Michigan Coney Island Dogs
Coney dogs are delicious and for me reminiscent of growing up in Port Huron, Michigan, a lovely small city on the shores of Lake Huron across from Sarnia, Canada and about an hour north of Detroit. There was a Coney Island restaurant downtown and I remember going there as a teenager with my friends. We loved the Coney dogs and we had crushes on the Greek guys who worked there. I'm sure we were sweet, cute and very annoying. I found these pics online- that's the old Coney Island in Port huron, it's still there today, but it is now called Mama Vicki's Coney Island and those handsome young men are Bill and Evans; their family bought this Coney Island in 1976 and Bill and Evans are still carrying on the family business today. Evidently, Coney dogs (which actually have little to do with Coney Island, NY) came about in the early 1900's in Michigan, and were invented/created by Greek restauranteurs who immigrated to the USA, along with 340,000 fellow Greeks, between
