A natural-casing pork and veal frank with no added red dye, grilled until charred. Zweigle's has produced white hots in Rochester since 1880. The canonical protein on a Garbage Plate.
Zweigle's was founded in Rochester in 1880 by the Zweigle family. The white hot, made from pork and veal without the red nitrate dye used in standard beef hot dogs, became the Rochester-specific style. The product is not fully cooked during processing, which means it requires proper grilling. Zweigle's also produces a red hot (natural beef casing), but the white hot is what put Rochester on the hot dog map.
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