THIS IS EXACTLY LIKE STATE FAIR CORN DOGS! The recipe originally called for celery and onion pwd, pepper, sage...browning the hot dogs, etc. I'm a corn dog purist...and none of those things belongs in my corn dog! Feel free to add them if you like...but my family ate these up like there was no tomorrow and seemed suprised when there was none left for the next day...so a purist I will be. :-)