Spanky Lou rejects hot dogs
Posted by Robin and Jason on August 3, 2008
Hot dogs have been a staple of my diet FOREVER. I can eat like 6 at a time. And in general, I don’t eat hot dogs any place but home. You never know if non-home hot dogs are all beef, without preservatives, or blessed by a higher authority (I will discuss the bacon exception in another post). Except for Costco. I LOVE hot dogs at Costco. And then there is the bun thing (I will discuss my less than disciplined gluten-free diet in yet another post).
Anyway, Jason, Spanky and I went to see Bruce Springsteen last night. It was a grand adventure. Apocalyptic thunder storms, crazy bad traffic and the most ridiculous drunk people I have ever seen. And I thought the perfect dinner might be a football stadium hot dog. I was mistakenly convinced that it would be similar to a Fenway frank (another exception to the at-home only hot dog rule). But no. I should have known…the hot dog sort of tasted like it was cooked a week ago.
And then Spanky or my stomach decided that it didn’t like this hot dog. I will spare you the details. However, we did have to be those lame people that left the concert early. I am willing to chalk it up to one bad dog, rather than swearing off an entire food group. But I worry. What if we have created a child that actually doesn’t like hot dogs?
Denise said
If spanky doesn’t like hot dogs, doesn’t that just mean more hot dogs for you?
icybooh said
I personally can’t do the hot dog thing, and my daughter has sworn them off too. But what I did end up loving as a kid were hot dogs without the dog … fondly remembered as ketchup sandwiches. The trick nowadays is finding gluten-free buns to indulge myself with a ketchup sandwich.
July was national hot dog month. A whole month dedicated to this American Icon! I just finished a post that includes a virtual tour of a hot dog factory and a review of some of the classics. I might not like to eat hot dogs, but I do appreciate their icon status.
Thanks for the fun read.