Nathan's FamousCHAIN

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The splits people. Some say the spice and the natural casing beat any other New York dog, others say it's gone downhill. The tip that keeps coming up is the at the original Coney Island location, which regulars swear is genuinely good. Get the with it.

NYC classic — Nathan Handwerker, a Polish Jewish immigrant, and his wife Ida staked their $300 savings on a Coney Island hot dog stand at Surf and Stillwell avenues in 1916, undercutting rivals by charging a nickel a frank. To reassure wary customers he hired men in surgeon's smocks to eat there. The July Fourth eating contest began in the early 1970s. Wikipedia

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