I missed all of May?!?!?!? Avoid Pink's if you like hot dogs...

If you have the taste buds of a cockroach, you'll probably enjoy Pink's Hot Dogs in Buena Park at Knott's Berry Farm.


Really where do I begin with this place, aside from the customer service, this place is a  dismal failure on so many levels. Let's start with building location/layout. The place is too cramped for the amount of traffic that they get. There is one window to order and one window to pick up. It just so happens that they have all the condiments and what not around said pick up window. It really looks like a traffic jam on the 10 East of the 405 at 5PM on a holiday weekend. If you like dealing with rude throngs of people, while waiting for your food then this is your place!!

Did I mention how disgusting this place was?? Now it's not like there was puke on the floor, but I don't think you'd notice if there was. The floors and tables where pretty awful, I've seen cleaner tables at Chuck E. Cheese in Santa Ana.

Now on to the food like substance.... There are a few handful of places that I hold in a special category of crap, these are the ones that deserve a wordy worded letter, which is pretty aweful coming from me. That is the wordy worded letter, my English skills are pretty atrocious.

One, I have to say they have the worst menu on the planet. These jacked up names for hot dogs and the multitude of combination's that top them. Understand that hot dogs should not be confused with the various sausages out there, whether your various wursts, bangers or other ethnic sausages, namely the Polish. Hot dogs are in a class of their own and depending on how they are prepared can usually tell you what part of the country you are from or where you are at as well.  Generally a dog should be kosher.. all beef... no by-products or additives, who needs that?! Now you can have them prepared a number of ways but the more popular ways are mustard & onions (or sauerkraut!!), Chicago style (steamed poppy seed bun, onions, pickle wedge, tomato, yellow pepper -- my all time favorite!!). Hot dogs come steamed, grilled, pan fried, wrapped with bacon, battered and deep fried. However, this place apparently is a one trick pony, let's cover up the sub par quality of the dog with sub par quality toppings.

To think that we passed up going to Portillo's.. but alas we did not know. It was the "we've live in California for over 30+ years and never had Pink's!", they are not like the other Ca institutions, In-n-Out, Tommy's, (fill in your Ca only food establishment here). Let just say the initial sign of how crappy the dogs where... the rubber like casing they were in only encased the bland flavorless meat-like substance inside.

While Pink's is not in the category of the Golden Steer and Captain Kidd's and... I know there is another that goes here... anyway... Pink's is just north of the line of crapsville, I know I won't spend a dollar there again, but I'd be willing to sample something else if someone else paid for it.

So to summarize.. if you want a hot dog go to Portillo's.. it's just down the street in fact... about a mile East of Beach Blvd on La Palma before Dale, or go to Wienerschnitzel --- no really I'd rather have gone here compared to Pink's.  I have heard of this place called PCH in Orange.. I need to try them out... but avoid Mustard's there is one in Long Beach and one in Los Alamitos/Cypress... they suck as well, what an abomination of a "Chicago style" hot dog they serve there. Though Costco serves a decent dog at a great price... $2.50 for a half pound hot dog/polish sausage and a drink.

At least i was able to get a $5 boysenberry pie from Knott's, my receipt was a coupon.

And lastly they have mediocre onion rings as well, a small basket of rings for $3.50 there were maybe 8 in the small paper tray.