Everybody loves a good wiener.

Of course, there are a lot of different ways to eat em. Maybe you’re strictly a ketchup kinda guy or gal. Or perhaps there’s gotta be mustard and chili. By chance, you may dig a little sauerkraut. The point is, there are limitless combinations and some get a little more wild than others.

Today, we’re here to talk about the absolute wildest. The most “extra” hot dogs you can imagine—franks that wow with things like Kobe beef, truffles, and… fruit loops?

Let’s stop screwing around and jump right into this wiener wonderland.

1. Slider Dog | Progressive Field, Cleveland

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Baseball and hot dogs—it doesn’t get much more American than that. The Cleveland Indians recognized this, and their crack team of marketers and wiener maestros birthed the Slider Dog. What makes it special? Why, it’s topped with chopped bacon, mac and cheese, and Fruit Loops. Yes, Fruit Loops. Because you need a little berry crunch to go with your cheesy carbs and salty meat.

2. Dragon Dog | DougieDog, Vancouver, Canada

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This dog is so badass that you need to give a 12-hour advance notice before ordering it. Why? Because aside from being lavishly topped with delicious lobster, Kobe beef, spicy picante sauce (a house blend) and truffle-flavored olive oil, it is also infused with 100-year-old Louis XIII cognac. Damn.

3. “Scandinavian Smorgasbord” | Danish Dogs, New York

Okay, we know we’re supposed to offer one dog per entry, but we break our own rules here at Blenders. We’re charmingly roguish like that.

Chef Klaus Meyer of Danish Dogs in Grand Central Terminal offers a range of Scandinavian-inspired dogs, each as delightful as the last and together forming a formidable-as-hell lineup. From left to right, you’ll find the Great Dane, the Kvik, the Grayhund, and the Hen Hound. Get ready for the following mouthwatering breakdown of each:

1. Great Dane: Beef and pork wiener with mustard, white onion, pickled cucumber, shallots, spiced ketchup, and remoulade.


2. Kvik: Pork sausage topped with mustard mayonnaise, white onion, cress, pork cracklings, and pickled turnips.


3. Grayhund: Beef sausage mated to beet remoulade, lingonberry preserve, shallots, pickled onion, and red cabbage.


4. Hen Hound: Chicken sausage decked out with apple-horseradish ketchup, green tomato relish, cress, white cabbage, and tarragon mayo.

4. Tokyo Dog | Seattle

If you’re down for really upping your hot dog game, there’s Seattle’s Tokyo Dog. If you can locate the food truck, you can order the $169 creation that’s for a good cause—all proceeds are donated to the Red Cross.



Aside from charitable purposes, what makes this wiener worth it and why did it take the Tokyo Dog team three months to create it? We’re glad you asked. It’s a smoked-cheese dog decadently topped with Wagyu beef, caviar, foie gras, black truffles, Japanese mayonnaise, maitake mushrooms and teriyaki grilled onions, smothered in butter, and served on a brioche bun.


Skip to the 7:15 mark in the “Worth It” vid below to see it.

5. “World’s Most Expensive Hot Dog” | 230 Fifth, New York

The folks at the 230 Fifth rooftop lounge in NYC are our kind of crazy.

They’ve created the most expensive dog on Earth—a $2,300 wiener that’s the stuff of your fever dreams. They started with a toasted brioche bun that’s liberally doused with white truffle butter. The hot dog, meanwhile, is composed of black truffle-laced wagyu beef, dry-aged for a minimum of two months.

That should already be more than enough for anybody, but things get nuts from here. The wagyu beef wiener is generously adorned with house made sauerkraut braised with Cristal (yes, Cristal), friggin’ gold leaf, platinum Osetra caviar, 100-year-old balsamic vinegar, saffron-kicked organic ketchup, French Moutarde de Charroux, house-created relish, and finished off with Dom Pérignon-caramelized Vidalia onions.

Holy. Shit.

We’re gonna drop the mic there and just walk off now.