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31 August 2007
Do you like hot dogs? Here is an article about hot dogs by one of my favorite food writers, Jason Sheehan.
I just, tonight, cooked the best hotdogs I have ever cooked (the best chicken too, but that's another story). Perfectly grilled with a lunatics attention, I hovered over them like a mama bird. Just a little blackened and bubbly and split naturally by their own internal steam. I made sauerkraut cooked in PBR and served 'em with yellow mustard. Fucking good stuff.
I like a boiled dirty water dog, but my heart is with the grilled pup in the end.
I like this guy pups, he's got the enthusiasm, which is my main criteria for a food writer, less snark, more being psyched.
I take a catholic view toward foods like this: the penance for 1 hot dog (with the works including fries and shake) is two straight meals of leafy salad with simple oil and vinegar dressings.
Tonight I ate a cheesesteak, so it will be oatmeal for me through Sunday. I can live with that.