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The traditional Birmingham hot dog is often served with mustard, onions, special sauce and seasoned ground beef. (Joe Songer/jsonger@al.com)

Another week, another "Best in America" list.

Last week, the food and dining website The Daily Meal revealed its list of America's 75 Best Fried Chicken spots, and two Birmingham restaurants made the cut.

This week -- in celebration of July being National Hot Dog month, as well as the upcoming Fourth of July holiday weekend -- The Daily Meal announced its America's 75 Best Hot Dogs.

And this time, one long-standing Birmingham hot dog joint made the list, along with a nearly century-old Mobile dining institution.

Representing Birmingham at No. 67 is Gus's Hot Dogs at 1915 Fourth Ave. North. Original owner and Greek immigrant Gus Alexander opened Gus's in the late 1940s, and current owner George Nasiakos has been dishing out dogs with special sauce since 1997.

Representing Mobile, 11 spots higher at No. 56, is the Dew Drop Inn, which George L. Widney started in 1924 and which has been operating at its present location at 1908 Old Shell Road since 1937. Back in his day, Widney was known as the "Hot Dog King" of Mobile.

Here's what The Daily Meal said about each place:

Gus's Hot Dogs: "Gus's is home to the Greek Dog -- in fact, it's 'the lone surviving old-school Greek hot dog place in downtown Birmingham,' according to Serious Eats. To make their Greek Dog, char-grilled Zeigler pink franks are topped with seasoned ground beef, sauerkraut, a few chopped onions, and a special sauce that was formulated by Gus Alexander himself when he opened the stand around 1940 -- a cross between barbecue sauce and New York-style stewed onions. The atmosphere has an unassuming air; it's small and quaint, with a TV in the corner, making it clear that, in here, it's all about the dogs."

Dew Drop Inn: "If you're from Mobile, you know about the comfortable, wood-paneled Dew Drop Inn. One of the city's oldest restaurants, having opened in 1924, it boasts a loyal clientele of regulars who don't even need a menu and consider the wait staff old friends. There's a surprisingly expansive Southern-tinged menu with a handful of hidden gems (like the oyster loaf, a smaller-size oyster po'boy), but their hot dog, supposedly the first to reach this neck of the woods way back when, is a true standout. The bright red steamed dogs are stuffed into a squishy bun and topped with coarse-ground chili, sauerkraut, ketchup, mustard, and a bread-and-butter pickle. You can also order them "upside-down," with the dog sitting atop the condiments, but any way you slice it, this is a very solid hot dog."

The No. 1 hot dog on The Daily Meal list is grilled, all-beef dog at the legendary New York City eatery Katz's Deli.

Other notables on the list and their rankings:

---> Nathan's Famous, Coney Island, N.Y, 75.

---> Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, 64.

---> The Varsity, Atlanta, 43.

---> Pink's, Los Angeles, 2.

To see the entire list of America's 75 Best Hot Dogs, go here.