Half-smoked? Half sausage, half hot dog? Much of the mythology of D.C.’s most famous street food remains cloaked in not-quite-answered questions.

This Italian sausage brings the heat to the meat.

“I want to redefine how people think about eating sausage,” said the restaurant’s founder Andre McCain.

Things to eat this week include spring favorites hot dogs and sausages, as well as free gelato and food truck fare.

Standouts included the cheese and potato pierogi, crackling on the outside and pleasantly chewy on the inside.

During Tube Meat Week, we managed to highlight a number of this city’s excellent sausage makers, but there were a lot of delicious sausage and hot dog dishes that we didn’t get around to mentioning. Here is a sampling of other options around town.

Meat, often the centerpiece of a meal, garners little consultation of experts during the procurement process. Society Fair’s Julien Shapiro can guide you through making your choices.

If you need some high-quality sausage in your life, there’s one place you should get to: Eastern Market. Home to an absolutely dizzying array of tubular meat, there’s nary an animal that hasn’t been ground up and stuffed into a casing.

Local sausage maker 13th St. Meats is all over D.C. these days. This meat-producing newcomer has become the favorite cylindrical meat provider of several neighborhood watering holes and two of the city’s popular music venues’ kitchens.