59. Eat a hot dog in every North Carolina county. Where: Pooch’s (Lillington, NC – Harnett County) What: Chili pimento cheese dogs With whom: Maggie, after hiking Raven Rock State Park Why: 100 Hot Dogs in 100 Counties Grade: A. Toasted bun, flavorful chili, excellent pimento cheese. Fries were awesome too.
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hot dogs everywhere: dick’s drive-in
59. Eat a hot dog in every North Carolina county. Where: Dick’s Drive-In (Eden, NC – Rockingham County) What: Chili cheese dogs With whom: me myself and I Why: 100 Hot Dogs in 100 Counties Grade: B+. Red Brightleaf dogs, with flavorful chili and toasted buns. And the cheese was under the dog, which always helps with melting.
hot dogs everywhere: city tap
59. Eat a hot dog in every North Carolina county. Where: City Tap (Pittsboro, NC – Chatham County) What: Carolina dog (slaw, chili, mustard, hold the onions) With whom: me myself and I Why: 100 Hot Dogs in 100 Counties Grade: A. Fantastic toasted bun, the chili (homemade by a guy in Pittsboro for the restaurant) was top notch and…
hot dogs everywhere: cle’s grilled food
59. Eat a hot dog in every North Carolina county. Where: Cle’s Grilled Food (Halifax County, NC) What: chili cheese dog With whom: J & M Why: 100 Hot Dogs in 100 Counties Grade: C. Chili was good, Carolina red dog was mid, the cheese slice wasn’t melted. Their fried okra was wildly phenomenal, though.
hot dogs everywhere: yarborough’s homemade ice cream
59. Eat a hot dog in every North Carolina county. Where: Yarborough’s Homemade Ice Cream (Sanford, NC – Lee County) What: chili cheese dog With whom: shep Why: 100 Hot Dogs in 100 Counties Grade: B-. Chili was meh and the cheese was overwhelming. The onion rings were the star, and the ice cream is out of this world.
100 foods in 100 counties: dare county
58. Eat at every restaurant in Our State magazine’s 100 Foods To Eat In North Carolina’s 100 Counties. Hatteras style clam chowder – the food for Dare County, at Sam and Omie’s, a long-time fisherman’s haunt – is a broth-based soup, and let me tell you what, the folks sitting behind us were pissed about this….
hot dogs everywhere: the froggy dog
59. Eat a hot dog in every North Carolina county. Where: The Froggy Dog, Avon, NC (Dare County) What: the Froggy Dog (chili and cheese) With whom: Trav, and my in-laws Why: 100 Hot Dogs in 100 Counties Grade: B+. The chili had a fantastic smoky barbeque flavor, but the cheese didn’t hold up its end.
100 foods in 100 counties: currituck county
58. Eat at every restaurant in Our State magazine’s 100 Foods To Eat In North Carolina’s 100 Counties. The choice for Currituck County, the furthest northeastern county in North Carolina, was the crab cake at the Oceanfront Grille in Corolla. As a Marylander, I am extremely snobby about crab cakes, and I can tell you that…
hot dogs everywhere: burger barn
59. Eat a hot dog in every North Carolina county. Where: Burger Barn, Warrenton, NC (Warren County) What: chili cheese dogs With whom: Trav Why: 100 Hot Dogs in 100 Counties Grade: B. Love a good North Carolina red but it was a mostly middling affair
100 foods in 100 counties: warren county
58. Eat at every restaurant in Our State magazine’s 100 Foods To Eat In North Carolina’s 100 Counties. Warren County! I’m unsure if I had ever driven through Warren County before this weekend, but we headed up to Ridgeway for the annual Ridgeway Cantaloupe Festival, to cross a 100 Foods item off the list. We brought…
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