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There is still debate if the hot dog evolved from lesser sandwich forms, or if it's the work of an intelligent designer, but everyone can agree it's a marvel of simplicity. At the Gapers Block Hot Dog Cookoff earlier this Summer in Chicago, though, five chefs were challenged to reinterpret the humble tubesteak, and we were challenged to eat them all.

The chefs were told to "start with Vienna Beef hot dogs" and "use them in any way imaginable." Those instructions, when you think about it, are frighteningly open to interpretation.

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