In every part of the United States, you’re bound to come across a local version of the hot dog. The Midwest has its Coneys, the meat slathered with mustard and chili and topped with diced white onion. In the South, franks are bright red and crowned with slaw. Seattleites like theirs with a squirt of cream cheese. And in Texas, we enjoy Mexican hot dogs .

Various sources claim hot dogs were introduced in Mexico in 1945, when an American couple began selling them outside a Mexico City bullring. Locals started riffing on the original, but the most famous variation was created about thirty years later in the state of Sonora . There, in Hermosillo, street food stalls began serving a frank wrapped in bacon and topped with pinto beans, sautéed onions, diced raw onions and tomatoes, mayonnais

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