Wiener Wednesday: 207. Deviled Hot Dogs

It’s another Wiener Wednesday and another Dinner is Served 1972 card!!!

I apologize that this dish looks super-similar to Pine Valley Red Hots from seven weeks ago (OMG I cannot believe that I have been doing these for nearly 2 months).

Compare the Deviled Hot Dogs above to the Pine Valley Red Hots:

Strikingly similar.

But I had already committed to the card and had all of the necessary ingredients before I made the connection.

As I tried to convince myself that the the two are totally different from each other because one is red hot and one is deviled, I couldn’t help but wonder…

What the hell makes something deviled?

I mean, there’s deviled eggs, deviled crab, and now deviled hot dogs? Where is it that these disparate foods intersect?

According to Food & Wine:

To “devil” food means to season it aggressively, perhaps with a bit of chile or black pepper heat. It can also imply that the food is tinged with red (think of that paprika sprinkled on top of deviled eggs).

Um…okay.

With that in mind, unless DiS1972 wants me to think that a green pepper counts as a chile (there isn’t even black pepper in the dish!), I’m gonna go with DEVILED = RED!

I took some notes on this one:

4:49 Shit. I bought lemon pudding instead of vanilla. Should still be good, right?

5:04 decide to make a salad

5:20 salad in fridge

5:25 I’m gonna sit down for a bit. Maybe disco nap

6:00 beginning in earnest

6:20 hot dogs and sauce in. Going to cook longer than 8-10 min b/c hot dogs were still frosty

6:37 photos done. DiS!

Wow. Scintillating. Why did I even bother taking notes?

ANYHOO! Were the resulting hot dogs a devilish shade of red?

Nope!

I’d say that’s a Burnt Sienna.

(They had a much more devilish hue when I made these hot dogs AGAIN in 2023).

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8 thoughts on “Wiener Wednesday: 207. Deviled Hot Dogs

  1. I am a bit confused about this DiS recipe card set, Yinz. Exactly how many recipe cards – in total- are there in this set? Do they all fit in that little box? Were they available for 2 whole years?? ’72 and ’73? I am certainly intrigued!

    1. There are 202 cards total. Yes, both the 1972 and 1973 sets fit in one box! I differentiate the two by the copyright on the cards, but they have have been available for more than just those 2 years.

  2. The “red hots” name didn’t originally have anything to do with spiciness. It was just a regional term for hot dogs, particularly those where the casing was notably red—due to natural processes (or later food coloring and/or nitrites).

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