Donald Duck reading.
Short stories tomorrow anyone? I'm posting the usual links so if you're not up there, let me know.
schwarma
Sunday, we ate a hotdo
g at the circus. It was about 
what you 
'd expect.This led to a discussion of how low we would go in buying a hotdog. Would you eat one off from NY street vendor (and I saw a discussion of these on the Food Network and they're loaded with bacteria), would you eat one in a cafeteria, a ballgame, a roaming carnival, a movie theater? How about the ones at Home Depot?
We rarely eat hotdogs but if we're hungry enough.....How low would you go? And don't limit yourselves to hotdogs. Corndogs, bubbling drinks in tanks, and schwarma count too.
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I am blessed with a cast-iron stomach and will try almost anything once. Picking up a hot dog from a street vendor in NYC is something I would definitely do. Ditto for Chicago.
Can't help but reference a scene from the live-action film "Underdog." UD, with his faithful teenaged companion, Jack, are walking in the part when they come upon a hot dog vendor. Shocked at what he sees, UD says "Oh my gosh! They're made of Dog!" The patrons hear this and start spitting out what they're eating. Jack tells UD that no dogs are in the links. UD asks what's in the meat."
Jack: Pigs ears, tongues, intestines, whatever.
UD: Oh, in that case, I'll take two.
Long ramble but still funny, at least to me. But, back to the first question, I'd try anything.
Are gas station hot dogs more hygenic than street vendor hot dogs? Any sort of food service is prone to wide variation, I suspect...but I guess the outdoor and mobile stations are even easier to avoid inspection with.
Not to mention what might happen to the frankfurters while and before they are made.
Hell, sometimes I wonder about my Tofu Pups. (Though the vegetarian Italian Sausage used to be real favorites, till they changed the recipe and therefore the texture.)
I think more people nationwide will know "gyro" ahead of "schwarma," but maybe not...your Detroit is showing, Effendi.
You're going to have to go quite a bit lower on the hot dog food chain to scare me off. The Home Depot near me used to have a stand outside that sold kickass hotdogs; we'd go to Home Depot FOR the ht dogs.
Corn dogs? Uh-uh. Disgusting.
Bubbling drinks in tanks? Yum.
What the hell is (are) schwarma?
You are supposed to eat hot dogs at ball games, but I'm convinced that the ones overpriced at most parks rival the worst in the world. In my memory, the worst I ever had was last year during spring training at the Washington Nationals home in Viera FL. I threw most of it the garbage can. Here in Winnipeg our downtown streets are filled with vendors during the summer and I haven't had a bad hot dog yet.
As my vanished comment predicted, you have at least one puzzled Dana.
Yeah. Moderation is a pain in the hotdog. I'll have to reinstate it soon.
I hate the boiled hotdogs at the park; but if you go down to the grill at Comerica Park you miss an inning at least.
I do miss hot dogs. I've eaten ball park dogs (at Comerica Park, no less. And once at Tiger Stadium) but all that it behind me now.
Can't eat the buns (gluten)
Can't eat the dogs (corn syrup)
I've never really thought about food sanitation. There've been only a few places that made me feel icky just walking in-- those are the only places where I wouldn't eat anything that wasn't individually sealed. Probably wouldn't buy from a street vendor...
What tipped you off to these food allergies? I can't drink milk or eat anything with a stick consistency" licorice, jelly beans, for example.
Just found it. Todd.
Patti-- I figured my foods to avoid by trial and error. When something bothers me, I start cutting things out of my diet, starting with the most common allergens. I also track what I eat and keep an eye on symptoms.
I see cops eating brats and metts from street vendors all the time. The only harmful side effects seem to be a rise in cholesterol, which is the least of a cop's worries.
I'm more nervous about restaurant food, especially when a dinner companion muses idly that the place could use some help from Gordon Ramsey.
Hi patti-I've posted my forgotten shorts, as it were.
I pretty much avoid hotdogs as I have never really been a fan. When I was younger we used to go to the A&W drive-in for coney dogs and foot longs on days when they had specials.
I will have a short story post tomorrow.
Oh Laws, please don't let me ever become allergic to hotdogs. I'm addicted to hotdogs. Love 'em! From anywhere - any vendor stand on any street corner. I can eat my weight in hotdogs.
I've eat hot dogs at ball games before, but the area I live is devoid of street vendors.
Fountain drinks, I remember ordering one at a restaurant and when it arrived, black things were floating in it. He said he hadn't cleaned it recently(the last time I went there by the way).
I think I would eat a hotdog off the street in Winnipeg. Canada always strikes me as too clean a place to get food poisoning.
I think the only place I would not eat a hot dog would be at the end of a hot dog factory tour.
Other than that I had NY street dogs,Home Depot (two weeks ago), dogs sold from a cart behind a St. Clair shores hardware store and yes...even the circus.
We had a friend who used to call hot dogs tube steaks. We're really not meat eaters here, but once in a while, a grilled all beef kosher hot dog is just good.
The beauty of having a kid in a city is that it teaches you early on to watch vendors and restaurants on how they handle their food.
If they handle the money and food with the same hands? No way.
If they take money from not so clean bums and junkies? I apologize and bail right in the middle of them making my order. It's hard enough playing roulette and having to contend with e. Coli and hepatitis on top of that.
Oddly enough, my only personal concern when dining sans kid, is whether the preparing areas aren't ripe with cross-contamination, are clean and the employees wash their hands. I've eaten at plenty of hole in wall joints and greasy spoons where I didn't get sick, but I have gotten sick at places that were "clean" according to the Health Deparment, because of the above reason.
And if I'm hungry, I'll eat anything but McDonalds, pickled pig's feet (lost the taste for them) and chicken feet.
I'm always taken back to the SEINFELD episode where the chef didn't wash his hands. That can happen anywhere.
WM-I guess my first choice would be a kosher deli where they grill them.
St. Clair Shores, huh? Ace Hardware on Little Mack.
Yup!
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