July 19 Celebrate National Hot Dog Day @ WSC Evanston

July 19 we'll be celebrating National Hot Dog Day. We're also celebrating the restaurants 33rd year and my 3rd year owning it.

There will be $1.00 Hot Dogs and Dipping Dogs all day.

Since we did a Luther Burger for National Corndog day maybe, if people are interested, we can do a hamdog (from the same place that came up with the Luther Burger) a dog wrapped in ground beef, deep fried, covered in grilled onions, chili, cheese with an egg on top. Just an idea.

I'll be the guniea pig for that...concoction.

gp60004 wrote:Since we did a Luther Burger for National Corndog day maybe, if people are interested, we can do a hamdog (from the same place that came up with the Luther Burger) a dog wrapped in ground beef, deep fried, covered in grilled onions, chili, cheese with an egg on top. Just an idea.

Wrap the dog in sausage instead, you can call it a Scotch Dog.

Regards,

And I thought you'd thread it through several crispy cremes!
We need a name for that disgusting concoction, and it would probably the Sodoggy (substitute the G's with an M and you'll get it)

I'm hoping to be there in the evening. I have a Nigerian BBQ in the afternoon and with any luck will have a food filled day!

The Ham Dog sounds like something I can't pass up. Will you be using a pork hot dog or will we be sticking with Vienna for the occasion. More so wondering where the Ham comes from.

gp60004 wrote:a dog wrapped in ground beef

Oh, yes.

gp60004 wrote:deep fried

Yes!

gp60004 wrote:covered in grilled onions

Mmmm.....

gp60004 wrote:chili

Yes.

gp60004 wrote:cheese

YES.

gp60004 wrote:with an egg on top.

Oh YES!

Now excuse me while I go outside for a cigarette....

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'|gp60004"]a hamdog (from the same place that came up with the Luther Burger) a dog wrapped in ground beef, deep fried, covered in grilled onions, chili, cheese with an egg on top. Just an idea.[/quote]

And what if Gus could combine the Hamdog with one of his Dipping Dogs? Someone evidently has already thought of something that sounds like it's along those lines, known as the Iowa State Fair Hamdog and described as follows: Make the complete hamdog and secure it with toothpicks, then roll it in eggs, then flour, then eggs, then flour again. Press a large stick into one end of the hamdog so that it is secure and can support the entire dog. Deep fry the whole thing.

I'm game to try one--the "regular" version, that is! Even though the medical community is already on record with a warning:
According to Dr. Nicholas Lang, chief of staff of the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in Little Rock and professor of surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, "Regardless of age, I don't recommend the Hamdog, even as a one-time snack. If you choke that down, you might as well find a heart surgeon because you are going to need one."

The Hays family is planning to stop by around our usual lunchtime, 12:30 - hope to see you all there!

So... were there hamdogs? Do we have documentary evidence?

I was planning to stop by, but my children were uncooperative yesterday. They've since been sent to overnight camp in Estonia.

Who could eat a hamdog when such excellent regular dogs were $1? I saw no evidence of the elusive hamdog, it must be a distant relative of the fast-disappearing jackelope. There was a new dipping sauce to try. However, the days where you can eat lunch and have a relaxing chat with Gus or Tom may be fast departing...they were as busy as when the FoodNetwork guys came by...

To be fair, I brought (believe it or not) a quart of hot homemade gravy in a carafe, and 2 pounds of cheese curds from the Farmer's Market to "share" poutine with other hapless LTHers who showed up. It was really, really good (urp) I'll post a shot as soon as I figure out how to download it from my phone...really. No, I'm actually serious - just give me a day or so...

It was heartening to see Kafein & family, the nr706 clan and a gaggle of fastfoodsnobs clean their respective baskets...

Mhays wrote:To be fair, I brought (believe it or not) a quart of hot homemade gravy in a carafe, and 2 pounds of cheese curds from the Farmer's Market to "share" poutine with other hapless LTHers who showed up. It was really, really good (urp) I'll post a shot as soon as I figure out how to download it from my phone...really. No, I'm actually serious - just give me a day or so...

Here's one of the shots I took that day of the items in question.

From left to right, it's Mhays's snappy cheese curds, a cup o' gravy from her carafe, and Gus's new coconut-and-seafood(?) dipping sauce (which nr706 kindly brought to our table). The sauce was actually somewhat sweet. Around the periphery are regular cheese fries, a regular hot dog (maybe we skipped the sport peppers?), and a bottle of Powerade.

Mhays wrote:It was heartening to see Kafein & family, the nr706 clan and a gaggle of fastfoodsnobs clean their respective baskets...

The more the merrier -- I'm just glad there was space to seat everyone who came while we waited for our food.

Looking forward to your pictures,
Dan

Said nephew Andrew, "If we had a place like this in Greenville (NC), I'd hang out there all the time."

Said his father, brother-in-law Barry, "If we had a place like this in Memphis, I'd hang out there all the time."

Said niece Allison, "This isn't health food, is it?"