To determine which of the fast-food outlets still posting corn dogs on their menu boards has the best corn dog on the circuit, I did a little digging to find out which restaurants still offer this ...

Is that perhaps the best metaphor for our fair city, and how it treats the past as it contemplates the future? We'll let you ponder that over a scrumptious corn dog.

Dallas is decidedly a corn dog town. And outside of the annual Texas State Fair, the best place to snag one is at CornDog With No Name, where they aren't mimicking fair food but elevating it.