Wayne: An Italian hot dog or sausage is prepared as follows:
You take a large metal pan, say 2' x 3' with a sloped bottom and fill it part way with cooking oil (No healthy oil please). After heating the oil you place peppers, onions and potatoes in the hot oil and allow them to cook, the longer the better. You then put either the hot dogs or sausage in the oil to cook. You then take a circular role of about 8" in diameter and 2'' thick and cut it in half and open the pocket (Like a thick pita) and put in the hot dogs or sausage, followed by the potatoes, peppers and onions. As the oil seeps out of the bottom of the roll you should view it the same way as you view ice cream as it seeps out of the bottom of a broken ice cream cone. And there you have it, a North Jersey Italian hot dog. I grew up on these and I still long for one but they don't have them in Maryland.