Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Hot Dog Showdown: Potts' serves up a chili-mustard-onion dog

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/food/index.ssf/2012/06/hot_dog_showdown_potts_serves.html FROM THE EXPRESS TIMES Potts’ is the kind of neighborhood hot dog shop that readers have been writing to us about in the Hot Dog Showdown. The staff knows the names of regulars, greets new faces with a smile and churns out hot dogs by the hundreds — about 700 a day in Nazareth, in fact. Warren Beahn says the Bethlehem Potts’ location was the first to open in the early 1970s, and Nazareth's Potts' Doggie Shop followed in 1978. Beahn took over in the '80s, but has been in the hot dog business since he was 15 years old. And he’s still making up the homemade chili from scratch. The Cadillac of hot dogs at Potts’ is their cheese and bacon dog, but the folks at Potts’ spared us the calories on this trip. Instead they served up their Potts’ dog (also known as “the regular,” “all” or “everything”) — mustard, onions and chili.

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