter on hotdogs, but that’s a strange fetish that others may not share. 
djm
Oh. That didn’t occur to me. You can tell I don’t buy these things often. Don’t I feel stupid now? 
I went to the grocery store and I passed by all the pinkish hotdogs because they were all pork, at least I thought, and now I realize some of them were probably beef. I’ll go back and look. (I noticed the turkey ones because they’re a different color, sort of tannish.)
Thank you.
Depending on the store you go to there are all-beef hot dogs made of uncured (and therefore less carcinogenic) meat.
Since I don’t eat any of that stuff I eat tofu dogs. I can’t say the taste even approaches a ballpark frank, but if you smother it with enough mustard and relish it’s not bad.
I do too. I don’t really like them at all. I just eat them for reasons I don’t understand.
Are you looking for non-pork alternatives for your guests’ faith reasons? Look in the kosher food section if you want to be sure it passes Jewish and/or Muslim dietary law. Some Muslims don’t consider kosher food to be halal, but i think most would be fine with it. It’s usually more expensive, though, so you might consider if it’s necessary.
EDIT: if there is no kosher food section in your grocery, read the ingredients label on the hot dogs you want to buy if you want to make sure there isn’t any pork in there. I’ve had times when i bought some really expensive gourmet chicken sausages and other poultry products, only to find out that the casing is made of pork entrails.
Well said! That beautifully sums up my attitude toward tube steaks in general. 
Disgusting, vile concoctions…but I still need one once in a while.
Beef, pork, turkey, chicken, whatever – they are all made from the parts that, if they had not been ground beyond recognition, you would not put in your mouth: cow lips, pig anuses, turket testicles, chicken scotums, and all that leftover crap that gets swept up off the floor. If this bothers you, try Hebrew National hot dogs. These hot dogs are at least limited to the nasty bits from the front end of a cow. (Warning: The fat free ones suck.)
For an extra tasty dog, try Nathan’s Famous hot dogs. Just don’t think about what’s in them.
Another addition to the condoments - my husband likes to put a mixture of ketchup and mayonaise on his.
We usually open a can of pork and beans and heat the hot dogs up in that - but it does have a little pork in that so you probably just want to cook the hot dogs separately.
if you are looking for kosher - and can’t figure out and are reading the ingredient label, you ALSO need to check for “milk, whey, sodium caseinate, casein”. To be truly kosher, you can’t have milk and meat together.
That’s how I would check deli products for Nate, instead of reading the ingredient label, I’d just make sure they were kosher. No milk.
(Kahn’s makes a very good all beef hot dog, but I don’t know if they are kosher).
Don’t think so much about them. Just gobble 'em down.
Sandy
Don’t think so much about them. Just gobble 'em down.
Sandy
As a child I always rather liked turkey frankfurters. They are made in the same manner as surimi.
Gonzo’s right . . . go with the Hebrew National. They answer to a higher authority. The beef is, at least, humanely killed. Which I gather should be important to you.
He’s right about Nathan’s being tasty, too. 
If you do those Hebrew Nationals on a barbeque, you’ve got a little bit of heaven 
on a bun
Skip the dogs and go right to beef brats boiled in beer and grilled.
Lots of mustard and kraut.
YUUUUUUM-ME!
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I actually like Louis Rich turkey franks. If I had my druthers, I’d do a good half-smoke, but I live with a wife and daughter, and the Louis Rich aren’t bad.
With them, I almost always serve baked beans, often some sort of potatoes. Veggie baked beans aren’t half bad. My wife likes Heinz. I like to make them myself, although that takes a lot of time to do well. For potatoes, either bought French fries or preferably homemade potato salad. Don’t listen to those people who advocate all sorts of veggies in potato salad – potatoes, mayonnaise, which has to be really good, parsley, and maybe some celery or celery seed, hard-boiled egg, cayenne, and paprika.
Today was grilling day for us – hamburgers and latkes (not done on the grill, but on the griddle). Only because I didn’t know we didn’t have any shrimp – I had planned on shrimp and sausage jambalaya. So, something to look forward to tomorrow.
That’s NOT potato salad!
We eat “German” potato salad. It’s hot (not cold) and has bacon in it, and the “dressing” is a bacon drippings, vinegarette type of thing.
It wasn’t until I was in high school that I realized there WAS such a thing as cold potato salad with mayo in it.
I remember the first time I ran across the word “brat” used in this way on C&F. I was very taken aback.