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RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 09-11-2013 10:19 AM
Just the buildings for both of these hot dog heavens make me want to go. I don't want to know what's in them and how dangerous hot dogs are for human consumption. In my opinion, America was built on hot dogs and no salad will ever replace them.
When I was married to West Virginia, there used to be a tiny bridge in the town of Fairmont that had an even tinier hot dog shack on one end of it. The fee was 5-cents to cross the bridge, and I think the hot dog with fixings was 50-cents. We always laughed that the city put a fee on the bridge in order to make money off of the people traveling to the hot dog place.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - ReignetteC - 09-11-2013 11:13 AM
Laurie,
Re: " America was built on hot dogs." Here's an interesting background:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog
RC
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Joe Di Cola - 09-11-2013 12:18 PM
(09-11-2013 10:19 AM)L Verge Wrote: Just the buildings for both of these hot dog heavens make me want to go. I don't want to know what's in them and how dangerous hot dogs are for human consumption. In my opinion, America was built on hot dogs and no salad will ever replace them.
When I was married to West Virginia, there used to be a tiny bridge in the town of Fairmont that had an even tinier hot dog shack on one end of it. The fee was 5-cents to cross the bridge, and I think the hot dog with fixings was 50-cents. We always laughed that the city put a fee on the bridge in order to make money off of the people traveling to the hot dog place.
Laurie,
It is my contention that, unless the hot dog is certified kosher--like Vienna brand hot dogs, they might contain things like chicken lips. So, it is important to get the genuine article! A Vienna hot dog served on a poppy seed bun, and garnished with yellow mustard, bright green (almost glow-in-the-dark) sweet relish, chopped onions, sliced tomatoes, celery salt, a pickle spear, and sport peppers. YUMJ, YUM, YUM, YUM, YUM!!!
Joe
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 09-11-2013 12:37 PM
How about other garnishes such as chili, cheese, and sauerkraut? The only way I will eat the latter is either on a hot dog or a Reuben.
When I was a child, there used to be a great, old department store in Washington named Lansburgh's. They had a mezzanine dining room that looked out over the ground floor shopping area so that you could people watch as well as eat. My favorite lunch there was something called a Hot Dog Special. It was a regular hot dog topped with loosely chopped raw cabbage and Thousand Island dressing.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Joe Di Cola - 09-11-2013 12:49 PM
(09-11-2013 12:37 PM)L Verge Wrote: How about other garnishes such as chili, cheese, and sauerkraut? The only way I will eat the latter is either on a hot dog or a Reuben.
When I was a child, there used to be a great, old department store in Washington named Lansburgh's. They had a mezzanine dining room that looked out over the ground floor shopping area so that you could people watch as well as eat. My favorite lunch there was something called a Hot Dog Special. It was a regular hot dog topped with loosely chopped raw cabbage and Thousand Island dressing.
Laurie,
What I described was a Chicago Dog, my favorite way of eating a hot dog. However, I also like them with sauerkraut and mustrad (more of a New York City thing)--and, at the ball park, I musually just eat them plain. I like sauerkraut with roasted pork, too, or when having any kind of fresh German sausages such as thuringer, knockwurst, etc.
Now I am hungry and having to wipe drool off of my keyboard. Oops, now I think I am sharing too much information.
Joe
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 09-11-2013 02:03 PM
I never had sauerkraut as a child because my father said he couldn't get the fork past his nose. His mother died when he was three, and the children were shifted from one relative to another depending on who needed child labor at any particular season of the year.
He was raised in south central Virginia near the North Carolina border. I suspect that there was not a heavy German influence there, or else his aunts and cousins didn't know how to make good sauerkraut. When he was 17, he joined the army and was probably subjected to mess hall sauerkraut -- plus he was never stationed in Germany to acquire a taste for the good stuff.
Isn't it fun how we can share memories and family stories on this forum as well as history? I consider things like this hot dog/sauerkraut thread part of learning our cultural diversities - since that's the new buzz word in society now.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Joe Di Cola - 09-11-2013 02:07 PM
(09-11-2013 02:03 PM)L Verge Wrote: I never had sauerkraut as a child because my father said he couldn't get the fork past his nose. His mother died when he was three, and the children were shifted from one relative to another depending on who needed child labor at any particular season of the year.
He was raised in south central Virginia near the North Carolina border. I suspect that there was not a heavy German influence there, or else his aunts and cousins didn't know how to make good sauerkraut. When he was 17, he joined the army and was probably subjected to mess hall sauerkraut -- plus he was never stationed in Germany to acquire a taste for the good stuff.
Isn't it fun how we can share memories and family stories on this forum as well as history? I consider things like this hot dog/sauerkraut thread part of learning our cultural diversities - since that's the new buzz word in society now.
Laurie,
You are so right on how great it is to share some things on this site that are not Lincoln. I feel this has allowed me to better get to know other participants. Thanks for that insight.
Joe
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 09-11-2013 02:21 PM
Life's more fun when you make friends and learn at the same time.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 09-11-2013 04:02 PM
(09-11-2013 12:18 PM)Joe Di Cola Wrote: It is my contention that, unless the hot dog is certified kosher--like Vienna brand hot dogs, they might contain things like chicken lips.
Joe
Chicken lip hot dogs?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Joe Di Cola - 09-11-2013 04:56 PM
(09-11-2013 04:02 PM)Gene C Wrote:(09-11-2013 12:18 PM)Joe Di Cola Wrote: It is my contention that, unless the hot dog is certified kosher--like Vienna brand hot dogs, they might contain things like chicken lips.
Joe
Chicken lip hot dogs?
CAVEAT COMEDENTI!!!! (translation: "Let the eater beware!!!!")
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 09-15-2013 06:00 AM
Who said:
"As for me, at my age, the more abuse I get in the newspapers, the better for me."?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 09-15-2013 07:44 AM
Well, Eva, I know John Wilkes Booth got some poor reviews during his acting career. So - a wild guess - and I realize this would be strange for an actor to say - John Wilkes Booth?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 09-15-2013 08:17 AM
Good guess, Roger, but I'm afraid it was not Booth.
Hint#1: This quote had a political background, and the newspaper reports occured in 1864. The person who said it had a rather sunny disposition.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rogerm - 09-15-2013 08:25 AM
Was it Lincoln's Secretary of State Seward?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 09-15-2013 08:57 AM
Not bad, Roger, but still not the right one.
Hint#2: The quote goes on like this: "...I shall run Constable some day on the strength of my glory exploits in Florida."