Its about that time folks. With Opening Day at Shea coming up on Monday April 3 2006 (The Fly and I will be there...will you?) and springtime is in the air which means B-B-Q season is upon us. I would like to address one of America's greatest treasures.Or more appropriately as Fly's older brother and my brother-in-law answered when asked many moons ago in a a game of Scattergories on the Old Quidnet Milk Route of Nantucket ... name the top 10 things that a tourist carries....
His answer of course was...
HOT DOGS
I didnt have the heart to tell him it wasnt correct (either that or we were all too hopped up on nitrous to even bother) and for years bless his heart he believed he made the game winning shot in the championship game. So I think its only appropriate that I quote Frank Zappa, who my bro-in-law turned me onto despite my rock n roll and metal ways (b4 I knew FZ was a guitar God).
I ate a hot dog
It tasted real good
Which brings me to the point of this post. Hot Dogs...did you guess correctly. There is a PBS documentary called 'A Hot Dog Program' (not to be confused with The Hot Dog Movie which in its own genre represented the greatness of 80's ski movie cheddar) which for my bang for my buck is one of the greatest docs Ive ever seen. I own it on DVD have given it for gifts and yet if I catch it while flipping channels will watch it to the end. Essentially its a virtual tour of the United States of America and a visit upon the local cultures that it encounters. Ive never been to Macon Georgia but I know they put cole slaw on their hot dogs and I like it. Ive never been to Anchorage Alaska but I know M.A. makes his dogs out of reindeer and only works one day during the winter (opening day of the Iditarod)
I guess what Im trying to say is that we as a country disagree on so many things and maybe live our life with different toppings and flavors, but in the end it comes down to the meat in bun which is America and come Opening Day I know the Fly and I will celebrate all of you by screaming at the top of our lungs
Hey beer dude... two cold ones over here and send us the dogs
for the record Ive had 7 of the 22 on the show and counting...
for more info click on coney (the pic for non NY'ers)
for more info click on coney (the pic for non NY'ers)
15 comments:
I've seen that doc... awesome. nothing says America better than a length of intestine stuffed with bits and peices of meat that wouldn't make it to the table otherwise. oh, and the slaw dog rules!
LOC agrees with me? I think Ive come up with the 3rd party platform for '08
slaw dogs do rule
the best is the free legal advice on Wednesdays at Law Dogs. I wonder how many "there was a finger in my hot dog" Im gonna sue you they get.
I just don't do hotdogs...I just don't.
We need to get Ben to write a song about 'length of intestine stuffed with bits and pieces' or just rewrite eyj to fit that lyric in
I think hot dogs have come full circle...no need to be ashamed. I'd rather eat a HD.
Got cut off...LETS GO METS!
The "D" is for diamonds
But the "Hue' is for Hubie
M-E-T-S METS METS METS
LETS GO METS
see you mon bro
I love the sabrets on the cue, otherwise i don't really eat hotdogs anymore. Back in the day i loved the dirtywater with mustard,kraut, and onions.
Crazy thing is, Donkey eats his dogs with ketchup! I have NEVER understood it, kind of disturbing actually.
ketchup??? what the f..k? who doesn't want spicy brown mustard on their sabrets? with a toasted bun too by the way!
You thought cats ass was bad...how bout this lil number.
mac n cheese on the dog sprinkeld with art carne...donkey exclusive.
and you know my history with mustard...so going forward there will no more talk of the yellow satan.
I'm into a little beenie-weenie casserole...bake the dogs & a can of beans in with a little cheddar sprinkled on top...wash it down w/a cold beverage.
N'England? What are you some sort of leafer or something? No Spikes. If you click on the pic it has the locations featured on the doc. Theres one in Fairfield CT.
Something about the Papaya Wars of NYC in the 50's or something. The feud went all the way back to the old country. Apparently it got ugly.
oh my god, where do i begin? as this is a subject close to my heart, i'm tempted to hold forth at lentgh. but i'll skip the condiment conundrum and get to what has been buggin me from the beginning of this post. you mention "cheddar" in a post about hot dogs, yet fail to properly invoke that heinous creation, that most unholy use of meat by-products and processed cheese food, the one, the only, the delicious "cheddarwurst!" Also, i've never been, but do own a t-shirt from "super duper wienies" in CT. it was a gift from my girlfriend, and GF got one at the same time from his wife. so it is proven, at least in our family: you really are what you eat...
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