but Coney Island dogs are smothered with a meat sauce that's not exactly chili—plus onions and yellow mustard. Chili dogs can be topped with meat and bean chili as well as cheese or cheese sauce.

These Coney Island hot dogs are a diner classic. A warm sausage tucked into a soft bun and then smothered in a rich, meaty chili sauce and garnished with diced onions and a good squirt of mustard ...

It's a messy concoction of chili-like sauce ... figure it out But the two household names in coney dogs are based in Detroit: American Coney Island and Lafayette Coney Island, both started ...