![]() ![]() Goldman tried to keep it quiet at first, and so did the hot dog shops. “Reason being, those hot dogs are only sold in the Hampton Roads area. “Our Hormel rep came to us and told us that Hormel was no longer going to be making the natural casing hot dogs,” said Todd Goldman, owner of Southern Packing Corp in Chesapeake, which supplies the Hormels to just about every old-time shop in Hampton Roads. And its natural casing has a signature snap.īut Hormel stopped production on the Norfolk dog in January. It’s skinny enough to leave room for chili and onion in the bun. Hormel’s “Norfolk dog,” as Bacalis liked to call it, is unique. And the grill-charred hot dog is always the same: A natural-casing dog from Hormel, a unicorn of a hot dog that until recently was distributed nowhere in the world except Southeastern Virginia. Each shop has its own chili, each with its own secret ingredients and spicy kick. An all-the-way dog is Lynnhaven mustard, fresh-cut onions and a finely ground meat sauce. ![]() Traditionally, there are only three toppings on a Norfolk dog - though you don’t have to get all of them. run his place before opening his own shop, Jimmy’s, that presided for 45 years on Euclid Road in Virginia Beach.Īnd in a tangled and often tumultuous family soap opera, the ex-wife and three sons of Tony Mirabile Sr., have also each had their own hot dog shops - sometimes in direct and heated competition. Jimmy Rellos also worked there, then helped Tony Sr. worked at Bacalis’ starting in 1939, where Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. One way or another, most old-school hot dog spots in Hampton Roads trace their lineage to the “Hot Dog King of Downtown Norfolk.” They are the invention of George Bacalis, a son of Greek immigrants who served hot dogs and only hot dogs on Norfolk’s City Hall Avenue starting in 1934. Norfolk-style dogs are not as famous as the Maxwell Street dogs of Chicago, but they are just as old - and just as singular. learned them at Bacalis’ Hot Dog Place downtown. Mirabile makes his chili-sauced dogs the same way his dad, Tony Sr., used to serve them at the original spot on Lafayette Boulevard in Norfolk, which is the same way Tony Sr. At places like Tony’s, no change is ever good. ![]()
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