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Sure, you could hit up national chain restaurants today to get your big bite of National Hot Dog Day.
But here in Delaware, we have plenty of homegrown greasy spoons, ranging from those specifically known for their mouth-watering wieners to spots that just happen to have top-notch dogs tucked away on the menu.
So if you don’t feel like firing up your barbecue on this hump day to make your National Hot Dog Day meal just as you like it, try one of these 10 eateries for some bun-worthy dogs.
The Dog House, New Castle
Throw a rock, hit a Delawarean and ask them their favorite hot dog joint and The Dog House would most likely be near the top of the list.
Known for its foot-long hot dogs, The Dog House has been in business since 1952 and has a menu filled with a variety of pizzas, subs, cheesesteaks and its best-selling chili cheese dog.
The Dog House makes its own house relish and is partnered with Serpe & Sons Bakery, which makes the hot dog buns. And they just added credit cards and a dog-friendly outdoor dining area.
The Dog House, 1200 N. Du Pont Highway, near New Castle, (302) 328-5380
Deerhead Hot Dogs, near Wilmington and Stanton
If The Dog House isn’t the old school top dog in Delaware, then Deerhead Hot Dogs is.
They started in downtown Wilmington at Hotel Olivere in 1935 and has been cooking up hot dogs ever since.
A popular pairing is the Deerhead Hot Dog with everything, which includes mustard, onions and the secret Deerhead sauce that keeps fans coming. Hot dogs are also sold in doubles or 10 packs if you can’t get enough.
The restaurant, which no longer has a Wilmington location, is still grillin’ in Stanton.
Deerhead Hot Dogs, 1233 Churchmans Rd, Stanton, (302) 266-9333
Johnnie’s Dog House and Chicken Shack, Wilmington
Based in Talleyville, Johnnie’s Dog House and Chicken Shack was featured in an issue of People magazine a few years back for having the best hot dog in the state. And plenty of fans would still give them the honor.
The Delaware Destroyer, winner of the award, is actually two hot dogs served on a 6-inch hoagie roll topped with macaroni and cheese, chili, grilled onions and hot sauce. Burp!
If you’re looking for something a bit sweeter, try the Monkey Hill Dog, which comes topped with grilled bananas, crunchy peanut butter, chopped bacon and honey.
Johnnie’s offers its hot dogs in beef, chicken, turkey, kobe beef or veggie. You can also get a beef in a 13-inch jumbo size, which weighs almost a pound.
Johnnie’s Dog House and Chicken Shack, 3401 Concord Pike, Talleyville, (302) 477-1440
Taco Reho, Rehoboth Beach and Middletown
When you think about the Delaware chain Taco Reho, California-inspired burritos and tacos wrapped in warm, house-made corn tortillas probably come to mind.
But for all of July ― including National Hot Dog Day on the 17th ― their rock ‘n’ roll-themed, homegrown restaurants will be spotlighting one of America’s favorite summertime bites.
In fact, there are always some foot-long beef dogs on their menu, including Danger Dog: a bacon-wrapped hot dog with black beans, Monterey jack cheese, avocado, yellow mustard, chipotle mayo, pico de gallo, pickled red onions, queso fresco and cilantro.
For July, they have been offering a different hot dog each week to celebrate National Hot Dog Day. Their Danger Dog is the featured dog for this week and for the week starting July 22, you can get the new Elote: a hot dog topped with Mexican grilled corn, cheese and chile peppers.
Taco Reho, Rehoboth Beach (18784 Coastal Highway) and Middletown (100 Sandhill Drive), (302) 226-8226
Charcoal Pit, Talleyville
Sure, Charcoal Pit has thick milkshakes, high school-themed sundaes and a beloved hamburger line-up, but there’s another American classic on the menu that gets lost in the shuffle sometimes.
You have two options for their flame-grilled hot dogs: the basic plain char dog or the char dog special with two char dogs topped with chili and cheese with a side of French fries.
They have been serving them for nearly 70 years, so they must be doing something right.
Charcoal Pit, 2600 Concord Pike, Talleyville, (302) 478-2165
Twilley’s Willys, Fenwick Island
Twilley’s Willys in Fenwick Island has a menu loaded with hot dogs just as unique as its name.
Try one of the 17 different city-style dogs such as The Baltimore, loaded with large lump Maryland crab, macaroni & cheese and Old Bay or The Philly, topped with chopped steak, cheese sauce and caramelized onions.
The “Other Dogs” menu features fun styles like the Dirty Dog, which comes with chorizo, pico de gallo, cheese sauce and cilantro lime crema.
All are also available in veggie form.
Twilley’s Willys, 300 Coastal Highway, Fenwick Island, (302) 581-0255
Rosenfeld’s Jewish Delicatessen, Rehoboth Beach and South Bethany Beach
Mixed among potato latkes, Reubens and matzo ball soup, you’ll find some big dogs in the center of the Rosenfeld’s Jewish Delicatessen menu.
There are seven third-pound split hot dogs just waiting to fill you up from a plain dog you can dress up with sauerkraut to something that call Twinsies: a pair of third-pound dogs on one big bun. That’s nearly 11 ounces of beef.
If you want to try something new (and probably take a follow-up nap), go for The Big Dog, which is topped with pastrami, corned beef, bologna, melted cheddar.
Rosenfeld’s Jewish Delicatessen, Rehoboth Beach (18949 Coastal Highway, 302-645-1700) and South Bethany Beach (34444 Coastal Highway, 302-539-8550)
Gus & Gus Place, Rehoboth Beach
Gus & Gus Place is located on the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk and has a special hot dog that might bring on the nostalgia.
The classic oceanfront restaurant features basics such as a cheese dog, a chili dog and a sauerkraut dog, but rounds its menu off with a corn dog that will give you some real state fair feels.
If you stop by, choose your dog and then be sure to grab some of the “legendary fresh Idaho fries” cooked in peanut oil to go with it.
Gus & Gus Place, 15 S. Boardwalk, Rehoboth Beach, (302) 227-3329
Ed’s Hot Dogs, New Castle
Located at Airport Plaza in New Castle, Ed’s Hot Dogs is known for its combo meals and great deals.
Their slogan? “Food so great, you’ll think we stole your Mom!”
The limited menu features hot dogs, hot sausages, Polish kielbasa, meatball sandwiches, cheesesteaks and breakfast sandwiches. And if you’re on a budget, it’s a winner.
Ed’s Hot Dogs, 138 Sunset Blvd., New Castle, (302) 883-1338
Doggie Style
Doggie Style, which grew from a food truck to a brick-and-mortar spot on Rehoboth Beach’s next to the former original home of Nicola Pizza, is the go-to spot for hot dogs in the “The Nation’s Summer Capital.”
A hot dog joint that also specializes on Caribbean fare offers 11 specialty hot dogs, alongside an array of sausages and a mini Mexican menu witch nachos, tacos and burritos.
The foot-long menu has dogs named after their style, ranging from the Lardeo, Little German and Little Brazilian to the Little Jamaican, Farmer and Little Weenie Between Two Eggs.
If you want to stick to the basics, try the Little Hillbilly with beef chili, cheese and onions. If you want to go off leash, try Little Boriqua topped with sweet plantains, chili, “Florida sauce,” cheese and potato sticks.
Doggie Style, 4 N. First St., Rehoboth Beach, (302) 384-4386
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Suspect tried to take life with prescription pill overdose
The police investigation that began July 1 triggered self-destructive behavior in Arnold, the warrant said.
First he went to county police headquarters and calmly denied ever abusing the child, the warrant said.
But July 3, Arnold was supposed to be visiting family in Maryland. When he didn’t arrive, police were notified and directed to an Instagram account of his that contained an image of “what appeared to be a male shooting himself in the head,” the warrant said.
Police found Arnold at a hotel in Delaware and he denied that the social media account was his or that he was suicidal. He was “ultimately cleared via a remote mental evaluation” and returned to his hotel room.
On July 6, however, a Brandywine district co-worker told police she was concerned for his safety from unspecified comments he had made. State police searched for Arnold and found him in the parking lot of Concord Mall, about two and a half miles from his home. Troopers also learned that he had contacted a crisis hotline and reported he “was actively attempting to kill himself.”
Arnold told troopers he had intended to shoot himself but instead “took dozens of prescription pills.” He was taken to Wilmington Hospital and later sent to Christiana Hospital for a mental health evaluation, the warrant said.
Police continued their rape investigation, and on July 9 monitored the 5-year-old’s forensic interview with the Children’s Advocacy Center that assists with child abuse cases. The child’s account remained consistent with what she had days earlier said at camp and Nemours hospital, the warrant said.
She told the interviewer at the advocacy center that Arnold had touched her sexually “a lot of times” and later clarified that it had occurred “ten hundred times,” the warrant said.
‘We understand now why it’s a million dollars bail’
Superintendent Lawson only knew basic information about Arnold’s arrest and the charges until Monday, when a WHYY News reporter provided her with a copy of the arrest warrant, which police obtained July 10.
After reading several pages, Lawson said she was “horrified” by the accusations against a man who for nearly three years has been a trusted district psychologist. Lawson said the district had conducted a thorough background check on Arnold before his hiring, and no flags were detected before or during his tenure.
“We are absolutely shocked at the detailed information” in the warrant, Lawson said in an interview. “We understand now why it’s a million dollars bail and we had absolutely no prior information related to any of this.”
She said the district is in the process of taking appropriate disciplinary action.
“We are deeply concerned for the effect that this will have on both staff” with Arnold, “but also our families, including one of whom I spoke to this weekend, that are very upset that someone in a position of trust that they not only counted on for their children’s therapy, but also helped the family unit themselves.”
She also described her office’s outreach to families, which included a notice on Brandywine’s Facebook page about Arnold’s arrest.
“We made personalized phone calls to every single family in the program as soon as we learned of the circumstances,” Lawson said. “We wanted families to be able to handle the situation as they deem appropriate with their own children. Many have in turn gone and spoken to their children.
“We don’t have any information at this time that what has allegedly occurred with the victim has occurred with any of our district students.”
Before moving to Delaware, Arnold had worked for Counseling Associates of America in Naples, Florida.
Jennifer Jankowski, the practice’s operations director, said in an email that officials there “are appalled by these heinous allegations and are deeply saddened for the family and young girl involved. We recently received this information and are currently reviewing our internal records, as it has been numerous years since he worked at Counseling Associates of America.”
New Castle County police urge anyone with additional information to contact Det. Daniel Watson at Daniel.Watson@newcastlede.gov or (302) 395-8030.
DOVER, Del. (July 15, 2024) — The United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) has confirmed a find of box tree moth (BTM; Cydalima perspectalis) at a private residence in Kent County, Delaware.
The box tree moth is a federally regulated pest that primarily feeds on boxwood species (Buxus spp.). If left unchecked, it causes significant damage and can potentially kill the plants. Boxwoods are a popular ornamental evergreen shrub common to many landscape environments in the United States.
“Box tree moth is an unexpected find in Delaware due to the distance from the only known U.S. detections in New York, Michigan, Ohio, and Massachusetts, with the original introduction in New York in 2021. We are working closely with USDA and University of Delaware Extension to map out the infestations. Still, at this time, only one property in Kent County has a confirmed population and control measures have been implemented,” said Jessica Munski, Delaware Department of Agriculture’s Plant Industries Administrator. “This invasive pest is a good flyer, spreading naturally three to six miles a year, but it is suspected that they can fly up to 20 miles. The aggressive, destructive nature of the caterpillar life stage makes it essential to take quick action as soon as damage is detected because defoliation can occur within ten days.”
The caterpillars, which can grow to 1.5 inches, will start out as lime-green, with black stripes, white spots, hair, and a shiny black head. They then create a large amount of webbing on the plant. The caterpillars are ravenous feeders and, in heavy infestations, can completely defoliate host plants. After the leaves are gone, they feed on the bark, eventually killing the plant.
USDA photo by Hannah Nadel
The adult box tree moth generally has white wings with a thick brown border. It can be hard to find as it is most active at night. The BTM can sometimes be confused with the melonworm moth.
What You Can Do
Delawareans can help prevent this invasive pest from spreading throughout the state’s landscape, by monitoring, reporting, and controlling infestations.
- If you have boxwoods in your landscape, monitor your shrubs for brown or skeletonized leaves, defoliation, and webbing with caterpillars.
- Contact Delaware Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners at the Garden Helpline to report a suspected find and learn what pest management tools are available:
- New Castle County: 302-831-8862
- Kent County: 302-730-4000
- Sussex County: 302-831-3389
- Allow Delaware or Federal agricultural officials to inspect your boxwood plants and place detection traps.
- Remove infested boxwood plant branches. For heavy infestations, cut the boxwood from its base. Your plant should grow back from its roots. All boxwood debris should be double-bagged in plastic and placed in the trash. Homeowners should follow the Delaware Cooperative Extension’s pesticide recommendations.
- Nursery owners should monitor their boxwoods and implement safeguards to limit pest risk. All nursery businesses should report box tree moth detections to the Delaware Department of Agriculture at DDA_PlantPests@delaware.gov.
Learn more about the box tree moth at https://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant-pests-diseases/box-tree-moth.
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Related Topics: box tree moth, boxwood, caterpillar, invasive, Kent County, pest, USDA
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DOVER, Del. (July 15, 2024) — The United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) has confirmed a find of box tree moth (BTM; Cydalima perspectalis) at a private residence in Kent County, Delaware.
The box tree moth is a federally regulated pest that primarily feeds on boxwood species (Buxus spp.). If left unchecked, it causes significant damage and can potentially kill the plants. Boxwoods are a popular ornamental evergreen shrub common to many landscape environments in the United States.
“Box tree moth is an unexpected find in Delaware due to the distance from the only known U.S. detections in New York, Michigan, Ohio, and Massachusetts, with the original introduction in New York in 2021. We are working closely with USDA and University of Delaware Extension to map out the infestations. Still, at this time, only one property in Kent County has a confirmed population and control measures have been implemented,” said Jessica Munski, Delaware Department of Agriculture’s Plant Industries Administrator. “This invasive pest is a good flyer, spreading naturally three to six miles a year, but it is suspected that they can fly up to 20 miles. The aggressive, destructive nature of the caterpillar life stage makes it essential to take quick action as soon as damage is detected because defoliation can occur within ten days.”
The caterpillars, which can grow to 1.5 inches, will start out as lime-green, with black stripes, white spots, hair, and a shiny black head. They then create a large amount of webbing on the plant. The caterpillars are ravenous feeders and, in heavy infestations, can completely defoliate host plants. After the leaves are gone, they feed on the bark, eventually killing the plant.
USDA photo by Hannah Nadel
The adult box tree moth generally has white wings with a thick brown border. It can be hard to find as it is most active at night. The BTM can sometimes be confused with the melonworm moth.
What You Can Do
Delawareans can help prevent this invasive pest from spreading throughout the state’s landscape, by monitoring, reporting, and controlling infestations.
- If you have boxwoods in your landscape, monitor your shrubs for brown or skeletonized leaves, defoliation, and webbing with caterpillars.
- Contact Delaware Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners at the Garden Helpline to report a suspected find and learn what pest management tools are available:
- New Castle County: 302-831-8862
- Kent County: 302-730-4000
- Sussex County: 302-831-3389
- Allow Delaware or Federal agricultural officials to inspect your boxwood plants and place detection traps.
- Remove infested boxwood plant branches. For heavy infestations, cut the boxwood from its base. Your plant should grow back from its roots. All boxwood debris should be double-bagged in plastic and placed in the trash. Homeowners should follow the Delaware Cooperative Extension’s pesticide recommendations.
- Nursery owners should monitor their boxwoods and implement safeguards to limit pest risk. All nursery businesses should report box tree moth detections to the Delaware Department of Agriculture at DDA_PlantPests@delaware.gov.
Learn more about the box tree moth at https://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant-pests-diseases/box-tree-moth.
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Related Topics: box tree moth, boxwood, caterpillar, invasive, Kent County, pest, USDA
Keep up to date by receiving a daily digest email, around noon, of current news release posts from state agencies on news.delaware.gov.
Here you can subscribe to future news updates.
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For the last 15 months, Bill Rohrer has been itching to start growing marijuana to fuel Delaware’s coming recreational market.
Rohrer is a partner in The Farm, a medical cannabis business with two cultivation sites, a facility that makes edibles and other products and retail stores in Felton and New Castle.
But when lawmakers legalized weed in April 2023, they didn’t follow the lead of New Jersey, Maryland and some other states in allowing medical businesses to kick off recreational sales.
“It feeds the illicit market is what it does,’’ Rohrer told WHYY News a year ago as legal users had to continue engaging in illegal activity — buying weed from in-state dealers or transporting it across state lines from legit stores in nearby states.
That’s about to change.
A bill that lawmakers passed in June and Gov. John Carney is expected to sign in the coming weeks lets Delaware’s six medical weed licensees apply for so-called conversion licenses to grow, manufacture, test and sell retail cannabis.
Those licenses will be issued starting in November, allowing Rohrer to start growing weed that he can sell at The Farm’s retail stores, perhaps as early as April 2025, and to others who receive retail licenses.
Without that bill’s passage, said Marijuana Commissioner Rob Coupe, the start of retail sales would have been delayed until sometime in 2026. Applicants who receive the new cultivation licenses will take up to a year longer to get their operations going, and then to grow crops for retail sale, he said.
Delaware’s new course “creates a much faster pathway to get the adult-use market operational … to make marijuana legally available for the average citizen to buy,’’ Coupe told WHYY News.
Beyond accelerating what Coupe acknowledges has been a slow, laborious process in creating regulations and a licensing process, allowing conversion licenses could pump up to $4.2 million into a new fund to help so-called social equity applicants, who are slated to receive 47 of the 125 licenses. The $4.2 million would come from application fees for conversion licenses.
Lawmakers also allocated an additional $2 million into the fund for aspiring social equity cannabis entrepreneurs. To qualify, they must own at least 51% of the business and meet one of these criteria:
- Been convicted of a marijuana-related offense, as long as it wasn’t for selling more than 11 pounds or dealing to a minor
- Had or has a parent, legal guardian, child, spouse or dependent who was convicted of a marijuana crime
- Lived for at least five of the last 10 years in a “disproportionately impacted area.” In essence, that’s a defined census area where marijuana arrests have been high in the last decade. Applicants can see if their address qualifies on the state’s website
The conversion licenses that Roher and other medical licensees sought permission to seek won’t come cheaply.
The cultivation licenses cost $200,000 apiece. To get one for manufacturing, testing or retail, the cost is $100,000.
Rohrer said he appreciates that lawmakers accepted the rationale of the medical licensees this year, and plans to spend up to $800,000 for conversion licenses: two for cultivation, one for manufacturing, two for the existing retail stores, and perhaps one for a new store in Sussex County.
But he says it won’t be an easy proposition in a retail market that faces stiff competition from border states. Medical weed sales in Delaware dropped significantly last year when Maryland opened its retail stores.
“We find ourselves in somewhat of a perplexing situation,” Rohrer said. “We’re excited about the growth, but it’s a very daunting expansion and need for capital investment. So that’s kind of the dilemma that we’re in.”
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