:Coney Island hot dog

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| name = Coney dog

| image = Detroit_Coney.jpg

| caption = A Coney dog

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| country = United States

| region = Midwestern United States

| course = Main course

| served = Hot

| main_ingredient = Wiener, or a beef or beef and pork European-style Vienna sausage with lamb or sheep casing, topped with a meat sauce made of seasoned ground beef or beef heart, topped with yellow mustard, white onion and sometimes cheese.

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A Coney Island hot dog, Coney dog, or Coney is a wiener in a bun topped with a savory meat sauce and sometimes other toppings. It is similar to a chili dog and is often offered as part of a menu of classic American diner dishes and at Coney Island restaurants. It was invented by immigrants from Greece and the region of Macedonia to the United States in the early 20th century.

Origin

"Virtually all"{{rp|233}} Coney Island variations were developed, apparently independently, by immigrants in the early 1900s, many fleeing the Balkan Wars, who entered the US through Ellis Island in New York City. Family stories of the development of the dishes often included anecdotes about visits to Coney Island.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.redhotsconeyisland.com/history.html|website=Red Hots Coney Island|access-date=4 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921014518/http://www.redhotsconeyisland.com/history.html|archive-date=21 September 2016|url-status=live}} The origin of the style is somewhat murky: there were parallel developments in New York, Michigan, Ohio, and elsewhere around the United States.

The first documented European name for the island is the Dutch name Conyne Eylandt{{cite book|last1=Hunter|first1=Douglas|date=2009|title=Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kMykb1AbSHsC&pg=PA165|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA|page=278|isbn=978-1608190980}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/899883781 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/899718028 cite #12 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}} or Conynge Eylandt. This would roughly be equivalent to Konijn Eiland using modern Dutch spelling, meaning Rabbit Island.{{cite book|last=Sijs van der|first=Nicoline|author-link=Nicoline van der Sijs|date=2009|title=Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages|page=51|publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-9089641243}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/899883781 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/899718028 cite #18 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}}{{cite web|url=http://international.loc.gov/intldl/awkbhtml/kb-1/kb-1-2-5.html|title=The Atlantic World: Dutch Place Names|website=The Dutch in America, 1609-1664|publisher=The Library of Congress|access-date=May 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511045449/http://international.loc.gov/intldl/awkbhtml/kb-1/kb-1-2-5.html|archive-date=May 11, 2016|url-status=live}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/899883781 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/899718028 cite #19 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}} The name was anglicized to Coney Island after the English took over the colony in 1664,Robert Morden, "A Map of ye English Empire in the Continent of America", 1690. Coney Island is labelled "Conney Isle". [http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/ch1.htm Image of Morden map at SUNY Stony Brook.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060420012731/http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/ch1.htm |date=April 20, 2006 }} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/899883781 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/899718028 cite #20 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}} coney being the corresponding English word. The hot dog's fame later spread from this part of Brooklyn, New York, where Nathan Handwerker, a Polish Jewish immigrant was an early entrepreneur who sold them at his stand in Coney Island. His business was later named "Nathan's," an iconic brand that remains popular as both a fast-food chain and as a grocery product. The alternate name for a hot dog—a "Coney," most likely derived from the positive regional and national publicity Nathan's began to generate.

Regional and local varieties

=Indiana=

File:Ft. Wayne Famous Coney Islands.jpg

Ft. Wayne's Famous Coney Island Wiener Stand was opened in 1914{{Rp|page=234}} by Harry Dorikis, James Samaras and Stilos Papas who were three immigrants from Greece.{{Cite book |last=Duffy |first=Reid |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ufLPEMdaHogC&dq=%22Vasil+Eshcoff%22&pg=PA129 |title=Reid Duffy's Guide to Indiana's Favorite Restaurants, Updated Edition, With a Recipe Sampler |year=2006 |isbn=025300053X |pages=129|publisher=Indiana University Press }} Vasil Eshcoff, another immigrant, purchased an interest from one of the original owners in 1916. Eschoff's descendants have operated the restaurant until 2014, when the now-owner, James "Jimmy" Todoran II bought 50% of the business.{{cite web|title=History page|url=http://www.fortwaynesfamousconeyisland.com/history/|website=Ft. Wayne's Famous Coney Island|access-date=26 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711104105/http://www.fortwaynesfamousconeyisland.com/history/|archive-date=11 July 2015|url-status=dead}} The Coney Island in Fort Wayne is described as a small, fatty pink hot dog with a "peppery sweet" coney sauce on a soft bun.{{rp|234–235}} However, the ground beef-based coney sauce at Ft. Wayne's Famous Coney Island Wiener Stand has the flavor and consistency of a mild peppered savory pork sausage. The small hot dog is grilled on a flattop,{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} placed in a steamed bun, yellow mustard applied, then a few teaspoonfuls of the savory chili sauce are added which is then topped with chopped white onion.{{Rp|pages=235}}

=Michigan=

Jane and Michael Stern, writing in 500 Things to Eat Before it's Too Late, note that "there's only one place to start [to pinpoint the top Coney Islands], and that is Detroit. Nowhere is the passion for them more intense."{{cite book | last1=Stern |first1=Michael| last2=Stern |first2=Jane | title=500 Things to Eat Before it's Too Late:and the Very Best Places to Eat Them | publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | date=2009 | isbn=978-0-547-05907-5}}{{rp|233}} James Schmidt, in a debate at the 2018 National Fair Food Summit, noted that "Detroit is synonymous with the Coney Dog: you simply cannot have one without the other."{{cite book | last1=Schmidt |first1=James| title= 2018 National Fair Food Summit | location=Grand Rapids, Michigan | date=2018 }}{{rp|233}}

The most influential chili dog stands in Michigan are the American Coney Island and Lafayette Coney Island restaurants located next door to each other in downtown Detroit.{{Cite book |last=Walsh |first=Robb |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-UMBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT274 |title=The Chili Cookbook: A History of the One-Pot Classic, with Cook-off Worthy Recipes from Three-Bean to Four-Alarm and Con Carne to Vegetarian |date=2015-09-29 |publisher=Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed |isbn=978-1-60774-796-3 |pages=274 |language=en}} The American Coney Island restaurant was founded in 1914 or 1917 by Greek immigrant Constantine "Gust" Keros.{{Cite book |last1=Kraig |first1=Bruce |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K83ai6cWO9IC&pg=PA73 |title=Man Bites Dog: Hot Dog Culture in America |last2=Carroll |first2=Patty |date=2012-11-20 |publisher=AltaMira Press |isbn=978-0-7591-2074-7 |pages=73 |language=en}} Gust brought his brother over from Greece and helped him open the Lafayette Coney Island restaurant next door. There is a fierce rivalry between the two restaurants.

The Coney Island developed in Michigan is a natural-casing beef or beef and pork European-style Wiener Würstchen (Vienna sausage) of German origin, topped with a beef heart-based sauce, one or two stripes of yellow mustard and diced or chopped onions. The variety is a fixture in Flint, Detroit, Jackson, Kalamazoo, and southeastern Michigan.{{cite news | url=http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20100213/METRO/2130302/Chicago-s-new-import--Coney-islands | title=Chicago's new import: Coney islands | work=Detroit News | date=February 13, 2010 | access-date=23 April 2012 | last=Trop | first=Jaclyn | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905150841/http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20100213/METRO/2130302/Chicago-s-new-import--Coney-islands | archive-date=5 September 2012 }} The style originated in the early 20th century, with competing claims from American and Lafayette Coney Islands (1917){{cite web|url=http://www.americanconeyisland.com|website=American Coney Island|access-date=14 May 2016|title=American Coney Island|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417141744/http://www.americanconeyisland.com/|archive-date=17 April 2016|url-status=live}} in Detroit, and Todoroff's Original Coney Island (1914) in Jackson. The longest continuously operated Coney Island (in the same location) is in Kalamazoo (1915).{{cite web|last1=Liberty|first1=John|title=Kalamazoo's Coney Island Hot Dog puts historic recipe in mix for Michigan's best coney|url=http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2012/04/kalamazoo_fixture_coney_island.html|website=mlive.com|date=20 April 2012 |publisher=Kalamazoo Gazette|access-date=21 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627110652/http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2012/04/kalamazoo_fixture_coney_island.html|archive-date=27 June 2015|url-status=live}}

==Detroit style==

File:Lafayette And American Coney Islands.JPG

In Detroit, historically many Greek and Macedonian immigrants operated Coney islands, or restaurants serving Detroit Coney dogs. By 1975 many Albanians began operating them as well.Yung and Grimm p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xCZiDnjmbHQC&pg=PA2 2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709033034/http://books.google.com/books?id=xCZiDnjmbHQC&pg=PA2 |date=2014-07-09 }}. The Greeks established Onassis Coney Island, which has closed. Greek immigrants established the Coney chains Kerby's Koney Island, Leo's Coney Island, and National Coney Island during the 1960s and early 1970s. All three chains sell some Greek food items with Coney dogs. Detroit style sauce is a bean-less chili sauce, differing from the chili dogs they offer only in the lack of beans. National has most of its restaurants on the east side of the city, and Kerby's and Leo's have the bulk of their restaurants on the west side of the Detroit area.Yung, and Grimm p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xCZiDnjmbHQC&pg=PA21 21] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709033135/http://books.google.com/books?id=xCZiDnjmbHQC&pg=PA21 |date=2014-07-09 }}. On the outskirts of Detroit, in Shelby Township, resides Scott McNamara. Scott is known to the locals as "Scottdog" because of his invention of the Scottdog Coney. A simple hot dog with home-made chili on it.

==Flint style==

File:Flint coney island.jpg

Flint style is characterized by a dry hot dog topping made with a base of ground beef heart, which is ground to a consistency of fine-ground beef.Florine, Bob; Davison, Matt; Jaeger, Sally, Two To Go: A Short History of Flint's Coney Island Restaurants, 2007, Genesee County Historical Society Some assert that in order to be an "authentic" Flint coney, the hot dog must be a Koegel coney and the sauce by Angelo's, which opened in 1949.{{cite news | url=http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/index.ssf/2012/03/michigan_coney_dog_project_fli.html | title=Michigan Coney Dog Project: Koegel's and sauce key to a Flint coney | work=Flint Journal | date=March 27, 2012 | access-date=19 April 2012 | last=Atkinson | first=Scott | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403103045/http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/index.ssf/2012/03/michigan_coney_dog_project_fli.html | archive-date=3 April 2012 | url-status=live }}{{cite news | url=http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/index.ssf/2012/03/flint-style_coneys_researched.html | title=Flint-style coneys researched and defined in new book, "Coney Detroit" | work=MLive.com | date=March 22, 2012 | access-date=19 April 2012 | last=Atkinson | first=Scott | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407073815/http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/index.ssf/2012/03/flint-style_coneys_researched.html | archive-date=7 April 2014 | url-status=live }} However, the sauce was originally developed by a Macedonian in 1924, Simion P. (Sam) Brayan, for his Flint's Original Coney Island restaurant.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} Brayan was the one who contracted with Koegel Meat Company to make the coney they still make today, also contracting with Abbott's Meat to provide the fine-grind beef heart sauce base. Abbott's still makes Brayan's 1924 sauce base available to restaurants and the public through the Koegel Meat Company and Abbott's Meats. Restaurants then add chopped onions sautéed in beef tallow, along with their own spice mix and other ingredients, to Abbott's sauce base to make their sauce.

Popular folklore perpetuates a legend that a Flint coney sauce recipe containing ground beef and ground hot dogs is the "original" Flint Coney sauce recipe. Variations on this story include either that a relative of the storyteller knew or worked with the former owner of Flint's Original and received the recipe from them,{{cite web|title=Gram's Flint Coney Island Sauce|url=http://www.food.com/recipe/grams-flint-coney-island-sauce-182635|website=Food.com|access-date=25 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218130625/http://www.food.com/recipe/grams-flint-coney-island-sauce-182635|archive-date=18 February 2015|url-status=live}} or that the wife of the owner of Flint's Original allowed the publication of the recipe in the Flint Journal after his death.{{cite web|title=Flint Coney Island Hot Dog Sauce|url=http://www.food.com/recipe/flint-coney-island-hot-dog-sauce-391701|website=Food.com|access-date=25 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101191956/http://www.food.com/recipe/flint-coney-island-hot-dog-sauce-391701|archive-date=1 January 2015|url-status=live}} Ron Krueger, longtime food writer of the Flint Journal, included it in a collection of recipes from the newspaper but without a cited source, unlike the rest of the recipes in the collection.{{cite book|last1=Kreuger|first1=Ron|title=Scoops|date=2000|publisher=The Flint Journal|isbn=0-9649832-4-9|page=21}} When asked about this Mr. Krueger replied, "That recipe appeared in The Journal several times over the years. [I don't] think I ever saw it in the context of a story or ever saw any attribution. It always included the word 'original' in the title, but anybody who knows anything knows otherwise."{{cite web|title=FAQ|url=http://micuisine.com/flintconeys/?page_id=726#04|website=Flint Coney Resource Site|access-date=25 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218130534/http://micuisine.com/flintconeys/?page_id=726#04|archive-date=18 February 2015|url-status=dead}} As to the second story, of Brayan's wife later allowing the publication of the recipe, Velicia Brayan died in 1976, while Simion Brayan lived until the age of 100 and died in 1990. The actual source of this recipe appears to be an earlier Flint Journal Food Editor, Joy Gallagher, who included the recipe in her column of May 23, 1978. In that column she stated she had included the recipe in an even earlier column. Her apparent source was "a woman who said she was the wife of a chef at the original Coney Island, and that she copied the recipe from his personal recipe book." Gallagher stated "I believe her". However, Gallagher also wrote, "I'm not making any claims". In the same column she also included a second recipe that used beef heart, which she wrote "came to me recently from a reader who swears it is the sauce served at Angelo's." The folklore has mixed the supposed sources of the two recipes in this column from Gallagher, with people claiming the ground hot dog recipe is reportedly from Angelo's.{{cite web|title=Angelo's Coney Island Sauce|url=http://www.bigoven.com/recipe/angelos-coney-island-sauce/167369|website=BigOven.com|access-date=2 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218130824/http://www.bigoven.com/recipe/angelos-coney-island-sauce/167369|archive-date=18 February 2015|url-status=live}} In his column published in the Flint Journal on April 18, 1995, Food Editor Ron Krueger reported taking Gallagher's ground hot dog recipe directly to Angelo's co-owner Tom V. Branoff, who refuted the recipe line-by-line. Gallagher's pre-1978 column is still being researched.{{cite web|title=Q: Where did the Flint Coney sauce recipe that includes ground hot dogs originate?|url=http://micuisine.com/flintconeys/?page_id=935|website=Flint Coney Resource Site|access-date=18 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316204422/http://micuisine.com/flintconeys/?page_id=935|archive-date=16 March 2015|url-status=live}}

==Jackson style==

Jackson style uses a topping of either ground beef or ground beef heart, onions and spices. This meat sauce is applied on a hot dog in a steamed bun and then topped with diced or chopped onions and a stripe of mustard. The Jackson style was late to the usage of beef heart in the sauce, using ground beef prior to converting to ground beef heart in the early 1940s.{{cite web|last1=Flory|first1=Brad|title=Brad Flory column: Feeding Jackson's astonishing appetite for ground beef heart|url=http://www.mlive.com/opinion/jackson/index.ssf/2014/06/brad_flory_column_feeding_jack.html|website=MLive.com|date=4 June 2014 |access-date=27 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226040118/http://www.mlive.com/opinion/jackson/index.ssf/2014/06/brad_flory_column_feeding_jack.html|archive-date=26 February 2015|url-status=live}}

==Kalamazoo style==

Coney Island Kalamazoo was founded in 1915, and is the longest continuously operated Coney Island in the state. Their coney island is made up of a topping made from their own recipe served on a Koegel's Skinless Frankfurter. Koegel's was not founded until 1916, and it's unknown which hot dog Coney Island Kalamazoo used prior to the Skinless Frankfurter's development.{{cite web|title=Coney Island Kalamazoo|url=http://www.coneyislandkalamazoo.com|website=Coney Island Kalamazoo|access-date=18 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816144743/http://www.coneyislandkalamazoo.com/|archive-date=16 August 2016|url-status=live}}

==Suppliers==

The following meatpackers provide Coney dogs and European-style Vienna sausage (Frankfurter Würstel) to restaurants and consumers in Michigan:

Dearborn Sausage Co., primary supplier in Detroit
Koegel Meat Company, Flint area primary supplier{{cite news |last1=Bloch |first1=Jim |title=Michigan's unique, ubiquitous culinary treat: Coney Island hot dogs |url=http://www.voicenews.com/life/michigan-s-unique-ubiquitous-culinary-treat-coney-island-hot-dogs/article_2e9abe3a-4fb6-50ba-ae11-d96a1ab5d3f7.html |access-date=July 25, 2018 |work=The Voice |publisher=Digital First Media |date=March 30, 2018 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331023712/http://www.voicenews.com/life/michigan-s-unique-ubiquitous-culinary-treat-coney-island-hot-dogs/article_2e9abe3a-4fb6-50ba-ae11-d96a1ab5d3f7.html |archive-date=March 31, 2018 |url-status=live }}

Many Coney Island restaurants make their own sauces from scratch. However, the different styles of sauces are also available from the following meatpackers:

Abbott's Meat: Flint style made with ground beef heart
National Chili Co., primary metro Detroit supplier
Detroit Chili Company (owned by American Coney Island): Detroit style{{cite web|title=American Coney Island owner sets us straight|url=http://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/american-coney-island-owner-sets-us-straight/Content?oid=2144081|website=Metro Times|access-date=18 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921084631/http://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/american-coney-island-owner-sets-us-straight/Content?oid=2144081|archive-date=21 September 2016|url-status=live}}

=Minnesota=

File:2OriginalConeyDogs.jpg

Greek immigrant Gus Saites opened his Original Coney Island in Duluth in 1921. The hot dog used is the Vienna Beef from Chicago, which is topped with the restaurant's own coney sauce, with options of mustard, onion, and, for a small fee, cheese. The Superior Street location also offers sport peppers as a topping. The decor includes a copy of their 1959 menu showing that coney islands were 25 cents each.{{cite web|title=Original Coney Island, Duluth, MN|url=http://www.originalconeyisland.com|website=Original Coney Island|access-date=2019-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728002128/http://originalconeyisland.com/|archive-date=2019-07-28|url-status=live}}

The Original Coney Island Restaurant and Bar, operated by the Arvanitis Family since 1923 in a former Civil War armory,{{cite news |last=Melo |first=Frederick |date=November 9, 2015 |title=Is downtown St. Paul's Coney Island Cafe open or closed? Yes, owners say |url=https://www.twincities.com/2012/03/13/is-downtown-st-pauls-coney-island-cafe-open-or-closed-yes-owners-say/ |work=Pioneer Press |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |access-date=July 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706103923/https://www.twincities.com/2012/03/13/is-downtown-st-pauls-coney-island-cafe-open-or-closed-yes-owners-say/ |archive-date=July 6, 2018 |url-status=live }} is the oldest remaining business in St. Paul,{{cite news |last=Woltman |first=Nick |date=January 16, 2018 |title=St. Paul's Coney Island to open for Crashed Ice, Super Bowl, Winter Carnival |url=https://www.twincities.com/2018/01/16/st-pauls-coney-island-to-open-for-crashed-ice-super-bowl-winter-carnival/ |work=Pioneer Press |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |quote=Located on St. Peter Street in a pair of 19th century storefronts, Coney Island was first opened in 1923 by Nick Arvanitis.}} though now open only on special occasions.{{cite news |last=Woltman |first=Adrian |date=July 9, 2015 |title=Best Historically Significant Bars In Minnesota |url=https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/top-lists/best-historically-significant-bars-in-minnesota/ |work=WCCO-TV |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |quote=Although only open a few times a year...the oldest standing commercial structure in St.Paul is a must-see. |access-date=July 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706021936/https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/top-lists/best-historically-significant-bars-in-minnesota/ |archive-date=July 6, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Nelson |first=Rick |date=February 2, 2017 |title=St. Paul's Original Coney Island restaurant opening Saturday—for one day only |url=http://www.startribune.com/st-paul-s-original-coney-island-restaurant-opening-saturday-for-one-day-only/412596293/ |work=StarTribune |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |access-date=July 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706021800/http://www.startribune.com/st-paul-s-original-coney-island-restaurant-opening-saturday-for-one-day-only/412596293/ |archive-date=July 6, 2018 |url-status=live }}

=Ohio=

File:Skyline Chili Coneys.jpg

In Cincinnati, a "coney" is a hot dog topped with Cincinnati chili, usually with mustard and chopped onions. A "cheese coney" adds a final topping of shredded cheddar cheese. The dish was developed by immigrants Tom and John Kiradjieff, founders of Empress Chili, in 1922. The coney topping is also used as a topping for spaghetti, a dish called a "two-way" or chili spaghetti. {{as of|2013}} there were over 250 "chili parlors" in Cincinnati serving coneys. The two largest chains today are Skyline Chili and Gold Star Chili.{{cite web |author= |date= |title=Cincinnati Chili: Pass the Tabasco |url=http://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/ohio/cincinnati/experiences/cincinnati-chili-pass-the-tabasco-2006270/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529093538/http://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/ohio/cincinnati/experiences/cincinnati-chili-pass-the-tabasco-2006270/ |archive-date=May 29, 2015 |access-date=May 22, 2015 |publisher=Fodor's |df=mdy-all}}{{cite book |last=Woellert |first=Dann |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uyJYvgAACAAJ |title=The Authentic History of Cincinnati Chili |publisher=The History Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-60949-992-1 |access-date=November 20, 2015 |df=mdy-all}}{{rp|10}}{{cite web |last1=Conan |first1=Neal |date=August 22, 2005 |title=Talk of the Nation/Cincinnati Chili |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4810218 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402170944/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4810218 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |access-date=May 22, 2015 |publisher=NPR |df=mdy-all}}

Tony Packo's serves a similar dish of a beef and pork sausage topped with chili sauce and originally served on rye. The creation became known as the "Hungarian hot dog"; no such dish is known in Hungarian cuisine.{{cite news |last1=Grauer |first1=Stephanie |last2=Miksanek |first2=Jonathon |date=January 2017 |title=FOOD + DRINK: The Original Tony Packo's, Toledo |url=https://www.ohiomagazine.com/food-drink/article/local-legend |accessdate=November 24, 2022 |work=Ohio Magazine |publisher=www.ohiomagazine.com |quote=As Tony Packo’s celebrated its 85th anniversary in 2017, Tony Packo Jr. welcomed us in for a bite to eat and a look back through the landmark Toledo eatery’s storied history.}}

=Oklahoma=

Coneys are on restaurant menus throughout Tulsa{{rp|235}} and were originally created there by Greek immigrants.{{cite web | url=https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-2179765/one-hot-dog-how-tulsa-became-a-coney-town | title=One Hot Dog: How Tulsa Became a Coney Town | access-date=July 26, 2015 | author=Cauthron, Matt | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074556/https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-2179765/one-hot-dog-how-tulsa-became-a-coney-town | archive-date=March 4, 2016 | url-status=live }} Jane and Michael Stern write that "Oklahoma is especially rich in classic coneys" and call out the Coney I-Lander, writing they "perfectly deliver the cheap-eats ecstasy that is the Coney's soul."{{rp|235}} Oklahoma coneys are small hot dogs on steamed buns with a spicy-sweet dark brown chili sauce, onions, and optional cheese and hot sauce.{{rp|235}}

=Texas=

James Coney Island operates a number of locations in the area of Houston, Texas. The company was founded in 1923 by two Greek immigrant brothers, James and Tom Papadakis, the former being the company's namesake.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

=Thunder Bay=

In Thunder Bay, Ontario, there is rich history of Coney Island Hot Dogs. Long time establishments include Westfort Coney Island and McKellar Confectionery.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

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= General and cited sources =

Yung, Katherine and Joe Grimm (2012). Coney Detroit. Wayne State University Press. {{ISBN|9780814337189}}.