Would you eat this unique North Jersey 'hot dog'?

An unusual hot dog, dessert-inspired French toast and more most impressed food writer Kara VanDooijeweert this week.

This column publishes on Saturdays, and typically features standout eats from Morris, Essex, Bergen, Hudson, Passaic and/or Sussex counties.

I never met a subsection of humans who baffled me as much as furries (teenagers and young adults, for the most part, who identify as anthropomorphic animals) until I met South Jersey Wawa people.

Below the Middlesex County line, there's a group of folks who collect receipts to prove they've been order number one through 1,000 at the store, have visual scrapbooks of them visiting each franchise location across the U.S. and have even gotten married in the parking lot.

At two Red Bank races I've competed in, the prizes were gift card