{"id":8787,"date":"2013-02-25T05:35:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T13:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=8787"},"modified":"2013-02-25T05:35:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T13:35:53","slug":"georgia-nu-way-weiners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8787","title":{"rendered":"Georgia &#8211; Nu-Way Weiners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1916, Greek American James Wallis opened Nu-Way Weiners (yes they spell it that way) in 1916, and there it remains, growing into a mini chain in mid-Georgia, that even Oprah pronounces as one of \u201cher best.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Nu-Way was established the same year as Nathan\u2019s on Coney Island, making it the 3<sup>nd<\/sup> oldest hot dog shop in the US.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what it is about Greek\/Americans\/immigrants that they gravitate to the coney island style hot dog, but gravitate they do, in the instances of the ones in <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2011\/03\/duluth-mn-original-coney-island\/\">Minnesota<\/a>, Illinois, <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2012\/07\/superior-wi-amnicon-bar-review\/\">Wisconsin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2009\/06\/cincinnati-oh-gold-star-and-skyline\/\">\u00a0Ohio<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2013\/08\/coney-island-style-hot-dog-introduced-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan<\/a>, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Nu-Way has a \u00a0proprietary dog, maybe 10 or 12 to\u00a0 a pound, skinless, and bright red in color.\u00a0\u00a0 Their coney sauce is beef, seasonings, and chopped white onion, and is less on the \u2018sweet\u2019 side than Skyline or Gold Star (and less on the sweet side is my preference, it means there doesn\u2019t appear to be sugar or cinnamon-like flavors in it), leaning more towards a pure \u201cbeefy taste\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The sauce is wet, so &#8220;manhandling&#8221; the buns (ok, stop that) is a necessity.<\/p>\n<p>Nu-Way has easily moved into my top 5 favorite coney dogs in the country, and I wish I could be in that part of the country more often.\u00a0 Check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu-wayweiners.com\/menu.html\">all day menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Nuway.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8788\" title=\"Nuway\" alt=\"Nu Way Weiners\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Nuway.png\" width=\"448\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/213\/1072447\/restaurant\/Nu-Way-Weiners-Macon\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" alt=\"Nu-Way Weiners on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1072447\/biglink.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1916, Greek American James Wallis opened Nu-Way Weiners (yes they spell it that way) in 1916, and there it remains, growing into a mini chain in mid-Georgia, that even Oprah pronounces as one of \u201cher best.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Nu-Way was established the same year as Nathan\u2019s on Coney Island, making it the 3nd oldest hot dog&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8787\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Georgia &#8211; Nu-Way Weiners<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,16,25],"tags":[213,1058,1549,2186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}